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MSI Radeon R9 280X 3GB TWIN FROZR bad ratings?

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June 29, 2014 1:50:34 PM

I'm about to buy a graphics card for my new gaming pc and someone recommended the MSI Radeon R9 280X 3GB TWIN FROZR but I noticed it had a lot of bad ratings.
Has anyone here experienced this card's performance that can confirm it being faulty?
Should I consider a different card in that budget?
If so, can anyone suggest a particular one?

This is my current build: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Kat404/saved/Ykprxr

Thanks in advance~ :) 

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a b U Graphics card
June 29, 2014 2:00:49 PM

If the complaints are about oil leakage, then its not a problem. MSI says it has fixed this issue. The problem was with the lubricant for the fans, this lubricant with excessive heat and run-times (which happens with mining) would turn into an oil-like substance. This would then began to leak and get flung around. The substance isn't conductive and wouldn't harm components.

From the looks of those reviews, Oil leakage from the mining days is what people are complaining about. The Twin Frozr design is one of the best out there, and if you feel confident in it after this post, then go right ahead and get it. Otherwise
Read more here.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2385272
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June 29, 2014 2:15:29 PM

Cryoburn101 said:
If the complaints are about oil leakage, then its not a problem. MSI says it has fixed this issue. The problem was with the lubricant for the fans, this lubricant with excessive heat and run-times (which happens with mining) would turn into an oil-like substance. This would then began to leak and get flung around. The substance isn't conductive and wouldn't harm components.

From the looks of those reviews, Oil leakage from the mining days is what people are complaining about. The Twin Frozr design is one of the best out there, and if you feel confident in it after this post, then go right ahead and get it. Otherwise
Read more here.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2385272


Yeah I was concerned about the leakage damaging the other parts, but apparently that's not a factor. Thanks for the info and reassurance. I think I'm going to stick with this one.
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a c 97 U Graphics card
June 29, 2014 4:20:57 PM

Kat404 said:
smeezekitty said:
I would consider this gigabyte one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
I have heard scary things about MSI


Really? What kind of things?
I'm new to all of this so I'm kind of clueless


They seem to have higher failure rate on both their motherboards and GPU.
Sorry no first hand experience. But I have seen enough that it wouldn't be my first choice for
recommendation
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a b U Graphics card
June 29, 2014 6:31:12 PM

smeezekitty said:
I would consider this gigabyte one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
I have heard scary things about MSI


Kat404 said:
smeezekitty said:
I would consider this gigabyte one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
I have heard scary things about MSI


Really? What kind of things?
I'm new to all of this so I'm kind of clueless


smeezekitty said:
Kat404 said:
smeezekitty said:
I would consider this gigabyte one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
I have heard scary things about MSI


Really? What kind of things?
I'm new to all of this so I'm kind of clueless


They seem to have higher failure rate on both their motherboards and GPU.
Sorry no first hand experience. But I have seen enough that it wouldn't be my first choice for
recommendation


I've heard their Mobos have issues, but I've never heard of their GPUs having higher failure rates than other brands. Maybe that stems off of the leakage issue? Because that effected other parts of the GPU due to cooling impacted cooling performance. It really shouldn't be an issue then.
The only major GPU brand I've heard have failure issues is Gigabyte and Asus. I know Gigabytes are pretty good cards and many people say Asus's cooler is phenomenal. So I think it really comes down to who you listen to.
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