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Aren't they the cheaper sister brand to another, better regarded one? I forget all the twin brands, but better performing silicon will generally go in the premier brand, so cheaper ones, like Palit, get the worst of it.
Branding, I recall when BFG were all the rage, they had a 'cool' macho image, where are they now?
People also abused their RMA.They went into Liquidation in 2010, rumour was Nvidia stopped supplying them with cards after they approached ATI/AMD to become a partner. Not sure how accurate that is but I've seen it said in a few places.
They went into Liquidation in 2010, rumour was Nvidia stopped supplying them with cards after they approached ATI/AMD to become a partner. Not sure how accurate that is but I've seen it said in a few places.
People also abused their RMA.
People abusing their RMA/warranty was only part of the picture - BFG seemed to end up with a lot of cards suffering BGA solder failure problems for some reason - I suspect storage or transit - which ended up costing them heavily - not just lots of people abusing the RMA.
Main difference with Palit really is the generally shorter warranty than other brands and the heatsink/materials tend to be cheap - all aluminium where other brands use atleast a little bit of copper, etc. cheaper plastics - you can feel the difference both in surface texture quality and weight.
From my experience Palit hasn't been any more or less reliable though than any other brand (some exceptions aside like Marine-RX179 mentions above).
I've used Palit for secondary PCs for year and years without a single failure so far that I can recall (hope I'm not cursing myself) and currently using a Palit 1070 in my main system as I got it really cheap.