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AMD and Origin PC Settle Past Dispute

You can just tell when people are lying through their teeth.

AMD must have some kind of solid legal case against Origin and they made a deal.
 
_Alatar_ said:
Origin PC isn't the only one who has complained about AMD card reliability in the past.

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http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Video-Card-Failure-Rates-by-Generation-563/
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Not going to argue the figures, but Gibbo has said that the returns rate for both companies is about the same.
 
Sometimes it's an AIB issue. Myself and my brother both got HD 4850s at the same time and within a few weeks the fans were rattling. Rather than send them back we unscrewed the fans from our previous 7900GS cards, then screwed them into a shim cut from some plastic and screwed that into the heatsinks.

The silly thing was they were both Gainward cards, the fans were almost identical at a glance but they clearly decided to scrimp on the fans.
 
watched it all

AMD possibly might help Origin fit a 295x2 into a small chassis
AMD would like to help Origin do 5 way Xfire setup on the new boards.
 
Orangey said:
Most of those "failures" are probably casuals who leave the NV drivers installed or some other pebcak.
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The blue lines won't be affected by that.

_Alatar_ said:
Origin PC isn't the only one who has complained about AMD card reliability in the past.
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The R7/9 bit is definitely skewed by the 290 black screen issue (which according to humbug doesn't exist) and to be fair AFAIK is more of an elpida issue than it is AMD's. My direct retail experience in regard to GPUs is somewhat out dated but excluding the 290 skew the rest is pretty much about on par with what I've seen in the past.


EDIT: Can also be skewed by individual brands i.e. cheaping out on a component or just like with BFG where even ignoring people abusing the warranty they had GPUs that would die for a past time from BGA solder failure type issues at an alarming rate for no apparent reason.
 
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Rroff said:
The blue lines won't be affected by that.



The R7/9 bit is definitely skewed by the 290 black screen issue (which according to humbug doesn't exist) and to be fair AFAIK is more of an elpida issue than it is AMD's. My direct retail experience in regard to GPUs is somewhat out dated but excluding the 290 skew the rest is pretty much about on par with what I've seen in the past.


EDIT: Can also be skewed by individual brands i.e. cheaping out on a component or just like with BFG where even ignoring people abusing the warranty they had GPUs that would die for a past time from BGA solder failure type issues at an alarming rate for no apparent reason.
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Stop your baiting every 5 minutes Roff :rolleyes:

Try just getting along with people for a bit, instead of constantly picking fights with members of this forum.
 
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