WAAA!!!! one of my 7800gtx512 dies.

FearMeAll · 06-18-06, 12:17 PM

it just happened moments ago. One of my 7800gtx cards died! I cannot replace it since it does not exist anymore. I noticed sli was not working properly that last 2 weeks. It would start working properly again if I rebooted the pc. Well I rebooted this time and all I got was a long beep and a blank screen. I took the secondary card out and bam it works. replace the primary card with the secondary card and now it does the beep and blank screen again. so now I'm back to single card and it sucks. I paid over 1500 bucks for these 2 cards at the time($750 a piece) and now I'm pretty screwed. Warranty's up and XFX is not gonna be able to give me another 7800gtx512 anyways.
So now I'm looking at getting a 7950GX2. I actually want 2 of them and run them in quad sli. My board is a DFI lanpartyUT nf4 sli expert board and I wonder if quad sli will work with it. I see the cards on newegg now for $579 a piece (cheaper than what my 7800s cost.) Will it work. My motherboard bios seems to let both slots run at 16x. Will it work with the latest beta drivers?

FearMeAll · 06-18-06, 12:35 PM

ok I looked at jakup's sig and he has the same rig as I do down to the motherboard and he got quad sli working so I ordered both of them. Anyone want a spare 7800gtx that works lol? I think I might give it to a friend of mine. I just don't really have an interest in a secondary rig.

ZEROCOOL101 · 06-18-06, 01:41 PM

I got a freind that has a dell with pci-e, with a cheap card. Id take it for him

He wants to be able to play Css and oblivion at good res

I also have a DFI expert with one EVGA 7950 and so far its working Great, cant wait for the second one coming tomorrow for quad sli.

FearMeAll · 06-18-06, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by ZEROCOOL101

I also have a DFI expert with one EVGA 7950 and so far its working Great, cant wait for the second one coming tomorrow for quad sli.

sweet tell me how it works for you.

ZEROCOOL101 · 06-18-06, 01:50 PM

So far I havent had any issues with my one 7950. I tried BF2 last night, and it runs great. Seems ones good enough, but I got to try two in Quad sli for the fun. Also, I ran 3dmark066 and got 7,615 points.

sirplayalot · 06-18-06, 01:53 PM

I'll take that "spare" card!

My 7900GT is faulty and eVGA doesnt have em in stock..I've been waiting for an RMA for 3 months >_<

heatlesssun · 06-18-06, 05:59 PM

The 7800 512 GTX came out only 7 months ago. How can you be out of waranty by now? I thought XFX had the best waranty in the business with it "double lifetime" deal.

I was running a pair of BFG 7800 512 GTX's till last week. Replaced them with an XFX XXX 7950GX2 (might go QUAD-SLI when its officially supported in the general public) and the performance is identical the the pair of 7800 512 GTX's for less than half the cost. That kinda sucks, but coolat the same time.

Fortunately, never had a problem with the 7800's! (Knock on wood!)

FearMeAll · 06-18-06, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by heatlesssun

The 7800 512 GTX came out only 7 months ago. How can you be out of waranty by now? I thought XFX had the best waranty in the business with it "double lifetime" deal.

I was running a pair of BFG 7800 512 GTX's till last week. Replaced them with an XFX XXX 7950GX2 (might go QUAD-SLI when its officially supported in the general public) and the performance is identical the the pair of 7800 512 GTX's for less than half the cost. That kinda sucks, but coolat the same time.

Fortunately, never had a problem with the 7800's! (Knock on wood!)

really? huh. so one 7950 gets more performance than 2 7800gtx 512's?? wow.
I need to look closer at my warranty. I still have the boxes and everything. I dunno if I can get it replaced that would be great but how can they replace a card that no longer exists? if they give me a stepup it won't run in sli with the other card anymore. I'll call them. I even ran the cards under their clock speeds just to make them last longer too.
still looking forward to quad sli. I know it will suck for another month though but I got a lot of loose money laying around.
edit...just tried running my other card for kicks to see if any miracles happened...nope.. it's officially dead.

heatlesssun · 06-18-06, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by FearMeAll

really? huh. so one 7950 gets more performance than 2 7800gtx 512's?? wow.

Don't want you to get the wrong idea. I was saying that the performance of 7800 512 GTX SLI and one 7950GX2 would be pretty much identical for all practical purposes.

