Wow, you're totally the first person to come up with this ridiculous explanation. Please link me to other examples of these "dud cards" that perform okay, but not as good as they should.

While you're at it tell me more about how a card hitting its clocks, keeping its temps down, not hitting a VRAM limit, and being utilized at a proper rate was broken.

This card has had a bad reputation since the second they rolled out a huge batch of them that had a corrupt BIOS. When I got the card it did not work. You had to email them, get a BIOS file, and figure out how to install it on your own. There are huge amounts of documented claims regarding the fans breaking. There are even more reports of how fucking horrible Powercolor support is.

And even if you take all that away, you are still buying a two generation old card (even older than that really) that is likely going to be outperformed by a cheaper option in the next week.

I cannot believe you fucking retards actually need this explained to you. My fucking god. I guess I should figure a deals sub will be full of poor people willing to disregard logic to get a "better" deal.