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Faulty BFG Graphix Card - BFG in Liquidation

Troezar said:
This just goes to show what a daft marketing ploy the lifetime warranty was, probably why BFG went bust...
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Its not the reason BFG went bust but people abusing it was certainly a large contributing factor. They seemd to be a bit cursed to - easily 60% of the BFG cards I've had anything to do with have died some kinda horrid death of some sort - whereas any other brand I've dealt with haven't even had 20% failure rate.
 
Rroff said:
Its not the reason BFG went bust but people abusing it was certainly a large contributing factor. They seemd to be a bit cursed to - easily 60% of the BFG cards I've had anything to do with have died some kinda horrid death of some sort - whereas any other brand I've dealt with haven't even had 20% failure rate.
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Whether it was the main reason or a "large contributing factor" it could well have tipped them over the edge. I remember reading plenty of posts by people RMAing their slightly out of date cards to enable them to get a newer one. That policy is just asking to be abused. Think about the cost of administering it too and if as you say they had a high failure rate too it could well have snowballed out of control.
 
GodMac said:
So what does baking it do to the card? Does it fix issues or something? The only time I've heard anyone mention they are "Baking it" is when I've watched Jim Royale on the Royale Family :D

BTW, looking at replacement cards, there are some now with 3Gb DDR5 mem, what the hell is going to use all that? Is this just not marketing hype?
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"Baking" re-solders some of the insides of the card, which essentially means -

Some solder joints may have broken loose due to normal use where heat warped the card in certain spots. The "baking" just allows the solder to reflow and "fix" itself.
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Just Google it and you will get lots of hits.

3 GB of Video RAM is very handy for high and ultra-high (multi-screen) resolutions, as well as SLI in those resolutions.
 
Guys, I "Baked" my BFG 280GTX OC last night and after it was thorough cooled and assembled I put it back in my system and it fired up OK. I then ran 3DMark 1 time and it passed OK, I then ran COD MW2 on max res (1680x1240) for 20 minutes and it never crashed at all. I'm going to run it in over the weekend and see if its really done the trick but so far so good :)
 
GodMac said:
Guys, I "Baked" my BFG 280GTX OC last night and after it was thorough cooled and assembled I put it back in my system and it fired up OK. I then ran 3DMark 1 time and it passed OK, I then ran COD MW2 on max res (1680x1240) for 20 minutes and it never crashed at all. I'm going to run it in over the weekend and see if its really done the trick but so far so good :)
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Awesome! Good job!!! :)

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Excellent news.

Just for reference, your card nowadays is not worth £350 at all. If it was working, maybe some where in the region of £40-£65. Technology never holds it's value, especially PC equipment.

So even if the baking didn't work, think of it as about the 40-65 'down the drain' as such. Although, you've still had a fair few good year's usage from it! :-) If you want another top flight card, I'd take a look at the Nvidia 570/580's and ATI's 6950/6970 cards. (Although a refresh from ATi is only a few month's away with the 7xxx series).

Glad the baking worked (It reflows the solder basically).
 
I hope the card stays working for a long while yet :-) Well done for trying something new.

The more recent cards from both companies are generally much better on power usage/heat/noise, and offer extra features :-) Worth looking at.
 
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