I understand PNY is a no-no, how about XFX?

"CapFusion" CapeFussion@hotmail.., com wrote in message

"Steven K" wrote in message
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This is what you called Marketing.
Lifetime Warranty sound good but you still need to read the detail / fine
print.
Lifetime waranty refer to
the card?

...of course the card! u buy the card - u get a fake "lifetime" warranty for
*this card* but lifetime here means warranty only as long as the product
line is current? This way the manufacturer can shut down a product line
and warranty for that particular line when warranty claims start
to hurt? This is fooling with consumers first degree! - this is why I never
buy any expensive Nvidia card. The simple moral from this story? - If
Nvidia does not trust their own products (by giving shoddy warranties) - why
should the consumer do?

sounds logical?

greetings from Brisbane (OZ)

Steve :-)

"Steven K" wrote in message
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..of course the card! u buy the card - u get a fake "lifetime" warranty
for
*this card* but lifetime here means warranty only as long as the product
line is current? This way the manufacturer can shut down a product line
and warranty for that particular line when warranty claims start
to hurt? This is fooling with consumers first degree! - this is why I
never
buy any expensive Nvidia card. The simple moral from this story? - If
Nvidia does not trust their own products (by giving shoddy warranties) -
why
should the consumer do?

sounds logical?

greetings from Brisbane (OZ)

Steve :-)


nVidia have nothing to do with manufacturer warranty [IIRC]. This is
individual manufacturer policy that is only apply to that manufacturer.
Paying the cost of certain card is really up to the consumer decision
[expensive or not]. There are alot of marketing tools / ways to entice
unware consumer to purchase thing. Using "Lifetime Warranty" is one of those
tool for consumer to buy thing but consumer need to read and understand
before-hand of what it truly meant.

The same go with this famous phrase - Australia "Down Under".
From a small kid point of view without geographic knowledge or location,
"Down Under" truly meant down under or below / underneath of something.

"Sound logical" - is really depend on which side you are looking at or how
you look / interpet thing.

CapFusion,...

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:34:33 -0400, "Mr. Brian Allen"
wrote:

A lifetime warranty can expire? - tell us more..sounds very interesting!

The warranty is for the life of the card's production. Nvidia is now
producing the 6800 line, so any FX series cards are out of production,
therefore they aren't under warranty.

Yeah... righT! Thats why you can still buy GF2-MX, GF4-440s easily
at any store, including Wal Mart.
The 5950, 5700, 5600s will phase out quickly. But expect the 5200,
5400, 5500s to continue to give us years of more enjoyment....


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- Fahrenheit 9/11 - Unless you see it for yourself, don't call it "a bunch of lies"... that would be unAmerican.
- White House blows cover of an undercover agent because her husband said there were no WMD (before the USA started the war) - her job was finding terrorist.
God bless the land of the free. Where you can burn the Constitution... Ashcroft does it every day.

"CapFusion" CapeFussion@hotmail.., com wrote in message

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nVidia have nothing to do with manufacturer warranty [IIRC]. This is
individual manufacturer policy that is only apply to that manufacturer.

yes, I was not clear on this point....


Paying the cost of certain card is really up to the consumer decision
[expensive or not]. There are alot of marketing tools / ways to entice
unware consumer to purchase thing. Using "Lifetime Warranty" is one of
those tool for consumer to buy thing but consumer need to read and
understand before-hand of what it truly meant.

yes, however, it's shoddy business practise first degree!


The same go with this famous phrase - Australia "Down Under".
From a small kid point of view without geographic knowledge or location,
"Down Under" truly meant down under or below / underneath of something.

In "Down Under" is much more meaning than someone, not living in Down Under,
might imaging!
It's not just the geographical location...if u are living here u will know
what I mean.
Similar to the movie "Crocodile Dundee" - u simply can not realise the
message in this movie until u know the Australian way of life.

Steve

Yeah... righT! Thats why you can still buy GF2-MX, GF4-440s easily
at any store, including Wal Mart.

That would be because they suck so hard that the supply will last forever!
Do you honestly believe that they're still in production simply because
there is supply left?

The 5950, 5700, 5600s will phase out quickly. But expect the 5200,
5400, 5500s to continue to give us years of more enjoyment....

Well yeah, but that doesn't mean they'll always be in production! I
wouldn't exactly call the work of a 5200 enjoyment though.

"Mr. Brian Allen" wrote in message
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Yeah... righT! Thats why you can still buy GF2-MX, GF4-440s easily
at any store, including Wal Mart.

That would be because they suck so hard that the supply will last forever!
Do you honestly believe that they're still in production simply because
there is supply left?

The 5950, 5700, 5600s will phase out quickly. But expect the 5200,
5400, 5500s to continue to give us years of more enjoyment....

Well yeah, but that doesn't mean they'll always be in production! I
wouldn't exactly call the work of a 5200 enjoyment though.

Buying low end chipset in volume is cheaper from manufacturer when buying
high end chipset like 5950 or 5700. Selling volumne will not be as high when
compare to 5200 or so that can sell to OEM / VAR or similar. In short, low
end chipset are more profitable when compare to high-end. High-end will be
the most profitable when it newly release or while the hype is still high.
Gradual sell of high end purchaser will be flatten out until new high-end
item release or hype.

CapFusion,...

I have installed 3 x XFX Ti4200 cards in 3 x systems and they have all been
excellent - very good value....

Guy

+c0re- wrote:
I've never owned an XFX card, I've read a few posts here saying don't
buy a PNY and that's good enough for me.
I'm looking at an XFX card, how would you guys rate them in terms of
quality, reliability and tech support?

thanks for any advice!