Ummm....that's a load of tosh been disproved many times...nice try tho![]()
For viewing convenience, I'll just quote it from another thread so that you can see the details here:Missed this thread. Just posted this in another:
http://www.behardware.com/articles/831-5/components-returns-rates.html
the stats come from. They’re taken from a large French e-tailer, whose database we have had direct access to. We were, then, able to extract the stats we wanted directly. Of course they’re limited to the products sold by the retailer, but unfortunately there isn’t any other way of getting hold of reliable stats. Who would believe for example any returns rates given by the manufacturers themselves?
The returns rates given concern the products sold between April 1st 2010 and October 1st 2010 for returns made before April 2011, namely after between 6 months and a year of use. The statistics by manufacturer are based on a minimum sample of 500 sales, those by model on a minimum sample of 100 sales. Each time, we’ve compared the rates by manufacturer to those in our previous article on the subject published in December 2010.
- PNY 1.2% (against 1.1%)
- ASUS 1.3% (against 0.9%)
- Zotac 1.4%
- Sapphire 1.5% (against 1.8%)
- Club 3D 1.6% (against 2.2%)
- Gainward 1.6% (against 1.5%)
- Gigabyte 2.5% (against 1.7%)
- MSI 2.9% (against 1.7%)
- XFX 3.0% (against 2.4%)
ASUS and PNY swap places here as a result of the higher ASUS returns rate. Zotac has entered the classification in a respectable position, while Sapphire and Club 3D have both improved their scores. The rates for Gigabyte on the other hand, and above all MSI, are up a good deal and XFX is still in last place with an even worse average than before. Overall the numbers are acceptable, but three models have returns rates of at least 5%:
- 7.0%: Gigabyte GV-R587UD-1GD
- 7.0%: XFX ATI Radeon HD 5870
- 5.0%: ASUS EAH5870/2DIS/1GD5/V2
The three models are all based on the Radeon HD 5870! Here are the stats by GPU:
- Radeon HD 5770: 2.0%
- Radeon HD 5830: 2.5%
- Radeon HD 5850: 5.5%
- Radeon HD 5870: 5.0%
- Radeon HD 5970: 10.9%
- GeForce GTS 250: 1.6%
- GeForce GTX 460: 2.4%
- GeForce GTX 465: 3.4%
- GeForce GTX 470: 4.7%
- GeForce GTX 480: 3.0%
This confirms the Radeon HD 5870’s poor showing. The Radeon HD 5850 also does badly. Six months ago, the two solutions were at 3.2-3.4%! The Radeon HD 5970 is a very fragile card as is often the case with bi-GPU cards. None of the NVIDIA solutions are over 5% and the GeForce GTX 480 has a rate of just 3%, which is a very good score for a high end card.
Ummm....that's a load of tosh been disproved many times...nice try tho![]()
After reporting the rude, inflammatory, personally-directed remark saying: "nice try tho rolleyes", I would like to see your sources before I can agree with you.
Perhaps BallatheFeared missed the sources that you have in mind.
I do remember one source that BallatheFeared was probably thinking of, so I think he was posting with honest conviction. Some sources might be saying different things, though.lol nice stealth edit bud :thumbup:
you should probably go back to your friends at ABT, the mob mentality there makes you feel right at home doesn't it?
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=32301070&postcount=150My post wasn't meant to be a tease, if I was "free" to name them then I would have done so at the outset. I am not free to name them, even if they gave me their approval of me releasing confidential info I would not do it because I no more want to see them publicly crucified and vilified than I wish to see Keysplayr vilified.
(its the same with employees of companies that intentionally seek to remain unaffiliated, I know some of them privately and I would not "out" them even if they gave me their OK to do so...but yes there are AMD employees in our midst here, and they hide for good reason because there are some truly ugly hateful members in our community, on both sides of the fence)
If you truly believe that AMD does not give anyone free gear then I don't know what to tell you.
Consider for the moment the fact that the ONLY reason you are aware of Keysplayr being a member of the NV Focus Group is because it is a requirement of the NV Focus Group that he "out" himself. It is not a requirement of the AnandTech Forums (ATF).
As such we (ATF) also do not have a policy regarding members of parallel organizations on the AMD side of the fence to "out" themselves, that is between them and the policies of their organization just as is the case with the NV focus group.
Please to Report - Any thoughts on my original contribution to the thread (post #28), in an effort to get the thread back on topic?lol, I feel sorry for you, child :|
No it hasn't, it's been proven true countless times however.
Google knows this.
Yeah, didnt that come into effect with the 6xxx series, or was it 5xxx?
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Watercooling might inadvertently cause vrms to heat up as well since there is no air blowing over the vrms. The tower type cpu coolers to a lesser extent have the same problem unless the fan is situated low enough to cool the vrm heatsinks on the mb.
The big issue, IMHO, is how honest the RMAs are. Overclockers have a poor reputation (and not unearned) for returning cards because they don't clock high enough or they break them. Which is why I'm not surprised the 5970 was at 10% in that chart.I think it's pretty obvious which card is more "heavily" built. That alone though doesn't guarantee longevity.
As far as card failures by %, that alone doesn't paint much of a picture. What failed and why? Was it VRM's when extra voltage was applied? Was it fans on a particular model? Was it a bad batch of capacitors or memory chips on a budget board? Was it video corruption because of bad drivers that made people think their cards were faulty? There are just so many variables. Polls and studies are only as reliable as the people who took them and the conditions they were taken under.
The big issue, IMHO, is how honest the RMAs are. Overclockers have a poor reputation (and not unearned) for returning cards because they don't clock high enough or they break them. Which is why I'm not surprised the 5970 was at 10% in that chart.
The big issue, IMHO, is how honest the RMAs are. Overclockers have a poor reputation (and not unearned) for returning cards because they don't clock high enough or they break them. Which is why I'm not surprised the 5970 was at 10% in that chart.
The big issue, IMHO, is how honest the RMAs are. Overclockers have a poor reputation (and not unearned) for returning cards because they don't clock high enough or they break them. Which is why I'm not surprised the 5970 was at 10% in that chart.
That's a good point - to expand upon it, owners of GTX 465 and GTX 470 cards were also more likely to overclock their cards than GTX 480 owners (of which a higher percentage were just rich people who were not overclockers).
That's a good point - to expand upon it, owners of GTX 465 and GTX 470 cards were also more likely to overclock their cards than GTX 480 owners (of which a higher percentage were just rich people who were not overclockers).
Coil whines could come from mobo or PSU as well. Hard to tell sometimes.I'm surprised nobody's asked which reference card has the least coil whine...
Not rich but stupid upgradeitis infectionlol, you think that being able to buy a $500 GPU once per year makes you rich?
I'd like to see the scientific conditions you took this study under.![]()
lol, you think that being able to buy a $500 GPU once per year makes you rich?
I'm surprised nobody's asked which reference card has the least coil whine...