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- Sep 10, 2004
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- Frostburg, MD
Just bought one of those super-cheap $156 PNY 6800NU's off newegg.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814133148
Received it yesterday, and opened the box today.
First thing I noticed...white box, shrink-wrapped (not too profesionally i might add). The card inside was in a plastic tray along with another tray w/the manual, cable and converter. Both trays were also half-azzdly shrink wrapped.
I take the card out and inspected it, and sure enough, the DVI port had metal gashs on it as if someone had plugged it in previously. The front label on the heatsink also had very minor, but noticeable abrasions as if it had been rubbing against other components in someones system.
I figure "well maybe they test them before they sell them". So I plugged it in and first thing that I found was odd, was the CD-ROM's software didn't detect that the card was installed. So I shrug that off and download the latest nVidia drivers.
They install fine, and all seems fine. Restart, it seemed fine, until I got sent a video link. The video looked horrific. Contrast very high & bright, pixelated, horrible looking quality. I thought maybe it was the vid, but I open other vids I had on my desktop and they were the same way.
I go to play half-life 2 and it takes FOREVER to load. Once I loaded a save file my monitor would flip on and off and the animation was all choppy.
So..it seems NEWEGG repackages RMA'd peices of garbage and resells them to unsuspecting customers. I really wonder why they think someone who builds their own computer would be so stupid to not notice this. It is very insulting to me & everyone who buys from them that they think we won't notice this. You'd think they'd test the card to see if it works properly when someone RMA's it before repackaging it.
I had the "auto-notify" thing on when I ordered mine. I got an email saying it was back in stock so I bought one immediately. I bet they got a few RMA's from ppl who were unlocking pipes and overclocking them & weren't satisfied with the results, so NEWEGG took those cards & repackaged them and updated that they were back in stock.
LAME! I always had a high regard for newegg but this REALLY pizzes me off and leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I already got an RMA#, but I have to pay for shipping which just sucks. If i return this one, I know they'll just ship me another peice of abused used-crap to me that won't work right.
Now I gotta re-research and figure out what card to buy,
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814133148
Received it yesterday, and opened the box today.
First thing I noticed...white box, shrink-wrapped (not too profesionally i might add). The card inside was in a plastic tray along with another tray w/the manual, cable and converter. Both trays were also half-azzdly shrink wrapped.
I take the card out and inspected it, and sure enough, the DVI port had metal gashs on it as if someone had plugged it in previously. The front label on the heatsink also had very minor, but noticeable abrasions as if it had been rubbing against other components in someones system.
I figure "well maybe they test them before they sell them". So I plugged it in and first thing that I found was odd, was the CD-ROM's software didn't detect that the card was installed. So I shrug that off and download the latest nVidia drivers.
They install fine, and all seems fine. Restart, it seemed fine, until I got sent a video link. The video looked horrific. Contrast very high & bright, pixelated, horrible looking quality. I thought maybe it was the vid, but I open other vids I had on my desktop and they were the same way.
I go to play half-life 2 and it takes FOREVER to load. Once I loaded a save file my monitor would flip on and off and the animation was all choppy.
So..it seems NEWEGG repackages RMA'd peices of garbage and resells them to unsuspecting customers. I really wonder why they think someone who builds their own computer would be so stupid to not notice this. It is very insulting to me & everyone who buys from them that they think we won't notice this. You'd think they'd test the card to see if it works properly when someone RMA's it before repackaging it.
I had the "auto-notify" thing on when I ordered mine. I got an email saying it was back in stock so I bought one immediately. I bet they got a few RMA's from ppl who were unlocking pipes and overclocking them & weren't satisfied with the results, so NEWEGG took those cards & repackaged them and updated that they were back in stock.
LAME! I always had a high regard for newegg but this REALLY pizzes me off and leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I already got an RMA#, but I have to pay for shipping which just sucks. If i return this one, I know they'll just ship me another peice of abused used-crap to me that won't work right.
Now I gotta re-research and figure out what card to buy,