Topic: Anyone else have huge problems with Sapphire GPUs? (Read 761 times)
30x sapphire 7950 here from december, last series i guess. 8 dead so far, picture..driver load..no picture..pc crash. no fan isues so far, cca 580khs 1020mV 60-65% fan 65°C sgminer now. i hope its dead what was bad and other 22pcs will run. as i have bunch of 280x and 290 without any isues I know that those last sapph 7950s was bad.
No problems with sapphire here. 7950 are crap cards (they're failed 7970's) I don't use them.
When the fans die we just strap 92mm case fans on with cable ties.
When the fans die we just strap 92mm case fans on with cable ties.
Man you really have it in for those 7950s don't you
- did they murder some other cards? 
Doesn't matter as both 7950/7970 are pretty much gone now.What I did for my failed 7950 was take the fan out and mount a 120 near the card - same effect. RMA with Sapphire seems like it would take a month - would be cheaper to just buy a new fan.
I've had 3 Sapphire 7950s go bad in under a month (purchased new from Newegg). They were monitored and never went above 70C and I didn't do any crazy overclocking. Fortunately, I was able to RMA them without issue. Unfortunately, the RMA process takes for-freaking-ever.
No problems with sapphire here. 7950 are crap cards (they're failed 7970's) I don't use them.
When the fans die we just strap 92mm case fans on with cable ties.
When the fans die we just strap 92mm case fans on with cable ties.
I have 10 sapphire 7950s, 6 6950s, and 32 6870s (the later 2 types I had over 2 years now). Only 1 fan has died on the 7950s, but it died after just 5 months so I toss it up as a bad fan. I run them between 55-65%. Personally I think 80% is too fast, but you're pushing them to mine more - you should expect to pay more in fan maintenance.
I have 10 XFX cards from 2011/2012 and had 3 fans fail in the last 2 months, guess 2+ years mining 24/7 is taking it's toll.
I have 10 XFX cards from 2011/2012 and had 3 fans fail in the last 2 months, guess 2+ years mining 24/7 is taking it's toll.
I started mining with Sapphire 7950s(6x) last year. By 1 months time 1 returned, 2 rma, and 2 have failing fans...(one i replaced myself).
The fan issue seems to be very common on these cards, but temps never rose above 70C and ambient temp is 8C-12C (yay winter lol).
I monitor them, temps never above 70C, range 60C-70C. Fans at 80%, not even full speed!!
Since then I have been getting XFX and Gigabyte 280x's, all running fine.
So I was wondering if anyone else has had such problems with Sapphire brand products?? Or just bad luck? This is ridiculous!!
The fan issue seems to be very common on these cards, but temps never rose above 70C and ambient temp is 8C-12C (yay winter lol).
I monitor them, temps never above 70C, range 60C-70C. Fans at 80%, not even full speed!!
Since then I have been getting XFX and Gigabyte 280x's, all running fine.
So I was wondering if anyone else has had such problems with Sapphire brand products?? Or just bad luck? This is ridiculous!!
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