If you're looking for a 1950 Pro, steer away from Sapphire

[Scotty]

I thought the HS was good because it covers about 90% of the cards parts. As it turns out the voltage regulation module is not covered as it's stuck in one of the corners around the fan. It overheats and causes stability problems. I'm still bickering with Athlon who handles the Sapphire RMAs over it.

[FiggyG]

I've always had issues with Sapphire's fans and what not. Replaced all of mine and my friend's. Anyway, I'm not too sure who's the "EVGA" for ATI/AMD. Sorry to hear about your issues :(

[Scotty]

I thought I was in good shape buying from the BBA maunfacturer but no. Every ATi card I've had before this was a BBA. Anyone know if the BBA 1950P is the same configuration (when it was available)? Pic here... http://www.ncix.com/products/index.p...cture=SAPPHIRE

[Deaderinred]

i've got a x1950pro from sapphire and never had a single problem with it, doesn't overheat or anything, nor with x800 from them too, not sure what people are doing, hell ive never had a major hardware failure yet with my rig.. makes me wonder sometimes weather or not people dont look after thier rigs or im just lucky with hardware..

edit: just realized you're talking about the pci-e version? maybe that range is different, mine are the agp 512mb version and they seem to be perfectly fine.. ill have to double check whenever i end up upgrading to pci-e now.

[Scotty]

i've got a x1950pro from sapphire and never had a single problem with it, doesn't overheat or anything, nor with x800 from them too, not sure what people are doing, hell ive never had a major hardware failure yet with my rig.. makes me wonder sometimes weather or not people dont look after thier rigs or im just lucky with hardware..

edit: just realized you're talking about the pci-e version? maybe that range is different, mine are the agp 512mb version and they seem to be perfectly fine.. ill have to double check whenever i end up upgrading to pci-e now.

PEOPLE are using the damned card as it was sold to them. PEOPLE aren't making mods just for fun, they're trying to make this POS card stable. You didn't get a shitty one? Bully for you. Some of the rest of us did.

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[Deaderinred]

PEOPLE are using the damned card as it was sold to them. PEOPLE aren't making mods just for fun, they're trying to make this POS card stable. You didn't get a shitty one? Bully for you. Some of the rest of us did.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=...=Google+Search

calm down sugar.

[Scotty]

calm down sugar.

That is calm. You should see when I get pissed. Your post implies that its the fault of the users for the problems they're having, I'm reminding you that it isn't.

[infowar]

video cards suck these days.

[Deaderinred]

That is calm. You should see when I get pissed. Your post implies that its the fault of the users for the problems they're having, I'm reminding you that it isn't.

agreed, but sometimes it is, i look after my rig like a mother and a new born baby the only time i ever had a problem with anything was when i was forced to reformat because someone maded me install a program that killed half of windows.. *shakes fist at gf* oh that and my keyboard that insists on spaming the key # constantly in text boxes unless i bitch slap it. seriously.

but anyways back to the 1950, from what ive read it seems to be the sapphire version of the pci-e card thats giving out problems.. the agp car, the one i have as never failed me, the only thing that as was the recent ati drivers that borked agp users.

[Scotty]

agreed, but sometimes it is, i look after my rig like a mother and a new born baby the only time i ever had a problem with anything was when i was forced to reformat because someone maded me install a program that killed half of windows.. *shakes fist at gf* oh that and my keyboard that insists on spaming the key # constantly in text boxes unless i bitch slap it. seriously.

but anyways back to the 1950, from what ive read it seems to be the sapphire version of the pci-e card thats giving out problems.. the agp car, the one i have as never failed me, the only thing that as was the recent ati drivers that borked agp users.

Which seems weird to me, from what I've seen the HSF on the PCIe is the same as on those other cards. I'm the same way about my setup, everything's clean inside, cables tucked out of the airflow, no dust etc.

I would be almost willing to accept buying a card with a design flaw and learning my lesson that way (read up more before buying) but the fact that they won't cross-ship the RMA means I'll be w/o a card for probably at least a month and that's with me paying for shipping. :mad:

[m3talc0re]

Back when I was using ATi cards (9600PRO, 9800XT [forgot I even had this one, lol], and an X800PRO), I preferred the PowerColor.

9600PRO - Sapphire
9800XT - PowerColor
X800PRO - BBA

[Cjl64]

Thank god I am not looking for anything ATI related I miss them dearly... but they are dead to me now Oh well... i guess I will just have to game on these 2 little 8800GTX's