Vladraconis
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nutjob2 :
Give me a break, AMD's pushing a power line won't destroy or damage anything. I'm sure AMD's card will operate in spec, it's a new card with bugs, but apparently only AMD gets crucified for that, everyone else gets a pass.
And who else, exactly, is getting a pass? Some examples?
And, I don't get it why are you talking about fried / bursting in flames motherboards. The issue is that, since the card is rather consistently ( not sometimes) drawing more amps through the PCI-E slot, it might fry the PCI-E slot. But only the slot, not the whole motherboard. Let alone make it burst in flames. And, as Tom's have already pointed it out, this might affect only older / cheaper boards, which are not that capable of handling such overloads. Nor should they be, that's why we have specifications.
Does the AMD RX 480 work within specs? No, it doesn't..
Is it a 200$ video card, aimed at bringing performance to consumers without braking the bank? Yes, it is.
Is it likely that those who buy the RX 480 will have also bought a cheaper motherboard / kept the old one? I would say it is.
Is it possible - just possible, not for sure - that the card will fry the PCI-E, and only the PCI-E, slot on an older / cheaper motherboard? Yes, and reports say that it has happend three times, shortly after launch.
Have AMD admitted that the promblem really exists, and are trying to fix it? Yes, they have.
So, why the "ÄMD bashing" theory and the motherboard in flames posts?
Please correct me if I said anything dumb.