What's wrong with PowerColor

[mafiaman]

The buyer's guide says that PowerColor is the ONLY manufacturer of ATI-based cards to avoid. I was just wondering if anyone could elaborate on this, as the store up the street from me has some very good deals on PowerColor cards, and my GF4 died this weekend. :..-(

AMD XP 1600+ @ 166x10.5=1750 w/ Volcano 7+
MSI KT3-Ultra
512MB Samsung DDR400
MSI GF4TI4200-TD 128MB @ 275/550
2x60GB Maxtor Stripe
LiteOn 16x DVD & 32x12x40x CDRW

 

[cleeve]

I've heard of people having problems with them because their cards are made cheaper than most and their warranty isn't that great.

I had a powercolor 9500 non-pro and I killed it (probably by overclocking, she went from 275/275 to 360/315) and they replaced it no problem, but I had to pay a $20 restocking fee. Not too bad, I can't complain.

The replacement they sent me modded to a 9500 PRO so I can't say I've had a bad experience with them.

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Radeon 9500 (modded to PRO w/8 pixel pipelines)
AMD AthlonXP 2000+
3dMark03: 3529

 

[ufo_warviper]

Some of the lesser companies don't build their cards with compents that will run at standard stock speeds. This statement applies espially to memory speeds in particular.

My OS features preemptive multitasking, a fully interactive command line, & support for 640K of RAM!