Afternoon all. I was just wondering if anyone knows what manufacturers offer the best warranties for their graphics cards? Has anyone had any really good/bad experience of RMAing a card back to the manufacturer? Cheers
EVGA get recommended a lot, especially with their 10 year warranties on top end products. I've heard good things about ASUS and Gigabyte as well.
The best is EVGA for their ridiculous warranty/coverage behind their products. As for RMAing, I haven't bought a product from EVGA and neither have I had any issues with my ASUS/ZOTAC cards *touches wood*
EVGA but right now, if you go for the current series cards, they ONLY have a 3 year warranty. Go for an older EVGA (new) you get TEN years. Either way if you decide to sell it on, the first three years of the warranty are retained by the buyer i,e better resale value. Also, you can extend the warrant to 5 or 10 years by paying a fee of around 20 to 40 pounds. btw noizedaemon has the GTX 460 that EVGA gave me in replacement for my 5 year old 8800GTX. Cracking card that, should have kept it as a backup, but hey I used their stepup upgrade system to send my newly bought GTX 580 back (stepup is 90 days from purchase of the new card), to swap to a GTX 670. I say swap because the whole thing probably cost me a total of 20 pounds. If I had sold the 580 here I may have got 200 quid for it at best.
Iirc EVGA's warranty also covers you if you take off the heatsink (i.e. to watercool, replace the stock tim, add a backplate etc) as well as being transferrable etc
Yeah the only sad part is they dont cross ship when you step up. I sent my 580 to them on the 22nd, they got it on the 29th, and im due to receive the 670 on the 5th, this coming Wednesday.
^Better than no step up at all! Enjoy the new card - make sure you register it too for their warranty. The only thing I would add to all the EVGA praise above (including my own) is that any purchased extended warranty is NOT transferrable - only the original 3 years can be transferred.
I could be well wrong on this but i believe ALL electrical products purchased in the UK have 6 years by LAW. I only found this out because my dad (officially the tightest git on earth) have an old dvd/vcr combo break down on him, he read an artical and quoted something at them (Britton & Hobbs) and they replaced him with a brand new DVD recorder. I have seen this - http://webarchive.nationalarchives....whatwedo/consumers/fact-sheets/page38311.html Might be worth looking at, like i said i could well be wrong.
I'll chime in and say that Zotac also allow removal of the stock cooler under warranty, useful if you're a watercooler like me. Thanks to true_gamer for this knowledge
