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AMD confirm RX 7900 vapour chamber problems

rumple9 said:
AMD should stick to making cpus
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Lol, you really are desperate for AMD to exit the gpu market aren't you. AMD provides some competition for Nvidia. We are already being shafted by the extortionate prices set by the 4000 series and you want the only competitior to be gone? You must have more money than sense mate.

What you posted about the 11% return rate is unsubstantiated news since Guru3D didn't even provide a source for the 'recent interview' where AMD said anything about the failure rate.
 
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fs123 said:
Lol, you really are desperate for AMD to exit the gpu market aren't you. AMD provides some competition for Nvidia. We are already being shafted by the extortionate prices set by the 4000 series and you want the only competitior to be gone? You must have more money than sense mate.

What you posted about the 11% return rate is unsubstantiated news since Guru3D didn't even provide a source for the 'recent interview' where AMD said anything about the failure rate.
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AMD doesn't provide any competition to Nvidia;)
 
Aretak said:
It's odd that it's not a universal issue. It only affects XTX cards and even then not all of them. Seems like either a bad batch (or batches) with a manufacturing defect, or perhaps a specific Chinese factory doing something not to spec to save money. It'd be interesting to know which company is actually manufacturing the cooler. I think Foxconn do Nvidia's FE coolers.
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They're reference cards made to a spec and probably to a budget and someone at the (probably chinese) factory cheaped out, standards are so variable/crappy at chinese plants though its just possible its plain incompetence. But there should have been better QC/oversight. Luckily it only seems to be a batch/portion of coolers and AIB's aren't affected at all.
 
rumple9 said:
AMD doesn't provide any competition to Nvidia;)
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Probably because for the better part of a decade they were hamstrung by the company being on the edge of bankruptcy, or did this fact fly over your little head? A common occurrence for a troll i would imagine. Run along now and get your fish finger sandwiches.
 
Gerard said:
Probably because for the better part of a decade they were hamstrung by the company being on the edge of bankruptcy, or did this fact fly over your little head? A common occurrence for a troll i would imagine. Run along now and get your fish finger sandwiches.
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dont be bringing the sandwich into this!
 
Grim5 said:
As derbauer said these numbers are BS because AMD isn't doing a proper recall - they wait for customer to complain, many won't because they don't know anything is wrong
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What you've just said is the precise reason why AMD should be carrying out a proper recall. There will be customers out there who will have a card which isn't performing as it should be. To simply leave it up to people to discover this is completely the wrong approach, I feel sorry for those who won't identify or recognise the issue. This in itself is a fault which affects a specific batch of cards, there's no user error etc here.

The only positive is that the XTX is the enthusiast level so you'd expect the end user is educated enough that they will check for the issue and be aware of this news.
 
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AMD will always seem to make poor choices when it comes to GPUs. We can try to swing it that it’s a manufacturing defect but it was AMD quality control that let this happen.

So many 7900 XTX MBA owners got this yet AMD missed every single one before launch date. So they either have poor testing and quality control issues, or they saw it and figured they would get away with it.

It’s either incompetence or malice but I go with incompetence in AMDs case.
 
jrodga2k5 said:
What you've just said is the precise reason why AMD should be carrying out a proper recall. There will be customers out there who will have a card which isn't performing as it should be. To simply leave it up to people to discover this is completely the wrong approach, I feel sorry for those who won't identify or recognise the issue. This in itself is a fault which affects a specific batch of cards, there's no user error etc here.

The only positive is that the XTX is the enthusiast level so you'd expect the end user is educated enough that they will check for the issue and be aware of this news.
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A recall tends to only happen if the product is unsafe? Despite the temps, this isn't going to burn your house down.
 
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