Proof that Buildzoid is a MASSIVE Sapphire fanboy // Taking a look at the Sapphire X58 Pure Black

[@dexter2392]

Sapphire's the best AMD GPU vendor.

[@ej1025]

Agreed, though I think PowerColor has come a long way.

[@ej1025]

@you're an idiot I heard some things about that. But it seems they did pretty well with Navi and Hawaii/Grenada. The Red Devil and Devil 13 come to mind.

[@darchandarchan7036]

i liked xfx 🤪 some of them are really nice

[@Protector1rk]

@@darchandarchan7036 And HIS.

[@toastpulver3422]

xfx are great for the slightly more "DIY", since the pcb is great, just the cooler is a huge pain in the back-end

[@NotThatGuyJD]

BuildZoid: I need a new apartment Also BuildZoid: Gotta collect them all

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

what do you think the new place is for?

[@NotThatGuyJD]

@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking maybe if you had the extra space you'd be better able to admire your collection

[@LawrenceTimme]

Lol 🤣😂

[@shaneeslick]

@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking exactly what I thought when I read this comment 😁

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

And here's the successor to this board: www.technic3d.com/article/pics/1416/Sapphire_PURE_Black_X79N-5.jpg Hopefully I stumble across one of those some day because it's got a Volterra VRM.

[@davidashurov5255]

I am 99% sure the link below would be what you're looking for, some guy in the UK appearantly has 2 for sale, idk why ebay recommended me this while deciding on buying one of those vega 12 oddities idk. If anything you know they exist still www.ebay.com/itm/Sapphire-pure-black-X79N/143750368125?hash=item2178308b7d:g:UeoAAOSwA3dfag7S

[@joelimmanueloelsner9211]

If i remember correct, there was also a p67 sapphire board

[@shaneeslick]

It probably copped abuse from most (stupid) reviewers for having a chipset fan & therefore being ridiculously noisy, funny how most say the chipset fan is too noisy but a 40mm fan on a VRM is a great feature because it will improve performance by allowing better a OC, I can't see the difference between a 40mm fan on a VRM to a 40mm fan on a Chipset myself 🤔plus I am quite positive the VRM fan would be running more often than the Chipset one & way quieter than a Tower cooler trying it's hardest to cool an i9-10900K at 5.2GHz

[@davidashurov5255]

@@shaneeslick I feel bad for most tower coolers that are on unmodified 10900k's, might as well use it as a hairdryer at that point

[@DEJ915]

It looks decent aesthetically. I need to pick up the evga dark sometime though...

[@jackgleeson8321]

Never seen sapphire motherboard before until now.

[@arned432]

It's rare, even geting one in 2011 was hard to get. Now it's madnes priced by colectors like 2x price or 3x if you are luck that someone is selling

[@-eMpTy-]

I'm almost mad buildzoid made this video, been eyeballing a few sapphire mbs for a while. Now they will sell faster, for more and become more rarer.

[@Cinnabuns2009]

Don't ever say "before until now" again. Either say "before now" or "until now" but don't ever ever evar use them both together again. As far as I can tell this may cause a singularity if used too much. Double negatives are bad enough. This is a double.... a double... there's currently no description for this double in the database, hence it can literally cause a singularity if you use it more than once. Please, do your part, cease before the universe does.

[@DramaPlasticDelight]

Everybody: AMD 5900X is amazing! Buildzoid: This Sapphire good

[@joefowble]

That 5600x for gaming though. Looks like a great solution unless it's a game that actually loads more than 6 cores.

[@elsasslotharingen7507]

5800X if you want to keep it for years (And do you really need anything better than a CPU that can do 120+fps in every game?)

[@omgwtfhaxfan1221003]

@@reflex1on590especially with the fact that the *800x ryzens tend to have better silicon quality, having a better probability of being able to overclock further than other cpus

[@WayStedYou]

Cue "sapphire make motherboards?!" comments

[@DSDSDS1235]

Sapphire pls make b550

[@samiraperi467]

I have a Sapphire ITX mobo. :P 785G something or other, officially I think it's "industrial".

[@davidashurov5255]

Honestly sapphire should take a stab at making amd motherboards again, I'd buy one if it met or exceeded my tuf x570 board, and they'd match well with their lineups, powercolor could do the same.

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

the thing is there's kinda a lot of competition and mobos are very hard to do compared to GPUs.

