XFX Double D FX-795A-TDFC Radeon HD 7950 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

Pros: good card and takes anything you can through at it

Cons: Loudest card ive ever had and runs verry hot

Other Thoughts: The card i revived isnt the card thats pictured. the card in photos or the details. everything matches except for one thing.

now keepin mind the card i have and the card in the video they have for it have one dvi slot, the card pictured has 2. it also shows it having 2 dvi ports in the details.

Everything matches right down to the modle number. and i got to this page right from the link from the invoice.

so id like to know whats going on.

Pros: This card is seriously powerful. It's one of the fastest cards for $300 period. It's hard to compete with the performance for the price.

Cons: Getting that kind of performance comes at a price; reliability. I've owned several XFX cards and I've never had a problem, hence why I keep returning to them. This is my last XFX card. I've been having nothing but problems (literally blue screens every game) and it's only getting worse. XFX will not respond to my open ticket, so luckily the company I purchased the card from (sorry Newegg) is accepting a return for full refund.

Other Thoughts: I confirmed it was the card by switching it out with my XFX 6870. Every game ran perfect with no BSOD. Granted the frame rates dropped a bit, everything worked perfectly. I've been building computers since the Rage 128/CVoodooFX days and this is the first serious problem I've had with a card.

My build:
i7-3770K @ 4.5Ghz
16GB GSkill PC1600
Plextor 256GB SSD (SATA3)
2 WD Black 1TB HDD (Raid0)

Other goodies of course, but this stuff is what matters for the review at hand.

Pros: Been using this card from a year, been working great in the first part of that time. It didn't give me any problems while gaming, nor did the drivers.

It handles all the games I play very good, I haven't used the HDMI 5.1 audio as I don't need it.

Cons: The major issue is the fact that the card over heat, I don't have any thing in the front of the graphics card, so air can still get to it. But I been fighting it heat issue for a while now.

Also one of the fans started to make noise, I don't know which one it is, but I hear it when ever I play a game. I just wish they did a better job with the design of the cooler, and used better quality fans.

Pros: It worked well while the fan lasted.
Rebate made the price competitive.

Cons: Both fans failed after about 10 months of use.

Other Thoughts: I filed a ticket to find out how I can go about having the card fixed today. I will update how the ticket gets resolved and how timely the process is. I have heard bad things about XFX support here, but I hope they have got their acts together by now.

Pros: Fantastic looking card, the craftsmanship and brushed aluminum are stunning.
Felt extremely solid/sturdy.
Lifetime warranty with registration.
Great gaming card you can get up to GHz Edition speed.

Cons: The DD cooler didn't cut the mustard for me, it was terribly loud. I would probably even say it was as loud as the reference blower on my EVGA GTX670 4GB card under full load, with auto fan settings.

Voltage locked.

Not a good card for high overclock. I got it to just under 1100 stable in Furmark. For BTC mining I managed 1050 core; where I was barely making 500 M/hash

Other Thoughts: I'm only docking one egg because this card could be great for many people.

You can safely take this card up to GHz Edition core clock and be happy; just don't expect 1100+MHz core clocks, it won't happen with this card due to voltage limitations.

I did not attempt memory overclock since BTC doesn't need it.

I believe with a custom fan profile this card would be great for gaming. Once you push the core clock expect it to get noisy.

Maybe cracking it open and applying some great thermal paste would help keep the noise at bay.

I prefer Gelid GC Extreme or Xigmatek PTI-G4512. Both of these pastes have no curing time, instant gratification; and they both perform exceptionally. The GC Extreme is also recommended by EK in their waterblock installation instructions.

The look/feel is stunning, especially compared to the DOA Sapphire 7970 Boost I am RMAing. The Sapphire looked/felt like a cheap toy compared to this beauty.

Pros: My card worked great, while it worked. XFX tends to offer cards at slightly higher performance than others for a good price.

Cons: XFX support has tanked, as has their quality apparently. Even on their $1k cards, people are complaining about cards showing up with their anti-static bags unsealed. I originally bought XFX because they used to have the best support and warranties in the business.

After a couple months, my card started overheating badly under normal conditions. After some back and forth I finally got an RMA approved and sent the card in. A week or two later, they changed their whole support site. The XFX support site is now unuseable. It lost track of all of my help tickets, lost a product registration, and I can't look up the status of my RMA. They've had my card for over two months now. Fortunately I have another I can at least run on, but my performance has sufferred severely. I can't get a hold of anyone through the support site, and finally managed to get a hold of one of their support guys 2.5 weeks ago by e-mail. He assured me they would be shipping my card out at the beginning of the next week, I'm still waiting. Shot another e-mail again, and still haven't heard back. Don't know when/if I'll ever get my GPU back.

Other Thoughts: XFX Support = Terrible, it used to be good, but not anymore.

Will be buying another brand for my next card. I'll gladly take a tiny drop in performance for the knowledge that the manufacturer will back their product, and there are others who will. XFX just isn't worth it these days.

Pros: 3GB GDDR5
Will work if the GPU doesn't hit 40C
For a month it would go up to 55C then shutdown.

Cons: This thing never worked right straight from the box it would crash my games because of some driver error but I fixed that after a week.
Locked voltages, I planned to overclock this card originally but it seems they locked the voltages and set it so would shutdown your PC once it hits 40C, clearly XFX doesn't want people to overclock.
Even at 100% speeds the system shutsdown because it thinks it's overheating.

