Nvidia’s Add-In-Board Partners Start Producing ATI Graphics Cards
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Freak'n Big Panda
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Good news
While I agree Nvidia has more partners, it doesn't appear to me to be anywhere near that volume. In terms of major players certainly the difference is rather small.
Did anyone say it was significant? Just meant more options for 48xx.
There are downsides to having too many or too less, guess one of them is plauging Nvidia right now.
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Force3D also is a new brand from Inno3D for ATI cards, IIRC.
I personally wish that ATi's partners take their warranty/customer service up a notch. Compared to XFX, BFG and EVGA not many partners for ATi support life time warranty (visiontek is the only one i can think of), or even support overclocking/3rd party cooling.
I dont really care about quantity i.e number of partners, but the quality of these partners, and imho ATi's partners lack in this area. Sapphire for example.. *shudders
I dont really care about quantity i.e number of partners, but the quality of these partners, and imho ATi's partners lack in this area. Sapphire for example.. *shudders
Dang. .sapphire was just one I wanted to mention that supported OC'ing on ati cards and had a quality warranty
Sapphire were actually the first to allow overclocking on Radeons AND supply the tool along with their video cards.
Sapphire's Redline was supplied with all 9500pro/9700pro's. Besides overclocking the tool also gave access to registry tweaks now seen in tools such as ATItool and AtiTrayTool.
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Not sure about their graphics cards, but their mobo warranties start the day they are made, not the day you buy it.
http://www.maximumpc.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=77157
That is one users tale.
You can find at least one horrible warranty experience for every brand out there.
So why exactly was this guy trying to return it to sapphire anyway?
Hmm, i didnt know about this. Maybe they just lack in the area of customer service/RMA department. *Cough Gecko Cough*
If you had read the thread, he said the board died, called to get an RMA and Sapphire said sorry, you out of warranty and the warranty started the day it was made. So for whatever reason he bought a seconded Saphhire board, 3 months later it croaked and again it to was out of warranty because of the manufactoring date was over 1yr away.
Personnaly I think that is a pretty bad warranty. A product could sit on a shelf for months before being purchased. And given it was a mobo, not a GPU, that quote holds no water.
hmm.. his only two posts were to complain about that motherboard . On the other hand that "date of manufacturing" tale doesn't fly here in europe, nor have I ever had any problem getting warranty on a saphire card.
Heck, even my overclocked 9500Pro was replaced without questions asked.
Heck, even my overclocked 9500Pro was replaced without questions asked.
I read it. I also tend to think the date of manufacture line he posted is bullshit, but that's just me. Anyway its pointless and offtopic and as I said you can find horror stories for every AIB (and anyone who makes or sells anything). One persons bad experience on some a forum is hardly a pattern of bad service.
It's not even bad service with ATi's partners though. It's their warranties are simply not that long in comparison and they don't step up programs like those offered by EVGA. I had a absolutely horrible experience with BFG but if I had to choose a add-in board partner in general I'd still likely go with them over say Sapphire.
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