New, secret spin of NV40?

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: Drayvn
Jeeeezus Christ guys.

Look XFX cant do anything about him now, theyve effectively given him extra 6800GTs for no reason, and now theyve done it theyve condoned his actions.

But come on IF they guy has done what you guys think, what are you able to do about it, XFX are stupid and should have realised this.... OR hes telling the truth and XFX noticed that they were wrong when they got the defective cards and replaced it for it.

For me my 2nd assumption is probably more correct.

So guys LAY OFF HIM. It can happen to anyone, so either his a sneaky bastard or hes telling the truth either way nothing can be done about it. And Rollo sending off those texts of this forum to XFX, err what are they gonna do about it, do you work for them so they can certify its the truth or what. Your actions will have no affect. Simple as that, they wont listen to you, because they have no concrete evidence on this guy if he has done anything wrong at all!

And anyone, not to blabber, i think a big company like XFX would probably have said something if the 6800GTs this guy has if they were defective and caused by him.

I don't know, newegg sent me a cool hat when I reported some other weasel for RMAing a card he posted his OCing adventures about, and wouldn't let him exchange the card.

I don't think OEMs and retailers like to be defrauded, but it's just a guess.

 

[LTC8K6]

I believe Rollo would have said the same things if you substitute X800pro for 6800GT in the OP's posts.

This guy is suspicious, no doubt about it.

Wouldn't a video card manufacturer start to wonder about this after sending the third card to the same guy? Will they just keep sending 6800GT's out to him forever?

370\500 - the second 6800GT that was dead when I got it

If it was dead when you got it, how do you know what it was clocked at? Hmmmmm.......

 

[housecat]

TIGHTWAD TONY! QUIT STEALING VIDEO CARDS!

 

[Creig]

Originally posted by: Rollo

Originally posted by: Creig

Originally posted by: Yourself
ahh...just ignore Rollo. The high moral ground is his "thing" lately. I actually remember back when he had insightful hardware posts...

I can't.

We can't all reach your lofty heights of the infamous "How I weaseled 20% more fillrate out of my cheesy 9500NP" post Creig- cut us nooBs some slack!

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...ht_key=y&keyword1=9500

Good stuff Creig, people on a fixed income who don't want to buy a real 9700 for $150 owe you a debt of gratitude!

Thanks Rollo! Yes, it's an amazing card. Definitely the longest lasting card I've ever owned and one of the best video card values ever. Still plays HL2 and Far Cry at 10x7, full detail and AA with no noticeable drop in framerates. Could've been a heck of a lot worse. I mean, I could've purchased a 5800 back then instead and those things became obsolete about a year after they were released.

And if you'll notice, I kept everything in one location and didn't bore everybody stupid with 50 different threads with such egotistic titles as "Rollo benchmarks Notepad!!", "Rollo benchmarks Excel!!", "Rollo benchmarks *insert anything else you can think of here*!!"

 

[Creig]

Originally posted by: Rollo

Originally posted by: zakee00
omg rollo all you do is "F"in flame on these forums. that is a good thread; not everyone can afford an "Asus X800XT PE" like you can so maybe they got a 9500 and want some more performance. just seriously go....somewhere else because no one appreicates your stupid sarcastic comments. whenever you post somewhere some kind of flamewar arises.
peace,
Nick

Nick-
I honestly don't care what card people have, I'm only taking a cheap shot at Creigs because he follows me around from thread to thread like a stalker taking potshots at me.

What would you have me do? Post "Hahaha Creig- that's funny! I can't remember ever having said anything relevant either"?

Why would I do that? Do I have "Creig's Bee-otch" stencilled on my forehead? Not last I checked.

You need to consider both sides of the situation. If we can agree that Creig showing up and posting that he can't remember me saying anything relevant is a flame at me, we only disagree on the response to flames.

Trust me on this one, Rollo. I do not follow you around from thread to thread. If I never saw another of your sarcastic, insulting posts again I would be a happy man. But as you seem to verbally assault people in about 1/4 of all the posts in the Video Forums that makes it rather impossible.

Besides, my "I can't" post was sarcasm. Can't you, as the clear leader in sarcasm posting, appreciate it in other peoples posts?

 

[zakee00]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer

Originally posted by: Tyrant222
just look at rollo's avatar,

then it all makes sense.

you sir are an idiot.


look at your avatar ..... its a crab, guess that means you come crawling out from under your rock to take cheap shots at respected members, before hiding your sorry a$$

look are YOUR avatar...are you fugly? :laugh:



























jm

 

[zakee00]

.

 

[zakee00]

geforcy tony is BS.
pic of his coolbits: coolbits
my coolbits: coolbits
my coolbits with a theme applied (that changes the system fonts):coolbits
if you notice, the font for the "speeds" dosn't change at all when I applied a windows theme. notice the other text does.
notice in GFtonys pic that the other text is windows standard text, and that the "speed" is bs photoshop.
this kid is a nub, don't belive anything else he says.

