AMD Bulldozer News and Discussion

[Skud]

Basically this is the incident I am talking about:

Pictures of when your H70 pump decides to blow up! - [H]ard|Forum

Sort of blown up, as per the poster. And as tkin has mentioned, there are more issues like this.

 

[vickybat]

^^ Yes, the cooler really gave way. Hats of to corsair though for replacing the 580 as well.
I think in future designs, they'll do away with plastic and use aluminium casings to prevent a complete meltdown.

In amd's case, i think they will cover everything if in case such incident happens. But the poor service in india totally make things unpredictable.

 

[tkin]

^^ Yes, the cooler really gave way. Hats of to corsair though for replacing the 580 as well.
I think in future designs, they'll do away with plastic and use aluminium casings to prevent a complete meltdown.

In amd's case, i think they will cover everything if in case such incident happens. But the poor service in india totally make things unpredictable.

AMD support is not as good as corsair(pretty bad actually), corsair has a dedicated forum where all our queries are answered very fast by official forum personnels, if you ever go to AMD Game forum you'll see that none of the questions are ever answered by officials, moreover some raging fanboy trolls ruin every thread there, so using that bundled cooler is like inviting troubles.

Better stick to air.

 

[vickybat]

^^ Haha, rightly said mate.

 

[Skud]

AMD support is not as good as corsair(pretty bad actually), corsair has a dedicated forum where all our queries are answered very fast by official forum personnels, if you ever go to AMD Game forum you'll see that none of the questions are ever answered by officials, moreover some raging fanboy trolls ruin every thread there, so using that bundled cooler is like inviting troubles.

Better stick to air.

I wholeheartedly agree with this. I was having some driver related problems with my 4850 during it's initial days. Never get a proper reply. Have left the forums since.

 

[d6bmg]

He means leaks, not blow up, but either way damage will be catastrophic due to the fluid inside being distilled water which becomes conductive when it comes in contact with impurities present on the pcb of the hardware.

H70 Broke! Coolant Everywhere! Help! - The Corsair Support Forums

My H70 pump has blewn up and caused a major leaked - The Corsair Support Forums

Corsair H70 leaking fluid that smells like anti-freeze from my truck/van!

Corsair H50 Leak! go with the H70

There are plenty more issues like this, but corsair USA replaces all the parts damaged, but no such policies exist elsewhere, the shipping parts to USA part will cost a fortune.

Always go with air coolers, Noctua NH-D14 will rip corsair Hydro apart(the ones that come within same price bracket, like H70).

Wow!! In USA corsair is so fast!! Hopefully one day they will be here in India selling their products directly rather than via resellers.

 

[topgear]

He means leaks, not blow up, but either way damage will be catastrophic due to the fluid inside being distilled water which becomes conductive when it comes in contact with impurities present on the pcb of the hardware.

H70 Broke! Coolant Everywhere! Help! - The Corsair Support Forums

My H70 pump has blewn up and caused a major leaked - The Corsair Support Forums

Corsair H70 leaking fluid that smells like anti-freeze from my truck/van!

Corsair H50 Leak! go with the H70

There are plenty more issues like this, but corsair USA replaces all the parts damaged, but no such policies exist elsewhere, the shipping parts to USA part will cost a fortune.

Always go with air coolers, Noctua NH-D14 will rip corsair Hydro apart(the ones that come within same price bracket, like H70).

looking at the incidents I think it's better to stick with air and my hyper 212 might work with BD cpus anyway

 

[nilgtx260]

^^ will you buy BD ? which one ?

 

[Skud]

looking at the incidents I think it's better to stick with air and my hyper 212 might work with BD cpus anyway

As per reports, any cooler working with AM3 CPUs should work with BDs also.

 

[ico]

AMD's socket mounting hasn't really changed since Socket 754 days, I think.

 

[topgear]

yep and it's good IMO - no need to get a new cpu cooler every time if the cooler can perform with new cpus

^^ will you buy BD ? which one ?

As per reports, any cooler working with AM3 CPUs should work with BDs also.

let's see the price and performance first

 

[VarDOS]

any best place to buy ASUS Crosshair V Formula (online) ? SMC International just removed that board . I'll be buying it first week of September.

 

[SlashDK]

Just mail them asking for it.

 

[VarDOS]

Just mail them asking for it.

just did that, now waiting for their reply

 

[sumonpathak]

any best place to buy ASUS Crosshair V Formula (online) ? SMC International just removed that board . I'll be buying it first week of September.

ur location?

 

[hector]

any best place to buy ASUS Crosshair V Formula (online) ? SMC International just removed that board . I'll be buying it first week of September.

try lynx-india.com

 

[monkey]

SMC will have Crosshair V by Wednesday....I am too wanting this mobo...

 

[d6bmg]

SMC will have Crosshair V by Wednesday....I am too wanting this mobo...

Go to lynx-india.

 

[topgear]

Asus Crosshair V Formula @ 15.1K + Vat is available at MD computers ( Kolkata ) - info given by cilus

 

[VarDOS]

ur location?

Karad, Maharashtra! -can buy from Mumbai.

@hector: Lynx doesn't have the board.

@topgear: that's nice, pretty cheap than SMC. But including shipping it will cost the same.

as Cybertonic said I mailed them and now they have the board in their stock. SMC replied me saying, the board is back in stock and just confirm the product availability before ordering.

any better deals for Crosshair V Formula on streets?