Originally posted by: jokho
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I have a story... just bought a XFX 6600gt card around 4 weeks ago... plugged it into my new Dell Dimension 4700...I was able to play Farcry but there was some shadow problems... it was like there was this black triangle wherever I go.. so I am assumming that this is shadow rendering done wrong. After 20 mins.. the entire machine powers off.. I could not start machine whatever i did. I then bought another ps thinking that PS must be faulty since I based my buying decision on reputable magazines and organizations... ( just look at the website and the magazines they have advertised saying how good the prod is.) I bought new 400w ps.. from even more reputable company. Told my wife to plug it while I look at machine interior... when she powered it on.... a flame suddenly came out of what I later determined to be the memory ( just like lighting a match ).. the flame quickly went away when the machine was powered down.
Returned card and got myself a Leadtek... plugged it to my machine and no problems to this day. In fairness Anandtech after 3 weeks did a 6600gt shootout.
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2295
they rated leadtek as #1 editor's choice. XFX temp on the shootout was rated at 98 degrees or something like that. From my experience that was an understatement.
I was lucky.. my machine came out unscathed and all I had to pay was restocking fee.... RMA would have taken like weeks ( I left out the details of the fire ha ha ha).
I am not a Leadtek employee but just someone who had a very very bad experience.