Honestly I can't wait to dump my 5870 for something that functions.
One of these two:
1. You received a defective card. Every company ships a small percentage of defective cards. Perfection does not exist. RMA it, get a replacement, or get something else. Shit happens, get over it.
2. Your card is fine, but for some reason you can't set it up to work right. It's pretty damn hard to buy a modern video card today and have difficulty getting it to work right if you know what you're doing. In this case, you don't know how to use a computer. This isn't AMD's fault. Get a Dell or pay someone to set it up for you.
As for the various threads people have with problems: People assume too much. If a game crashes, they immediately blame the graphics card in the thread title or post without any troubleshooting. Not to mention that there's probably a 100 to 1 or greater ratio of people who have no problems compared to people who do. If one person has a 5870 and plays X game with a problem, but another person has a 5870 and plays X game without problem, then it is instantly proven that the 5870 is not the problem. You can only blame the graphics card or driver on a problem if 100% of people with them experience the same problem.
Factory overclocked cards are notorious for having a shorter life cycle or being less stable or more prone to overheating. Video card manufacturers do not necessarily test their overclocked boards to the same standards that an enthusiast such as you or I would test. Their ambient temperatures may be different as well. EVGA released a 7900GT overclocked version that had a higher failure rate than the first generation Xbox 360 just as an example.
You're seriously mistaken if you think a Geforce will be flawless if you can't get a Radeon to work.
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