Quote Originally Posted by pinotnoir View Post
The cards I had to return for replacement were EVGA Nvidia Cards. I have stuck with Sapphire ATI cards over the past years and from the 3870, 4850x2, and now 6970 they have all been flawless. My old 7800Gt's from Evga are still flaky.
It's hilarious that everyone has such different experiences with video cards and their manufacturers and, at
times, an extreme bias. The main reason I actually stopped using ATi back in the day (like 8 years ago) was
because of a very poorly designed Sapphire 9700. There was a known hardware issue that Sapphire had used
bad Hynix or Samsung memory chips and there were endless complaints on their forum. They did absolutely
nothing to help any of the affected customers. They were completely ignoring the problem altogether and that
obviously really turned me off to any ATi product ever again. I used to use Asus nVidia video cards but have
now moved to eVGA because they have, from what I have seen and personally experienced, the best technical
and customer support anyone could ask for.