I thought XFX only went ATi recently? And were Nvidia-only before? Edit: Yes, their website shows they've been making Nvidia cards since the 5 series, and ATi only since the HD 4000 series.
thing is i am kinda laughing at this. A lan party organiser at my old venue mocked me for saving money and buying a gainward GTX280, and told me i should have got a BFG GTX280 like his, which was an epic £50 more at the time with a small OC. He said the warranty made it worth it! And to be fair 2 weeks later he had his card replaced and ended up with a GTX285. However i've had my GTX280 longer than him and clocked higher than his. Soooooo ROFL sh*t giggles!
Still running a pair of 7800GT OCs, though I really should trade them on something less power hungry, especially since I don't game anymore.
Two years, and that's only because it was backed by USI manufacturing. BFG are not a manufacturer, they are a reseller (to put it harshly), and they have to pay Nvidia+manuf. for parts. If they owed people money then that stock for RMA's would have been liquidated, so it's hardly BFG's fault.
Maybe but for a client, they are responsible because their name is on the product. How can they expect regain the customers trust, after that ? Hopefully, I sold my BFG 9800GTX, a month ago ^^
They don't have any type of insurance company underwriting the warranties? I used to work for a store before it went out of business, that offered rip-off "extended warranties" on electronics. they were insured through another company, so once the store went out of business, the people with outstanding warranties were still covered.
Why would you need to if the company and brand ceases to exist? Same with insurance - if they needed to liquidate everything to pay debts, maybe they can't pay the cost of insurance? It's only and all speculation though. I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying "it is what it is".
Look what I got this morning..... From: BFG RMA Department (rma@bfgfixx.com) Sent: 16 August 2010 21:28:50 To: xxxxxx@hotmail.com This email has been sent to inform you that BFG RMA number 992956737, originally created on Aug 2nd 2010, has been cancelled. BFG Technologies, Inc. is winding down and liquidating its business. Unfortunately our major supplier would not support our business. As a result we are cancelling your RMA without being able to repair your product. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you have already sent your product it, it will be returned to you. BFG Technologies, Inc. 14048 Petronella Drive Libertyville, Illinois 60048 847.281.3110
The brands I can currently count are - XFX Sapphire Zotac HIS Sparkle Asus Gigabyte POV EVGA Powercolor MSI Gainward Inno3d ..there's a few more aswell so plenty to go at. Also, the UK rep that once sold BFG and POV now sells the new brand KFA. Not seen any stock of it yet due mainly to price, but there's some top-end fancy watercooled stuff coming I believe..
Does anyone actually give a toss about these super-expensive pre-WC'd cards? I certainly don't. If I wanted a super-fast graphics card that was WC'd I'd buy a block and the card, not pay a £50 premium for someone else to do it. In my opinion they occupy a part of the market which shouldn't exist - WC is not for noobs, if you can't fit a block to a single-PCB card (the dual-PCB ones I will forgive) then you shouldn't be using a WC loop.
Totally agree mate. I own a 9400GT!! But each to their own. People buy such pre-watercooled silliness and are prepared to pay a premium at that. Whatever floats your boat, eh?
It just seems like a lot of wasted effort. I know most manu's use 3rd party blocks with their logos etched/stickered onto them, but those that don't could spend the dev time making better air coolers, which is what 99% of people really want.
Apparently (think I read this on Hexus) - KFA stand for 'Kick F*ckin Ass' "The brand, launching across the continent right about now, is for all intents and purposes the premium arm of Galaxy, a global NVIDIA partner that has been producing GeForce products for the best part of 16 years."
