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I received the card today in the mail and immediately Crossfired the two, I set the R9 270X as the primary card. There were some artifacts within WoW when I first started, but after updating drivers those issues disappeared. Other games seem to play without issue, I will see if this card...

Sweet! Thanks

Another update! They deemed my card faulty and have shipped an R9 270x to replace it. Which leads to a follow up question: Can I crossfire an XFX 7870 DD with a XFX R9 270x DD? Or should I just sell my old 7870 DD at this point?

Another update for you guys, and those of you who will see this later if you come up with problems with your XFX GPU. I received my RMA this morning, with very detailed (almost fool-proof) instructions on how to go through the shipping process. I also received a Fedex shipping label, although...

The fan shroud was the full assembly, with a heatsink attached.

Update 3! New shroud assembly arrived today. I removed the old shroud assembly, cleaned and prepped both sides, applied new thermal paste, then sat and secured the new fan shroud. Unfortunately, the card hit 90C before I shut things down. Onto the next step.

Update 2: The new fan shroud is on its way. XFXSupport and by extent ion XFX really helped me out here so far.

Here's to the awesome XFXSupport! Hopefully its just the fan shround :D

Update, I received my first response, a suggestion to try cleaning the GPU with compressed air. Though sadly the problem still persists after, onto round 2 of support.

User Araxie suggested I message you about my GPU issue. Thanks in advance for any help. Here is the link to the post about the issue: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1041252916

I am looking for some insight on the RMA/repair process with XFX. I have read some good stories from here so I'm hoping my experience will be of the same caliber. I recently bought another XFX 7870 DD to crossfire with one I have had for awhile now. I decided that it would be a good idea to...