[@drewhinners8793]

Not hard to meet or exceed a TUF product. The only Asus products worth buying are ROG.

[@davidashurov5255]

@@drewhinners8793 the tuf x570 is legit solid not only from experience but I bought from recommendation off someone who has overclocked on a tuf x570 and strix f and used it for a sff, before 300-350$ you cant really say that a 280 strix and a 200 tuf both literally by asus will have that much of a qc difference either(features excluded for obvious reasons). Alot of rog DIY products to most people break the diminshing returns scale, i know more people who buy rog diy stuff for the branding than doing OC.

[@Cinnabuns2009]

I'm sorry but if Sapphire was making 6800XT/6900XT's... THAT would be the freakin' card to have. Provided they didn't get shit bins and.... etc. Also, WHY didn't they do 6800, 6800 PRO!!!!!, and 6800 XT. That would have been canon (and made more sense)

[@WladislawNikitjuk]

@@Cinnabuns2009 amd kept their gpus in secret, because aib partners always leak specs. I'm 100% sure we will see 6000 gpus from Sapphire, sooner or later

[@gilbyglibber]

Sapphire made a red/white motherboard for an ati chipset back in the day. That looked amaaaazing.

[@max6833]

Just looked it up and you're right it looks insane.

[@DarkoPetreski]

Holy shit that looks so good

[@christianjensen9174]

Very interesting board :P

[@LCTRgames]

"...really common in the UK..." "..well, I've seen 2 of them..."

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

that's very common. Compared to some boards which I've seen 0 of.

[@shaneeslick]

@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking & twice as common as boards you have only seen 1 of 😁

[@shaneeslick]

I got a laugh from that 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@samfedorka5629]

13:29 "unless you have a Delta fan on it" Delta is not the only manufacturer of high speed fans. I encourage you to look up the San Ace (sanyo) 9GV1212P1J01 which will move 224 CFM of air. I have a box of them and will mail you some if you like.

[@TV4ELP]

Actually spoke with a Spahhire Ref on Facebook pre AM4. They had internal discussions about picking Motherboards up again, but the overall consensus was that they want to focus on other things instead.

[@XDSDDLord]

You sound so giddy and excited lol Edit: right there with you on motherboard looks. That board looks sick AF because of how the managed to coordinate the colors and layouts of all the components while they are all on display.

[@garryarganis5801]

i still use my gigabyte ga x58 usb 3 board on my retro gaming pc! served me well over the years.

[@DrMuFFinMan]

About 200 English pounds for a Sapphire Pure Black X79N on ebay, Didn't see one over here in the US.

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

that's basically as much as an R4E. Which is a bit much IMO.

[@DrMuFFinMan]

@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking thought so myself, maybe more will show up at some point.

[@sashan4722]

I hope sapphire brings back vapor-x for the 6xxx series. My 290 vapor-x will forever sit in its place of honor on my shelf.

[@doublecrossedswine112]

I purchased my first sapphire gpu when rdna hit. Best I've ever owned. I had boot issues in the beginning and the CS was absolutely amazing. I really like this company.

[@scarletspidernz]

Is Sapphire sending you 6800/6800Xt Nitro+? Do we need to start a petition?

[@felipefeldman9149]

I approve!

[@felipefeldman9149]

bump

[@ujiltromm7358]

Burp

[@lonelypotato3001]

Bump

[@RaceboyYT]

Hopefully the laser his name into it like msi did for his review sample board

[@Appii]

i've had one x58 pure black

[@LeonardTavast]

I member x58. It was one of the first HEDT platforms thanks to the socket 1366 and the addition of one more memory channel compared to regular desktop Pentium (socket 775). It's thank to x58 that the sockets 2066 and TR4 exists today.

[@wabash9000]

For quite a few years from like ~2002-2010, I would always buy Sapphire graphics cards. I doubt there is any truth to it, but I overheard someone at microcenter saying the sapphire cards were the best ATI/AMD graphics cards because they had the most stable memory. I doubt it's actually true, but I never had any issues with my sapphire cards crashing. They did have some of the best box/cooler art.

[@singlsrvngfrnd]

Just picked up an Asus P6x58D Premium motherboard yesterday!

[@ej1025]

Anyone remember the Sapphire 990FX Pure Black?

[@shaneeslick]

😲😲😲😲😲WOW!

[@Ironclad17]

The NB on X58 got stupid hot. It needs as much cooling as the cpu.

