I have a question about PNY

Had pny in the past and liked it : )

They make good quality products they are found in some high end sys like visuallville

Xtreme Quad-Core includes:

* Matrix ATX Case (Black)
* 700 Watt High Performance Power Supply
* Intel Quad Core Extreme QX6700 2.66-8MB Processor
* NVIDIA nForce® 650i SLI Chipset Premium Mainboard
* PNY Verto NX8800GTS Video Card w/640MB DDR RAM
* 4 Gigabytes RAM (4 - 1GB) DDR2 PC6400 RAM (8 Gigabytes Max.)
* 2.5 Gigabytes of RAM available to Photoshop CS 2!
* More than a Terabyte of Hard Drive Capacity (Server Duty Rated)
* 1 -160 GB SATA II 7200 RPM Hard Drive
* 2 - 500GB SATA II 7200RPM Hard Drives (RAID 0 or RAID 1)
* Plextor 18X- 8 in 1 DVD/CD Combo Drive (Reads & Writes DVD's/ CD's)

also check it here :

http://www.extremetech.com/article [...] 230,00.asp

Do they offer a lifetime warranty? If they do then the OP should be fine with the PNY...

PNY almost always follows nVidia's reference design. So, generally, they are fairly reliable cards. However, their "lifetime warranty" is not really a lifetime warranty - it is good for as long as they market the card. Several years ago, I had a GeForce 4200 of theirs that croaked about a year and a half after I bought it. When I asked them for a replacement, they refused, saying the card was end-of life and was no longer being marketed. It was me, I would spend the addtional $25 and go with eVga or BFG, who honor liftetime warranties beyond current production cycles.

Yea, just a different package and trial software.

Brands like XFX and BFG are better known because of their overclocked cards, and long warranties.