Bought an MSI r9 280x "gaming edition" for mining purposes which was more expensive than my other options purely because it had a 3 year warranty.
1) Undervolting/overvolting is a crap shoot with these cards, msi's own afterburner program needs a special config file to allow undervolting, and then gpu-z doesnt even report the undervolting, you just have to trust that its working.
2) A month of mining = one dead card (i have two). So i send it into them with fast shipping, a week AFTER they confirm receipt of my card they send me an email saying they got "HQ to approve RMA credit of $265".. uh what? I never asked for a credit, what are these fools doing? The email from "Tom Ho" of course says "contact me if you have questions" ive called and left a message every hour for the past 3 hours. I call their main RMA line since im tired of wasting my time. Some mopey sounding guy answers the phone with "MSI...." (no greeting beyond that, just a pause), so i explain that i got an email and ive been trying to contact tom ho for the past 3 hours and need to get this resolved. He interrupts me and says "one---one second *CLICK*" and the phone starts ringing. The idiot transferred me to Tom Hos line! So of course i got a fucking answering machine!
MSI is arguably one of the largest hardware brands in computing and this is what they fucking have to offer? What a shit company.
1) Undervolting/overvolting is a crap shoot with these cards, msi's own afterburner program needs a special config file to allow undervolting, and then gpu-z doesnt even report the undervolting, you just have to trust that its working.
2) A month of mining = one dead card (i have two). So i send it into them with fast shipping, a week AFTER they confirm receipt of my card they send me an email saying they got "HQ to approve RMA credit of $265".. uh what? I never asked for a credit, what are these fools doing? The email from "Tom Ho" of course says "contact me if you have questions" ive called and left a message every hour for the past 3 hours. I call their main RMA line since im tired of wasting my time. Some mopey sounding guy answers the phone with "MSI...." (no greeting beyond that, just a pause), so i explain that i got an email and ive been trying to contact tom ho for the past 3 hours and need to get this resolved. He interrupts me and says "one---one second *CLICK*" and the phone starts ringing. The idiot transferred me to Tom Hos line! So of course i got a fucking answering machine!
MSI is arguably one of the largest hardware brands in computing and this is what they fucking have to offer? What a shit company.