[@jasoncruze1493]

Sorry for offtopic. Which RAM kit would be better for Ryzen 5000 Micron Rev E or Hynix CJR.

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

revE tends to be cheaper to get and the performance is really similar.

[@JLMtime]

I used to be saphine fan boy aswell until I RMAd my 3rd one

[@TheWingusDingus]

I'll be honest. I'm just here to listen to Buildzoid ramble about things. I find it comforting.

[@MadRC]

I used to use them a lot back in the day, Sapphire was a solid brand for budget gear as well.

[@drewhinners8793]

Going to replace my Red Devil 5700XT with whatever the best aftermarket 6800XT is. Maybe another Powercolor Red Devil or a Sapphire Nitro+ version depending on the reviews.

[@Joker-no1fz]

i want sapphire nitro plus 6600 xt.

[@LawrenceTimme]

I want sapphire nitro double plus good 6600xt 🙂

[@Joker-no1fz]

@@LawrenceTimme hi

[@Joker-no1fz]

i am subbed to you i forgot lol.

[@LawrenceTimme]

@@Joker-no1fz haha. New video coming soon. 5900x :)

[@Joker-no1fz]

@@LawrenceTimme overclock 6969 xt

[@arkanrais]

x58 was such a fun chipset series to overclock on, especially when 6 core xeons were retired from servers and sold en mass across ebay-like sites. throwing in a 2.13GHz Xeon L5639 and 24/7 OCing it to 4GHz with a damn air cooler is about as high as I'll ever get in any form of overclocking. throwing in 6 sticks of ram and slapping it along at 2000mhz cl 9-9-9 was some solid fun back in the early 2010's

[@anmolsaxena_]

whats the best x58 motherboard? i got into computers pretty late (around 2017), but ive always been fascinated by older hardware. especially x58 ive worked with a few mid range ones like asus p6t (se and non se), gigabyte ud3 (with those massive northbridge heatsinks and watercooling support) and an asus rampage ii gene (matx) - had some issues with memory overclocking and qpi link speeds best one ive worked with has been the p6t - good bios - took my xeon x5675 to 4.6ghz ez - decent memory oc - got some random mismatched corsair dimms to ~1800mhz or so (didnt mess with the timings)

[@anmolsaxena_]

also theres an evga x58 sr2 for sale, locally but the seller is asking $600 dont know if i should pull the trigger on that

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

@@anmolsaxena_ I've been told the Rampage 3 Black Edition is the best. It's also really hard to find.

[@anmolsaxena_]

@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking damn $565 on ebay it came with a thunderbolt expansion card and bluetooth crazy for 2010s

[@ggzii]

9:50 for a moment I thought Buildzoid was reaching for a magnum pistol

[@lancerdawgpete]

I think Sapphire also had a Pure Black with the AMD 990FX chipset. I also think there was a Sapphire Atomic 990FX, which was meant for liquid cooling setups only. However, the Atomic was only released in China (?). I don't know if it was actually ever released. There wasn't a whole lot of information regarding it

[@josephstalin8684]

I was really hoping on a vid about the b550 unify x.

[@p1st0ls44]

DUDE! I have a 4770 vapor-x from back in the day. I am so glad they are back with the 6000 series gpus. cant wait to see the weird cards they make

[@Teknickel_ftw]

I own a SAPPHIRE PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480. The main reason that I got it was because it was a white and red sapphire motherboard. I do want to use it in a retro build some day but I need to repair it first.

[@0T13]

aaaah x58, the legend returns

[@shaneeslick]

G'day Buildzoid, 😲WOW! although Not Spectacular, that is a really cool motherboard, also great to see that as a Sapphire Fan you are still honest with your opinion on product quality 😁 if Sapphire made a AM4Nitro+ M/B (or even better bought back the Toxic Theme) with the same build quality as their GPUs I'd definitely buy one 🥰

[@stevenmurray1869]

Think i remember u saying you were a sapphire fanboy before lol

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

yeah but before I was a sapphire fanboy without a sapphire motherboard.

[@ca9inec0mic58]

Now he's a gigafanboy after gettting the motherboard

[@manuelthallinger7297]

Tbh i really love Saphire. Good cards, stable firmware, stable drivers. So much people complain about the drivers, i cant say anything bad with my 5700x, rock stable

[@-eMpTy-]

Sapphire actually showed off both the Atomic 990FX and Atomic Z97 boards at computex 2014 but I don't think they were ever released. They had a full-cover water blocks but otherwise, didn't look too impressive.

