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Warning about buying Leadtek video cards

ha well i've had two previous leadteks shame they only last me a year at a time, they seem to go all pixelly and tear and then of course they burn out, never bothered with the warranty. good luck in finding better.
 
Had two Leadtek 6600gt with no probs and then upgraded to two leadtek 7800 a coupl of months after they came out. I have had no probs with any of these cards I think Leadtek are a good brand.
 
my leadtek 6800gt died and was out of 1yr shop warranty. Contacted leadtek by phone and email and was rudely told to go back to the shop i bought it, I even had the purchase recipt and box etc but they said no....

Ended up selling the card as faulty and now await the purchase of a BFG 7800 card with lifetime warranty.

Never buy a Leadtek card unless you like waiting months for a response when it breaks...
 
PitchWhite said:
Yeah I expect so - but either way very unimpressed by their service =(

I will probably be going BFG for my next card..when they bring out a generation of cards that is a decent improvement over my current one (will probably need next gen cpu aswell as currently I'm on ath 64 3500+ so any of the new cards wont make a huge difference)
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My BFG card broke and the first replacement card they sent me caused the system to freeze during boot up requiring a reset. The second replacement worked fine though. Both cards were refurbished and were sent in a plain box. Turn around was less than a week so not that big a deal and the cost was only something like £6 or so to send the card to them.
 
leadtek are very good recently i must say, i have two 7600GTs and they clock much higher than a friend of mine who has XFX 7600GT, mine clock 25Mhz higher on the core and 50Mhz on the memory, plus the leadtek was cheaper than the XFX, i read a review on the web about 7600GT clocking and leadtek was top of the list, beating XFX, MSI, gigabyte, BFG and inno3d (i think) in both GPU and memory clocks
 
sigh...the card started showing odd particles on the screen last night..this morning it comes up with tons of corrupted characters all over the screen and wont boot to windows.

God damn it - wtf is the point of replacing faulty cards with the cards other people have sent back =(

Emailing them AGAIN.
 
they can't replace your 6800GT with a new 6800GT because there no longer made, so all they can possibly send is refurbed 6800GT RMA perhaps...
 
Had my leadtek 6800GT clocked at ultra 410/1.1 for nearly 2 years now and not any had any problems with it
 
I've never ever had a GC fail & I've lost count of the cards I've had over the years & I give them some stick too , Just replaced my old faithful & flawless Leadtek 7800GTX for a 7950GX2 also Leadtek & wouldn't hesitate to have another card off them in the future. Law of averages though someone's going to get a faulty one sometime.
 
i RMA-ed 6600GT and had no problems...as i said, they don't make 6800GTs anymore so either way you'll be getting refurbed one when you RMA
 
leadtek rule,

fx5200 and 7600gt, both cards clock like mad (back in the old days when the 5200 was a good-ish card)

6800gt's are not made, so to get one that works after rma is lucky, i know someone who had got through some 7 abit ic7-g boards, all 6 rma's were doa as they dont make them and they are all refurbs, safe to say he upgraded the whole thing :p
 
yeah, nobody can blame leadtek for being bad manufacter just because they don't make 6800GTs anymore, maybe you should enquire about the possibility of getting 6800GS to replace...
 
I had a pretty bad and similar experience with my old Asus FX5800.

It developed a fault and had to be sent back, it took around 3-4 months to come back and it looked to be the same card as these cards was no longer being made at the time due to the 5900 taking its place 8 months before.

So the card works fine for awhile then becomes even worse than before so i send the card back once more but this time i hear nothing and receive nothing for 5-6 months i then send around 3 e-mails trying to see where my card is and then out of the blue after around 6-7 months after sending it they gave me what looked to be a new FX5900 or FX5950 i can't remamember which.
 
The most recent installment:

Dear Customer,

Please try to contact local agent where you purchased from for RMA according to our worldwide service policy, if they do not service for you please record the dealer/shop name,contact person(including his name and E-mail address) and serial number of your graphics card which sticker printed LF********** or L********** on the back of the graphics card to let us know.
Then we'll help you to perform the RMA procedure completely.
We'll consider what you request about A6800 GS instead of previous A400 GT if they are agreeable for this way.

Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience.
Best regards,

Marketing Department, Leadtek Research Inc.


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Guess I'll forward this on to overclockers..but I dont see how they can help seeing how it is outside of the 1year support they give? =/
 
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