Eh what the hell...UPDATED WITH CARD IN COMPUTER

[egoadk]

Originally posted by: MONSTERUS
egoadk
Why send something defective?-Here's simple question - not too many ppl would bother to check memory/GPU speeds, that's why.Those guys who was packing/cheking/putting in BIOS knew exactly what they were doing. I strongly beleive that this is scam, and eVga is behind it. Cards with 325/700 should be much cheaper than $340-350.

might be so. I tried eVGA's stock bios, no good. Even unplugged everything except 1 hdd, 1 dvd drive, 1 floppy.

 

[aonic]

If you cant even run @ 1100 mhz i would RMA asap

 

[egoadk]

Originally posted by: aonic
If you cant even run @ 1100 mhz i would RMA asap

Yah, waiting for ZZF's response on that. Hope they will pay for the shipping to and back.

 

[egoadk]

RMA in process. I told them that the recent batches seem to be randomly good and bad. I mentioned that the 5XX serials have been seen to be bad.

They put a note on it and will test the card before shipping out. Pretty friendly. Hope the shipping cost is not insane.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

why did you go the ZZF? i intend to go directly through eVGA.

edit: also, they have some in stock? do they offer cross shipping?

 

[egoadk]

Originally posted by: AWhackWhiteBoy
why did you go the ZZF? i intend to go directly through eVGA.

edit: also, they have some in stock? do they offer cross shipping?

Don't know either. is eVGA offering anything better than ZZF?

ZZF don't have stock, but they intend to have it by the time the shipping reach them.
Also, I get my original 2-day shipping from ZZF for the return.

Any reason to go to eVGA?

 

[ElementK1]

Does anyone think this card can run on a PSU with 13A on the 12v line? MY Raidmax 420 is rated at that.

 

[BF04]

"neither of us run dual dvi ~ so we cant test it. "

Just so everyone knows, I am running Duel DVI - 2 Dell 20FP and it been working awsome.

Im using the stock bios no updates.

 

[racefan]

I also have the bad batch of cards and have artifacts at anything over 800 memory. It is bad memory and not power related as if it were power the card would freeze up or reboot the computer. a friend also got his from zipzoom and his has artifacts also so it is for sure some bad cards got shipped to zipzoom and I beleive eVGA knew exactly this as they were detuned to 700mhz artifact free and how many people would try revatuner and find out what speed the card is running at other that the hardcore gamers like us so you would think the card is at 325 / 1100 and would never know as the driver does not offer a speed of the card anywere.


I am RMAing to eVGA as they told me they test the card for artifacts and defects if that is why you are returning yours to them before they ship it out and if you ship back to zip who knows you might just get another 325 / 700 and start all over again.

I beleive everybody needs to call eVGA if they had a bad card and get them aware of how many bad cards there are oput there as they seem surprised with my problem and I know

 

[egoadk]

so RMA'ing to eVGA is better eh?

below here is eVGA's RMA process. it says to contact vendor first...

# If you did not purchase this product directly from eVGA.com, you must first try to contact your vendor for a replacement. If this is not possible, you may request a Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA), but all requests will be subject to the following terms:

* Customers may be required to pay for associated shipping costs (including shipping the defective product to eVGA.com and return shipping for the replacement product).

 

[egoadk]

racefan and whiteboy,

You got your RMA number from eVGA yet? What's the process?
Call them and say you got bad card?

 

[imported_kouch]

no chance, not if you have any other components like a CPU or a motherboard hooked up to that PSU.

 

[ElementK1]

Originally posted by: ElementK1
Does anyone think this card can run on a PSU with 13A on the 12v line? MY Raidmax 420 is rated at that.

Anyone? I gotta know!

 

[imported_kouch]

Originally posted by: ElementK1

Originally posted by: ElementK1
Does anyone think this card can run on a PSU with 13A on the 12v line? MY Raidmax 420 is rated at that.

Anyone? I gotta know!

look above you post but again no way if you have things like cpu or motherboard hooked up to it. Man it is time to get a new PSU, trust me it will get a good investment regardless of you buying this card.

 

[egoadk]

Even the Customer Service is trying to tell us there's no problem with the card.

