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finally ordering today...

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...a 8800gts 640mb, just one last question:

EVGA or BFG

i'm leaning towards EVGA cause they have that 90 thing and you can change the heatsink without voiding warranty and 10 years is a lifetime for gfx card tbh. what is BFG's warranty like? anything better or worse?
 
BFG is lifetime but you cant change the cooler, EVGA is about 10 years but you can replace the cooler on it, someone will have to confirm though.
 
Can't go wrong with either to be honest :)
I choose evga because of the heatsink part myself and they also have thier own forums.
Bfg's warranty is a lifetime one though 10 years is plently if you decide to go for evga because of the heatsink part like you said which evga don't mind people changing as long as you don't damage anything and keep hold of the original heatsink incase of a future return.
 
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I read all eVGA site when I decided to get a 8800Ultra from them and I'm sure you cant remove heatsink, but I am struggling to find that part again.

I would try make 100% sure its ok but they probably will never know if you did, I always redo thermal goo as its bad and badly applied but I dont want to ruin my Step Up chances.

http://reference.techpowerup.com/Talk:EVGA

Hmm seems ok to swap cooler or they dont mention not to swap.

http://evga.com/support/lifetime/
 
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Just take your time and you can't go far wrong.
I used this when I took off the stock cooler to put the hr-03 cooler on mine.
Gets rids of the stickeyness left behind from those annoying memory pads so the hr-03 ramsinks/PWM IC heatsinks stuck properly without having to worry they might fall off.
 
I am trying to leave ram pads, there is a gap if you remove so I cant do that and ruin my Step Up chances later on, I only want to redo Core as stock goo is normally junk and badly applied.

I read on the eVGA forums it should be ok, they may have backing paper on them like some Gainwards had so it only sticks to one side.

I agree the pads are crap for cooling tough, be better if same height as core so I could use AS5 on all parts, inc voltage mosfets, on my 6800Ultra and 7900GTX it was same story with rampads.
 
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Have you ordered Nick and if so which did you settle on?
Im gona go OcUK tommorow after deciding on a 640 Leadtek to providing they have 1 of the 4 left in stock. Just need a cpu then and the new system is go!
 
I was also going to order mine on Friday or Monday depending if OcUK have the Q6600 on this week only (as they do before price cuts), but unfortunately looks like I'll have to get the 8800 GTS 640Mb seperately from elsewhere, don't really feel I can be arsed paying the extra thirty pounds for a copy of Ghost Recon.

Leadtek - Out of stock
EVGA - Only four left

Get it now whilst you still can.
 
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eVGA are better and you can step up in 90days if new games with DX10 make your card struggle, can also swap cooler or remount with AS5 without ruining your warrenty of 10years.
 
New 3rd party like Artic Cooling ones are sticky soft foam (goes to goo with heat and use), original pads since 6800Ultra are white powdery cloth, they may refuse RMA or step up if not back to orignal spec and the pads are crap anyhow.
 
i went for the evga btw lads and my god it's amazing 170 odd fps on the source video card test or whatever it is with everything full and like x16 AA
 
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