Sapphire Aftermarket R9 Fury Revealed

[Rvenger]

The fans they use now are ball bearing. In the past they were sleeve bearing which were susceptible to failure along with XFX, PowerColor, Gigabyte, and MSI with the same issues. Sapphire no longer has this issue and I am sure some of the other AIBs have changed their methods too.

 

[MeldarthX]

The fans they use now are ball bearing. In the past they were sleeve bearing which were susceptible to failure along with XFX, PowerColor, Gigabyte, and MSI with the same issues. Sapphire no longer has this issue and I am sure some of the other AIBs have changed their methods too.

Ding Ding Ding - completely correct - now here even the bigger kicker - sleeve bearings weren't used on all the cards either it was mix and match to keep up with demand....

 

[syngyne]

OC version is back in stock at Newegg for anyone waiting on it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202156

 

[crisium]

OC version is back in stock at Newegg for anyone waiting on it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202156

It was in stock when I clicked your link. Added it to cart, and it was too late.

 

[tential]

Well good news for AMD is people are buying them. Hopefully they're selling actual quantity too and not just 5-10 cards here and there.

 

[railven]

Well good news for AMD is people are buying them. Hopefully they're selling actual quantity too and not just 5-10 cards here and there.

I'm going to assume stock is low for these cards too considering only two partners are selling them and they seem to currently be exclusive to Newegg. I don't see them listed on Amazon at all. And that instocknow website only shows 4 links, 3 for Newegg one pre-order for Tigerdirect.

 

[Kenmitch]

I'm going to have a hard time waiting for a fury x if these things release and they are in stock.

XFX Fury X is in stock at bestbuy.com.

 

[RussianSensation]

Regular use, something prior to 6950 I forget the model, and two 6950s. All garbage quality fans from Sapphire that start making clicking noises between 3-9 months of use and eventually outright fail. Other brand cards from the same vintage worked just fine.

They now use 2-ball bearing fans, like EVGA.

The bigger problem is someone spending $550-650 is going to strongly considering spending just a bit more for a 980Ti that has 20-25% OC headroom and 6GB of VRAM as a bonus. Now if going CF or Tri-Fire vs. SLI, then sure Fury starts to make a lot of sense.

 

[3DVagabond]

They now use 2-ball bearing fans, like EVGA.

The bigger problem is someone spending $550-650 is going to strongly considering spending just a bit more for a 980Ti that has 20-25% OC headroom and 6GB of VRAM as a bonus. Now if going CF or Tri-Fire vs. SLI, then sure Fury starts to make a lot of sense.

You need to weigh in factors like freesync which can save you a couple hundy on a monitor and the likelihood that GCN will remain relevant longer.

I can remember you being all over the 680 when first released too. I understand you look at the situation at hand and decide, but don't forget other factors.

 

[Headfoot]

You need to weigh in factors like freesync which can save you a couple hundy on a monitor and the likelihood that GCN will remain relevant longer.

I can remember you being all over the 680 when first released too. I understand you look at the situation at hand and decide, but don't forget other factors.

Yeah in a friends build between similarly priced GTX 970 vs 390 he ended up going 390 because he'll probably end up going FreeSync. When performance is that close you start to look to price and features more. That $100 ends up covering the gap between a nice monitor and a nice FreeSync monitor.

 

[Elixer]

Maybe the supply of Fury cards is getting better, at the time I write this, it is showing Amazon with 14 cards, with more coming.
http://www.nowinstock.net/computers/videocards/amd/r9fury/

No fury X cards to be found though, they just vanish too fast (pump issues?)

 

[stag3]

The fans they use now are ball bearing. In the past they were sleeve bearing which were susceptible to failure along with XFX, PowerColor, Gigabyte, and MSI with the same issues. Sapphire no longer has this issue and I am sure some of the other AIBs have changed their methods too.

yea i just had to replace 1 of the 2 fans on my sapphire 7970 OC
i bet i got the crap sleeve bearings again as i just bought them off ebay ugh