370\500 - the second 6800GT that was dead when I got it.

If it was dead when you got it, how do you know what it was clocked at? Hmmmmm.......

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
gg tony,
Nick

 

[michal1980]

now i rember why i don't hang around this place no more.

really this place might need some thightwad mods.

becuase ur so off topic, we might as well call this the gossip forum.

really people,

A) lighten up
B) rip the guy a new one in its own topic
c) read what the topic is about, discuss that
d) don't be such azzhats

 

[SrGuapo]

Look everyone: There is no way to tell if he is lying or not, so just back off. I admit I do think he is probably lying, but there is no proof. I also don't care that rollo sent his post off to XFX. It was that he posted and bragged about doing this. It really makes you look like an egotistical jackass. Guess what! No matter how important you are, you shouldn't be saearching the forums for people to accuse of stuff you know nothing about. Just chill out, and maybe people woiuld actually enjoy receiving a reply from you, rather than, oh God, what he is he going to say now...

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: zakee00

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer

Originally posted by: Tyrant222
just look at rollo's avatar,

then it all makes sense.

you sir are an idiot.


look at your avatar ..... its a crab, guess that means you come crawling out from under your rock to take cheap shots at respected members, before hiding your sorry a$$

look are YOUR avatar...are you fugly? :laugh:



























jm

look at your avatar.....are u slow and therefore fat? or mentally slow?

 

[Fenuxx]

Originally posted by: zakee00
geforcy tony is BS.
pic of his coolbits: coolbits
my coolbits: coolbits
my coolbits with a theme applied (that changes the system fonts):coolbits
if you notice, the font for the "speeds" dosn't change at all when I applied a windows theme. notice the other text does.
notice in GFtonys pic that the other text is windows standard text, and that the "speed" is bs photoshop.
this kid is a nub, don't belive anything else he says.

370\500 - the second 6800GT that was dead when I got it.

If it was dead when you got it, how do you know what it was clocked at? Hmmmmm.......

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
gg tony,
Nick

OK, try taking a shot of the CoolBits with ClearType font enabled. Then you'll see.

 

[rise]

good times...

while i think its apparent that getony is full o' shyte, the name calling is, well, pathetic. and i've seen rollo get flamed alot, but he actually ain't that bad and if he wants to send the info to xfx, thats fine with me. either the kid had the extrordinarily bad luck of getting 4 or 5 ( i lost count) bad cards successively, in which case xfx should be ashamed, or he has no idea what he is doing and shouldn't be oc'ing or modding to begin with and certainly shouldn't be rma'ing his mistakes.

 

[housecat]

xfx sucks, but he admitted already to modding the cards

 

[McArra]

LOCK this thread please, this is going nowhere.

 

[fstime]

This thread sucks, Rollo and others need to stfu.

 

[housecat]

Originally posted by: BouZouki
Rollo, just stfu you fgt, unplug your computer and stop making useless posts no one cares about.

Sheesh, little cruel.

 

[fstime]

Hey all they are doing is flaming, i'm just telling them to stfu.

 

[housecat]

i know. and a noble cause that is!

 

[imported_DaveA]

anyone want some popcorn? good stuff. lol

 

[LTC8K6]

If I think someone is suspicious, I can, and should, say so. If I notice something odd about what they have posted, I can, and should, point it out.

None of the above is flaming.

Now you may disagree with Rollo's style.......

Whether you like it or not, all of this fraudulent RMA'ing of video cards, mobo's, ram, cpu's etc., costs you money and makes it harder for you to get a legit RMA. There is no disputing that.

Everytime you buy one of these items, a little bit of the money you paid is due to this sort of behavior.

When you have to jump through hoops to convince a company that you really should be able to RMA something, you can thank you know who.

If it doesn't make you a little mad, then you just don't understand, or you just don't care.

I have said it before.

Go ahead and make your fraudulent RMA's all you want, just don't pretend that you don't know all of the above, and stop acting surprised when folks call you on it and don't like it.

 

[shimsham]

while its suspicous and highly unlikely to have 4 bad cards, its by no means impossible. its also highly unlikely that xfx would just send tony 1600 bucks worth of equipment, no questions asked. they are a business out to make money, after all.

while rollos efforts may be "noble" (that i doubt. i think he just loves to play "good cop" and bask n the flames and asskissing posts it garners) theyre useless. while he may stop tony from getting any more cards, it does nothing to stop all the other thousands of people doing the same thing, every day. it will not, in any way, make my next vidcard purchase cheaper. if anything, it will just make it harder for someone who has a legitimate problem needing an rma, just as much as tonys actions will.

while ive never rmad anything once ive voided the warranty on it, im sure there are plenty of people that have (oced, swapped heatsinks, etc), and i wouldnt be surprised if some of them are posting in this thread. tony was just foolish enough to mention it. im sure if we had a book of rollos past, we could find something in there just as immoral. im sure it could be found in all of our books, actually.

tony, if youre truly having trouble, good luck getting a working card. xfx doesnt seem to be the best brand as browsing the threads in here would indicate. but quit voiding the warranty and rmaing. if its running too hot, per nvidias specs, than just send it back, dont tamper with it.

