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2080Ti Choice

mulpsmebeauty said:
They're overpriced, but if you buy one with a long warranty, you're guaranteed a working card for the length of that warranty. Just don't buy one with a 2 year guarantee.
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At this price point they should be rock solid, not flaky, no length of guarantee is good enough for a product this prone to fail at the price point it is. If a buy a £15 kettle from Tesco and it conks out after a year, fair enough, I know I bought cheap rubbish to begin with. If I buy a £40 kettle I want it to last 5 years at least, and from experience it will and longer.

These cards are rubbish.
 
Agree it's not ideal, but there are a lack of other options. I am tied into G-Sync and my 1080 was struggling a bit at 3440x1440 with newer titles.
 
Perhaps Nvidia have been working with an alien race and these artifacts is actually a puzzle, solve the puzzle, and you get to use the card ;)
 
Haha, well despite being a little put off I am still determined to get a working card.

Worse case I can get the card refunded and go for the EVGA one with 10 year warranty as recommended.
 
Darujhistan said:
At this price point they should be rock solid, not flaky, no length of guarantee is good enough for a product this prone to fail at the price point it is. If a buy a £15 kettle from Tesco and it conks out after a year, fair enough, I know I bought cheap rubbish to begin with. If I buy a £40 kettle I want it to last 5 years at least, and from experience it will and longer.

These cards are rubbish.
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You still have some protection under consumer law, if a £1000+ GPU conks out after 2yrs warranty or not that ain't right but you might have to fight for compensation.
 
BigBANGtheory said:
You still have some protection under consumer law, if a £1000+ GPU conks out after 2yrs warranty or not that ain't right but you might have to fight for compensation.
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Under the old Sale of Goods Act 1979, this was very clear cut, and you would be able to claim for the product up to six years after purchase. However, with the Consumer Rights Act 2015, it looks like you are out of luck after a mere 30 days. The UK protecting big businesses as usual!
 
I've generally always thought Asus a bit premium priced. They're good but... there's equal/better for generally less money in pretty much everything they're a part of. They've gone fully into the RGB as the only real bonus. They're usually the most severe with warranty too, even as the original purchaser you can't go to them for RMA, has to be with where you bought it (I guess maybe an advantage).

I ended up with a cheap MSI 2080ti Seahawk EK X, going in tomorrow. Fingers crossed everything's ok with it. Not blowing MSI's trumpet at all and there's enough reports of poor paste jobs on this card so... we'll see.
 
Mercutio said:
I've generally always thought Asus a bit premium priced. They're good but... there's equal/better for generally less money in pretty much everything they're a part of. They've gone fully into the RGB as the only real bonus. They're usually the most severe with warranty too, even as the original purchaser you can't go to them for RMA, has to be with where you bought it (I guess maybe an advantage).

I ended up with a cheap MSI 2080ti Seahawk EK X, going in tomorrow. Fingers crossed everything's ok with it. Not blowing MSI's trumpet at all and there's enough reports of poor paste jobs on this card so... we'll see.
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Hopefully yours will be fine, mate bought at the same time as me and his hasn't had any issues so far.
 
Went for the Palit Dual it's done me OK so, only slight regret is not getting one of the 300A chip variants. I think in future I'll be going to EVGA with the 10 year though as that sounds amazing plus it's covered if you take the cooler off (really want to get this Palit under water but just don't think my nuts are big enough to potentially throw away the grand hahaha.
 
Overclockers have received the card, annoyingly it's being tested which can take 3-5 days.. I thought it was just getting replaced, would probably have got a refund and re-ordered to mitigate downtime.
 
Zernath said:
Under the old Sale of Goods Act 1979, this was very clear cut, and you would be able to claim for the product up to six years after purchase. However, with the Consumer Rights Act 2015, it looks like you are out of luck after a mere 30 days. The UK protecting big businesses as usual!
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No its not a simple as that 30days you have the right to reject something that is faulty, up to 6months the onus is on the retailer to prove its not faulty when purchased after that its down to you for up to 6years.

So in the case of a GPU going poof between 6months - 6yrs you'd need to make a case that it was faulty and go to the consumer ombudsman. I don't think that would be too hard to demonstrate in the case of certain products though you might have to pay for an independent person to support your claim it was faulty. Personally I think that is fair because its not ok for a retailer (all retailers btw not having a dig at OCUK) to sell a high value item and wash their hands of it in 6months time its up to them to have good arrangements in place with manufacturers and not sell products prone to failure.
 
Webzta said:
Overclockers have received the card, annoyingly it's being tested which can take 3-5 days.. I thought it was just getting replaced, would probably have got a refund and re-ordered to mitigate downtime.
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Surprised they haven’t just sent a new one straight out. That’s what they did for me. They are generally really speedy with this.
 
I’ve had to RMA my zotac 2080 Ti amp this was second one I’ve had! First started artifacting after 2 weeks this one last just about 4 months and the. Boom 2 days ago had BSOD and crashes and artifacts etc

Sending it off tomorrow Morning, have requested the EVGA one and will pay for the 10 years warranty
 
Beeney said:
I’ve had to RMA my zotac 2080 Ti amp this was second one I’ve had! First started artifacting after 2 weeks this one last just about 4 months and the. Boom 2 days ago had BSOD and crashes and artifacts etc

Sending it off tomorrow Morning, have requested the EVGA one and will pay for the 10 years warranty
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You'd think the 5 year upgrade would suffice!
 
To my mind its flat out wrong that the manufacturers are producing goods known to failure selling up to £1.5k without a 4yr+ warranty, this is just begging for future problems and arguments between consumers and retailers. Maybe there is an opportunity here to sell extended warranties?
 
Done everything I sensibly could to give mine long life. Checked with their forums and MSI don't penalise on warranty sticker damage so... it's had replacement paste (the included stuff was an enormous mess of ectotherm) and I'm staying below 53c at full whack when a lot of these cards are hitting 75c+ (which is disgraceful on water).
 
BigBANGtheory said:
To my mind its flat out wrong that the manufacturers are producing goods known to failure selling up to £1.5k without a 4yr+ warranty, this is just begging for future problems and arguments between consumers and retailers. Maybe there is an opportunity here to sell extended warranties?
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They know they can get away with it, people are buying them anyway, so what incentive have they got to improve? If anything this sort of thing could become more common! :(
 
Not heard anything back from overclockers yet, running low on time to be getting something back for the weekend it seems.

Looks like it was a poor choice not just to get it refunded..
 
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