piscian18
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I'm curious if anyone has purchased and used EVGAs Extended Warranty? The over 3 years warranty? Did they put you through a hassle or what did they do for you?
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I have used it a couple of times and it always went smoothly..I'm curious if anyone has purchased and used EVGAs Extended Warranty? The over 3 years warranty? Did they put you through a hassle or what did they do for you?
It is a reason why companies like BFG went out of business offering lifetime warranties. People abused it by returning old cards that were way past their usefulness and got a brand new more modern card in return cause BFG has no stock of the old cards. People obsesses about warranties lengths too much. In the computer world you better off just buying something newer by the time a 5 year warranty ends. If it doesn't break within the first year it normally will last for a long time barring any abuse from the users. HDD are the only thing I am ever concern about. Since they have moving parts and as a whole HDD reliability has wen down the drain.I would never keep a video card long past three years. I did warranty an EVGA card right before the warranty was up and they sent me a like new card though
I say put the warranty money in a jar and use its policy to buy another GPU sooner.
Though I don't disagree abuse of warranties is a thing and is wrong, getting new cards with equivalent performance from 5 years prior shouldn't get you cards that are very powerful to begin with--more so back then when generational leaps were actually leaps. So it was likely only the truly cheap, determined or bored would actually bother with this--I would assume (or at least, hope) not that companies were so precarious that these small numbers would cause them to go under.It is a reason why companies like BFG went out of business offering lifetime warranties. People abused it by returning old cards that were way past their usefulness and got a brand new more modern card in return cause BFG has no stock of the old cards. People obsesses about warranties lengths too much. In the computer world you better off just buying something newer by the time a 5 year warranty ends. If it doesn't break within the first year it normally will last for a long time barring any abuse from the users. HDD are the only thing I am ever concern about. Since they have moving parts and as a whole HDD reliability has wen down the drain.
If only you weren't a newb this would carry more weight.when I was thinking about buying a GTX 1070 I decided to call around about the warranty and see who responded and how. I called Gigabyte, MSI, ASUS and EVGA. For the first three companies I mentioned I called numerous times over the coarse of a few days and was always put on eternal hold by the computer voice. No human ever picked up the phone. But when I called EVGA they answered on the first call ; within a minute or three I was talking with a tech rep. I have called EVGA a few times since and have reached a rep every time
After those calling experiences I bought two new EVGA GTX 1070 FTW's
If only you weren't a newb this would carry more weight.
It is a reason why companies like BFG went out of business offering lifetime warranties. People abused it by returning old cards that were way past their usefulness and got a brand new more modern card in return cause BFG has no stock of the old cards. People obsesses about warranties lengths too much. In the computer world you better off just buying something newer by the time a 5 year warranty ends. If it doesn't break within the first year it normally will last for a long time barring any abuse from the users. HDD are the only thing I am ever concern about. Since they have moving parts and as a whole HDD reliability has wen down the drain.
If only you weren't a newb this would carry more weight.
What does him being new to [H] have to do with his experience with a company purchasing a video card? How's does that invalidate his experience exactly? Please enlighten us.
The level of trust that he's not a shill. 'Every' company, political faction, gender group, blah blah.... Have been doing 'grass roots' community influencing for long enough that nothing gets believed without some sort of trust currency.
My priorities? I was just answering the question with the most obvious answer. I have no skin in this game.
Besides. I trust everyone equally, which is to say not at all.