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hey guys, i was wondering what's the best ati manufacturer in terms of quality, durability, speed, and customer service (rma and stuff)
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kurahk7 wrote:hey guys, i was wondering what's the best ati manufacturer in terms of quality, durability, speed, and customer service (rma and stuff)
ASUS, Sapphire and XFX seem to be among the best here in the US for RMA and all that.
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HIS cards seems to be pretty good; low temperatures, decent/low price, good performance, a bit of work on detail (from the looks of their IceQ 4800 series cards). Their rebate service,and RMA service doesn't seem to be too good; couple of poor reviews on Newegg about that... On the other had, there doesn't seem to be a lot of issues with the products.
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lordvic wrote:HIS cards seems to be pretty good; low temperatures, decent/low price, good performance, a bit of work on detail (from the looks of their IceQ 4800 series cards). Their rebate service,and RMA service doesn't seem to be too good; couple of poor reviews on Newegg about that... On the other had, there doesn't seem to be a lot of issues with the products.
well my point was that all reference cards are going to perform the same...

performance and temperature differences between two reference cards are non-existent.
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XFX has been slipping in my opinion, I have had capacitors pop on the last 3 cards and they wouldnt rma 2 since the card wasnt "registered" with them.

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Apoptosis wrote:
kurahk7 wrote:hey guys, i was wondering what's the best ati manufacturer in terms of quality, durability, speed, and customer service (rma and stuff)
ASUS, Sapphire and XFX seem to be among the best here in the US for RMA and all that.
is Sapphire still doing poorly with their customer service?
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I Like sapphire, cuz their vapor-x cooler is much much better than reference one
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I've used Sapphire for ATI back when I used ATI. In fact, I still have a sapphire 9000pro 64mb that still runs to this day with daily usage! :mrgreen:
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