greenhorn said:one dude had to RMA 3 times , and the other had to RMA 2 times, so together , they had to go through 5 cards before they found something that worked . same goes for the rest of the stuf.
Amien said:AFAIK there were 2 batches of the 4800 series that were plagued with a high failure rate. I've bought palit cards for a couple of friends's rigs and they have been an icon of reliability uptil now.
greenhorn said:Two of my friends bought palit 4850's. between them, there must be at least 5 dead cards (including a 4870 ) and about 8 months spent waiting for the card to return from RMA and a few K in shipping between the two of them and multiple RMA's.
This is across cards which are bought from separate locations, and spread across multiple batches. If i were you, I wouldnt
stalker said:For some reason unkown to most of us, Sato has these extremely passionate opinions about technology. I his words... Everything except for a few lucky brands just COMPLETELY SUCKS AND SHOULD NOT BE PURCHASED
greenhorn said:one dude had to RMA 3 times , and the other had to RMA 2 times, so together , they had to go through 5 cards before they found something that worked . same goes for the rest of the stuf.
Gannu said:Passion = total BS! He's been posting FUD evereywhere which I promptly report to the moderators and they do what's deemed fit. Heh his survey was total fun though. :rofl:
And greenie, enough of bashing Palit man. Your friends've been very unfortunate with the bad cards. This thread felt like a total deja-vu to me and I was expecting you to turn up in this thread with fewer posts. Your friends probably had a bad experience with a bad batch of their cards. I hope their cards're working perfectly fine now *touchwood*. Any card can have the same fate and the failure rate as that of Palit and doods at TDF have been spreading FUD for a while. :no:
Come across this several times: A happy customer might refer the instance to few of his friends whereas an unhappy one would do the same to a lot many! So true that.
Aces170 said:What you guys are discounting, is check the no of Palit cards sold due to its attractive pricing. 10 cards failing is a bad indication, but 10 cards out of say 200 cards sold, does not seem very bad.
Now look at other companies like XFX, EVGA, failure rate may be low like 1 card etc, but 1 card out of 10 sold, might not be so rosy. Its easy to gather data on card failures, but much difficult to get data on total cards sold. In the end, I always say, if the ASS is decent buy, cause that's all that matters. Ok, now if someone did a close check to post the kind of capacitors used on Palit cards etc, that would a somewhat indicative conclusion, but half baked assumptions on the no. of cards failing without taking into consideration the no. of cards sold is a crap analysis. Pulling up definitive nos out of thin air (eg. "there is a 75% chance your card will fail etc") is criminal.
I had some terrible experience with Asus and their ASS (not a conclusion the brand is bad), but I will not touch their products with a pole. On the other hand, a not so good brand like Jetway has served me well, as even if it fails I can simply throw-away the product without bearing a huge cost..
damngoodman said:The warranty of Palit is much better than all other brands except XFX cause XFX is the Brand which RMA with in 10 days , PALIT replaced my friends card 8800GT sonic with 14 days