Limited Lifetime Warranty. Does it matter?

[nsquid]

we had an EVGA 8800GTX go bad on us at our office. we bought it 3 years ago. one search for our newegg reciept and a phone call later, it was replaced. lifetime warranties are huge when you're buying a card that costs 600 (at the time).

 

[OvrClkr]

My brand was BFG, I'm running on a BFG GTX 280 now. I hope to god it doesn't break.

i still have 4 BFG cards that are working fine, if anything happens to them they should be covered since all of them are registered. Did you register your card withing the 30 day time-frame?

 

[wh3resmycar]

i'm not from the us, but here in manila. palit does 12minute RMA's.. a simple diagnosis of the card and if its faulty, you'd get a replacement immediately. of course you have to bring the card down to the shop.

i wouldn't mind having lifetime warranty but then again i'd rather throw old cards away.

 

[Dirtcheap1970]

It matters when your a cheap bast*** like me lol...But really the lifetime isn't what it use too be, My card has been gone for over a month now, I called they said they are waiting for stock??!! But I am trying to get them to give me a pci-e card instead of the old AGP. LOL...

 

[jsc]

The warranty is one reason why I buy only eVGA and XFX graphics cards.

 

[jeffredo]

Limited lifetime warranties are not a factor in my purchasing decision. The one time I had to use one with EVGA was a complete p.i.t.a.. Five months after purchase the card dies and the one I got back looked like it had been thrown against the walls and performed worse. Took two irate phone calls and a month to get it straightened out and then the replacement card dies four months later. Complete joke. Just give me a solid two year warranty without a bunch of bullcrap and that's fine. Regardless, you're going to foot the bill for shipping and probably just get another person's problem card as a replacement (RMA, return, refurbished, "step-up" etc...).

 

[Shadow703793]

I think lifetime warranty is not a gimmick. For example, a certain manufacture offers double life time warranty which helps me to sell my older cards to my friends and they don't have to worry about the card dying a month or so later. They and I both have to register the card on the web, but that's a minor inconvenience. For me, older cards go down to replacing an even older card (ie a 4850 replacing a 8800GS,etc) or getting sold to friends.

The warranty is one reason why I buy only eVGA and XFX graphics cards.

Yup. I usually tend to buy EVGA or XFX. Given the same card and a minor price difference ($5-10), I would choose the EVGA/XFX over say, an ASUS.

 

[Northwolfe]

3 years is enough, after all - in most countries - KIA offer 10 year warranties on their cars...

Who's the idiot that's going to buy a KIA just because of their huge warranty????

 

[ardo]

Lifetime warranty does matter- especially the ones where overclocking is covered in the warranty (no physical damage).
3 years is fine, but lifetime is better. I had an ASUS mainboard (with a 3-year warranty) die two months out of "serial number warranty" (which is the reason my new board isn't an ASUS, by the way).
Lifetime tells you the manufacturer cares, and has faith in their product over the useful life of the product.

IT also happened to me a few months after warranty my asus P4C800-E stop functionning (over 250$us), but I was stupid enough when replacing this computer to buy another expensive asus P7P55D-E Premium that is going good so far after 2 years of running 16 hours a day.

 

[bystander]

Why resurrect such an old post?

 

[hunter315]

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