Any bad experiences with Sapphire?

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

What are you planning to get anyway? Anything custom cooled should be decently quiet no?

An RX 480 4GB Gaming X or Strix, whichever is cheaper when I buy.

 

I want it more for OC than actually playing games

 

If I can find an R9 Fury for below $300 equivalent I would jump on that too.

[Mr.Meerkat]

1 minute ago, Energycore said:

Strix

*cries how Asus only put a 6 pin on the RX470 variant...*

 

2 minutes ago, Energycore said:

I want it more for OC than actually playing games

Well maybe get a Nvidia card instead? They would OC better no?

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

*cries how Asus only put a 6 pin on the RX470 variant...*

 

Well maybe get a Nvidia card instead? They would OC better no?

- I know right first I was like Oooo cheap Strix 470 but it's nowhere near as good

 

- I don't want Pascal, overclocking on it is shitty. You dial in +100MHz and that's all you can do. I wanna get to be the guy on LTT with a 1.5GHz RX 480.

[Mr.Meerkat]

5 minutes ago, Energycore said:

I know right first I was like Oooo cheap Strix 470 but it's nowhere near as good

my OCing experience with it: can't get past 1300MHz without it throttling due to not enough power (even with +100mV and +50% power limit).

Tried manually dialling voltages in wattman, nope.

 

Did I also mention how while overclocking my RX470, it triggered my PSU protections 3 times?

[Droidbot]

41 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

 

Does it count if I've fried a sapphire 290X reference? I mean it kicked out before my powercolor 290X reference so points off? 

Jesus christ did it set on fire 

[Mr.Meerkat]

1 minute ago, Droidbot said:

Jesus christ did it set on fire 

VRM exploded with a bang so...I guess?  

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

my OCing experience with it: can't get past 1300MHz without it throttling due to not enough power (even with +100mV and +50% power limit).

Tried manually dialling voltages in wattman, nope.

 

Did I also mention how while overclocking my RX470, it triggered my PSU protections 3 times?

The XTS? that's weird and might have to do with it being multi-rail

 

And well, the best (only) way to overclock a Polaris based card is to get a custom BIOS to increase the power target and allow you to set 1.4V.

[Mr.Meerkat]

6 minutes ago, Energycore said:

The XTS? that's weird and might have to do with it being multi-rail

 

And well, the best (only) way to overclock a Polaris based card is to get a custom BIOS to increase the power target and allow you to set 1.4V.

Check my sig  

XFX is f*cking with us UK consumers, the XTS in the UK is actually the proseries 1kW limited black edition  

 

Agh, too much effort...

 

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The power supply can deliver 996W to the single +12V rail, or 83A. Extremely impressive figures

From kitguru, like I remembered as a single rail PSU  

[Droidbot]

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

VRM exploded with a bang so...I guess?  

Boom sizzle sizzle goes the VRMs lmao

 

10 minutes ago, Energycore said:

- I know right first I was like Oooo cheap Strix 470 but it's nowhere near as good

 

- I don't want Pascal, overclocking on it is shitty. You dial in +100MHz and that's all you can do. I wanna get to be the guy on LTT with a 1.5GHz RX 480.

480 at high clocks cooled well would kick total ass

but my 1070 is still good at stock, last time I overclocked an nvidia card my 770 one of the memchips died haha

[7850OC]

2 hours ago, Energycore said:

In my time in the forums I had heard that Sapphire had pretty good to good customer service, just from word of mouth. But I was talking to someone on this thread that described a pretty abysmal RMA process. So I wanted to ask you all, how all of your experiences have been with Sapphire RMAs, how they were handled and if you ran into any problems.

 

And I've been thinking about setting up a new RMA thread, now that @thekeemo has stopped being active. That RMA experience thread was very useful.

my HD 7850 from Sapphire work fine full OC from 2012 until 2016

the fan cooler is the 1s part that break
but the new "Sapphire" model RX 460 line, have fix that problem

i never RTM my card

so, what can i say from Sapphire ?

 

they do great cards "very well designed" with cheap materials

and deliver the best price/performance from the market

 

this is good for the budget buyer 

but not good for the long time buyer 

[Bananasplit_00]

3 hours ago, TheRandomness said:

Toxic*

 

I've no bad experiences with Sapphire, and my 290 is still partially kicking. 

duknow what you mean by that but the card i have is a Tri-X lol

[TheRandomness]

20 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

duknow what you mean by that but the card i have is a Tri-X lol

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That's a Toxic 280X. This is a Tri-X:

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Notice the difference? Yeah, there's not much of one

[Bananasplit_00]

9 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

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That's a Toxic 280X. This is a Tri-X:

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Notice the difference? Yeah, there's not much of one

lol thats a verry small change. well i have the Tri-X anyway

[vanished]

I have a card by them but never needed their customer service.  I know they're a good name in AMD cards through so hopefully I'll never need it :P