LOL, powercolor and/or ocuk left me with no card for 30 days. Powercolor rep friendly at first, then stopped responding. Good luck with 14 days, wouldn't touch powercolor with a bargepole now
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Powercolor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Devil problems.
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Well after much testing today and again another full clean install and updates on the newest drivers, it still crashed with a green screen.
What I have noticed is that before it crashes the V-ram spikes to 100% for a few seconds then green screens and restarts.
Wasted a good few days trying to sort this now for what I believe/99% sure is a card issue.
With this in mind and the fact that the 2070 I used for testing worked perfectly pretty much straight away I want to go back to an Nvidia card, question is which one?
Budget wise will be up to £450, any suggestions?
What I have noticed is that before it crashes the V-ram spikes to 100% for a few seconds then green screens and restarts.
Wasted a good few days trying to sort this now for what I believe/99% sure is a card issue.
With this in mind and the fact that the 2070 I used for testing worked perfectly pretty much straight away I want to go back to an Nvidia card, question is which one?
Budget wise will be up to £450, any suggestions?
I went to a sapphire tri xt red devil competitor, but I didn't think it was as good a card as red devil was, issues aside. So 3rd time lucky with palit jetstream 2070super which is 10/10, but I got it for £450, prices have gone up a lot since I bought
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I went to a sapphire tri xt red devil competitor, but I didn't think it was as good a card as red devil was, issues aside. So 3rd time lucky with palit jetstream 2070super which is 10/10, but I got it for £450, prices have gone up a lot since I bought
By an extra £100 by the looks of things. The 2070 I used was the Gigabyte Windforce super which would fall about £80 over my budget which is a shame.
If you can cope get a cheap 570 and wait till the new cards come out later this year (hopefully)
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Meant 14 days as new purchase, doesn't have to be fixed but straight up replacement or change of model under UK laws etc . After 14 then RMA.
What time did the Powercolor rep respond , normally tells you is EU or Asian based lol
It was months ago, I got the red devil when it was first released, it went wrong after about 2 weeks, maybe a month
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If you can cope get a cheap 570 and wait till the new cards come out later this year (hopefully)
Not really an option to spend £300+ now to just upgrade later on in the year. Think I might just bite the bullet and go for the 2070 super and be done.
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What went wrong with it?
No idea, one day it just died. Never got an answer from PowerColor as the rep stopped responding. And OCUK didn't know I guess cos they never heard from PowerColor either
Can recommend the palit jetstream, it's as thick as the devil, pics arent that good online, others are zotac and evga, good luck with new card
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No idea, one day it just died. Never got an answer from PowerColor as the rep stopped responding. And OCUK didn't know I guess cos they never heard from PowerColor either
Can recommend the palit jetstream, it's as thick as the devil, pics arent that good online, others are zotac and evga, good luck with new card
Was a thread about RMA with Powercolor and they didn't get back to OCUK to give okay for replacement , and after 30 days had to swap with sapphire model
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£500 odd would have got windforce or other card with 3-5 yr warranty Vs 2
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...ddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-1b3-gi.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/inno...s-graphics-card-c207s3-08d6x-1-gx-07b-in.html
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The Windforce is more likely the card I will go for now. Maybe a little extra than I was planning on spending but will hopefully save me hours of my life getting it working.
Was it my thread? lol
Generally if you want to buy a Powercolor card, buy it from a retailer who are good at sorting RMAs and returns - because for all intents and purposes, Powercolor's UK RMA and support is practically non-existent.
I know it was a long time ago but I had a Connect3D X1950XT which died on me - retailer told me to go back to TUL group for a replacement, but despite repeated emails and attempts to establish contact I got zero response.
I didn't look at the current prices,mine was 380 when I got it,can't remember if that was the actual price or I got a slight discount due to the other issues I had experienced.
Good service anyway.
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The 2070 Supers are ludicrously priced.
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Not compared to the 2080s, which give just about the same performance.
Prices are fine imo, i paid £600 for a V64 LC, got my 2070s for less than that, and it absolutely destroys it, and can do RT.
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