Quote from: notbatman on April 27, 2017, 02:52:48 PM

Quote from: Biodom on April 27, 2017, 02:27:16 PM

Quote from: notbatman on April 27, 2017, 01:24:48 PM

A bit off-topic but avoid MSI like the plague and make sure your RX cards have Samsung RAM only, exchage any Hynix RAM cards before its too late! I'm going on 3 weeks now waiting on MSI for RMA. 100% defect rate on 7 of their cards, even the one armor card had fan barrings go after a week.

I have had more than a dozen MSI gaming X 470+480. Not a single one failed, all except two were Hynix.
On the other hand, out of a similar number of Sapphire Nitros, one failed (ball bearings, screeching sound and on another one fan was making noises, but card was working, so i just had it replaced).

Well I got a load of garbage cards from MSI, buyer beware. 32 bit mode got fried on two of the MSI cards while plugged directly into the pcie slot, so I know it's not the risers and other brands (gigabyte, sapphire & powercolor) all working fine.

bizarre, I just had two MSI 570 gaming X activated directly in pcie slots-no prob so far, although it took me a while to bring the Z170-AR mobo up to speed so it boots properly. Asus Z170AR surely has some bizarre default settings. I especially dislike the fact that it refuses to boot using ram that they did not describe in the table (and for crucial 4gb there is only ONE type that is anointed).
Nevertheless, upon some tinkering my other RAM booted anyway.