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Anyone else had loads of hardware issues with AMD current gen?

no issues here with two msi 7850's,both have been great and work fine on z68/z77 and a h55 board

infact ive never had any trouble with an ati card from the x1950 pro days till now

i have seen board manufacturers lagging behind on bios updates to fix compatability issues with these cards though,but thats the mb fault not the cards
 
Had 7850 and 7950 this year, 470 before that, nothing wrong with any of them. Nobody has that many failures down to bad luck, I'd be looking elsewhere to be honest.:)
 
Recently bought a Sapphire HD 7970 which would Artifact and crash the machine under load. Carn't complain about Overclockers RMA service though as they replaced it within a week and a half.
 
eyetrip out of 7 cards and 4 different GPU PCB manufacturers,
2 from Asus died, and so did a his ref 7970. Yet all these cards had unlocked voltage control and were used in crossfire in your system?

Yet the ones that didnt die were voltage locked and/or noisy so you dsred them, which is acceptable thats personal preference.
The dodgey hdmi output did that card work with dvi?

I don't know but it sounds like you pushed your hardware too hard on the weaker cards and ran them too hot, or pushed the vrm circuits too hard. As for the asus I'm not sure.

I will agree with you some current gen of Ati cards have had their issues, With Sapphire slacking in qc over the 7870 'black screen capacitor'.
The sapphire vapor x aren't aswell made as the earlier 7950's with their vrm cooling,but whilst you mentioned the vrm controller was locked I've seen workarounds for that.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18449100 but you need to upgrade the vrm cooling.

Msi 7950's obviously had their bad batch with overclockers recently.
Just because a card is locked doesn't mean its faulty although it's hard to work out what manufacturers and what versions of their products are voltage locked.

I do think that gigabyte have issues with their qc measures in testing their overclocked products are actually stable.I have seen various threads by people who experience unstable lockups with their cards. But its never clear if reducing the clocks or increasing the v-core solves the situation.

The ghz bios's I've never been a fan of it to me feels unrefined and untested to the capability of the silicon. its like the phenom II c3 stepping the default v-core usually hovers around 1.325-1.4v, when they could actually be undervolted to 1.20-1.25 at standard clocks.
 
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whilst its a little personal I feel its appropriate lmao.

Everyones entitled to their opinion but when your reminded that your opinion is unjustified and incorrect on numerous times, yet you fail to accept it and continue to fight with it. Then be prepared for personal attack
 
Davedree said:
whilst its a little personal I feel its appropriate lmao.

Everyones entitled to their opinion but when your reminded that your opinion is unjustified and incorrect on numerous times, yet you fail to accept it and continue to fight with it. Then be prepared for personal attack
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Its the same all thing again and again,so much so I really just avoid this section now. If there are genuine problems with certain batches of cards,specific OEM models,etc you could argue it is informing the community. However,when people use these as excuses to justify that a whole companies product range is faulty by spreading FUD,it is just serving to misinform people on purpose,which is dishonesty. Some people do it repeatedly and threads get constantly derailed.
 
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eyetrip out of 7 cards and 4 different GPU PCB manufacturers,
2 from Asus died, and so did a his ref 7970. Yet all these cards had unlocked voltage control and were used in crossfire in your system?

Yet the ones that didnt die were voltage locked and/or noisy so you dsred them, which is acceptable thats personal preference.
The dodgey hdmi output did that card work with dvi?

I don't know but it sounds like you pushed your hardware too hard on the weaker cards and ran them too hot, or pushed the vrm circuits too hard. As for the asus I'm not sure.
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I understand how it could appear that way, but I can tell you the HIS cards were barely clocked, and were never over-volted. They were too noisy for me to even consider that.

Only 3 of the cards died outright, but other had issues such as the hdmi (which, yes, dvi worked just fine for), or causing pc to hang on restart (Gigabyte GHz).

The one Asus that died is a card I sold on (so didn't die through anything I did), which I don't believe was being OCed, and was run as single card.
 
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