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Failed BFG GTX8800

garyb50

garyb50

garyb50

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Morning lads,

my first post here and looking for a bit of advice. About 2 years ago i bought a BFG GTX8800oc from Overclockers which worked fine until about a month ago when it failed with bad corruption lines.

I returned this to BFG who sent a replacment GTX, although i am not sure if it was a brand new or refurbished one. However, about 2 weeks after it arrived the replacement GTX has also failed with the same bad corruption.

My brother in law installed his Radeon card and my system is working fine once again. I emailed BFG tech support to go through the process of returning the GTX card again and got this reply last night,

Are you able to test the card in a different system? The card was replaced and
while it is not impossible, it is unlikely 2 different cards will exhibit the same
issue.

Thank you,
Delma .
BFG Support

I have replied advising that the Radeon card is working fine so it must be a problem with the replacement GTX they sent. The thing is i don't want to suffer a similar problem if all they do is send another GTX and was wondering if i could ask for something else instead. The question is what do you think i should ask them for, any suggestions would be welcome?

Cheers

Gary
 
I built this system, and all the components are top quality, and there is nothing in the system causing these card failures, i also agree that its the high failure rate of the 8000 series thats the problem, also the 2nd card that was sent back was a refurbished one, which i was suprised about and that it wasn't a newer model. Oc's dont sell BFG any more do they? not suprising really.

Ninja :D
 
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i didn't know that they had pulled out of Europe, also read the link that ~Divine~Wind~ posted, pretty poor.
only took a week to resend another card but its quite worrying about the replacement cards that are being sent back. are DOA or in this case don't last 5 mins.
i suppose at least these have a 10 year warranty :rolleyes:


Ninja
 
They pulled out of Europe because we kept returning cards for RMA.
NVIDIA intentionally make old cards break, so there was no way offering a 10 year warranty was going to work.
 
it would be good if they send a newer model or a working card and sell it on the Bay and get a ATI card ;) as there is an X800xt card in that system and is still going strong don't make cards like that any more, and only paid a tenner.

Also as Garys says what is a worthy new replacement?

Ninja
 
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