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Can anybody enlighten me on BFG

Skalaberg

Skalaberg

Skalaberg

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I requested an RMA on a BFG 8800GTX graphics card that I bought back in December 2006 via BFG's own website on monday night. When I bought it this card carried a 10year warranty. Basically there is no output to screen although the fan is spinning. Other cards work in the system with a straight swap out and just before the 8800GTX went doolally ding doo the screen became corrupted. I just got the following reply from BFG......

'My apologies, but we are unable to setup RMAs at this time.

Thank you,
Cristen D
BFG Support'

Any body know whats going on with BFG at the moment. Don't get me wrong its not the end of the world... I bought 2x 5770's to have a play with crossfire anyway so the card isn't needed but with the 10 year warranty in place I thought it's worth a shot.
 
I guess this proves that warranties (especially long ones) aren't worth the paper they are written on. Ah well it was always worth a shot. Would have been nice for the reply to just say sorry mate you've got no chance rather than 'at this time'

:rolleyes:
 
Most people got an email back saying they were unable to honour the warranty due to going into liquidation.

You not missing much anyhow - most (approx 2/3) of the BFG RMA replacements I've dealt with have died within months too - the company seems cursed.
 
Can always try the "oven" trick - got a lot of them back to life.

I believe the problem with most of these cards is the old BGA solder failure exacerbated by conditions somewhere in their supply/storage pipeline maybe humidity.
 
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Please don't tell them they can die.
 
I dare you, bake that ****ing card and a cake, send me the latter.

EDIT: forgot about the group hug.

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I'm tempted to try this on my beloved 295 though i've no idea how you take the bloody case off it, it's built like a tank and weighs about the same too.
 
Had an old bfg 8800gts 640 die on me last week, for all that its worth i cba with the hassle of sending it back.
 
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