Origin PC no longer sells AMD GPUs due to overheating, other technical issues

Highly debate "junk". Most of the cards of the last 2 generations do not suffer from heat issues particularly in single GPU configs. The drivers are flakey but you know what? The latest WHQL NVIDIAs tanked perf for BF4 beta on a GTX 680 so are they junk too? That was only about a week ago?

I'm happy to put up with AMDs flakey drivers than put up with NVIDIAs monopolistic BS practices like this (bribing suppliers) and them disabling physx when non-NVIDIA GPUs are present.
Give this man a hand!

None of this gens cards had heating issues as there would not be 4 card CFX configs out there running on air. Plus the supposedly "Constantly crashing and horrid drivers" is a complete farce argument. Unless my computer is crashing while I have my back turned and fixing itself before I look at it again, then this is a complete farce of a debate. The only significant different on the drivers side I love from NVidia is the ability to set custom preferences straight to each game for the card like I do for my laptop with a GTX 675m.

Changing the subject, did anyone else notice one other particular thing about this whole article. The fact that Origin claims horrible support and drivers from AMD, yet they are keeping the CPU's in their line up? Honestly if I was going to drop one thing, wouldn't I drop the CPU's or if im dropping AMD, wouldn't I drop everything from them?
 
Changing the subject, did anyone else notice one other particular thing about this whole article. The fact that Origin claims horrible support and drivers from AMD, yet they are keeping the CPU's in their line up? Honestly if I was going to drop one thing, wouldn't I drop the CPU's or if im dropping AMD, wouldn't I drop everything from them?
CPU failure/DOA rates are miniscule regardless of vendor (unlike graphics cards), and issues with chipset and BIOS aren't affected with every software release.
Origins claims were issues with AMD's OEM support and communication- although their consumer support suck donkey d*** in general also ( AMD don't actively monitor or moderate their own forums for instance and only tend to address issues once a tipping point is reached with bad PR), the problem was with Origin feeling marginalized as a smaller vendor.

From AMD's point of view you can understand not wanting to pour resources into a stillborn product (HD 7990), nor risking a leak of sensitive information (Hawaii and Mantle)- but that still needs to balanced against good customer relations. My guess is that Origin saw it as a kick in the nuts when AMD made an active choice to play favourites .Not only was Origin kept out of the loop, but Origins main rival Maingear had plenty of support and pre-launch info since AMD made the system builder a partner at Hawaii's launch.
AMD has historically been accessible to OEMs if not the end user, but has of late -since Rory Read's tenure, taken a rather high-handed approach in some areas (Nvidia are also well known for this). As an example, when was the last time you heard of Intel or Nvidia forcing an OEM to censor their own forums because those seeking help were putting issues under the spotlight that the IHV would rather stay in the dark?
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AMD has historically been accessible to OEMs if not the end user, but has of late -since Rory Read's tenure, taken a rather high-handed approach in some areas (Nvidia are also well known for this). As an example, when was the last time you heard of Intel or Nvidia forcing an OEM to censor their own forums because those seeking help were putting issues under the spotlight that the IHV would rather stay in the dark?
Intel? I presume you really were asking "how often" are they censoring rather than "when was the last time"? I don't know about NVIDIA but Intel are notorious and frequent for it. The latest incident is rubbish performance of their wifi-n and possibly wifi-ac drivers. Wouldn't be surprised if they tried it for their SATA 3 issues as well as the USB 2.0 fix on Sandybridge.

http://www.neowin.net/news/intels-wi-fi-adapters-connectivity-issues-continue

I should add, that particular issue is MASSIVE - how many Intel wifi-n chipsets are there in the wild? Intel wins the crown to worst and widest impact cover-ups I'm sorry.
 
Intel? I presume you really were asking "how often" are they censoring rather than "when was the last time"? I don't know about NVIDIA but Intel are notorious and frequent for it.
I was referring to an IHV censoring an OEM's forum, not their own.

An IHV censoring their own forum is pretty standard practice. AMD's sanitizing their forums of GSoD issues some time back (including my own posts) for instance, or that of Seagate's borked firmware issue are also pretty high profile instances. To my knowledge Nvidia don't censor, but their forums are so infested with drive-by trolls/flamers/clinically brain dead it would be a full time job just to keep the threads from expanding let alone culling existing topics.
 
I agree with Origin PC,my 7950 peaks at 60 degrees which is way too hot and I also want to install new drivers at least every second week.

Lol were you joking? Should be able to get up to 85ish safely
Most graphics card are rated for around 100-120c max, as far as I can remember they have not change that in decades, AMD CPUs on the other hand has a maximum of around 61-71c
 
I agree with Origin PC,my 7950 peaks at 60 degrees which is way too hot and I also want to install new drivers at least every second week.

Lol were you joking? Should be able to get up to 85ish safely
Most graphics card are rated for around 100-120c max, as far as I can remember they have not change that in decades, AMD CPUs on the other hand has a maximum of around 61-71c
71c I mean not 61c for cpu :p
 
I have an Origin laptop and it has an AMD GPU, recently without help from Origin I had to delve into the internet to find custom drivers for AMD switchable graphics (UniFL (or leshcats drivers if anyone is having the same issue)) and the laptop still crashes after this, I can only imagine that its an AMD hardware issue.
 
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