AMD: A “small percentage” of RX 7900 XTX reference cards have a defective vapor chamber – Computing – News

I had followed der8auer’s developments and had known for several days that the problem was serious.

A lot of cards have really been affected. Why not forget that only people who watch the times see it. There will be many people who come with a card like that and never look at the Adrenalin software or other temporary GPU programs and thus pass it by unnoticed.

At a time when AMD is already asking a lot for this card that can actually keep up with the 4080 on raster and lags behind on Raytracing, this is just a tough chapter.

And AMD has already indicated that it currently has no stock to trade them via RMA! Then they indicated that they don’t know when people will be helped and that people will only be traded when new batches of stock arrive.

He indicated that they can get the money back, but that’s not good. Also, AMD officially doesn’t even let you sell your card under warranty and that too will become a problem for a number of people.

And then you have many AIB partners who also offer reference models. So if yours has this problem, you need to register it with BV Asrock first, who then need to register it with AMD.

Now you know when it’s your turn…
They should prioritize exchanging and from what I understand on the internet there are thousands of people affected by this problem and who knows how many still don’t know about it?

AMD CPUs aren’t selling well at the moment either, so they’re not doing very well!
If AMD is smart, it will cut through the dust, pricing the 7900XTX at $699 and the 7900 XT at $569.

So they still have enough margin and can sell tickets well. Sales of new cards are lower than in the last 20 years.

I hope a lot of people are wise and don’t buy them so Nvidia and AMD have to go down. Because as long as people keep paying for it, this problem will continue.

And a 4090 is obviously very fast, but €2000? At a time when there is a surplus and low sales?
Let’s hope the market crashes a bit so that we as consumers get affordable cards again.

But that will come naturally at some point if the recession hits hard enough…