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BFG Europe goes under
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That might be so if all makes were failing, but I use a variety of brands and only BFG have had a significant failure rate. I've been using BFG cards since the 8800GT was released. I've used Asus, BFG, Gainward, Gigabyte, Sparkle and POV nVidia cards during that time.
no evga or zotac?
Zotac warranty *** for water cooling tbh, since they still cover you after changing the cooler, for 5 years (long enough)
Also if its true that they manufacture it themselves and use better parts?= win tbh.
Zotac warranty *** for water cooling tbh, since they still cover you after changing the cooler, for 5 years (long enough)
Also if its true that they manufacture it themselves and use better parts?= win tbh.
But most of the cards you named come with only one years warranty.
You had 9/10 BFG cards you use die preternaturally but you still used them.
Just finished reading the threads, full of people RMA'ing 5 year old plus cards and receiving top end cards back after they realised the cards still had warranty.
You had 9/10 BFG cards you use die preternaturally but you still used them.
Just finished reading the threads, full of people RMA'ing 5 year old plus cards and receiving top end cards back after they realised the cards still had warranty.
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Is that within the UK ? Ive been looking for manufactures that cover you for fitting a water block.
The zotac official forums strongly suggest that the five year warranty isn't worth the paper it's written on, have you experience that suggests otherwise?
Evga cover you for watercooling as well, I think BFG do too.
I havent had to RMA my cards.
EVGA warranty DOES NOT and neither does BFG. They do in the US, not in europe, as such lots of people get it wrong. Although it could have changed in the year or so since I asked them, when I was buying my 295's.
EVGA warranty DOES NOT and neither does BFG. They do in the US, not in europe, as such lots of people get it wrong. Although it could have changed in the year or so since I asked them, when I was buying my 295's.
yea i know it sucks. I was so happy when i read about evga doing it, nearly bought a card, then found out they didnt. Although it is porbably worth checking if they change it from time to time. I had never heard of zotac when i bought them, but they seemed good enough and had a long warrenty that would cover me.
Where are the forums, im failing at googling as i keep getting distracted by things about the oc editions of the 480 they are planning on doing lol. Their "extended warranty service" does say you have to register within 14 day sof purchase, which i didnt do, and dont remember seeing anything abut before. so im not registered ffs...going to go check my box now.
Where are the forums, im failing at googling as i keep getting distracted by things about the oc editions of the 480 they are planning on doing lol. Their "extended warranty service" does say you have to register within 14 day sof purchase, which i didnt do, and dont remember seeing anything abut before. so im not registered ffs...going to go check my box now.
back of my 295 box says it has dedicated 1gb of memory lmao....
edit: awesome, didnt register my cards. well thats well useful lol. the warranty is worded a bit weirdit says its void if the user modifies the card (cooling included) but then later says that replacing the cooler will nt void the warranty unless the aftermarket cooler was the cause of the failure. The 14 day registration time is a bit short, its also written in the quick installation guide, which considering im not a nub, i didnt read, and now i feel like a nub.
Oh well, its a non transferable warranty and im going to be selling the cards anyway soon
/heres to hoping that evga now covers cooler changing.
edit: awesome, didnt register my cards. well thats well useful lol. the warranty is worded a bit weirdit says its void if the user modifies the card (cooling included) but then later says that replacing the cooler will nt void the warranty unless the aftermarket cooler was the cause of the failure. The 14 day registration time is a bit short, its also written in the quick installation guide, which considering im not a nub, i didnt read, and now i feel like a nub.
Oh well, its a non transferable warranty and im going to be selling the cards anyway soon
/heres to hoping that evga now covers cooler changing.
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Meh, nearly every video card I've had since the original 3DFX Voodoo 1 has gone to wrong to varying degrees over time (most of the time it's artcifacting very rarely a complete failure).
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out of all of the cards ive owned, only one as ever shown signs of failing - my backup 7300gt. I had one blow up on installing it mind, that was an r9500non-pro. other than that, to the best of my knowledge every other card ive owned is still working to this day, including my bfg 8800gtx and every other card right back to my geforce 2mx
Well first time for everything but my experience is the same as Rroff on this bought 6 bfg gtx260's for other people's systems and all had to be rma'd in the first year no idea why they went bad. Apart from one asus card these were the only rma's i have had to do all the other cards (mainly gigabytes) have been totally fine. Maybe it is something to do with the 260 cards only thing i could think of to explain it to the people that i made the systems for and they were not very happy.
but my experience is the same as Rroff on this bought 6 bfg gtx260's for other people's systems and all had to be rma'd in the first year no idea why they went bad. Apart from one asus card these were the only rma's i have had to do all the other cards (mainly gigabytes) have been totally fine. Maybe it is something to do with the 260 cards only thing i could think of to explain it to the people that i made the systems for and they were not very happy.
I'm the same. My 9800 Pro still works that I have lying in my other desk.
The only thing that has died was the XFX 7600GT I bought for my friend about 2 years ago. This was his though as I sold him a PC I made up from old parts and bought him the GFX card for free.
why do people think that a 10year warranty a bad thing, think about it. You purchase a card at £600 in ten years time that card is worth nothing, taking that they will make a profit on the initial card then its money in the bank. The card manufacture should have insurance to cover naff returns so they shouldn't really lose out. And if the card works as it should do then 10 years ain't that long. And replacing with a out of date card ain't really a loser its cheap at half the price. (most people will upgrade in that period.)
Most of the money must be spent in R&D and initial production runs, they don't print 100, or 1000 i would think more 10's of thousands and most of them should be upgradable so they have multiple versions. your find that could be as little as £10 to produce a card its silly to think that its one guy building a custom one off.
example the 9800's where all the same at one point it didn't really matter who you bought it from for the all had the same maker it was just the oc and warranty that made the difference.
I will hate to see that demise for BFG for they had a great customer model and i wanted to upgrade again to them. I wont go POV because of crappy warranty.
Most of the money must be spent in R&D and initial production runs, they don't print 100, or 1000 i would think more 10's of thousands and most of them should be upgradable so they have multiple versions. your find that could be as little as £10 to produce a card its silly to think that its one guy building a custom one off.
example the 9800's where all the same at one point it didn't really matter who you bought it from for the all had the same maker it was just the oc and warranty that made the difference.
I will hate to see that demise for BFG for they had a great customer model and i wanted to upgrade again to them. I wont go POV because of crappy warranty.
This is more than likely the real situation.
They would have insurance of warranty replacements, they wouldn't simply take a hit and have to fork out good money for every returned card they receive.
How manytimes have we seen on this forum dilberts that overclock their cards too far or mess about with alternative cooling screwing up the card and then sending it back. Some even seem to think it is a right of theirs to do it rather then accept they borked it so should buy a new one and then same people moan about companys that offer lousy warrantys. Bfg will of course have had insurance to cover general returns but whether enough insurance to cover all that is debatable. Either way sad to see any company pulling out of europe as it limits choice for us all.
Well I emailed BFG support about my RMA in Wales at the moment and got this reply. Still doesnt expliain why theres not a single BFG card in the well know stores.
As for insurance on RMA's theres no such thing. A certain % of the profit they make on a card goes into RMA and support. When I worked for the late Evesham Technology we set aside a certain of % of profit + extra support the customer may of purchased. So everytime a card goes wrong they lose a little bit of money somewhere.