The happenings

Isn't that what happened when the GTX came out or something? The 9x series was getting better framerates in some stuff?


Probably get fixed in a firmware update.

Probably, and when that happens I'll consider getting an upgrade. Right now there just wasn't much draw to 5 besides DX11, which I can wait for.
 
the electricity in the living room is broken. the rest of the unit is working, but nothing is working in the living room.

and no this isn't code for filming gay porn.

dbzeag, i was the one that brought the beer :p
 
the electricity in the living room is broken. the rest of the unit is working, but nothing is working in the living room.

and no this isn't code for filming gay porn.

dbzeag, i was the one that brought the beer :p

I just imagine some dude strolling into an apartment lit by candles dressed in coveralls while (inexplicably) holding a wrench with some grease painstakingly (and equally inexplicably) smeared on his cheeks.
 
I just imagine some dude strolling into an apartment lit by candles dressed in coveralls while (inexplicably) holding a wrench with some grease painstakingly (and equally inexplicably) smeared on his cheeks.

no nothing like that

but the electrician had to call the guy that wired our unit and have him come over
 
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Gigabyte has the worst RMA/repair department ever. I sent in a 6600gt a few years ago that just up and died one day. They sent the same card back supposedly "repaired" a few weeks later. It of course was DOA. Spent another 2 weeks bitching at them to replace the damn card. They sent a replacement (pretty much another repaired card, different s/n but with flux all over the pcb) which died a month later. Finally they ended up sending me a new card after 2 months of bullshit.

When will video card manufactuers get it that most video card problems cannot be fixed reliably. Scrap the card and give the customer a new one.
 
Gigabyte has the worst RMA/repair department ever. I sent in a 6600gt a few years ago that just up and died one day. They sent the same card back supposedly "repaired" a few weeks later. It of course was DOA. Spent another 2 weeks bitching at them to replace the damn card. They sent a replacement (pretty much another repaired card, different s/n but with flux all over the pcb) which died a month later. Finally they ended up sending me a new card after 2 months of bullshit.

When will video card manufactuers get it that most video card problems cannot be fixed reliably. Scrap the card and give the customer a new one.

I've had the exact opposite experience. I had a card go bad years ago and with one phone call they RMA'd/replaced it with a brand new one ASAP.