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Got my Citi card statement today. I have $321 in available cash back sooooo. I couldn't help myself and pulled the trigger. Early Christmas present. (With the Mrs. permission of course :D)

I have no experience with the Diamond brand. How good is their reliability?

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Originally Posted by John P. Myers

Pfft you can't tell me you don't have enough friends and neighbors to send off the UPCs to get your $ :p

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Why sir, that would be unethical! Perish the thought!

:ar!

It would seem that eventually, most fans go bad on these AMD reference designs. But it usually takes a couple years, and you can always replace them. And also, by then, you are on to bigger and better GPUs anyway.

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Originally Posted by nanoprobe

Got my Citi card statement today. I have $321 in available cash back sooooo. I couldn't help myself and pulled the trigger. Early Christmas present. (With the Mrs. permission of course :D)

I have no experience with the Diamond brand. How good is their reliability?

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Congrats NP You da MAN!!! I think that we might be able to put out 70+ mil. a day if these purchases keep up. ;) Hint, hint.=P~
My 5970 is a Diamond brand and it has run flawlessly 24/7 for the last year. I've never had a problem with Diamond.

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Originally Posted by Mike029

My 5970 is a Diamond brand and it has run flawlessly 24/7 for the last year. I've never had a problem with Diamond.

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Originally Posted by nanoprobe

I got to here but could find no promotion code on the Amazon site. Maybe it comes with the card.
Found the promo code. It's 2989. It's listed here right above #1 of the 3 steps.

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I know where the Promo Code is, the problem is entering the Model # ...

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Originally Posted by STE\/E

I know where the Promo Code is, the problem is entering the Model # ...

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I see what you mean now. Sorry!
I just sent an e-mail to Diamond about this issue.

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Originally Posted by nanoprobe

Got my Citi card statement today. I have $321 in available cash back sooooo. I couldn't help myself and pulled the trigger. Early Christmas present. (With the Mrs. permission of course :D)

I have no experience with the Diamond brand. How good is their reliability?

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I have been a diamond owner since the S3 trio days and have always had good dealings with them.. all my ati/amd cards are from Diamond except the 4850x2 from saphire, only had to send one off due to the fan going bad that was the x800xl, usually turn arround on warranty 2-3 weeks, dont forget these have a 5 year warranty on the cards not to many folks are doing that anymore. Your milage may differ i dont ever push the overclocks to high and tipically never push the fans beyond 50% but thats just me.

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Originally Posted by coronicus

I have been a diamond owner since the S3 trio days and have always had good dealings with them.. all my ati/amd cards are from Diamond except the 4850x2 from saphire, only had to send one off due to the fan going bad that was the x800xl, usually turn arround on warranty 2-3 weeks, dont forget these have a 5 year warranty on the cards not to many folks are doing that anymore. Your milage may differ i dont ever push the overclocks to high and tipically never push the fans beyond 50% but thats just me.

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Thanks for the reply. This card will not be in a case so I'm not expecting any heat issues. I usually run things at stock because my electric bill is already pretty ugly. :D

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Originally Posted by nanoprobe

Got my Citi card statement today. I have $321 in available cash back sooooo. I couldn't help myself and pulled the trigger. Early Christmas present. (With the Mrs. permission of course :D)

I have no experience with the Diamond brand. How good is their reliability?

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I have a Diamond 5870 that i bought when those cards first came out, however long ago that was. I have overclocked it up to 984MHz continuously for weeks without adjusting voltage, and even had it crammed into a mini tower case (with modifications to the case of course) with questionable airflow and it never let me down. They just seem to make some good quality equipment and then sit there quietly as they sell. In my experience, Diamond is good stuff.