Just thought I'd share my excellent RMA experience here, in case any other XFX customers were hesitant to RMA their card if they ever needed to do so.
I purchased an XFX GTX 285 back in February (yeah for tax returns!). While games looked and ran great when they ran, I did experience the occasional graphical anomaly and even CTD. I was never able to o/c my card from stock speeds as it would fail ATI tool artifact test nearly right away. Eventually I decided to run said test at stock settings and whaddya know - same results. This prompted me to RMA the card.
Got my card back friday and installed yesterday. Finally rock-solid stable in ATI tool and I can actually overclock now! Got up to 691/1566/2646 (up from 648/1476/2484) with no artifacts and my 3dmark Vantage performance score went up to 15230 from 147xx. 3dmark 06 is completely CPU-bound now on my 4GHz E8400 (8x500) and stuck at about 177xx.
I purchased an XFX GTX 285 back in February (yeah for tax returns!). While games looked and ran great when they ran, I did experience the occasional graphical anomaly and even CTD. I was never able to o/c my card from stock speeds as it would fail ATI tool artifact test nearly right away. Eventually I decided to run said test at stock settings and whaddya know - same results. This prompted me to RMA the card.
Got my card back friday and installed yesterday. Finally rock-solid stable in ATI tool and I can actually overclock now! Got up to 691/1566/2646 (up from 648/1476/2484) with no artifacts and my 3dmark Vantage performance score went up to 15230 from 147xx. 3dmark 06 is completely CPU-bound now on my 4GHz E8400 (8x500) and stuck at about 177xx.
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