Palit vs XFX and EVGA

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Luca1

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Looking at a GTX285..

Heres a list tell me what you think which one is a stable deal :) -keep in mind these are the prices here in Oz..

palit GTX285 -2484/648 Mhz $579
EVGA GTX285 -2484/648 Mhz $613
XFX GTX285 -2500/670 Mhz $636

Inno3d GTX285 oc -2560/700 Mhz $605

Thanks

:Luca
 
eVGA has a lifetime warranty on its cards. XFX has a double-lifetime warranty - they warranty it even for the person you sell the card to. What warranty does Palit or Inno3D have?
 
evilsofa said:
eVGA has a lifetime warranty on its cards. XFX has a double-lifetime warranty - they warranty it even for the person you sell the card to. What warranty does Palit or Inno3D have?
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Those warranties may not stand based on where he lives... as in there may not be any lifetime warranties.
 
RussianHAXOR said:
Those warranties may not stand based on where he lives... as in there may not be any lifetime warranties.
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Emailed a re-seller here and they replied that if I OC'd the card to death I could send it back and they would replace it, so that leads me to believe that the warranties are good here in OZ.. however..

EVGA's stepup program is non applicable in OZ..
 
Luca1 said:
Emailed a re-seller here and they replied that if I OC'd the card to death I could send it back and they would replace it, so that leads me to believe that the warranties are good here in OZ.. however..

EVGA's stepup program is non applicable in OZ..
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The warranties are good, but im not sure about their length. Some may be a year or two to my knowledge. Also, stepup is only available for Europe, USA and Canada.
 
had palit..KEEP AWAY!

Any other company other than Palit.

Overall EVGA is my top choice from now on. They are an A+ company.
 
if I was buying I'd take evga, xfx I guess if you plan on selling down the line.
 
Nah, they arnt a very good company when it comes to RMAs.

But put it this way I had a dual edition 4870 by them, what happened was the card sounded like a jet engine when i finally had a chance to install it. The following week they (the company) fixed the card i just got (with a y splitter 3$) and called it the same model to replace the version I had. And when i got wind of this I setup and RMA to get the new (way it should of worked) card. The cost of the new one was alot less in value than what i payed a week before.

What they did was make setting up an RMA take months, they don't make anything easy with the RMA and it took tons of emails to get a response. I had to email the forum admin to forward it to someone! In the end I told the admin that the RMA department didn't read my problem and just opened an rma for the same card and not the revised version. I was caught up in a circle of email tag for another month.

I just sold the card and got a EVGA gtx 260. First sign of trouble they just say - send it in. Ontop of this on occasion you get a better version of your card when the RMA comes back. You also get more value with each card you get EVGA software, free games and benchmark programs.
 
evga or bfg would be tier 1 quality (xfx and bfg are virtually equal now in their support quality, actually i think bfg might be a tad better...)
xfx or maybe Asus would be tier 1.5/2
Palit/others would be the worst...
 
If you tend to sell you cards when you upgrade then get XFX if their double lifetime warranty also applies to your region.
 
Yeah EVGA is the company I want to go as there warranty is good and XFX is a close 2nd so between the 2 of them it seems it will be whoever has the highest clocked card for the cash.. however..

Forgetting the Palit card..

The Inno3d card has come along with higher clocks and cheaper (per $) than both the EVGA and XFX.. I'm wondering if the Inno3d card is a safe bet? (personally I don't like the gold card but hey, that not a good reason to buy a video card :L

Anyone know shet about the Inno3d company?
 
I've had EVGA not warranty my old 6800GS because it wasn't registered, so, now, I go with XFX.
 
AVT said:
I've had EVGA not warranty my old 6800GS because it wasn't registered, so, now, I go with XFX.
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Yeah I could understand that would piss you off.. but I would register mine for sure..

I seen riva tuner in action and I pretty sure I could OC my card fairly easy.. so heres one more question..

Would it be more worth my while to by the EVGA GTX285 reference card for $10 more than the Inno3d OC card and OC the EVGA card myself?.. I mean.. I would put in the time to OC the EVGA card, thats no problem.. but can I get much better results?..

So..

EVGA GTX285 reference card OC'd myself -$613.00

vs

Inno3d GTX285 factory OC'd -$605.00

I think that is the question :)..
 
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