 

[BobDaMenkey]

I'm Bob, a good real life friend of Tony, no BS here. Well, not so much of a good real life friend, but a friend. He bought the original card thru a vender on Ebay, and wouldn't shut up about the damn thing for the week it shipped. Then he got it, and wouldn't shut up about how pretty HL2 looked, then it died on him. He got a second card, and it too was dead. He got a third card and he wouldn't shut up again, and then he came to me complaining about how it died again on him. He had been complaining about how hot he thought it ran and wanted to cool it down.

I know the guy, and while he's a fanboy to the extream, he wouldn't try and push the limits on any of his hardware. He's a good guy and doesn't have any intentions of defrauding anyone. He's been the victim of 4 different scams on eBay because he's too trusting in looking for good deals. More dollars then cents at times.

He went on an upgrading rampage on his computer after starting coming to my LAN parties. He saw that his 2.4ghz celeron was pretty pathetic, and bought his current rig straight up. It blows all of the other computers away at my LANs(i'm hosting one tomorrow night that he's going to come to), but his video cards keep crapping out on him.

I ordered a LeadTek 6800GT from www.buyxg.com. When I got it I was estatic. I bumped my 3dMark03 score from 1710 to 10046. I fired up Star Wars Galaxies (I'm addicted, I can't help it) and jacked up the resolution to 1280x1024(I've got a cheapo monitor), and maxed out all the options and it still got 30+ frames per second. However when I opened up my inventory window the fan from my 6800GT started emmitting a horrible sound. I closed the window and it went away. This was after around an hour of playtime, and I decided to check the temp. The nVidia dodad from the control pannel said the card was at 72*C.

I have since RMAed the card to www.buyxg.com. The card was clocked at 375/1000mhz when I got it. I did not touch any settings. While I haven't had a catostrophic failure like Tony did, I'm sure if I continued to use the card properly, I would have. A fan isn't going to last a long time when it sounds like a bearing is going out under load. That's just the way they are.

Tony and I are not trying to screw card makers out of cards. Trust me, I was none too happy about having to plug in my Gainward 4800 back in after experiancing the goodness of my 6800GT. We have just been getting the short end of the stick. Another friend of mine has also had some problems with his 6800GT, but I haven't had much chance to talk to him about what is up with his system.

[edit] I'd also like to add I shouldn't be having power or cooling problems in my case. It's a Ninja from www.newegg.com with 2 80mm fans on the back, one on the side and one on the front. I'm running an Aspire 500watt power supply and also have hard drive coolers for the love of god. I went anal on my system when I put it in the Ninja case. There should be no airflow problems in the case, and the ambient temperature in my computer room is around 80*F.

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: shimsham
while rollos efforts may be "noble" (that i doubt. i think he just loves to play "good cop" and bask n the flames and asskissing posts it garners) theyre useless. while he may stop tony from getting any more cards, it does nothing to stop all the other thousands of people doing the same thing, every day. it will not, in any way, make my next vidcard purchase cheaper. if anything, it will just make it harder for someone who has a legitimate problem needing an rma, just as much as tonys actions will.

You raise a good point shimsham, I'd counter it with:

Let's say I hear a guy in a bar call another guy some racist slurs, then see the racist beat up the other guy. If I report it to the police as a "hate crime" I haven't stopped racism, but at least I've done something about a little corner of it.

True story: I'm a fisherman, I'll occasionally have other fishermen tell me of great catches where they've exceeded their limit of fish. I express my thoughts of how wrong this is. I haven't stopped over harvesting fish, but I've at least let the offender know some people think that his behavior sucks.

I've had guys tell me they pirate software, I tell them what I think of that, doesn't put a dent in software pirating.

Point being:

If no one tells people acting badly that they are, they'll continue to do so. If you tell them, and others do as well, you may effect change. If the changed people tell others, and people who've observed your behavior and conclude it's correct emulate you, you start a grassroots movement of people making a difference and making the world a better place for all of us to live in.

Make sense?

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: McArra
LOCK this thread please, this is going nowhere.

I would disagree with that. Look how many people have posted they think the OP is in the wrong to do what he's done.

When you have a public display of a group of people saying,"This burning up cards and RMAing them is BS. We're not going to read about it and let it slide anymore." I think something very important is being accomplished.