re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

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Their customer service is dog shite too

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Yea I experienced this when I tried to RMA a broken 7870. I used the Amazon "RMA" process instead.

To send a VBIOS?

Why would you ever contact or wait for such a thing? Confused why you didn't just DL one off the internet.

I don't need the extenders since I had to cancel the order on those 4 290x.

I wouldn't mind another 270x though to crossfire with this one I am using in my temp set up. How much do you want for it?

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His modules would be either Hynix or Elpida (Just saw they are Elpida), and yeah, there are bioses that won't work with one or the other, and others that are designed for both. But on a side note, there are also two different types of Hynix modules, and in the case of my 7970s, I learned that the MFR-based modules have a completely different timing profile from the AFR modules (the MFR modules having the poorer timing configuration), and AFR bioses won't work with MFR bioses and vice versa. So, basically, all Tahiti cards can have one of three types of memory, and even more types of bioses that aren't cross-compatible. I realized I had one card with MFR Hynix mem while the other two were AFR.

I found a thread on a cryptocurrency forum where an engineer explained the differences and offered to modify bioses for people. But of course, he has to protect his own intellectual property, so the decoding of the timings and the actual control register locations are not public knowledge (or at least not easily located).

In Bruce's case, he tried bioses from other AIBs in addition to every Sapphire 7950 bios available online. Last resort was to try to get Sapphire to send the bios used on his exact part number to eliminate any doubt-- basically, exhaust every option before having to go through the total fricking nightmare of a Sapphire RMA. In the end, it was pretty clear that the card was just dead/dying - I'm guessing one of the bioses he tried would've worked had the card been functional, but it wasn't exactly simple to determine that given his card's symptoms.

The card on the left is the first one that I bought. It was still late in the generation for the chips though. Both have elpida modules, I'm not sure about the numbers though. I've had 3 of these cards, and all 3 of them have had different bios sets.

Yeah, profits are down, and I'm sure it's only going to get worse, so I'm not planning to invest any additional money into it (Any additional cards I buy at this point would require me to buy a PSU, mobo, CPU, and RAM as well). But, even if I'm only making a few dollars a day, my rigs are mining maintenance free 24/7 now, so there's no reason not to keep it going until electricity costs exceed mining profits.

If summer proves to be harsh and my room gets miserable during the day, I may move my 2 7970s and 280x into a new rig and out of the room and get something new for gaming. Just depends on how my bank account looks. My son is due next month.

Could a video card be dead even if the fan on the video card still spins?

So if I stuck the video card in another computer and the monitors don't power on its the video card?

Which eloops do you have?