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LanPirate1

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Here is a letter I sent to EVGA June 17th, no real reply yet.

"Hello. I am a reseller of your cards. I have had two 7900GT KO cards
last month and killed them both, you know why, and sent them back to
NCIX. the second one died at a national lan event, very embarassing. I
wanted a Signature Series, and here I am! Proud owner. Maybe now I can
give these cards my recommendation and start selling them in my
company's gaming PC's. Last night I was playing FEAR while I had the
display properties GPU temp on my secondary display. The temp quickly
shot up to 100C during initial 3d mode, and 10 minutes into gaming, it
peaked at 115C! The game felt like it was throttling back, seemed
choppy at this temp. I thought it was probably because this card was
volt-modded to handle the higher clock/mem speeds. I decided to buy
the Zalman VF900CU GPU cooler to help things out. When I removed the
stock HSF to check it out, I discovered what I saw in the pic I
attached. I am literally appaled at what I see here. You had three
people sign off on this card, ran several stress tests, and did not
check the thermals on this card during testing? The sink was not
seated right. Re-seating it would have seen temps drop, oh, I'd
hazzard to geuss at least 25C!! I had thought I bought the Cadillac of
video cards, honestly. I am a reseller, I am trying to find the right
card for our mid-range gaming rig. You guys have to do a better job at
benching, and look at thermals. Fortunately for EVGA, no-one on the
net has seen this pic, and it can stay that way. I need to be
convinced, or shown that you are commited to doing a better job than
this.
I did mount the Zalman, and now temps are a staggering 63C full load,
with a 29C room temp. Now if you guys can just put some heat sinks on
the three hot I/C's on the back side of the card, we'd have a real
winner here."

Anyway the card is mint, and it stays cool. Just thought I'd share my trials, and tell people to check those temps!

http://ca.geocities.com/[email protected]/HOTsignature-stockcooler.jpg

http://ca.geocities.com/[email protected]/IMG_5621rev.jpg
 
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Why would you tell them you volt modded a card? I have a gut feeling youll never get a response.
 
I called EVGA to get one of the newer cards they claim is "problem free" and the guy on the phone threw me in every other direction keeping me from getting a "problem free" card. The conversation ended with the problem being my power supply.

Oh yes, I also forgot to mention for rantings sake. A good friend of mine bought two of these cards and BOTH were DOA!!!
 
Yes, the "Signature Series" is nothing more than a stock 7900GT KO that has been hand picked to be highly overclockable...toss in a fancy box and a bunch of meaningless "signatures" and suddenly you can sell it for near GTX prices without much out of pocket to EVGA. The problem is that Nvidia is clearly trying to get away from vendor overclocking (like ATI) and the performance degrades over time.

I've had 2 7900GT KO Superclocks fail on me...the second one I found out just how poor the "KO" cooler is when I discovered it was hovering above at least 2 of the ram modules. A VF900 lowered idle temps by 10c and load temps by 12c. Having a oc covered by warranty is nice in theory but is meaningless when the cards aren't designed to take it.
 
wee96 said:
Why would you tell them you volt modded a card? I have a gut feeling youll never get a response.
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Check my story again, I geussed that is must have been volt modded......by the factory!
 
He didn't volt mod the card. He only assumed eVGA volt modded the card to handle the higher frequencies. ;)
wee96 said:
Why would you tell them you volt modded a card? I have a gut feeling youll never get a response.
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