just got a call from czone.....my 5870 vapor x cannot be claimed.......just used it for 2 weeks oni....hermm....should i buy another sapphire ?

sapphire RMA sucks.....waste 2months of waiting...and burn RM1480......use it for 2 weeks only.....damm 5870 vapor x. i'll go for ASUS 5870 V2 this time....

YEAP ME TOO.....so sad and wasting money for nothing.

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Added on July 20, 2010, 2:08 amin my case..they sent it back to distributor...can't claim...sent to taiwan ...they say can't claimed...sent back here still the same card...hopeless

This post has been edited by swenv6: Jul 20 2010, 02:08 AM

the reason is got burn mark......i suspect they use low quality chip....here's a photo. now using cheapo geforce 210 card without any issue...except slow and headache when play game.



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what they say is the damage because of lightning or short circuit bla bla bla...but my mobo everything is working fine....first they sent it to distributor to claimed a new one...but distributor said cannot because the card got burn mark...then they say can try sent to taiwan back to the manufacturer hopefully that they give me a new one...after 2 months of waiting...taiwan also reject says can't give me a new because of the burn chips.

then the shop call me....boss cannot claimed the new one....we already try everything bla bla bla...then i said so how now? the shop says if u get another card from us we give u a special price lorr..ok sounds promising then i went to warranty department to collect the burn card and the girl call the shop downstairs inform about my situation....then i went downstairs ok which card u wanna buy...then i said asus 5870 v2 if u have...open up the box it's a reference model...price we give rm 1400 lor...tak banyak untung wor jual graphic card. that's not special price to me.

i haven't bought a replacement yet..the shop take it back to another distributor...

yeap have to wait what's next.....kinda boring of waiting....

my EAH 5870 V2....got screen flickering issues when switch on the pc (when cold) on windows desktop screen...after sometime okey.....using 10.7 driver....weird after restart pc okey....never got this kind of issue using cheapo GPU before....is it normal or something wrong with the card?

This post has been edited by swenv6: Aug 5 2010, 06:11 PM

ATi cards always flickers when startup, even the first time i used 4870 last year it flickers upon startup...having said, I think all the ATI cards I used within 3 years ago does flickers upon startup...
I think it's how CCC is commenced in the processing...

---normal aar something like grey lines flickers....okey...try to monitor first....hopefully it's not a card problem...but when play BC2 for 3 hours straight without any issue it was smooth all maxed out setting at 1680x1050 . but after sometime the grey lines flickers on the game. Back to windows desktop it's normal again......haven't test it back to play BC2 after that..

This post has been edited by swenv6: Aug 6 2010, 01:20 PM

-mine 5870 V2 from ASUS...3D 850 mhz..1200mhz for ram...using nvidia before this....uninstall....install 10.7 driver....will monitor in other games as well.

---yeah...kinda worried but today no grey flickering since morning..but so far can finish BC2 one shot without any crashes. will try MW 2.

ohh serious....gee thanx....i donno always put it off.