Anyone had any RX 470/480 - Die? Catch fire? Dead Fans?

[CryptoWatcher420]

These GPUs have been out already for a few months. I am looking to buy more and wondering if I can get some reliability reports from users.

So far on the Bitcointalk Forum (470 Thread) there was an individual who had a MSI 470 catch fire, however he was using a server PSU which might of been overvolted.

Over at the Ethereum Forum, there was large reports of the Sapphire Fans failing at a huge rate.

I have a few of the MSI 470 4GB and some Gigabyte 470 4GB and they are running top notch.

ive had couple sapphire tech rx 480's die, appeared to be shorted out by the fluid that's in the heatpipes, it got in the riser of one, dunno about the second gpu

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[carlo_0000]

i have about 200 of them and I think I had 2 cards fail and 2 others have one bad fan.  They are all sapphires.  Lucky i just took the fans of the dead one and swapped them out and all was good.

2 dead on 200 that s nice, why am i so unlucky , i have the 470's with 1 fan

[dragonmike]

My one of six Sapphire RX470 died because display driver crashed. amd wattman was the problem i think.

Oooo yeah some drivers are bad. I had a driver that drove way to fast. He really hit that throttle and revved the cards too hard at every red light. In the end he just overdrove the wheels off the GPUs and ended up in a tree...