Quote Originally Posted by ceevee View Post
If you look around here and on other forums there are a very large number of people whose cards are dying within 48 hours of purchase. On this forum alone there are easily 15+ dead cards already, and if you vist some other hardware forums you will see reports of this being widespread. It looks like AMD may have a major problem developing.
Please post linsk to those forums with major issues of 4870's dying. I've seen on on [H] by GT but he had a BIOS flash. I see no threads on AT, Guru3D, Techpowerup right now on it. Strangely enough, I see GTX280 overheating issues on those forums.

So we have on thread here, after people were talking about BIOS flashses and people were experimenting, and suddenly ATI has a major issue while Nvidia doesn't at all?

As others have already shown, the problem is affecting Nvidia as well and the lieklihood is both sides are pushing their cores very hard.