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EVGA 460 *** where are they?

BigBruiserAl said:
who on earth would pay the extra £££ for nothing?
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You have me at a disadvantage, your answer was obviously meant to be highly informative and intelligent but for the life of me I can't figure out how :rolleyes:

Please try again when you have read and understood the question!
 
If you had tried to answer my question rather than give a smartass reply you would not have got the reaction you did.

I hope your 2,000+ posts where more helpful than the first one you posted here.
 
Gothmog said:
If you had tried to answer my question rather than give a smartass reply you would not have got the reaction you did.

I hope your 2,000+ posts where more helpful than the first one you posted here.
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It was't smart ass at all. Without being a tool can you explain what the EVGA card gives over the current ones like the MSI hawk or Cyclone as an example that has better cooling and upgraded parts, thats what i was getting at.
If you post in that link i gave you the sales team are helpfull and can give you a date if they have one.

And yes i spend a lot of time on this forum helping people instead of using it just when i get stuck and my own benifit . ;)
 
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Gothmog said:
http://www.evga.com/articles/00576/

Announced 8th September but no sign of them anywhere in the UK? When are these going to be available?

What's with F-T-W being censored?
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Why would you want it? Cyclone and TOP are far, far better cards.

Why would you pay through the nose for an evga card that's worse? Warranty? The brand?

evga's support is nearly as bad as zotac's and brand means JS.
 
EVGA our well known for their excellent warrantee and trade up scheme.

If a person has brand loyalty it's up to them.

Matt
 
mattup said:
EVGA our well known for their excellent warrantee and trade up scheme.

If a person has brand loyalty it's up to them.

Matt
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Used to be. EVGA warranty is greatly diluted now. A lot of their products are now just two years in europe. Asus offers better warranty.

I used to be a EVGA loyal customer and have owned 3 or 4 EVGA cards but my last warranty experience put me off. Waiting 6 weeks for a replacement/fixed graphics card is no fun and having to send it to Germany is a bind as well. I ended up buying another one and then selling the EVGA when it finally came back.

If you search the internet you will find loads of people with similar bad experiences of EVGA.

So one of the good reasons for buying EVGA has gone.

As for the step up program it is expensive. I did it once and luckily it worked out in my favour (just) since the next gen cards were consierable cheaper than the old ones.

Don;t forget they only give you what you paid for your old card (invoice required) and they charge you full RRP as per their shop for the new one plus you have internaional shipping costs. Last time I looked at doing a step up, the new card was £70 more than what I could buy it from the uk and it was cheaper to sell my EVGA 2nd hand and buy the card I wanted over here.

But, if the guy wants an EVGA, who are we to stop him. However, since the F T W version is likely to be around £250 I can;t see why your wouldn;t just buy a gtx470 even the EVGA gtx470 which is the same price?


However, to answer the OP's question are your sure EVGA has released or are going to release the F T W card in Europe? Only reason i ask is that EVGA Europe's shop doesn;t even list it. The best gtx 460 is the SC version at 235 euros.
 
Well, sparked a real debate now :)

Apologies to BigBruiserAl, I see so many posters with large post counts that use it as a status symbol rather than anything useful, again my sincere apologies! Link used and posted in.

@Ejizz: Thanks for the explanation!

The reason I'm drawn to the EVGA is the OC of 850Mhz out of the box, no need to run Afterburner or any other tweaking tool. However, I do realise that other cards can be OC'd past 800MHz and the mem can be pushed too, but there is no guarantee that they will. The availability of these cards is also questionable as has been mentioned, widely available in the US from Newegg and other online stores but nothing in Europe yet, wondering if KFA2 have warned them off? Was tempted on a KFA2 but the terrible fan noise put me off when reading the Guru3D review.

I've seen the HAWK in action, a friend bought one the other day and I fitted it for him, uses one of his replaced GTX260's as a dedicated PhysX processor, now he's ordered a 2nd HAWK so that speaks for itself!! We tried a few games like Borderlands, Bad Company 2, F1 2010 and only Metro 2033 was unplayable at 1920 x 1200. The card was quiet as well when running the Heaven benchmark with DX11 enabled, I'd rather listen to the sound from my speakers rather than noisy fans!

I'll bypass the EVGA cards then seeing as the general consensus is 'overhyped' and concentrate on what is actually availble to buy today in the UK, just trying to decide which brand.
 
No worries at all mate. I think as long you stick to MSI hawk or Cyclone 850MHZ should be a given (lol famous last words) But you are 100% you will have to run AB for them i guess i depends on the price on the EVGA, at a guess it going to £220+ which is £40 more just for not auto setting up AB ;)
That gig model looks very good and can be found at £160 now if you look around. It is ofc your money were just here to help :)
 
So if i have this right loads of people have slammed the opening poster for asking about the EVGA card with responses like why pay more for nothing etc, when nobody actually knows the price of these cards.
that really sums up this forum of late.
 
bru said:
So if i have this right loads of people have slammed the opening poster for asking about the EVGA card with responses like why pay more for nothing etc, when nobody actually knows the price of these cards.
that really sums up this forum of late.
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You can put your wooden spoon away as no one slammed anyone, people are trying to save him money by pointing out that this card

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-135-EA&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1830 £200 and less spec so a f.t.w card at 850mhz will be £220 +

The problem with the forum of late is people try and help and others are just set on trolling with no usefull input :D
 
i am still trying to understand the final outcome, go for evga or msi??? i am looking for a new card myself and i can get a evga 460 for cheap, but at the same time i would rather spend more if msi hold the running lane.
 
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Well I've gone and done it, bought a pair of Asus GTX460 TOP 1GB models for £190ea with free delivery.

Now tell me I did the right thing :) Only sorry OcUK do not stock them!
 
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