This is what ZZF's RMA dept claims

The card is operating in 2D mode, it will default to a 700Mhz memory
speed and ONLY when 3D applications are used will it clock back up to 1100Mhz. This
is the card's wayof saving energy and keeping cool.

 

[racefan]

You will like this one

If you go through eVGA they force you to pay $11.95 shipping charges to ship the card back to you up front plus pay to ship the defective card back to them. YOU CANNOT GET A rma number without giving them a credit card number for them to bill the shipping cost on and there is another $1.00 charge to varify your address


I just may have to call the better buessness burea on this company as this seems like a scam to me as they sell you a item that is not what it is suppose to be and it is cocealed also as the speed cannot be varified unless you unlock it with a OCing program then they charge you $11.95 to ship the card back from them when it should have never have to been RMAed in the first place if they would have boxed the right specs card in the first place and you cannot go to the veddor as they do not have any more to sell.


An a bigger slap in the face I went to do the RMA and the RMA page does not work right as it says (quote)An error occurred processing the page you requested (500). A message has been sent to the webmaster about this missing page. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused
I was going to call them about paying the shipping back tomarrow. I called them 1/2 hour before closing and the office was closed already, maybe they just put the message on there as they were tired of all the calls from the people with the defective delebertly misleading packaged cards:disgust:

I had a pixeling problem with my Gainward 4600 and they bent over backwards and even gave me a better card in replacement.

 

[imported_MONSTERUS]

egoadk
Just got letter from them.Don't really get, are they also gonna charge 15% restocking fee on this one, or it's only gonna happen when they refund?..
P.S. May be it's really good idea to contact eVga instead..

 

[imported_MONSTERUS]

racefan
Toldya these guys are scam..
egoadk
Well it gets even better. Now they might claim we flashed BIOS and voided warranty.Don't tell them about 700Mhz.I'm sending 1100 and sayng it's glitching.

 

[egoadk]

Originally posted by: MONSTERUS
egoadk
Just got letter from them.Don't really get, are they also gonna charge 15% restocking fee on this one, or it's only gonna happen when they refund?..
P.S. May be it's really good idea to contact eVga instead..

15% restocking is only for refunds. I already received a RMA number from ZZF.
I think I will go for ZZF first. I don't seem to trust eVGA now. I wonder if I should just refund it and forget about this whole eVGA thing. I will just work extra to recover my $50.

Man, this is the worst kind of encounters with hardware.

 

[zidion]

im RMAing ot evga.com screw ZZF

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

i think your all over reacting a bit much. just call evga, forget their automated RMA shit, just call them.

personally, i'd rather haggle them over the phone and strike a deal that would work for both of us. i'd rather get refunded some of the purchase price and just keep the "defective" card.

 

[racefan]

They will not accept RMA's over the phone as they force you to use the online website as I tried over the phoe today .

Just so you know if you flashed to the offical 324 / 1096 bios from eVGA it does not void your warrenty as I asked before I di the flash. Now if you tell them you tried any other bios that will void the warrenty but they know they shipped bad cards so they may over look it. I have talked to them and they seemed nice but they beleive it is a bios issue not a memory issue.


I just ran NASCAR 2004 WHITE BOXES EVERWERE at 1100 mhz and then lowered it to 700 and not one white box and better image quailty. That tells me it is memory end of sentence.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

interesting, if they can make a bios update i'd MUCH rather do that and keep my dual DVI, i'd hate to give it up now

 

[lithker]

first post just to join the action in the bad zzf cards. i too got one at the wrong bios and get artifacts at 325/1100. my serial ends in 5xx. i am in the process of RMA'ing to zzf.

 

[imported_MONSTERUS]

zidion
Good for you
But first I think is bette to talk to them. From what i c here, bot eVGA and Zipzoom are lying croocks - zipzoom lying it's ass off about "switching automaticly to 1100Mhz in 3D mode"- what a load of crap! And eVga too b/s-ing ppl, do whatever you want with BIOS, but even if you reduce timings of this sucking 700Mhz memory to VERY low levels - even than it won't work at 1100, and yes,it's a memory issue, not a BIOS.