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B-Grade GPU concerns/questions

If the saving is significant then buy it. You get 14 days DSR and 90 days warranty with OCUK should anything go wrong, after that you deal with the manufacturer.

The problems occur when your faced with a RMA situation after 90 days and the manufacturer only deal through the retailer - OCUK will not want to deal with this, unless you complain on the forums for everyone to see. This has been the case multiple times just search for such threads.

As members have said the 980ti G1 was probably returned for coil whine, also note you don't get any promotional games with B grade cards which if you were buying new could be sold to reimburse some money.
 
the normal discount for items that aren't EOL is like £30, I really can't see them having done a £200 reduction on a live item

the fact that it disappeared so quickly and a 980 (non ti) popped up in its place says to me that it was a mistake, not that they sold out (they rarely have 10+ bgrades in one go as well)
 
Twirlywoos said:
As members have said the 980ti G1 was probably returned for coil whine,
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I bet 90% of the cards returned for coil whine don't whine when tried in another system with a different PSU.

And if your B-Grade card does whine - return it. I can't see how there is any more risk involved with buying a B-Grade item versus normal retail - beyond the slight increased chance and inconvenience of having to return the item.
 
Dervious said:
Yes. I owned a b***h of a card (GTX460). It locked up under load, but only in my PC. After hours of component/OS swapping it turned out it was the card (not my PC) and was swapped by Gigagbyte. The replacement didn't work at all in on a spare motherboard I owned, but it did work in my main system. When I upgraded my motherboard, it failed to work, and was repaired by Gigabyte. Soon afterwards I went back to AMD and tried to sell the card to a friend. It failed to work in his PC, and was dumped.
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Very similar story

I bought a b-grade R9 290 and a few days short of its 90 day warranty expiry it expired itself. Got a replacement after a months wait(!) and two months later I'm having trouble with screen glitching out and "graphics driver failed to respond" errors. Not sure if its the card or something else, tried various drivers and various sticks of RAM, even if it wasn't out of warranty it probably wouldn't be worth returning as its so intermittent it would probably sit on the bench all day and nothing would happen and it would be returned with "we can't find anything wrong with it" as it doesn't happen for days and then boom its glitching all over the place. Or something is.

Personally I believe that they send out cards that probably-have-something-wrong-with-them-but-we-can't-figure-out-what which either

a) finally blow and get replaced with another probably-have-something-wrong-with-them-but-we-can't-figure-out-what card or
b) the warranty expires on the user leaving them with a suspect card which may fail at some indeterminate time in the future.

The 3 year warranty on a new card is golden in my opinion.

Verdict: Not Recommended.
 
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