Sqaure-like artifacts on stock clock speeds? Asus 7970 Matrix Plat.

[ManSlayer]

Been having some problems with my newly purchased 7970 matrix. I keep getting some square-like artifacts on stock clock speeds and was wondering if anyone has any suggestions before I end up RMA'ing it. Below are a few screen shots I took showing what i mean by square-like artifacts.





As you can see, they can get quite annoying and im not sure it thats actually my GPU thats causing that or somthing else.
I've tried using the 12.10 drivers as well as the 12.11 drivers but the artifacts still appear.

System Specs:
CPU: i5-3570k (@3.4GHz)
Mobo: MSI Z77A-GD65
GPU: Asus 7970 Matrix Platinum
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB)
SSD: SanDisk 240GB
PSU: Kingwin 1000Watt

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks

[Shikatsu]

No luck. Still appearing with the latest beta drivers.

[B0UJI]

The new drivers help a lot with graphical issues on 79xx. All of them have it, they haven't yet implemented the whole memory rewrite will will fix some issues they have in DX10/11 games.

The new drivers have been great, finished Crysis3, DeadSpace3 and FarCry3 on them no really big issues.

Some DX9 games have black flickers, and other DX10/11 games but the numbers are dropping with every Beta revision.

But if some issues are Matrix 7970 firmware issues be nice for Asus to have a look and issue a cleaned up firmware... though it may not be the case!!

[Shikatsu]

anyone have any updates on this issue?

[Taurus_G4]

Threads scary was about to make purchase but it's sad to see no ASUS rep has responded to this issue here on their own forum

[Doc_Scorpion]

I have been actively trying to reproduce the issue for some time now. No success...
By now, I assume the issue is coming from extensive heat on the (and I still can't believe ASUS did this) uncooled VRAM, since GPU intense stuff like Furmark doesn't bring it up at all for me.

It came up recently after a pretty long session of AC3 in Eyefinity (X-Fire in CCC set to "Optimized 1x1") but... (and here comes the fun part) when I relaunched the game after 3 consecutive hours of playing. (Time between game close and relaunch = less than a minute)

I really need to get mine H²O fullblocked soon. The only way to find out what's wrong in detail, is to eliminate the most obvious problem of the card first, its massive heat generation.

[sorter6434]

Doc Scorpion wrote:
I have been actively trying to reproduce the issue for some time now. No success...
By now, I assume the issue is coming from extensive heat on the (and I still can't believe ASUS did this) uncooled VRAM, since GPU intense stuff like Furmark doesn't bring it up at all for me.

It came up recently after a pretty long session of AC3 in Eyefinity (X-Fire in CCC set to "Optimized 1x1") but... (and here comes the fun part) when I relaunched the game after 3 consecutive hours of playing. (Time between game close and relaunch = less than a minute)

I really need to get mine H²O fullblocked soon. The only way to find out what's wrong in detail, is to eliminate the most obvious problem of the card first, its massive heat generation.

I had the square artifacts and black lines at stock clocks too.Then I put ek full water blocks on both my matrix 7970p.No more artifacts at all and I have my core @ 1250mhz and my memoryclock @ 6900.In furmark,3dmark,3dmark advantage and 3dmark 11 I'm stable with no artifacts and stay under 50c.The water blocks make a huge difference ,I used to get temps around 90c@ stock under load with the air cooler.I think asus should sell the dcii top cards with the 3 slot cooler and the matrix cards should just come with a waterblock.

[Doc_Scorpion]

sorter6434 wrote:
I had the square artifacts and black lines at stock clocks too.Then I put ek full water blocks on both my matrix 7970p.No more artifacts at all and I have my core @ 1250mhz and my memoryclock @ 6900.In furmark,3dmark,3dmark advantage and 3dmark 11 I'm stable with no artifacts and stay under 50c.The water blocks make a huge difference ,I used to get temps around 90c@ stock under load with the air cooler.I think asus should sell the dcii top cards with the 3 slot cooler and the matrix cards should just come with a waterblock.

Excellent news m8! Like I already said, the insufficient cooling is a pretty disappointing issue.

[Zka17]

sorter6434 wrote:
I think asus should sell the dcii top cards with the 3 slot cooler and the matrix cards should just come with a waterblock.

Oh, I would support this idea! :cool:

Just a comment, sorter6434... if you were getting 90C with the stock cooler, then your fan settings and/or your overall airflow was wrong....

[sorter6434]

I don't Know I would get up to 90c after playing games for a few hours and I set the fan profile up in gpu tweak to the fans @ 50% @ 50c,80% @ 80c,90% @90c.I think my coolermaster haf has great airflow.Now I did have the cards with no space between them.Also when I took both the cards apart the thermal paste was just sloped on all over the place even off the sides of the gpu .My old 6970 DCII would get up to 90c of course they also had no space between them.It's kind of hard to crossfire two dcII or matrix cards without having them on top of each other.I know there are some mother boards that support a space between them but not many.I think the DCII cooler is over rated maybe its good for a single card but not crossfire or sli.

[Shikatsu]

Just an update. I've installed the 13.3 beta drivers and I haven't seen any square artifacts popping up. Played Bioshock Infinite on eyefinity for 4+ hours yesterday and it was perfect the entire time. Fingers crossed that it continues.