I honestly figured this was common for video card sellers.
It's bullshit, of course, but consumers don't have much power in America.
Nvidia Launches GTX 980 And GTX 970 "Maxwell" Graphics Cards ($549 & $329)
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I honestly figured this was common for video card sellers.
It's bullshit, of course, but consumers don't have much power in America.
10101
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Unopened? Wow that's really taking the piss! The UK sucks for a lot of things but Internet purchases (& purchases in general) are great here. We used to have 7 days from delivery of any goods or services to cancel for a full refund, no questions asked. I believe this has recently been increased to 14 days.
Moral Panic
Member
At least one benefit we get from living in the UK. Altough we do pay higher prices so I guess it cancels out.
Decided I'm either going to order the ASUS Strix 970 or the MSI Gaming G4 970 when I get paid on Tuesday and then my PC I built earlier this month will finally be viable as a Gaming PC!
I just hope someone has them available on Tuesday.It seems both Amazon and Newegg are sold out of anything other than the EVGAs, which I definitely don't want.
There's a local Tigerdirect by me, not sure if they'd have any 970s in stock yet though. Anyone had success with 970s at TD retail locations?
My local TD didn't even carry the cards in store, but a Microcenter near me has 5 MSI 970s right now.
Dusktildawn48
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Which mc is that
Inferno313
Banned
Damn, there are no Microcenters in Florida. :/
Pocky4Th3Win
Member
Local MC to me doesn't even list they carry it yet on the website.
Sending used or opened items is a bit different from June of this year, DSR has been replaced by the CCR - http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/consumer-contracts-regulations.
Seems a bit open to interpretation... There's a thread from yesterday over at the OCuk forums, where someone was quoted a 25% restocking fee for his two unwanted cards. Obviously they don't want customers returning bad clocking CPUs/GPUs though.
Aren't RMAs for defective products?
Restocking fees are bull shit, but it's a very common practice.
Westmont, IL.
Yeah, its not on the website yet. I had to call the store.
Dusktildawn48
Member
Damn I'm in stl
TC McQueen
Member
EVGA's FTW 970s have a better designed heat spreader/pipe configuration than the SCs that are currently available, plus they'll probably ship with the semi-passive fan BIOS.I just hope someone has them available on Tuesday.
Didn't know DSR had gone!
I'll be checking the Micro center by me here in about half an hour, if they have one I'm getting it.
mugurumakensei
Member
msi 970s are in stock at dallas microcenter btw.
Dusktildawn48
Member
damn i have a mc about 10 miles away but they wont answer their damn phones, ive called 8 times. i wanna exchange my evga 970s for either asus or msi ones.
Moral Panic
Member
Oh wow. I didn't even realise they changed it. 14 days now, sweeet.
YuriLowell
Member
This is why I only order from Amazon from now on, burned too many times from newegg.
I have an MSI 980 on preorder from NCIX. They said I'm 4th in line and that they ordered 50 of them from MSI on the 18th.
Not sure what's taking so long for them to arrive. Maybe vendors just aren't sending much stock up to Canada....
CyberPunked
Member
What's the likelihood of a 980 being released before Christmas with more VRAM?
mugurumakensei
Member
Where you really get burned by NewEgg is when you try to call customer service or even do their web chat support thingie. 2-4 hour waits. It's ridiculous. The savings on sales tax are not worth the trouble of having to deal with getting support when something goes wrong.
PeterVenkman
Member
Msi 970 got in and it makes ab odd hum - not the fans either. I haven't gotten to investigate, but ill see if setting it to a different mode helps . Its like a low vibrating noise. I'll check cables first, but has anyone else had this ?
3D mark is kinda irrelevant these days.
Actionhank
Banned
Yeah, that restocking fee is bullshit. I stopped ordering from them a long time ago. I only order my PC parts from Amazon now.
Add me to the list of EVGA coil whine recipients. This card, specifically:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487066
Tried with various games. The pitch even changes so you can't even try to make your ears ignore it. The 970 itself is so nice though, hopefully I can get an exchange before sending it back because I'm loathe to reinstall my old amd 7870 in the meantime.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487066
Tried with various games. The pitch even changes so you can't even try to make your ears ignore it. The 970 itself is so nice though, hopefully I can get an exchange before sending it back because I'm loathe to reinstall my old amd 7870 in the meantime.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Still the best way to make sure your rig is performing up to par.
