New GPU for a new rig

[sam_p_lay]

You clearly have a good knowledge of returns procedures with these companies. It would be great if this kind of information about all the tech hardware manufacturers could be complied into a single reference. My girlfriend was telling me yesterday that there's some EU regulation that all electrical goods have to be covered for six years regardless of what the manufacturer states the warranty to be. Would be really interesting to know if it applies to computer hardware...

 

[bigshootr8]

Gosh I have no idea how it would apply. I would think it would be less well at least in the states it would be less its quite expensive to insure a product for that long unless you put in the money for the product for example my CORSAIR AX850 PSU cost inwards around 160 dollars on sale and has a 7 year warranty I believe so I would imagine if you spend 20 dollars you shouldn't get a double lifetime warranty 😛 I just know what is good customer service and what is not.

But circling back to the OP the 670 you don't need to label him as a Nvidia fanboy there are things both companies do quite well right now the 670 is a better bargain. then the 7970 on the premise of price and performance you are paying a smaller amount for performance that you will feel where as you wouldn't feel the difference with a 7970 unless you were using a higher then 1080p resolution display or a multi monitor setup which in either case you would probably want a crossfire or sli setup anyway.

 

[sam_p_lay]

...you wouldn't feel the difference with a 7970 unless you were using a higher then 1080p resolution display or a multi monitor setup which in either case you would probably want a crossfire or sli setup anyway.

+1 to that.

 

[Mousemonkey]

God bringing out the super old companies Loved BFG by the way a shame what happened to them but certainly you couldn't think that of EVGA they have been around for longer and I can't see them falling under that trap. Unless companies start providing what they do best support in the graphic card market I just don't see it.

Any company can go belly up, none of them are immune.

 

[bigshootr8]

Well sure any company can but EVGA I'm sure is in the green in terms of profit.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Well sure any company can but EVGA I'm sure is in the green in terms of profit.

Let's hope so. The other company to remember is XFX, look at all the happy customers they had when they and Nvidia went their separate ways. The "Double lifetime" warranty on my 8800GT Alpha Dogs isn't worth squat now as they can't replace my Nvidia card with an Nvidia card.

 

[sam_p_lay]

Let's hope so. The other company to remember is XFX, look at all the happy customers they had when they and Nvidia went their separate ways. The "Double lifetime" warranty on my 8800GT Alpha Dogs isn't worth squat now as they can't replace my Nvidia card with an Nvidia card.

That really sucks. Dya reckon they'd replace it with a Radeon or refuse to honour the warranty?

 

[Mousemonkey]

That really sucks. Dya reckon they'd replace it with a Radeon or refuse to honour the warranty?

They would most likely offer some crappy low end AMD card but that's not the point, when I bought the cards the "insurance" by way of the warranty led me to believe that in the event of an RMA it would be more of a like for like replacement but that 'aint the case no more is it?

 

[bigshootr8]

Right, another company that is like this is ABIT if you remember them was a real shame when they went out of business.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Right, another company that is like this is ABIT if you remember them was a real shame when they went out of business.

http://valid.canardpc.com/2631719

The PC that this was posted from.

 

[bigshootr8]

😀! sexy

 

[Mousemonkey]

😀! sexy

Thank you, and one in the eye for all the naysayers who reckon 680i boards went pop in five minutes. 😉

 

[bigshootr8]

back in the day when nvidia had more chipsets out there no?

 

[Mousemonkey]

back in the day when nvidia had more chipsets out there no?

The 680i chipset was a bit of bugbear for Nvidia due to the restrictive specs they put on the mobo manufacturers and the cost of the things in the first place, all this is way OT and best left to another time and a different thread though.

 

[bigshootr8]

Well its nvidia since when as nvidia been cheap 😛

 

[sam_p_lay]

Wow I forgot about Abit... I had an nForce mobo by a company called Epox. There were a lot actually I'd forgotten about - Chaintech, DFI, Foxconn. Although Foxconn still exist, just manufacturing iPhones now I think?

EDIT: Aopen was another one.

 

[bigshootr8]

DFI they made some amazing boards as well more on the overclocking end of things really high end stuff but I think they died out soon after AM2 was released.

 

[sam_p_lay]

I remember DFI for having some... interesting colour schemes. And for bundling backpacks with their mobos :-D

 

[bigshootr8]

yup there best board eva the DFI socket 939 lanparty had a sexy black yellow and orange scheme

 

[sam_p_lay]

Haha me and you need to have a talk about the definition of 'sexy' :-D I still don't think you can beat Gigabyte blue PCB.