mistermaximal

Well, as you can see, RX 470 and better PSU would have been a better choice

What I think happened is not just the PSU, even though it's still really bad, but a combination of bad PSU (high ripple on it) and bad power delivery from the motherboard to the GPU (because the motherboard is a cheap ass one). A lot of the time, a well built motherboard can help prevent damage due to bad PSU, but a not so good one won't.
 
Either way I recommend replacing the PSU with a Seasonic S12II, XFX Proseries or TS Bronze, or Corsair CX450M or CX550M, and hopefully you understand why we make such a big deal off it
 
If after replacing the PSU the GPUs keep dying, perhaps it's the motherboard that's the issue, but i find that unlikely.

My bet would be the MB / PCIe Slot. You have to test it.

well, no matter the quality of your power supply, bad units just happen (they just happen significantly more often on crappy makes )
 
if you have some electricity/electronics knowlegde, measure out the power supply, otherwise talk to the retailer you're getting said replacement cards from, or to the retailer you got the power supply from.

It is rare for the PSU to be the issue. Have you ensured the GPU drivers area not the issue, or the PCIe slot? That being said, there is always the possibility that the PSU or GPUs were the issue. I'd try the PSU first. Swap it out for one you know works (if you can of course), and try that. If that doesn't help, then it could very well be bad luck, and the GPUs were bad. But I'd put my money on one of other options.

that's why i usually suggest to ask the retailer, my retailer of choice actually has a (super dodgy) test bench set up, and if you have mysterious failures with product from their store, they'll gladly test it for you.

People often make the mistake and rate the PSU as "not so important" in a Gaming PC.
That a new GPU die withing a Day is very unlikely.

The new grey sticker CXs are way way better, and much better than the old CXs as well. I recommend one of those. Not the green ones.

GPU Boost does weird stuff like that. I'd trust the clock you're getting in Furmark, since that's generally more demanding than most other things.
 
GPU Boost will only push it as far as it needs to for whatever it's doing. Usually. Well, most of the time.
It really is screwed.

My mother is an absolute non-techie, i had to show her how to copy-paste about 10 times and how to attach a file to an email about 30 times until she got it. And also that she shouldn't open the "Ups_delivery_notice.exe" that came with an poorly written email. And of course, she uses the same computer since over 10 years, I'm actually surprised the 80gig HDD hasn't failed yet.

Same with my dad. He did have an office job for about 5 years, and I still had to show him that you could open up more than one tab in Chrome, and how to attach word docs onto emails, etc.

My mother is an absolute non-techie, i had to show her how to copy-paste about 10 times and how to attach a file to an email about 30 times until she got it. And also that she shouldn't open the "Ups_delivery_notice.exe" that came with an poorly written email. And of course, she uses the same computer since over 10 years, I'm actually surprised the 80gig HDD hasn't failed yet.

My mother is an absolute non-techie, i had to show her how to copy-paste about 10 times and how to attach a file to an email about 30 times until she got it. And also that she shouldn't open the "Ups_delivery_notice.exe" that came with an poorly written email. And of course, she uses the same computer since over 10 years, I'm actually surprised the 80gig HDD hasn't failed yet.

They're don't perform worse in gaming than their desktop parts, they're performance is almost exactly the same. Some difference between Xeon and Core i7 is Xeon supports ECC, and it's designed for the 24/7/365 work environment where its main focus is stability. CPUs that perform the best of the best are binned as Xeons and the rest get trickled down to Core i7, i5, i3, etc. While their price may seem quite expensive that's because it has more cores/cache, some of their entry level models are quite affordable and even cheaper than a Core i7. You can grab a Xeon with HT, just like a Core i7, for around the price of a Core i5.