Personal experience with warrantys

[masscrazy]

So i'm only willing to buy a gfx card with 3 years warranty, this narrows my choice of 7970 to 3 brands.

Asus, MSI, Gigabyte.

Asus currently has only the 3 slot beast which doesnt lend it self well when going xfire.

MSI and Gigabyte both have really good card the lightning and Windforce.

The WF is sub £400 and the lightning is £440.

I've narrowed it down to these two, which has better warranty, anyone with personal experience?

Then theres the 680 which i've changed my mind about twice, sticking with AMD.

 

[Dr_B]

Quite a few personal experiences in this thread:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18231329

Hope that helps.

 

[Surveyor]

You shouldn't have a problem with MSI or Gigabyte.

Gigabyte have a UK RMA centre and by all accounts they deal with things pretty quickly.

MSI have deals with their major re-sellers to deal with the warranty. So if you buy from OcUK then OcUK will deal with the warranty for 3 years.

 

[masscrazy]

Thanks dr b, surveyor

Good news then am thinking to go the gigabyte windforce

 

[llamadal]

My experience of customer support as follows:

Asus - graphics card and mobos have need to be replaced, terrible support, took forever and kick up a massive fuss, will NEVER buy another product from them.

friend had a gigabyte board die a month after warranty, they replaced it with a new model no questions asked.

Not had an msi product issue so cant comment on them, but if its under warranty and ocuk are looking after it then I wouldnt expect any issues.

On a side note, had corsair headset die, inital response was poor, not being handled well by email but a freephone call from skype to the us customer support and the issue was resolved quickly.