[@-eMpTy-]

pics: www.nordichardware.se/wp-content/uploads/Sapphirevattenblock.jpg www.techpowerup.com/img/14-06-03/69a.jpg abload.de/img/e42sapphireatomic990fnakmr.jpg

[@deinemuddaisdoof]

Hi Buildzoid! Asus has brought out a feature with the Asus Crosshair VIII Dark Hero. "Dynamic Overclock Switcher", apparently exclusive to the Dark Hero. Also apparently that will not be coming via UEFI update to older Crosshair VIII / other boards, since Asus apparently claims they made other changes. Roman made a video about "Dynamic OC Switcher" yesterday as part of his 5950X review. A current-based switching between Default/PBO mode and per-CCX-OC mode. Aside from what seems to me a little better VRM on the Dark Hero, is this not rather a firmware thing than a board design matter? If you happen to read this, would be very interested in your speculation / guesstimation! Cheers

[@questeusher]

On eBay UK theres 2 am3 right now and if you go in to other components there's an x79 but listed at £200

[@macktheinterloper]

X58 Classified is life. You will have to pry my water cooled E760 from my cold, dead hands.

[@mleise8292]

Saw teardown and words of respect by hardware enthusiasts for Sapphire's cooling solution on the Pulse Vega 56 and bought that 2nd hand over a new Red Dragon back when I built my PC. I can understand how people can become fanboys.

[@jakob490]

Back to vampire sleep pattern?

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

I've basically been on it all week.

[@WineLad]

oof take care mate

[@SoundSelector]

my fav x58 board - which I still got but its dead- was an eVGA x58 SLI Classified . Lovely board. Lots of extreme o/c potential

[@The_Jozza]

Hey Buildzoid, did you get a 5000 series cpu at all?

[@lovelessZN]

Just grabbed one on ebay brand new ... Im really excited to have this board in my collection... And the price 40 euros was too good for it.

[@Liatin1]

Woah, sapphire made motherboards!?!?! that's awesome. I hope sapphire makes more motherboards :P

[@ianmoone8244]

Buildzoid what about do you doing a video talking about graphics cards substrates AMD vs NVIDIA? =D

[@drunkenmessiah]

X58 was such a high point, it's really crazy to think just how far Intel has fallen. I am STILL running an EVGA X58 FTW3 [which I think whoops on the Sapphire, sorry Buildzoid!] as my daily driver. Only had an i7-920 and 6 gigs of RAM when I first built it. I upgraded it with used parts for cheap a couple years ago, going up to an i7-990X and 24 gigs of DDR3 2000Mhz. My old X58 war horse still does pretty much everything I want it to do a mind-boggling TEN YEARS after I first bought it. I figure the AMD 5000 series will be the last new chip made for the AM4 socket. I think when AMD's 6000 series CPUs come out on TSMC's new 5nm process with, surely, a new CPU socket [AM5?] I will finally upgrade. Here's hoping that AMD's next CPU platform will be as legendary as X58!

[@CoronitaClassics]

Can You share some bios settings for overclocking this motherboard please?

[@willjohnsonjohnson]

I wonder if the overkill memory vrm is to support registered dimms. They draw more power but not sure how much more.

[@seanathanq]

I am newer to PCs, but this is a company I have not heard much about, are they more specific to Europe?

[@phillycheesetake]

I hope Sapphire come out with an actually competent 6800. It would make my year if they released a 2-slot heatsink with soft-mount points for 120mm fans, and a 120mm PCB overhang.

[@facebag666]

would you like some pics of my sapphire atomic 3870x2 water cooled, also sapphire made a pureblack 990FX board i think, i like it alot.

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

I really don't like how blue the 990FX Pure Black is.

[@darchandarchan7036]

@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking must have been really disappointing

[@Cinnabuns2009]

Who didn't love Sapphire? I mean, they were the absolute bomb back in the day but yeah... I had 0 clues that they ever made a mobo so THANKYOU for increasing my quantity of absolutely useless knowledge of stuff I love. That's Gratis.

[@laureanoalfaro9351]

Well I have to endorse the Sapphire love, there GPUs never failed me and they tend to go with the extra detail. I have huge respect for them even if I hate fanboyism and use any brand that just suits me.

