ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series discussion

[ceevee]

Ok look at this. I'm not a fanbooy for either camp, but i've got a 4870 on pre-order. We are losing cards with flashed bios, software OC and at stock. This thread contains most of the cases:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=192759

And here are two posts of ppl who had a card die on them before even overclocking:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...7&postcount=17

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=3956

There's obviously something going on, so lets not stick our heads in the sand.

Thanks for also posting the truth.

Some of these people must have shrines to AMD they worship in their homes lol. If you mention anything that says AMD is not perfect and the best thing ever they will attack you personally like little 5 year old kids.

[perkam]

The truth is that 4800 series is having major major failure problems.

Major problem is at least 10% of cards.

With the volume of cards shipped by ATI/Nvidia in their launch weeks alone, the number of dead cards have yet to surpass the number of Gigabyte motherboards that have to be RMAd at launch

Seriously, we're talking about less than 1% of 1% that flash the bios that have their cards die. Out of that, even a smaller percentage are reporting non-bios related deaths.

Some have three 4870s working in crossfire with overclocks just fine.

Perkam

[safan80]

Major problem is at least 10% of cards.

With the volume of cards shipped by ATI/Nvidia in their launch weeks alone, the number of dead cards have yet to surpass the number of Gigabyte motherboards that have to be RMAd at launch

Perkam

so very true.

[Solus Corvus]

The truth is that 4800 series is having major major failure problems.

So far it looks like only the 4870 is having these problems, not the 4850.

I am sure that to the people these problems happen to they feel plenty serious. But how can you come to the conclusion that it is a serious problem overall without knowing the failure RATE? We don't even know the sales volume of these new cards yet so I'm not sure there is enough information to draw such a conclusion.

Be patient, we still don't even know what the problem actually is. There is always some risk in being an early adopter, we should all know that. Just as it doesn't help to spread fud to hide or minimize the problem, it isn't productive to exaggerate the problem either.

[Caveman787]

solus corvus is entirely right.

I've been reading every page in these news threads for awhile now and I do believe alot of what Ceevee was doing was trolling coming in and talking up the gtx series and down the 4000 series. That was the problem not that he was pointing out that the 4000 series has some issues. They both do because there new products and that's the way it happens often.

It's kinda like your being a beta tester for the products in a way because products often get rushed out now to reach unrealistic deadlines.