PNY lifetime warranty?

  I posted the same thing on another board some time ago...So basically their "Lifetime Warranty" is about 6 months

dont get me STARTED ON PNY

UFO! would you kindly explain to them how crappy PNY is before I HAVE TO DO IT!

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Coolsquirtle could you and UFO both do it?

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hmmm let UFO do it first cause i'll get too aggressive

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PNY is about the worst company, tech wise, that I've had to work with. My PNY Geforce 3 Ti-500 had TV out problems. It would only work with the drivers that shipped in the box. Any updated drivers would not work. However, it worked with Tvtool. I had a nice email battle with PNY trying to figure out why this was and they finally just ignored me. I fixed the problem eventually by flashing it with a Nvidia reference BIOS. It's always had little "ticks" in the graphics though. I'll be running at 150fps but it will still occasionally freeze just long enough to notice it. I was informed of their total horseshit warranty at the time. I can't believe there hasn't been a class action lawsuit yet. Neither I nor any of my customers will ever purchase PNY products again. (We won't even get into the RAM problems)

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I've had a couple of PNY cards and they have worked fine, I have never had to contact them for anything though. Strange that they are listed as one of the BEST on the graphics card buying guide sticky post.....

Okay Coolsquirtle, here goes: PNY doesn't make <i>bad</i> cards but Coolsquirtle has had a very dissapointing, not to mention frustrating experience in dealing with the PNY Customer Support staff. His card became glitchy and he sent it back to PNY, even thought the "Technicians" could not find "any fault whatsoever" with the card, they insisted on sending him the glitchy card back toly CS and even though CS was clearly having problems with the card's functionality. SO when he received the card back, guess what? It STILL failed, those idiot techs probably tested the Windows Desktop Environment with it, maybe clicked a couple icons like Microsoft Word or somehthing and probably did NOT run a series of tests with games, CS's primary purpose for owning the card. It took about more than 2 months, (maybe more than 3 months) to get the situation finally resolved and by that time, his dad had ordered a Radeon 9600 Pro card (which turned out to be Gigacube :frown: ). On top of all this, Coolsquirtle's Penitum 4 CPU that he was going to use for his Canterwood chipset motherboard arrived with <b><font color=red>BENT PINS</b></font color=red>!

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I guess as long the product functions fine, we are all happy. When you have to actually deal with the company, that is what 'makes or breaks' them as a "GOOD" company.

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I have a TI4200 that lasted only a year. It works, but does crash computer during gaming and benchmarks. I am loath to trust PNY after seeing many comments about them, but I will try.

I am sticking with PNY because ATI's don't seem happy with my Asus nvidia chipset MB. PNY cards install perfectly in the WIN98SE system.

I just got a FX5200. Benchmarks showed it a piece of s*it. Even my MW4 game don't like it much. So I am trying a FX5900 now. What a difference!!!! BUT........ this time I got the extended warranty from COMPUSA. Should have done that for the first one.

Well after running a PNY 8800 GT for about 16 months it finally bit the dust. It wasn't immediately obvious, but I've had problems with this card for about 6 months before it finally failed completely. I used it primarily to play WoW. The first problems started showing up about 6 months ago when WoW would crash with fatal errors in some regions of the game, typically in the same region every time. I found that by reducing some of the graphics settings in game that this problem was suppressed, but never completely eliminated. I dealt with this problem on and off for about 5 months and then it became much worse, occurring more frequently and in more places. It then got so bad that it not only caused WoW itself to crash, but would lock up my entire computer system. Then I rebooted and my problem became more clear, the ASCII graphics at boot-up were polluted with vertical dashes from top to bottom. The graphics card was kaput, FUBAR. It would work okay on the Windows desktop, but as soon as it was taxed with any form of 3D acceleration it would lock up the entire computer.

I still had an older eVGA 7800 GTX sitting in my old computer, so I popped that bad boy in my current system and amazingly everything works fine again! That eVGA card is going on 3 years old now and works like new. The only thing I've never liked about it is that it runs very hot, but a running graphics card, no matter how hot, is better than a lemon card. I'll try to contact PNY for warrenty recovery, but based on what I've read I am not hopeful. I'll just remember to steer clear of PNY graphics cards from now on.

... Just FYI this thread is almost over 7 years old....
10-28-2003 at 04:42:45 AM

good thing the internet is more than 7 years old...  

i had the same problem with pny dual 9600 GT so 16 months must be their [pathetic, pre-programmed] shelf-life. boo on PNY!

I miss voodoo, they made good cards back in the day.