[@ProfDrOetker]

I had a A9RX480 motherboard with an Athlon 64 3000. I was very young at the time but the looks of that board is always stuck to me. Now I'm a sucker for B450 Mortar Titanium because it is also white.

[@cavedon.felipe]

Soooo would you be interesting in a pcb breakdown of a Sapphire Vega 56 Nitro?

[@LightningFast240]

Would you be able to crack a xfx x58i to overclock if I sent you one? Someone said it needs a Northridge mod.

[@yukisaitou5004]

Oh, so there's actually a hardware issue that prevents overclocking in addition to the Overclocking (JustWoot!) menu freezing the BIOS 9 out of 10 times you try and enter it? Why am I not surprised...

[@LightningFast240]

@@yukisaitou5004 yeah there's a menu for "overclocking" but just touching the bclk more than 3mhz, motherboard won't post at all.

[@OldPoi77]

that's a beautiful board.

[@purpasmart_4831]

I always get Sapphire when go Amd, My previous gpu was a r9 280x toxic edition. Before that I had a sapphire 6950 with bios turned into a 6970, I'm going to get a 6800 xt next year.

[@CaleSchmitz]

Yeah well maybe Sapphire could try making them again. "x670 Dark Hero BZ Edition". You could be the next Kingp|n! I'd buy that seriously.

[@oisnowy5368]

I have three Sapphire GPU's. They make the best looking and best working passive GPU's. Really hope they'll get an RDNA one soon. Though I would be surprised if that happened within a year.

[@milchkopf3881]

You sure about the layer counts? The X58A-OC is by far the heaviest board i know. My explanation for that was, that there is a lot of copper in the PCB.

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

I'm 99% sure it's a 6. The heatsink on it is crazy heavy though.

[@milchkopf3881]

@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking thx for expressing your certainty with a percentage. imho, instead of buying this questionable sapphire X58, you should've spent your time testing and PCBbreakdowning the X58A-OC EDIT: it's orange

[@AdmV0rl0n]

I'm guessing why the like of Sapphire is that they make good things for the most part. IIRC they tend to focus on AMD GPUs.

[@yannicg]

I actually saw a listing for that sapphire X79 board but it looked kinda shitty on the VRM side of things and i needed something good for overclocking so i went with an asus model.

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

yeah ASUS is the gold standard for X79 boards

[@dasauto7346]

As I comment this I found a Sapphire X79 board on eBay located in the UK for 200 GBP. BTW

[@tsvetanbliznakov7694]

You have to review new stuff like gamers nexus hardware unboxed jay and linus... you have a unique way of getting into detail which is interesting for many many enthusiasts like me.

[@lucasscott7729]

Have you tested multiple B550 Steel Legend BIOS revisions?

[@Love-og3by]

X58?!?!!? YES YES YES

[@imbrennanrobin]

Why does my channel recommend this idk but this is lit

[@noanyobiseniss7462]

Sapphire is quality.

[@fetzher3711]

check out the sapphire 990fx mainboard

[@rulik007]

Do you have dfi lanparty ut x58-t3eh8?

[@Justdigit2]

Yup.... Here also Sapphire fan boy present.

[@TheBigupz]

i have a Gorgeous R9-280X VaporX that started artifacting :(, the card is gorgeous i love it, sapphire is amazing

[@WladislawNikitjuk]

I knew about Sapphire AMD mobos, but Intel... Thank you, Buildzoid.

[@Phynix72]

Sapphire got a class. Old story, I'm figuring out my PC build, then i saw a Sapphire board at a store. Went there, the owner said only cash. So, I ran to nearest ATM & went back, its gone... Now he said "Its a part of a bundle, a guy bought it before you got back here." Later on, I went to know more & more what kind of masterpiece it is... 😔😔

[@SpeedWeed97]

Hey builzoid i can tell wich generations of GPU you like to overclocki, how about the CPU's?

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

I find all CPUs are pretty fun.

[@elsasslotharingen7507]

@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking Even the 3300X? :P

[@BonusCrook]

Everyone: Zen 3!!! Buildzoid: unimpressive x58 board.

[@MirelRC]

I would like to have a all AMD & Sapphire build.

[@cocogao5580]

I have a sapphire x79 mobo but it’s broken looking to sell

[@eurocrusader1724]

Currently still on a Asus x58 P6T SE.. After 10 years its finally dieing on me.. I7 920 (D0)is the best CPU i ever bought

[@iamanan5634]

I'm hoping to join the club with a pulse rx 5600 xt later this month

[@tanishqbhaiji103]

Saw the B550 unify X, good job ranting enough to get MSI to build a Mobo just for you.