Other Thoughts: I will update my review if XFX will allow me to exchange this card for one works.

Pros: The card worked well for about a month. Good temperatures, good framerates, seemed like a great buy.

Cons: After a month the card is absolute garbage. Whenever it's under heavy load, I get an error that states "Your AMD driver has stopped responding" leading to a closing of anything I have running at the time.

My clocks are then locked to 500 Mhz (Core) and 150 Mhz (Memory). Error logs state that these are LivekernalEvents and I recieve BBC code 117 and 141. I've tried every possible attempt to rectify this and it all leads to this video card being faulty.

Now all of this wouldn't be a problem if XFX would answer their support tickets in a timely manner and get me on my way to an RMA. This is not the case at all. I gave them all necessary information in my ticket and two weeks later I am told to uninstall and reinstall my drivers. I responded by telling them I have done this and I did it again to no avail (even though in my original ticket I mentioned I had done what they just asked me to do).

The card is faulty, the support is terrible/abysmal, and I am out $330. Never buying from XFX again.

Pros: The card worked well for about a month. Good temperatures, good framerates, seemed like a great buy.

Cons: After a month the card is absolute garbage. Whenever it's under heavy load, I get an error that states "Your AMD driver has stopped responding" leading to a closing of anything I have running at the time.

My clocks are then locked to 500 Mhz (Core) and 150 Mhz (Memory). Error logs state that these are LivekernalEvents and I recieve BBC code 117 and 141. I've tried every possible attempt to rectify this and it all leads to this video card being faulty.

Now all of this wouldn't be a problem if XFX would answer their support tickets in a timely manner and get me on my way to an RMA. This is not the case at all. I gave them all necessary information in my ticket and two weeks later I am told to uninstall and reinstall my drivers. I responded by telling them I have done this and I did it again to no avail (even though in my original ticket I mentioned I had done what they just asked me to do).

The card is faulty, the support is terrible/abysmal, and I am out $330. Never buying from XFX again.

Manufacturer Response:

Hello, At this time our support systems are all but caught up. If you havent been taken care of, please email me at neweggsupport@xfxforce.com and I will be happy to help you. Thank you

Pros: I got this card and was truly pleased with it. Played Crysis on very high without any issues.
I will mentioned that I had this card initially connected to my 27' monitor via hdmi. I then noticed that my computer started to crash; windows 7 would change colors and also lock up or I would get the Blue Screen Of Death and Black Screen Of Death.
Immediately I started testing memory, hard drive, cooling, flashing my motherboard bios to the latest one and couldn't find any issues with any other component. My conclusion was that the card was faulty.
I unplug the hdmi cable and connected via DVI after a reset of my bios. Windows started with no issues. Played Crysis without a hiccup and then decided to test the hdmi on a different monitor. I unplugged the DVI cable, and also configured my GSkill Ripjaw memory to run in xmp profile (which I am accustom to doing but the bios had changed that setting when I flashed it). I started the system up and the crash started, I couldn't even get into windows. So now I am convinced that the card is faulty and it's the hdmi that's messed up.
Then I had a thought: what if a setting in the bios was messing with the card? This was an odd question as everything worked perfectly well with the current settings and through the DVI, the hdmi was the only thing different. So I went back to the bios and auto reset then restarted my computer and went back into the bios to see what the configuration would look like (I have an Asus Z68 MB & a 3770k @ default). The bios had set the memory speed to 2060 instead of the xmp 2133 and overclock the cpu in the process to 4.4 GHZ. I was a little puzzled at this but decided to see what would happen. This setting did work with the hdmi for about 3 hours but then the system crashed.
I went and did some research on xmp causing system crashes and found that you should set the bios to xmp and ensure that VCCIO was manually set to 1.10v if you system uses 2 sticks of high performance memory (like my system had) and 1.15v if you have 4 sticks.

Cons: None for the card. Plenty for EA & UPS. Anyhow I did as was instructed, connect the hdmi cable and then started my system up. This time the system went straight into windows. I then started to run some programs that would have crashed the minute I entered windows, but there was no crash. Everything seemed to be working. I then went ahead and did a bunch of online stuff amongst others things on the computer for a few hours but still no crash. I went and played Crysis and had no issue whatsoever. I then left the computer running a graphic test for the entire night. In the morning the system was working with the test just the same; and I have not had a crash since then.
What is even stranger to me is that the DVI connection worked the VCCIO set to auto but required the change for hdmi.
I conclude the card wasn't faulty at all but as mentioned, realized that the bios configuration is going to really affect how this card behaves. So if you are having issues with your card as I was experiencing or even something similar, then you might want to give my solution a try.

Other Thoughts: This card runs cool @ default speeds and is relatively quiet even when the fans are at 45%; but higher than that and you really start noticing the sound.
I did do a small overclock from core clock 900 to 1000 and memory clock 1250 to 1400 and up the voltage in catalyst control center to 10% and played Crysis 3 with greater fps and had no issues.
While playing Crysis 3 my load temps were in the 70's C while my room was 77'F which is still safe for this card. So when it is liquid cooled I hope to overclock.
My card came without an attachment but Newegg has assured me that they have sent it out so I will see how that goes.
I really like the technology of this card and see much greater potential in overclocking/performance when compared to my previous 5970.
Oh the rebates do sweeten the deal for me.
Great job as always Newegg, keep up the good work. Now if only UPS and EA could follow your example.