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).
Yeah, I'm not sure what this supposed issue with Hynix RAM is on MSI 400 series. I really wonder if it's people trying to aritficially reduce the demand for the remaining few new ones still in the market so they can hoard them themselves. I personally have been running 21 MSI 470's for between 2-7 months... 17 of the 21 have Hynix and the other 4 have Samsung. To date, have not had 1 issue with any of these cards, including all 17 Hynix ones. In fact, 4 of these have probably been in use for more than a year as I bought them used from Philima1957. So again, not real sure what's driving a few people to bash Hynix but i have not experienced or heard reliable accounts of any real issues.
AMD doesn't have a reference rx470 it's a bullshit hack made by the card manufacturers and the MSI cards I got are all garbage and I have to RMA all of them, the ones with Hynix ram are non-functional and the Samsung cards no longer work in 32 bit mode. The fan is screwed on the remaining armor card.
FUCK MSI AND FUCK HYNIX AND FUCK YOU TOO ASSWIPE, ARTIFICIALLY REDUCING NOTHING.