Use an Amex or other warranty extending credit card and it becomes 2 years+.
I use amex for everything. Doesn't it extend it by only 1 year?
Use an Amex or other warranty extending credit card and it becomes 2 years+.
http://www.amazon.com/MSI-R9-290-GAM...eywords=r9+290I just posted about how I sent the card back for a free replacement. Since they don't carry Geforce anymore, they will be giving me a newer AMD card.
It just so happens that I am ready to give this PC to my son as a replacement for that, but with the price gouging going on with the non reference 290s going on, I will be waiting for it to either settle down or Nvidia's next gen to come out.
Since I am waiting, my son needs a graphic card to have a working computer. Since XFX has a lifetime warranty, I pay nothing(in theory.. we shall see if they fulfill their terms).
9800s aren't made anymore... not sure what an equivalent that IS on sale, that would fit fine into a 6 year old PC would cost.. but it wouldn't be free.
What's the point of a life-time warranty? None of these companies will be around before your life-time ends, anything above 5 years is unnecessary as most people will upgrade before then, and the resell value of a replacement card at that point will be close to nil anyway.
http://www.amazon.com/MSI-R9-290-GAM...eywords=r9+290
Ordered one last night for monday delivery
http://redirect.anandtech.com/r?url...0195990&sr=8-2&keywords=r9+290&user=u00000687
I considered this card, but there are no official reviews for it and the user reviews complain about excessive coil whine/noise. I'm not sold on how well MSI has cooled the card compared to say, Sapphires(which has poor warranty).
Always wondered if BFG went under because of their lifetime warranty (which didn't apply in Europe anyhow). When my 8800GT went Nvidia-bad, BFG had just gone bankrupt and I thought that was more than coincidence. Maybe they got hit hard by Nvidia's 65nm bumpgate parts and couldn't cope?
Anyway, 'lifetime' seem as likely to be be the company's lifetime rather than the owner's. More of a sales gimmick. As for general video card reliability, I think GPUs are probably the up there with HDDs, RAM and motherboards in terms lack of longevity. And it's not wattage (although that obviously doesn't help), as CPUs tend to last 'forever'.
what the difference when it comes to Limited Lifetime vs Lifetime warranty?
and I don't blame companies for ending lifetime warranty. I've known some people who abused the lifetime warranty and find a way to RMA a card way after it was discontinued in hope of getting a newer current gen card "equivalent"