XFX good or bad

AnCapaillMor

Anyone hear anything on them are they good or bad. Getting an 8800GTS, to be honest i'd rather EVGA or BFG but komplett are doing a deal this week on a XFX card and also don't do EVGA or BFG. Atis release of dx10 in march earliest has pushed me to the nvidia way.


Oops its a POV one. are they good or bad?

8T8

All high end NVIDIA cards come from the same manufacturer (Foxconn) there is no difference between them other than the box they come in & the extras.

So it does not matter what 8800 you buy they all came from the same factory.

AnCapaillMor

Customer supportwise what are they like. Got gainward 2 cards back and it died after a few months but it was a nightmare returning it and getting back.

8T8

Well XFX are UK based so I haven't really heard anything too bad about them in that regard of course no RMA service is perfect though.

Cuddlesworth

I prefer to go through the Rma process of the e-tailer I used. They may be slow, but direct can be much slower.

AnCapaillMor

The whole gainward thing was through overclockers and it took 3 months from card being sent to replacement card. I went with EVGA in the end, last card was them and it has a 10 year warantee. The xtra fews bucks is worth piece of mind.

Darwin

Seemingly OCUK won't stock XFX because their customer support is so poor (I think EVGA, XFX and BFG are the only ones to give lifetime warranties). Perhaps someone who has had to return a card to XFX can share their experiences?

8T8

Problem is you can get bad experiences with anyone I have heard horror stories from the US with eVGA and have had run in's with Leadtek trying to replace stuff.

OcUK handle BFG warranties so if you have had bad luck with OcUK then you will want to stay away from them etc.

You can find fault with just about every supplier.

AnCapaillMor

Well aware of oc'ers, went with dabs in th end.