How many miners don't overclock their cards?
My 7970 died after 7 months of running at 85C overclocked as high as it would go, ever since I ran Furmark for few hour stress test the temps had been far higher and I think that was the culprit tbh, still mined fine with no hardware errors but games would crash after minutes, odd.
Still got a full £315 refund the week after the R9 series were announced, nice one amazon!
Could they prove you have been overclocking? If not, its a winner every time!!!
If you overclock within the limits of what Catalyst Overdrive recommends you probably won't kill your card and it should still be covered by warranty. Some people just push the envelope too far and melt the VRMs and that's easy to spot and refuse replacement.
