Bundled accessories fail

[Zap]

Would you like component output with that GTX 295?

 

[yh125d]

Some people like component

 

[AmberClad]

Shall I call up your boss and tell him that you're shopping around for a competitor's product :evil:?

Clearing out an overstock of accessories they brought to bundle with another model, I guess? Maybe the NewEgg photographer goofed and took something out of another box? That is kind of an odd thing to be bundling in there.

 

[zagood]

LOL! Oh man that's awful.

In their defense, they don't list component as being one of the interfaces, so hopefully nobody will buy the card expecting component output.

Interface
PCI-E 2.0 16x
DVI-I, DVI-I, HDMI
SLI Capable

Then again, if someone looks at the accessory bundle (both on newegg and on the evga site) they'll probably expect it.

edit: didn't realize this was an XFX card. EVGA does the same thing though.

http://www.evga.com/products/m...0200%20Series%20Family

-z

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: yh125d
Some people like component

*woosh* :laugh:

 

[AmberClad]

Originally posted by: zagood
edit: didn't realize this was an XFX card. EVGA does the same thing though.

http://www.evga.com/products/m...0200%20Series%20Family

-z

The product pics from NewEgg don't show the extraneous cable though.

 

[taltamir]

component is great, it bypasses HDCP which is a right bitch to deal with. Also it can resolve some overscan issues with some displays...
The problem here is that they give you a "HDOut to Component" dongle that has nowhere to plug in on the card, since it has no HDOut plug. (HDOut LOOKS like an Svideo plug but has about 3 times as many pins, and it is not compatibly with svideo. It does however have a dongle that splits it into svideo and component video. ATI and nVidia have been using those for a while now, If I am not mistaken they each use a slightly different proprietary implementation)

 

[CP5670]

The XFX 280 cards include that cable, and the card itself has a connector for it. Mine came with one, although I never needed to use to it. The 295 appears to have the plug replaced by an HDMI one in the Newegg pictures.

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: CP5670
The XFX 280 cards include that cable, and the card itself has a connector for it. Mine came with one, although I never needed to use to it. The 295 appears to have the plug replaced by an HDMI one in the Newegg pictures.

and yet they still include the cable