Re: AMD Tahiti GPUs (Radeon 7950 / 7970 / 280X / 7990 ) Owners Appreciation Thread
God i never forget my Upgrade after using 6950 for so long and when zcash hit my 7950s were giving 4-5 usd per hour now tho sadly they all died but their fans and heatsinks are still cooling vrms and various other components i miss the good old days 
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It kind of hurt me to saw their heat sinks into little pieces.
I saved one heatsink just for the good memories when this Beast payed for my gtx 1080 and my house.
and i still remember when people were giving nvidia shit "the way its meant to be played"but not mined.
.It kind of hurt me to saw their heat sinks into little pieces.
I saved one heatsink just for the good memories when this Beast payed for my gtx 1080 and my house.
and i still remember when people were giving nvidia shit "the way its meant to be played"but not mined.
I've never liked Sapphire either. I didn't have the Sapphire 7950 that you pictured above but I've had a Sapphire R9 280X Dual-X and it was a very poorly designed GPU, especially for mining.
Basically they had faulty MOSFETS which would overheat and fry while mining. I think most gamers never had issues but miners experienced huge problems with these GPUs. I remember frequenting the Litecoin forum and people complaining about their GPU bursting into flames or finding their mining rig offline and smelling burnt PCB.
So I threw the PCB away and just used the Heatsink+fan from the dual-x but it was crap also. At first the fan died, then the other fan died, and so I slapped on a case fan and it finally worked without issue. The one area they didn't cheap out on was that some of the heatsink was copper instead of aluminum so with the right fan it would cool very well.
Probably going to frame that heatsink from all the headache it gave me throughout the years.