07-04-2015, 10:56 PM
Not weird at all... Re-read what I wrote in this thread, it all makes perfect sense 
This is actually something we're fighting with right now, as we've learned that the 290X will kill the motherboard in the systems we use after about a year of continuous use. When Tyan and Supermicro say not to use GPUs that draw more than 300W, they rather mean it. So we will no longer be using nor recommending GPUs which violate the PCI-e spec as all high-end AMD GPUs have.
This is actually something we're fighting with right now, as we've learned that the 290X will kill the motherboard in the systems we use after about a year of continuous use. When Tyan and Supermicro say not to use GPUs that draw more than 300W, they rather mean it. So we will no longer be using nor recommending GPUs which violate the PCI-e spec as all high-end AMD GPUs have.