3DMark06 was reporting on average 8550 for the 7800's and about 8400 for the 7950. Now this was using two different driver versions as well so its not a great comparison, but in real world gaming with HL2 E1, Quake 4, F.E.A.R., CoD2, I can't notice any difference in game play performance or image quality, so the way I look at it in the real world.

1 7950GX2 = 7800 512 GTX SLI

and I believe that this is accutate.

The Bigman · 06-19-06, 02:16 AM

Man they make cards like crap now a days. U can take an old Geforce 3 and through it off a 30 Story building and it might still work, you do that to a new Geforce 2 feet off the floor and its dead. Wow i think there isn't much quality control in this garbage these days. Im thinking of dumping SLI and going back to my thrusty x850PT. That card still works ok. Man why do these thing die?

Dazz · 06-19-06, 04:52 AM

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Originally Posted by FearMeAll

really? huh. so one 7950 gets more performance than 2 7800gtx 512's?? wow.
I need to look closer at my warranty. I still have the boxes and everything. I dunno if I can get it replaced that would be great but how can they replace a card that no longer exists? if they give me a stepup it won't run in sli with the other card anymore. I'll call them. I even ran the cards under their clock speeds just to make them last longer too.
still looking forward to quad sli. I know it will suck for another month though but I got a lot of loose money laying around.
edit...just tried running my other card for kicks to see if any miracles happened...nope.. it's officially dead.

Yeah RMA the card it's still within warranty, if they are unable to replace it with an other 7800GTX then they HAVE by law to replace it with something in line with it like a 7900GT card.

FearMeAll · 06-19-06, 07:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Dazz

Yeah RMA the card it's still within warranty, if they are unable to replace it with an other 7800GTX then they HAVE by law to replace it with something in line with it like a 7900GT card.

yeah I will do that but that doesn't help me with sli. If I do get a replacement I'll probably sell that too.

06-18-06, 12:17 PM	#1
FearMeAll Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Georgia, USA Posts: 1,318	WAAA!!!! one of my 7800gtx512 dies. it just happened moments ago. One of my 7800gtx cards died! I cannot replace it since it does not exist anymore. I noticed sli was not working properly that last 2 weeks. It would start working properly again if I rebooted the pc. Well I rebooted this time and all I got was a long beep and a blank screen. I took the secondary card out and bam it works. replace the primary card with the secondary card and now it does the beep and blank screen again. so now I'm back to single card and it sucks. I paid over 1500 bucks for these 2 cards at the time($750 a piece) and now I'm pretty screwed. Warranty's up and XFX is not gonna be able to give me another 7800gtx512 anyways. So now I'm looking at getting a 7950GX2. I actually want 2 of them and run them in quad sli. My board is a DFI lanpartyUT nf4 sli expert board and I wonder if quad sli will work with it. I see the cards on newegg now for $579 a piece (cheaper than what my 7800s cost.) Will it work. My motherboard bios seems to let both slots run at 16x. Will it work with the latest beta drivers? __________________ Consoles: Xbox Elite with HDDVD drive and PS3. Screen: Panasonic AX200U Widescreen Projector (1280x720), 160" HighPower Screen, AND A BIG COUCH. HTPC: Intel Wolfdale 3ghz, 4 gigs DDR2 800 ram, 500gig HDD, EVGA GTX280, Vista 32 Ultimate (1280x720 gaming heaven!) My Video Encoding/Office rig: Intel QX9650 @ 3.5ghz, 1400mhz FSB, 4gigs Patriot Extreme DDR3 @ 1400mhz, XFX 790i 3-way Sli mobo, Xf-Fi Extreme Gamer, 1250watt Cooler Master Power Supply, 9800GX2, 750gig HDD, Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate.

06-18-06, 12:35 PM	#2
FearMeAll Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Georgia, USA Posts: 1,318	Re: WAAA!!!! one of my 7800gtx512 dies. ok I looked at jakup's sig and he has the same rig as I do down to the motherboard and he got quad sli working so I ordered both of them. Anyone want a spare 7800gtx that works lol? I think I might give it to a friend of mine. I just don't really have an interest in a secondary rig. __________________ Consoles: Xbox Elite with HDDVD drive and PS3. Screen: Panasonic AX200U Widescreen Projector (1280x720), 160" HighPower Screen, AND A BIG COUCH. HTPC: Intel Wolfdale 3ghz, 4 gigs DDR2 800 ram, 500gig HDD, EVGA GTX280, Vista 32 Ultimate (1280x720 gaming heaven!) My Video Encoding/Office rig: Intel QX9650 @ 3.5ghz, 1400mhz FSB, 4gigs Patriot Extreme DDR3 @ 1400mhz, XFX 790i 3-way Sli mobo, Xf-Fi Extreme Gamer, 1250watt Cooler Master Power Supply, 9800GX2, 750gig HDD, Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate.

