Dear Anandtech Guru's,
4 weeks ago I was the proud owner of the famous superfast Asus Radeon 9800 pro 256Mb, now I am a seriously blieped off user with crap in his hands. When I first had the card all went smooth, no systemcrashes no nothing, then after 3 weeks things started to change. I could no longer play games longer than 30 minutes or my card would get seething hot. Now a week and a half later i can't substain even 10 min of gametime. I then read here and on other sites that Asus has slapped about the crappiest coolers on there that money can buy. I then tried it out with the VGA silencer, and its exactly the same, it still runs hot till my comp tilts
I haven't damaged the cpu in any way since I have no artifacts garbles or whatsoever on my games, everything looks crisp and clean till it just gets waaaaaay too hot for this baby to continue its job
So I am now caught up in something of an ordeal, its clear that Asus has released a faulty product on the market but as it is, the product is in their eyes just defect and they will gladly send me a replacement that ofcourse will work the first 4-5 weeks after which I will end up in the same vicious circle What should I do to end this circle of doom?? I bought the card via a store and they do not exchange products for money but do work with RMA but we all know what that means eh, is there some way to get them to change the product for a different one, lets say instead of the crappy Asus a good sturdy Sapphire XT, supposing I pitched in another 200$? Also how do I make sure they do not see a VGA silencer has been on there, is there some way for them to tell?
Has anyone here ever been in this kind of scenario then I would love to hear about it,
thnx,
Laymen
4 weeks ago I was the proud owner of the famous superfast Asus Radeon 9800 pro 256Mb, now I am a seriously blieped off user with crap in his hands. When I first had the card all went smooth, no systemcrashes no nothing, then after 3 weeks things started to change. I could no longer play games longer than 30 minutes or my card would get seething hot. Now a week and a half later i can't substain even 10 min of gametime. I then read here and on other sites that Asus has slapped about the crappiest coolers on there that money can buy. I then tried it out with the VGA silencer, and its exactly the same, it still runs hot till my comp tilts
I haven't damaged the cpu in any way since I have no artifacts garbles or whatsoever on my games, everything looks crisp and clean till it just gets waaaaaay too hot for this baby to continue its job So I am now caught up in something of an ordeal, its clear that Asus has released a faulty product on the market but as it is, the product is in their eyes just defect and they will gladly send me a replacement that ofcourse will work the first 4-5 weeks after which I will end up in the same vicious circle
What should I do to end this circle of doom?? I bought the card via a store and they do not exchange products for money but do work with RMA but we all know what that means eh, is there some way to get them to change the product for a different one, lets say instead of the crappy Asus a good sturdy Sapphire XT, supposing I pitched in another 200$? Also how do I make sure they do not see a VGA silencer has been on there, is there some way for them to tell?Has anyone here ever been in this kind of scenario then I would love to hear about it,
thnx,
Laymen
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