Anyone else have huge problems with Sapphire GPUs?

[phreakk]

I started mining with Sapphire 7950s(6x) last year. By 1 months time 1 returned, 2 rma, and 2 have failing fans...(one i replaced myself).
The fan issue seems to be very common on these cards, but temps never rose above 70C and ambient temp is 8C-12C (yay winter lol).

I monitor them, temps never above 70C, range 60C-70C. Fans at 80%, not even full speed!!

Since then I have been getting XFX and Gigabyte 280x's, all running fine.

So I was wondering if anyone else has had such problems with Sapphire brand products?? Or just bad luck? This is ridiculous!!

[DrG]

I have 10 sapphire 7950s, 6 6950s, and 32 6870s (the later 2 types I had over 2 years now).  Only 1 fan has died on the 7950s, but it died after just 5 months so I toss it up as a bad fan.  I run them between 55-65%.  Personally I think 80% is too fast, but you're pushing them to mine more - you should expect to pay more in fan maintenance.

I have 10 XFX cards from 2011/2012 and had 3 fans fail in the last 2 months, guess 2+ years mining 24/7 is taking it's toll.

[Gator-hex]

No problems with sapphire here. 7950 are crap cards (they're failed 7970's) I don't use them.
When the fans die we just strap 92mm case fans on with cable ties.  

[key00]

I've had 3 Sapphire 7950s go bad in under a month (purchased new from Newegg). They were monitored and never went above 70C and I didn't do any crazy overclocking. Fortunately, I was able to RMA them without issue. Unfortunately, the RMA process takes for-freaking-ever.

[DrG]

No problems with sapphire here. 7950 are crap cards (they're failed 7970's) I don't use them.
When the fans die we just strap 92mm case fans on with cable ties.  

Man you really have it in for those 7950s don't you  - did they murder some other cards?    Doesn't matter as both 7950/7970 are pretty much gone now.

What I did for my failed 7950 was take the fan out and mount a 120 near the card - same effect.  RMA with Sapphire seems like it would take a month - would be cheaper to just buy a new fan.

[Pro_x]

30x sapphire 7950 here from december, last series i guess. 8 dead so far, picture..driver load..no picture..pc crash. no fan isues so far, cca 580khs 1020mV 60-65% fan 65°C sgminer now. i hope its dead what was bad and other 22pcs will run. as i have bunch of 280x and 290 without any isues I know that those last sapph 7950s was bad.