Anyone want to chime in on the ASUS Strix?
It's the cheapest card next to the EVGA line, which I don't want to touch given its problems. The other card I'm considering is MSI, but that's $30 more (for the red-coloured one).
Gigabyte isn't even in consideration as it's currently selling for a ridiculous $450...
It's the cheapest card next to the EVGA line, which I don't want to touch given its problems. The other card I'm considering is MSI, but that's $30 more (for the red-coloured one).
Gigabyte isn't even in consideration as it's currently selling for a ridiculous $450...
Microcenter in Denver has MSI and Asus 970s in stock as of 20 minutes ago, picked up an MSI OC Edition, $360+tax, so not exactly price competitive tho. Probably going to let it sir in the box for a few days and see if I can score a better deal online with something in stock, unless I just let my hype get the better of me.
This is the one I grabbed, $10 more than it would be at Newegg, but since they're oos for who knows how long it'll be...
I know, I'm sitting here looking at the box, contemplating, lol. I may crack it open tonight regardless and try it out. I have no real will power when it comes to stuff like this.
This is the one I grabbed, $10 more than it would be at Newegg, but since they're oos for who knows how long it'll be...
I know, I'm sitting here looking at the box, contemplating, lol. I may crack it open tonight regardless and try it out. I have no real will power when it comes to stuff like this.
Ohh man, you are better than I, lol. There's no way I would let the card sit in the box. Tear it open and bask in its glory!
KillerIsJed
Member
I ordered the EVGA GTX 980 Superclocked ACX 2.0 from Amazon. Which as far as I can tell is unavailable everywhere else, as EVGA states it won't be out till mid October.
Worth the wait or get the reference cooler? I've heard if you plan on doing SLI (I do eventually) to get the reference cooler, but that was one source.
Worth the wait or get the reference cooler? I've heard if you plan on doing SLI (I do eventually) to get the reference cooler, but that was one source.
Right because everyone plays at 1080p.
TC McQueen
Member
Worth the wait, since it'll come with EVGA's new BIOS for semi-passive operation (fans don't run below a certain temperature threshold).
KillerIsJed
Member
Won't that be released for all cards anyways?
Crap hope they restock soon. The Zotac at Best Buy and Futureshop was the best price too at $362.99. OoS.
opticalmace
Member
To be fair, it does say that there will be a 15% restocking fee in their FAQ.
edit: whether or not there should be a fee, I'm just saying it's not like they're springing this on you, as it was disclosed upfront.
Anyone had to deal with MSI's support before? I've bought EVGA only for the last at least 5 generations, but decided on MSI this time because of the negative buzz around EVGA's 970 offierings. They've always been great about replacing defective cards, hoping MSI is also not too bad, just in case.
Yes, but from a UK point of view. RMA has to go the whole way back to The Netherlands here so it's sloooowww.
mugurumakensei
Member
i can tell you the msi 970 oc runs pretty damn cool. even in intense scenarios, it stays in the 50-60 degrees celsius range.
Nice #agenda to defend your 780.
There are games that use more than 3GB at 1080p, let alone 1440p. Modded Skyrim, Watch Dogs, etc. Its not the most important thing in the world, but you don't need to be blinded by your love for your 780 to admit that nVidia held back on the VRAM to sell more Titans.
If you want to SLI I would recommend the blower type cooler that reference comes with. The ACX fans suck in air, so one card is going to be sucking in the other ones heat. The blower is just going to blow it into the other card, that is in turn blowing so it evens out. It also helps that in SLI the blower is pushing the air out of the case while ACX is having it circulate.
With two you can get away with the third party coolers. It's really when you have three or more and the card begin to stack it's a real issue.
Yeah it's not the end of the world if you get ACX, and if you have good case cooling it won't be much of a problem anyway.
Windom Earle
Member
Following up on this, I did check the voltage of my two cards in Precision:
Kind of impressive to still have this OC run stable with the first card being under-volted. I hope this will get fixed so I can crank out a bit more performance (not that it's needed...)
Sure.
Windom Earle
Member
I got Crysis 3 locked at 60 maxed out. (1080p only though)
Repost from the last page, did anybody else check this?
Following up on this, I did check the voltage of my two cards in Precision:
Kind of impressive to still have this OC run stable with the first card being under-volted. I hope this will get fixed so I can crank out a bit more performance (not that it's needed...)