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Sorry AMD :(

TheRealDeal said:
I just tested 100 titan blacks and none of them would boot except 1 which then rendered the green screen of death. Sent the whole truck load back and as you can imagine was not happy. Opted to go to the red which I did not want to do as I have always prefered green. I ordered 100 290x's which to my surprise all booted no problem.

Sorry Nvidia I am gonna miss you like crazy
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That's weird, my experience was different, last month I ordered 100 R295X2's and 100 GTX790's all of which smelt like BBQ sauce, so I returned them all and bought a used Voodoo 5 6000 prototype which smelt of chicken tikka instead, much better.
 
Goto love it when some scrub demands proof of your experience because you swap from their fanboy product of choice to something else. I mean, who the hell cares.

Hope these cards work out for you.
 
LOL, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
Luck really can be that crappy sometimes and I honestly can't see someone bothering to make a thread like this just to further some weird agenda.

FWIW, 7950 + 2x7970 + 3x7990 + 3x290 and no coil whine here apart from in the Heaven exit screen and the odd game menu. **** happens :)
 
llamadal said:
Goto love it when some scrub demands proof of your experience because you swap from their fanboy product of choice to something else. I mean, who the hell cares.

Hope these cards work out for you.
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Scrub? You call me a scrub? Lol and where did I demand prove you soft "insert word here" I asked didn't demand there is a big difference.
And we're all free to our own options on what we think to believe or not.

Op post didn't add up and as promised I said sorry if proven to be wrong.
 
3 7990 with no coil whine that is impressive, Of the AMD range i would say it's been the worse offender. Nearly as bad as the SOC 480 :D but that was a retarded card that gigabyte never tested.
 
llamadal said:
Goto love it when some scrub demands proof of your experience because you swap from their fanboy product of choice to something else. I mean, who the hell cares.

Hope these cards work out for you.
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I don't think it's that tbh. Sometimes highly unlikely things do happen but they are pretty hard to believe at the same time. My woman suffers from hearing high pitched sounds that annoy the hell out of her. She also says it can hurt. I can often hear what she hears but i would certainly not call it annoying in any way or painful. She often has to say to me can you hear that and if i listen closely i usually can but if she was not there i probably would never have heard it. What he's describing as coil whine to most people might not even be heard unless you tune into it.

So in essense he may have 30 good cards to anybody else who does not suffer from what he has.
 
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TwsT said:
3 7990 with no coil whine that is impressive, Of the AMD range i would say it's been the worse offender. Nearly as bad as the SOC 480 :D but that was a retarded card that gigabyte never tested.
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Yeah, it is a bit lucky I guess. They had a bit of low level whine when mining certain coins, but certainly nothing to complain about.
 
Gawd, no one is getting annoyed about moving from one team to another. It is more about implying that there is a design flaw or a manufacturing error and that it is of a common occurrence in these cards, there are hundreds of 290x owners on this forum can confirm the vast majority of them work perfectly well without whine.

Saying that there is a power design flaw is wrong and will put other people off buying a great value, high end card. Dont care what GPU people use but fear mongering is lame.

Also Direct CU II cards use Asus' own PCB design, as far as i am aware, the only thing AMD in those GPUs is the core.
 
It's a shame because If you had the experiences I've had having worked in returns and seen how many of every card have come back faulty how many I've tested you'd have a warped sense of reliability.

but Meh I can't ever discuss graphics cards and their merits anywhere always the same petty arguments. Every single launch there are threads filled with people justifying themselves to themselves. Never any discussion about the merits of the product in the thread always an attempt from one side or the other to belittle it.


I wish i could post our statistics about faults would certainly shed some light on a few things for you all but I can't. It makes for fun read.
 
TwsT said:
I wish i could post our statistics about faults would certainly shed some light on a few things for you all but I can't. It makes for fun read.
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Out of interest why not? I remember Gibbo posted the stats for PSU returns and I *think* somebody once posted the SSD stats.

Why not GPU's? would the brand or manufacturer who are doing worse than the rest (assuming this from what you've said and your tone) kick off?
 
I thought Gibbo posted Nvidia and AMD GPU returns too a while ago. As i recall they were low enough that it isn't worth considering one brand over another when thinking about reliability. If you get a bad egg from either side, it is a rare occurrence.
 
mainly because it's not my group. If Gibbo wanted to silence someone bad mouthing a specific card/brand he would probably use some statistics as evidence but I doubt he would release the whole picture for you to all browse through.
 
TBH,we already know certain models and certain brands have had problems. IIRC,there were issues with certain MSI HD7950 cards,and there have been issues with certain Palit GTX460 cards and so on. Its not as hard as you think to find out though,as it is usually reported somewhere.

The only issue I do have is if the data is conflated to mean something it shouldn't be.
 
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