I was in the same boat as the OP, rather than wait for either camp to release here new hardware I decided to up my budget and buy a GTX580 from Microcenter for $400 AR. I was thinking the same thing as one of the posters on here about buy it now sell it later, but from my experience with used...
Your getting a huge gamble when you buy open box merchandise. You have no idea what they are doing to test that if anything at all. Open box are returned items from people who bought them. They never go back to the manufacture. Refurbs have gone back to the manufacture and were...
This just goes to prove how disconnected the industry is from the consumer anymore. 4 way sli, yeah I got that email saw the picture and the first thing I thought of was how in the hell are the top three cards going to get adequate cooling. Next was how much will this raise my power bill...
I have been using MSI exclusivly for the past 6 years. Have had excellent results with them as well. Gigabyte is geared towards the end user, that is why your results with them are positive. If you were a registered reseller with MSI you would have excellent customer service from them as well...
Well if Intel really had refurbished the boards it would take forever to get them back from China.... :)
Industry standard for us builders used to be a 6 week turn around for failed parts. Now add to the mix all the end users RMAing direct I can just imagine the level of service the...
Even though it's OOS it looks like Mwave caught there pricing error and changed it to $179.99 making this an average deal at best.
Unlike all those Dell deals that fall flat because of poor qc with there website, I bet Mwave comes through on there orders.
Don't be disappointed if it comes with the reference cooler. MSI makes many different part numbers and the R4870-T2D1G is just the overall part number for that series of cards with 1GB memory. The actual part number will begin as a "MS" number.
Your on the right path but not entirely accurate. All dies are cut from the same stock and they are tested to see which ones will be a 280 and a 260 however they do not just disable the extra cores in the BIOS. If that were the case then everyone would be purchasing the 260 and enabling all...
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