[@shadowopsairman1583]

What about their 990FX board?

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

too much blue

[@MrDJAK777]

@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking too much blue for a *sapphire* fanboy? damn must be fucking neon.

[@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking]

@@MrDJAK777 eh the thing is it's the wrong shade of blue considering how much of it there is. Blue PCBs I'm A-OK with. But the blue heatsinks on the 990FX Pure Black are awful IMO.

[@MrDJAK777]

@@ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking i get that, the heatsinks are bit much, was mostly going for the shitty sapphire joke. Much prefer their PI-A9RX480 939 white and red board myself.

[@d00dEEE]

I have two EVGA cards, does that make me a fanboy? One is a GeForce GTX 580 (circa 2010) in my i7-950 Sabertooth X58 build, and the other is a GT 710 (WOOO!!!) that I use to test new boxes before I have a real GPU for them.

[@iffy_too6465]

WOW, yeah that is common.

[@hardcorehardware361]

Dude I was a massive Fanboy of this board back in the day but sadly I could not get one in my country..

[@ThePentosin]

Hmm, wonder if my old white Sapphire AMD motherboard is laying around somewhere still? From the good old Athlon 64 days. Used that board, and another to get 3ghz with only 9x multiplier on both an Opteron 146 and the mighty dual core Opteron 165. No wait, the 146 had a 10x multiplier, didnt it? Hmm, cant remember the name of the sapphire board tho. Edit: Oh! This one! www.tweaktown.com/reviews/886/sapphire_pure_crossfire_pc_a9rd580_motherboard/index.html

[@lrmcatspaw1]

Other techtubers: we are not fanbois! Buildzoid: I am a massive fanboi, here is the proof. Comment section: well... what are we supposed to write now?!

[@morecreativeusername]

I think the midrange x58 motherboards started at around $240.

[@benjaminserra5884]

20 minutes ? can someone link me the full vid plz ?

[@DarkLinkAD]

After gigabyte botching all their RX 460s with pcbs that break internally ( non repairable )( not owning up to it) And MSI shady practices, im looking to Asus or Asrock and it's good to see, possibly Sapphire.

[@rinhato8453]

Asus screwed up their Strix 5700 XT and blamed AMD, then screwed up the TUF 5700 and XT, so yeah I wouldn't recommend Asus. Go with Sapphire, Powercolor or Gigabyte, Asrock and XFX are a bit hit and miss.

[@kaspars6470]

Do you have any link for the RX 460 Gigabyte? I'm interested in seeing what exactly is wrong with it

[@DarkLinkAD]

@@kaspars6470 PCB is broken blowing fuse/vrm. I always noticed the HDMI was unusually hot, vrms were heating it up, likely flex the PCB with time and break. Mine broke with no load, power limited to 15w

[@richiedeadsix]

While I used to like sapphire too in general, I am a lot more wary of them now than I was before. I run a small System Building operation, and bought a TON of the Sapphire RX 470's back at launch because those were the first GPU's that launched at a somewhat acceptable price in my country, and enabled me to sell a good amount of Refurbished Gaming PC's based off of old Intel 2500ks. Big mistake. The reference design blower style RX 470s were HORRIBLE - with an almost 20% failure rate. And while they were honoring warranty for a bit and of the total 500+ that i had purchased, I did get 70+ rma'ed, but then they stopped honoring the warranty one fine day out of the blue. I had several conversations with them and their distribution partners telling them that all of the cards fail with the exact same issue so its a parts issue that they had for that specific design, because every other kind even made by sapphire were fine, but nothing. On EVERY single one of them the caps on the opposite side of the VRMs would burn out eventually, usually well within the warranty under normal non-oc load (these werent the kinda customers who would oc their cards). I am now sitting on almost 30 dead GPU's that they have refused to honor the warranty on - just flat out refused. I have written to everyone up and down the chain, nothing. I had to pay for the replacements to my customers out of my own pocket and it STILL tanked my reputation. Lesson learnt. NEVER EVER am I touching anything sapphire. No other brand or model have I ever had such an experience with, and failure rate is never over 5% for anything anyways.

[@micaiahflores1592]

As a car guy vtt is variable valve timing lol

[@Felix-ve9hs]

I completely forgot that Sapphire Motherboards did even exist