Anyone know what sort of a warranty a Gainward GeForce 4 Ti4200 Golden Sample (Ultra/650 XP) would have? Just one year?
Thanks,
Anders.
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Ah ha, found out via Gainward.de website (for some reason the UK site, Gainward.net has nothing on). It’s three years, so phew.
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Basically anything since the GF3 Golden Sample days has seen Gainward offer non-Golden Sample cards that are inferior to the average offerings from other manus and then Gainward churn out Golden Sample cards which are only average ... because their non-Golden Sample tend to be below par it makes their Golden Sample look better than they really are.
A good example from memory is their GF4TI4200. They made non-Golden Sample 4200's with 64MB using 250/444 instead of 250/500 which made the 4200-64MB pretty poo. They then made the Golden Sample 4200-64MB using the same clocks as all the other manu's (exc Evga) 250/500 and enabled users to use their 'enhanced' Golden Sample o/c (something like 270/525) but since practically ALL 4200-64MB could achieve 280/540 to 310/560 it made their 'enhanced' mode pretty pointless.
Just to elaborate on my final beef with Gainward, they often use very mis-leading names like 'GF4 PowerPack Ultra 650 TV GS' for their GF4MX440 (LOL), 'GF3 PowerPack TI 450 Golden Sample' for their GF3TI200 64MB and finally 'GF2 TI 450' for their GF2PRO (now that is blatently mis-leading).
Which doesnt help when i dont know what ive written here! DOH!
I was in the top #20 in 3dmark2k1 for long enough, about 15th I think ahead of loads of TI4600's hehe
