BFG replacement card......RMA style

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brhinton89

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I have a BFG 6800GT OC and its been acting funny. when i game, i ( BF2142 ) i see a distorted screen and i cant make out whats even on the dang screen. I'm about to RMA it sometime soon to BFG and i'm wondering........will i get another 6800gt oc or will it be a 7 series card. How many of you guys have ever gone through this process and what did BFG do for ya. I had a TI4200 and i sent it back to BFG and they sent me a 5600 ultra. Well i did some research and the specs were bout the same. I was bummed out because i "thought" i got a really great card until i did that research. That leads me to think that they will send me a 7 series card. what do u guys think they will do? Any feedback will be great.
 
I had a BFG 5 something card that my friend traded me(had a Ti4400) so I could play BF2, when the fan went bad I sent it in and got a 6600GT back :). That other card is doing well in my old box.
 
Well if they still have 6800 series on hand or in product life cycle ,you most likely will get another one .Then if they dont they will most likely send the next card series up that is the same or better performance wise . I speak from experiance and curently own a few5700Le 6800Le and 8800gts320. my 6800 was replaced once 1 year ago and i had asked the same qeustion to Tech department. They kindly said if we dont make its life cyle anymore you will get something of the same performance wise or better;) this was good to know . They are pretty much hassel free and i had a replacement with in two weeks standard mail time.
 
I have rm'd with them a couple times once was a old ti 4200 somehow they sent me another one back.. it worked /shrug should only expect what you gave them in the first place.

the other was a 6800GT about 6 months ago they sent me another 6800gt with the updated cooler the only difference.

it seems to be luck depedning on what they have on hand at the time.
 
My card is AGP........will they send me an AGP card back or will they send PCI-E?
 
brhinton89 said:
My card is AGP........will they send me an AGP card back or will they send PCI-E?
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AGP, as you would be unable to use a PCI-E card.

If you are planning on upgrading the mobo, you could make a note of that and they might send you a PCI-E version instead. I have no idea if they would or not though, but you could always try if you did want a PCI-E card.
 
I just went through the RMA process at BFG about two months ago. I sent in a 6800GT OC... the first time, I got a 6800GT back with the same shiny blingy cooler. It was also bad, so I RMA'd that again and got a 7800GS back that works great.

And speaking to the reps on the phone, one did note that they still have 6800GT's lying around to return RMA's. That was a few months ago, though.
 
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