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Hot? 7800GT with Painkiller for 329.99 with free 2 day shipping?

DigiTimes reported last month that Chaintech, which has had some poor financial results the last couple of years, was leaving the motherboard business to begin memory module sales and continue their VGA business. Chaintech denied it was abandoning its mobo business.
 
I've bought 2 Chaintech video cards in the last year. Both work fine.

Chaintech probably doesn't even manufacture the 7800GT, just like most other vendor branded 7800GT cards. I don't understand the YMMV part. KK is being very sloppy with the claim, IMO.
 
I have two chaintech MB VNF3-250 NForce3 Socket 754 MB and really like them. At first they were kind of slow to bring out bios revisions but they have pretty much added everything i could ever want and more (cnq). Right now the chaintech bored are running both my DB/File/Encoding server which runs Win 2003 svr enteprise and my media pc running media 2005. Both overclock great and are 100% stable. I could have not been happier for what these mb were selling at the time. Anyways if i was in the market for a geforce 7800 i would probably go for this deal but i don't game that much so a 7800 is a little much for me. Im completly happy with my 6600 gt.

ncage
 
Chaintech should be called Cheaptech. All of their products are lower priced, which is indicative of inferior products when you stand them next to names like Epox, AMD, and Thermaltake.
 

I don't get it why should their products (regarding video cards) would be inferior to any other company in terms quality? Almost all the 7800 GTs for sale use the same heatsink, PCB, GPU, etc. supplied by nVidia, why should initial quality be affected at all? Maybe customer support is less than that of other companies (personally I wouldn't know, never owned a Chaintech video card), but to say they have inferior products seems ignorant.

And to say Epox and Thermaltake have a good "name" I'm not sure I agree, especially in regards to Thermaltake.
 
KK is being very sloppy with the claim, IMO.
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I have a machine used almost exclusively of Chaintech parts - everything works great. However whenever I write a guide recommending anything of theirs, I get about 300 emails asking why I recommended low quality products. I've never had a problem, but apparently a ton of people have. Hence- YMMV.

Kristopher
 
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