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sapphire x1950 pro problems
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a quote from a mod oon the sapphire forum:
Just goes to show what you know - Corsair, made by Seasonic - BOTH makes have been seen here to NOT handle the high-end cards, and funnily enough, the most prevelant models that can't are the 620W units. I wouldn't get dragged into a debate about PSUs and what we know about them here, you'll get pwned .. we've been doing this for years most of us .. and I spent a good 5-6months researching PSUs for the lists of units capable of running these cards.
Both Corsair / Seasonics 500-600w units fail for the most part running these cards, why - because they're garbage .. tried, tested and failed - and it wasn't just me that did the tests either. Search the forums for Corsair HX or Seasonic S/M users that eventually swapped to BETTER BRANDS and found that all their problems went away !!
Nothing wrong at all with the PRO series of that card .. there were a few that were prone to the VRMs getting too hot, but that said, I built several rigs with ADEQUATE airflow using the 1st revision cards and ALL the rigs still work perfectly .. user mikek75 has a first revision board aswell, and his runs OK aswell .. same for a few others here.
Well i am rmaing it it's not fit for purpose if it overheats in an akasa eclipse case
with 2x akasa amber 120mm and it's cold outside at the moment.
Dont know about load temps but idle it is 43 c.
Anyway will never be buying anything by sapphire ever again
sticking to bfg have an 8800 gts arriving tomorrow.
Just goes to show what you know - Corsair, made by Seasonic - BOTH makes have been seen here to NOT handle the high-end cards, and funnily enough, the most prevelant models that can't are the 620W units. I wouldn't get dragged into a debate about PSUs and what we know about them here, you'll get pwned .. we've been doing this for years most of us .. and I spent a good 5-6months researching PSUs for the lists of units capable of running these cards.
Both Corsair / Seasonics 500-600w units fail for the most part running these cards, why - because they're garbage .. tried, tested and failed - and it wasn't just me that did the tests either. Search the forums for Corsair HX or Seasonic S/M users that eventually swapped to BETTER BRANDS and found that all their problems went away !!
Nothing wrong at all with the PRO series of that card .. there were a few that were prone to the VRMs getting too hot, but that said, I built several rigs with ADEQUATE airflow using the 1st revision cards and ALL the rigs still work perfectly .. user mikek75 has a first revision board aswell, and his runs OK aswell .. same for a few others here.
Well i am rmaing it it's not fit for purpose if it overheats in an akasa eclipse case
with 2x akasa amber 120mm and it's cold outside at the moment.
Dont know about load temps but idle it is 43 c.
Anyway will never be buying anything by sapphire ever again
sticking to bfg have an 8800 gts arriving tomorrow.
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I'm pretty sure it's the card design / manu fault there's no heatsinks on the vr area seems to overheat very quickly.The sapphire forum seems to have a lot of members with similar issues with the card and have made homemade heatsink solutions which quite frankly in this day and age should not be necessary if you aren't overclocking it.
I think i will be sent back the card saying nothing wrong with it as i am sure
whoever tests them doesn't sit down and play a few games for a while
to test it let alone run it inside a case.Nevermind chalk this one down to experience 8800 gts tomorrow.
I think i will be sent back the card saying nothing wrong with it as i am sure
whoever tests them doesn't sit down and play a few games for a while
to test it let alone run it inside a case.Nevermind chalk this one down to experience 8800 gts tomorrow.