(unstable/faulty) Sapphire AMD RX 7900 XT Reference GPU

(unstable/faulty) Sapphire AMD RX 7900 XT Reference GPU (unstable/faulty) Sapphire AMD RX 7900 XT Reference GPU Graphics Cards

Currently, it boots but I assume is either unstable or faulty, potentially is the card or my 750w PSU that doesn't like it.

This GPU had issues back in June 2025 around when I bought it, I had repasted it with PTM7950 a week prior to this issue, it crashed and wouldn't POST and only showed a VGA light.

In February 2026 (recently), I tested the card and it worked again and well under GPU stress tests and had equal performance before comparing my screenshots on Cyberpunk and 3dmark scores
A few days later it froze and showed a gray screen with 4 vertical blue lines. And showed the same red VGA light as in June

Maybe VRAM issue?
Maybe it could be repaired but I'm not too sure
It may work fine on another PC but I haven't tried it, because it worked again 6 months later, not sure if it is fully broken or partially faulty.

Attached are photos of the card reopened after I repasted it back in June, it seems to be okay, no burn marks or anything.
2 missing non essential screws, see pics
Any questions or useful advice feel free to comment.
Will ignore low offers and please no silly comments

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1 week
@KuriyamaMR1 Yup it could be the board, will have to try and diagnose it next month
1 week
it sounds like capacitors or resistors issue, need to check the pcb
1 week
@webblade Sorry no I haven't I've been busy, my PC hasn't been used in months, after July I will have time to do all this if that's okay 👍
1 week
Did you ever get to run OCCT on it?
1 week
@KuriyamaMR1 It works but in my use it has crashed and then afterwards wouldn't boot, then I would try it a few days later and it would work again, so it is why I have it down as unstable or faulty. In terms of performance when it works is as normal as other cards.
1 week
is it working? I am bit confused. Its enable to get into system?
1 week
@KuriyamaMR1 It would probably be somewhat near the asking
1 week
hey whats is lowest you could do?
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2 months
@muppetkiller I'm 70% sure it's the card I have a nvidia card that replaced it and I've had no issues with it, thought it could be the ram, I haven't heard great stories of this amd GPU unfortunately
2 months
Are you sure the issue is your graphics card ? I had the exact same issue on my RTX3070 and was convinced there were memory issues on the card but turned out to be a defective RAM slot on my motherboard. Try switching to a single stick of ram on your board and test each slot.
2 months
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2 months
@wabco Hi, yes luckily I did take a photo ages ago and forgot to add it, I added it now to the last photo there 👍
2 months
Hi,
Do you happen to have a photo of the artifacts or the grey screen with the blue lines when the card was failing?
It would really help me understand the issue
Thanks!
2 months
@webblade Thanks, I'll let you know if I do
2 months
If you are not going to repair it after your tests are complete let me know if you want an offer on it. Hopefully something simple you can sort yourself 👍
2 months
@Philipp610 Thank you for the advice, I've always just quickly opened furmark but completely forgot about occt, I don't have time to test it now but I'll definitely try this later on
2 months
Run OCCT memory test on it. Make sure your current usage + total test % does not exceed 100% total. In other words if windows uses 1/10gb Vram set test parameters to no more than 85%. If your Vram is bust it'll start telling you about it. Won't stress ur psu. Helped me diagnose a faulty 1070ti
2 months
@webblade Oh that would make sense, I wonder how much it would be to repair the dram