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consumer9000 said:LOL don't let SilverSinkSam get his hands on this thread!
Jhero said:Mine came with it 52 degrees idle
Wstinkbait said:Shame to void a Lifetime warranty on the BFG 6800 GT. I already had to send mine back. BFG has excellent Tech support btw. 24/7, I got an RMA at 1:00am on a Sunday morning. Had a new card in 3 days.
Silversinksam said:I gave up
I believe at this point BFG only uses Arctic Silver 5 on every other high end card, or possibly only on the BFG Ultras. While they told me the newer GT's have it as well, people have told me theirs didn't. So at this point I can't say with certainty which has it and which doesn't/
But they all should
Enablingwolf said:Video card are a non-parishable product. The stock isn't rotated like food. So if they are bieng shipped with the AS5 now. It would be hard to tell from just a box if it is newer stock or older stock. Unless you open each box and then lift the HS up.
In more rural areas a product can sit for a while before it gets sold. I know of a local shop that has new boxes that are over 3 years old for some products. If they were to get similar products if it was still bieng produced would they sell them as a whole i.e.- waht ya grab is what ya get, or separate them in order of age...
So yes some folks will get the non-AS5 products that BFG put out, and some will get the newer revision with better TIM.
consumer9000 said:I still say we visit China and ask the children in the factory why they only use Arctic Silver on Mondays, and cream of sum yung gai (you really think that's silicone grease?) Tuesday through Sunday. Why BFG just doesn't commit to using it accross their product line 100% of the time is beyond me. It's a great selling point, and in the quantities they would need it can't cost much more than supplying their young indentured servants with an extra ration of rice, an old pin up and a paper cup!
Hmmm...then again Arctic Silver has decent lubriscosity, maybe that's where it all ends up. *cough*