How much of an ungrateful barsteward should I be?

[WJA96]

Well, Big.Wayne, if they like that they'll love this;

I apologize for the delay. I spoke to the UK warehouse and they will upgrade your other 8800 card.

I'm genuinely speechless. And BFG are not even that much more expensive new than ordinary brands. I can't see why anyone would buy anything else? I have had 18 months hard use from a pair of 8800GTX's and now I will have two heavily overclocked GTX280's in their place, and still another 8.5 years of warranty to go - lets hope they don't supercede the PCIe interface for a while yet

 

[WJA96]

So SLI can't do the backwards compatible dance like Crossfire?

Nope. Both cards have to be the same specification. But in this case, they wouldn't even line up the holes for the water-cooling connectors, so that was a bust until the lovely people at BFG decided I was worthy of a hugely generous upgrade.

 

[WJA96]

there have been a couple of people that have offered a swap of their 8800GTX BFG HC02 for your GTX280. If that is what you want, why don't you do it? You could also sell both cards and get two 260-216 with the money and you probably wouldn't even need to spend a penny.

I don't understand?

If anyone posted offering 2 x watercooled BFG 8800GTX H2OC for 1 GTX280 H2OC, then I missed it, as I may well have taken them up on it.

I will now have 3 x BFG GTX280 H2OC in SLi as I bought a third one from a competitor, so why would I want to swap?

 

[WJA96]

So let me get this straight, you had a 8800GTX go faulty, sent it back to BFG and they send you a 280 GTX as a replacement, but then you tell them you can no longer run your SLI and they say oh sorry MR WJA have another GTX 280 so you can SLI them!

Lucky *******!

I'm jealous now, nice one mate.

I do have 5 other GTX280's and a GTX295 registered with them, so they know I'm a good customer. Even so, I am genuinely gobsmacked how well I have been treated by BFG. It really does set a stromg standard for anyone else to match.

 

[WJA96]

Just got this;

BFG RMA Status

Stage 1: Your full RMA number is XXXXXXXXX
Stage 2: Your RMA was received in the BFG Warehouse on 2009-03-09 05:42:08
Stage 3: Your RMA was processed in the BFG Warehouse on 2009-03-10 12:04:24 and has already shipped.

So not only are they giving me a freebie upgrade, but they turned it around in 48 hours - should be with me tomorrow!

How good is that?