06-18-06, 01:41 PM	#3
ZEROCOOL101 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: G-town, WI Posts: 196	Re: WAAA!!!! one of my 7800gtx512 dies. I got a freind that has a dell with pci-e, with a cheap card. Id take it for him He wants to be able to play Css and oblivion at good res I also have a DFI expert with one EVGA 7950 and so far its working Great, cant wait for the second one coming tomorrow for quad sli.

06-18-06, 01:50 PM	#5
ZEROCOOL101 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: G-town, WI Posts: 196	Re: WAAA!!!! one of my 7800gtx512 dies. So far I havent had any issues with my one 7950. I tried BF2 last night, and it runs great. Seems ones good enough, but I got to try two in Quad sli for the fun. Also, I ran 3dmark066 and got 7,615 points. __________________ QX9650 @ 4.1ghz on 120 Extreme \| EVGA GTX 280 [Stepping up to GTX280] DFI X38 / 8GB G.Skill \| PCP&C 750watt quad silencer VelociRaptor + 2x 1tb Hitachi hdds Dell 2407fpw \| Klipsch 5.1 Ultra's \| Silverstone TJ09 PS3 Network (Waxville)

06-18-06, 01:53 PM	#6
sirplayalot Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 743	Re: WAAA!!!! one of my 7800gtx512 dies. I'll take that "spare" card! My 7900GT is faulty and eVGA doesnt have em in stock..I've been waiting for an RMA for 3 months >_< __________________ Main rig Mobo = Gigabyte MA77OT-UD3p CPU = AMD Phenom II 965 Black Edition 3.4 GHz RAM = 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 Dual Channel Video = XFX Radeon HD 5870 Sound = Onboard HD Audio Monitor = Westinghouse 24" LCD OS = Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Gateway P-7805u FX Notebook (For school and stuff) Mobo = Intel® PM45 Chipset CPU = Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26 GHz RAM = 4096MB 1066MHz DDR3 Dual Channel Video = Geforce 9800mGTS 1GB DDR3 Sound = Onboard HD Audio Monitor = 17" High-Definition Widescreen WXGA+ Display Proud owner of a PS3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and gaming PC! Why argue which ones better when you can just play on all of them?

06-18-06, 05:59 PM	#7
heatlesssun Registered User Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 135	Re: WAAA!!!! one of my 7800gtx512 dies. The 7800 512 GTX came out only 7 months ago. How can you be out of waranty by now? I thought XFX had the best waranty in the business with it "double lifetime" deal. I was running a pair of BFG 7800 512 GTX's till last week. Replaced them with an XFX XXX 7950GX2 (might go QUAD-SLI when its officially supported in the general public) and the performance is identical the the pair of 7800 512 GTX's for less than half the cost. That kinda sucks, but coolat the same time. Fortunately, never had a problem with the 7800's! (Knock on wood!) __________________ Main Rig - Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 \| INTEL Core 2 Quad QX9650 @ 3.83 GHz (11.5 x 333) \| Xigmatek RS1283 CPU HSF \| ASUS Striker II Extreme \| XFX Geforce GTX 280 x3 SLI \| Enermax EGX1000EWL Galaxy 1000W \| 4GB OCZ OCZ3P16004GK PC3-12800+ \| HITACHI 0A35772 1TB SATA 7200 RPM \| 2x Samsung SATA 20X DVD±RW LightScribe Double Layer DVD \| COOLER MASTER RC-690-KKN1-GP Mid Tower Case \| LG L246WP-BN Flatron 24" 1920x1200 LCD Monitor \| HP w2408h 24" 1920x1200 LCD Monitor

06-19-06, 02:16 AM	#10
The Bigman BANNED Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Chicago IL Posts: 469	Re: WAAA!!!! one of my 7800gtx512 dies. Man they make cards like crap now a days. U can take an old Geforce 3 and through it off a 30 Story building and it might still work, you do that to a new Geforce 2 feet off the floor and its dead. Wow i think there isn't much quality control in this garbage these days. Im thinking of dumping SLI and going back to my thrusty x850PT. That card still works ok. Man why do these thing die?

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