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I had a PNY ti4600 that died shortly after I bought it, rma'd and the second ti4600 died a few months later, this time PNY sent me a 5900, in the mean time I had been collecting parts for a new system and had purchased an XFX 5900 from Buy.com, when that card arrived I assembled the new system only to find out the XFX card was defective right out of the box, I made do with a GF2GTS untill the PNY card came back and have been using that until today when the XFX card came back, I am using it now because I wanted to test it to be sure it worked.
Both cards perform very well in 3dmark03, 6230 for the pny at 450/850 and 6464 for the XFX at 475/932 (didnt try the PNY at 475/932)
There are few differences that I can see, the PNY has a "Lifetime" warranty but XFX is not clear with this statement on their site
The only other visible difference is the heatsink design I cant see where one is any better than the other, both cards run around 47c at idle or surfing and around 60c after an hour or so of gaming.
I am leaning towards keeping the PNY because of the warranty and great service, but if I sell the XFX to a friend I dont want to have a problem if their card dies and they cant get service.
The other thing is that I seem to notice better colors and clearer brighter output from the XFX card, noticed it even on the vga bios screen as soon as I turned on the computer, the text was clearer, sharper and brighter, very noticeable, and then when I got into windows I noticed the colors seemed better too.
I am at a bit of a loss trying to decide between these two cards, is there anything else I should be considering?
Both cards perform very well in 3dmark03, 6230 for the pny at 450/850 and 6464 for the XFX at 475/932 (didnt try the PNY at 475/932)
There are few differences that I can see, the PNY has a "Lifetime" warranty but XFX is not clear with this statement on their site
and I had a bit of trouble contacting them to get the card rma'd.
The only other visible difference is the heatsink design I cant see where one is any better than the other, both cards run around 47c at idle or surfing and around 60c after an hour or so of gaming.
I am leaning towards keeping the PNY because of the warranty and great service, but if I sell the XFX to a friend I dont want to have a problem if their card dies and they cant get service.
The other thing is that I seem to notice better colors and clearer brighter output from the XFX card, noticed it even on the vga bios screen as soon as I turned on the computer, the text was clearer, sharper and brighter, very noticeable, and then when I got into windows I noticed the colors seemed better too.
I am at a bit of a loss trying to decide between these two cards, is there anything else I should be considering?
