I saw this question asked earlier but was unable to post anything in the thread. I wanted to post this to help others with this issue because I thoroughly Tested my card when I received it. I'm not listing my system specs because it's pretty much irrelevant. I upgraded from my 3070 FTW3 to and XFX 6950XT mainly for the extra performance and the extra VRAM because the price to performance was right. I got my card and did the upgrade as I have many times before as I run a PC shop from home. Mind you there were zero issues with my system before the upgrade. After the install with proper driver, then I go to run the 3dmark stress test but the system restarted every time I would run it or any game. Then I noticed it would restart not only when starting a game or GPU intensive program but even when in desktop. I tried reseating the card, re- installing driver, DDU, Bios Update, even a clean install of windows. Connectors were secure swapped the existing Be Quiet 850W Gold certified PSU with a 1200W Corsair platinum just for [redacted] and giggles even though I knew the 850W was enough. After removing the card and re-installing the 3070 everything was right as rain. I RMA'd the card and sent for replacement. Just like the individual did in the question that was asked back in Feb this year.
I just wanted folks to be aware that there are some bad ones out there still floating around and to save someone from pulling their hair out.
I just wanted folks to be aware that there are some bad ones out there still floating around and to save someone from pulling their hair out.
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