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Interesting definition of "lifetime". Given that any single card/chipset is
rarely on the market longer than a year or two.

Dana Cline - MVP

"Pete Delgado" <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> "Dana Cline - MVP" <dcline@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Right now I'm using a MadDog Multimedia ATI 9550. I've had good luck
with
> > MadDog cards in the past. My toasted nVidia 5200 was made by a company
> > called Apollo, whom I cannot recommend as they refused to answer any of
my
> > emails and don't seem to be interested in honoring the warranty.
> >
> > Dana Cline - MVP
>
> Dana,
> Thanks for the info. I've seen the Apollo cards and the heat sinks/fans
> look fairly cheap. However, my experience with Maddog hardware was about
> the same as yours was with Apollo.
>
> The PNY card that I bought carries a "lifetime" warranty. The interesting
> thing is that PNY defines "lifetime" as the length of time the card is on
> the retail market -which IMHO is misleading at a minimum. I'm pretty
happy
> with the quality of the card so far, but things like this make it
difficult
> for me to shell out the amount of $$ it takes to get a "good" card because
> the vendors don't seem willing to stand behind their products.
>
> -Pete
>
>


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