No need for the condescending attitude. I further explained my reasoning a few posts above. Perhaps the pcb was of lower quality, perhaps the solder. when my power blacked out my card wasn't a paper weight. it kept going for another month without much issue. Further more, I really have no evidence that the power surge actually did the damage, the card could of been damaged from something else entirely. The only reason I question the quality of the 7950 is because no other part of my PC failed. My corsair gs750 psu didn't fail, my 3570k didn't fail my asrock z77 extreme 4 didn't fail, my monitor didn't fail, my fridge didn't fail but my 7950 did. slowly and painfully. I mean, you would think it would of been the PSU failing considering it was plugged into the wall. I usually go amd because price/performance but now I'm jaded.
All I'm basically saying is I'm not going AMD again because my card died within 4 months. argue that logic please.
"""I'm from fallv river and we so are lol. I've converted a few friends and built gaming pc's for them.
It's true that could of happened with any card but in ny unbiased oppinion. Nvidia is walking at normal speed and not breaking a sweat. While amd hit the ground running and giving it everything they got and yet they both travel the same speed. I got to believe this has a predispotion On the lifetime of the card. like how an overclocked cpu is bound to die sooner. Nothing else failed on my pc. Or in the house in general. It may have been a combination of power surge and unstable ram. It used the same copper block to cool the gpu and ram meaning that the ram would also be running 80c+ and they may have failed seeing how it wasn't hynx ram but of lower quality. Either way in sadly now stuck with a 660 not ti for now. On the plus side I did discover shadowplay. So the glass is half full I guess. :-("""
I've been doing some research and I found out that some 7950s vrm overheat badly. In my case, the vrm didnt have a temperature probe so the GPU couldn't actively monitor vrm temps and adjust the fan accordingly. HIS has stated they felt the vrm temps are cool enough that they didn't need it. Some sapphire cards hard the same issue heres the
link. And this guy Belial seems to know a ton about the AMD 7950 and its a good read.
link
"Recently companies have been using a cheapo 7950 pcb made by a chinese PCB company known for making cheaper versions of cards called Yeston, that has a weaker power phase with LFPAKs, is more prone to VRM blow-outs and coil whine, and has a much lower ASIC. However the worst, is that these PCBs use a no-name PWM chip instead of CHiL, meaning you won't get any VRM temperatures, amperages, or wattage readings."
. Thats what I'm doing now.
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