is PNY any good ?

[fuzzynavel]

Originally posted by: Blain
I would and have bought PNY memory. But from past experience I wouldn't buy a PNY video card again.
With me, sometimes it's one strike and they're out.

MMM dodgy Capacitors(if that is what they are) used cheap bits to lower price...or possibly just a bad batch out of the hands of PNY?

 

[Ike0069]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: Ike0069

Originally posted by: t3h l337 n3wb
eVGA, BFG > Leadtek > MSI, ASUS, ABit, Gigabyte > PNY >>>>>>>> XFX

What a retard. :roll:

Never had any trouble with any of my XFX products. But Ike, how could we question someone with such a "1337" name as "t3h l337 n3wb"

Good point. I guess I should retract my response. He's obviously knows everything.

 

[wildcat86]

Originally posted by: Ike0069

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: Ike0069

Originally posted by: t3h l337 n3wb
eVGA, BFG > Leadtek > MSI, ASUS, ABit, Gigabyte > PNY >>>>>>>> XFX

What a retard. :roll:

Never had any trouble with any of my XFX products. But Ike, how could we question someone with such a "1337" name as "t3h l337 n3wb"

Good point. I guess I should retract my response. He's obviously knows everything.

XFX offers Lifetime warranties now

 

[imported_Reck]

pny ram has a very high failure rate.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: fuzzynavel

Originally posted by: Blain
I would and have bought PNY memory. But from past experience I wouldn't buy a PNY video card again.
With me, sometimes it's one strike and they're out.

MMM dodgy Capacitors(if that is what they are) used cheap bits to lower price...or possibly just a bad batch out of the hands of PNY?

There have been many reports of bad caps on PNY GF4 Ti series cards.
Most people just think they OCd too much or something else killed their card. They really don't suspect the caps being bad.
After the Abit (and others) bad cap disaster, I always check caps on anything.

 

[wildcat86]

Originally posted by: Reck
pny ram has a very high failure rate.

PNY ram impregnated my sister!

 

[ZobarStyl]

I dislike PNY GPU's from two past experiences in which a PNY Ti4400 made Windows XP fail constantly on a friend's rig; we traded out that GPU for a week and XP worked fine, put the PNY back in and Windows crashed every 5 minutes. He had to fall back on 2000. Also, had a PNY 5200 that constantly had the fan sound like a jet engine on takeoff. Though they aren't a crap company, they aren't top tier in my book. Could be worse, could be XFX (sorry Ike, but that guy has a point; a good majority of GPU problem questions in the Video forum are XFX cards).

 

[Ike0069]

Originally posted by: ZobarStyl
Could be worse, could be XFX (sorry Ike, but that guy has a point; a good majority of GPU problem questions in the Video forum are XFX cards).

Have you looked around lately (last several months). You don't see too many thread like that now. XFX has improved vastly, and the only time I used their support it was nothing short of excellent.

Now BFG had a fairly significant problem with their 6800 cards (some vendors actually pulled them because they were getting killed on the RMA's), much more so than ANY other brand. Yet BFG still gets very high recommendations from others.
Personally I would go with most other brands before I went with BFG, but everyone has their opinon on which is best. I don't however go around telling everyone how bad BFG is.
Also, if you think eVGA is without problems, just visit their forums. It's almost enough to scare you away from them forever.

My point is that all VC manufacturers have problems, but XFX seems to be getting ripped repeatedly by people who:
1. Have never owned an XFX card.
AND
2. Just like to jump on the "XFX sucks" bandwagon. (I guess riding the bandwagon is fun, but I don't know. Never tried it.)
-OR-
3. Have not used an XFX product lately.
I realize XFX did apparently have some serious QC issues in the past, but they have corrected those with their newest (nVIDIA 68 and 78 series) cards. And now they have added their "Double Lifetime Warranty", which is very nice.

 

[Arcanedeath]

Personaly I've had good luck w/ my PNY Geforce 4 Ti4400 card, it's still in service to this day and its fairly overclocked as well over its entire lifetime. its the only product I've purchased from them (except cdr's wich still work fine ) but they are a marketing company for the most part and it just depends on what product you get from them if its any good or not., I consider PNY to be above no name brands I haven't heard of but then again thats not saying much.