so you have to wait 10 days, that is nothing, try 10 weeks, you cant complain about OC uk, no way, they're excellent !
finally, 5 cards over 2 months looks highly suspicious, how loud is the Coil Whine, because OCUK are entitled to say that the CW is well within acceptable levels and if you carry on like this, they eventually will
my faulty card was tested here.... but it was also tested again in Europe! this is why it was sent away and i had to wait another 2 weeks, they were highly suspicious of me and didn't want to replace it...... OC UK are softies in comparison, you're extremely lucky !
i once waited for three months on Western Digital sending back a hard disk.
It was my only disk back then as i was mighty poor.
i used my Nokia 6630 for all computational tasks.
When you resort to writing your novel on a mediocre series sixty symbian telephone in a third party text file editor for three months, then complain xD