Presumably they are better now then some years ago where their cheapo line had more doa's then working ones out of the box.
Still my go to brand is Seasonic, after that, Superflower, Be quiet, Asus, Coollermaster, Lian-li or Silverstone
So, I'm wondering, on occasion both my screens go black for a second or 2and then come back up like nothing happened, if i= go trough my error logs all I can find is a warning for a dcom 10016 error.
I did DDU my drivers and installed the latest ones and updated my cards firmware but nothing...
I wanted a founders editon card for a while now but never could find one in stock, not that I was looking that hard, but now all of a sudden they had 5080's and 5090's in stock so I jumped on it, they are among the cheapest you can get, otherwise it would have been a palit or gainward card...
How many times has AMD been dead and buried b4 they came up with ryzen?
Seems ro me that a lot of people are keen to see intel fail as they used to be the big dog, that does not mean they will.
I would start with updating the bios and go from there, don't see any point in doing a windows install prior to that for the old hardware, you don't need windows to update a bios.
Do make sure that you don't skip any bios updates as sometimes you need to do a couple older ones first