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is there a snowballs chance in hell msi would throw me a 5900UT for my ti4200? seems to be getting flaky lately, pink desktops, green icons once in a while...the header is messed up. monitor plug wont plug in all the way cause its sorta deformed, i just bought the thing a tad over a month ago maybe. if they wont give me a 5900ut ill just keep it, 5600 would probably be worse.
Never hurts to give it a try
Well I sent in my dead TI4600 a while ago, and they tossed me a FX5900SP which would probably be what they would send you. Its basically a 5900 nu with some snazzy features, huge cooling, and 256 RAM. The memory is kinda clocked slower than the reference non ultras though... But I overclocked it easily to Ultra reference settings. Will they send you an ultra? Its a possibility, but I am just telling you what they gave me. They may also send just the 128 version which for some reason has a higher memory clock but costs less... Still, this card is better than a 4600, and it should eat your 4200. Go for it man.
lol, what if they send me another 4200 LOL
Sounds like I 'm gonna go buy an MSI and junk it up... :D
filling out an rma request form now, under "symptom" i put "vga function fail", i dont think its a lie...pink desktop and reboots seems to me like a fail of the vga function.
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"Thank you for using msi's online rma request form. Your request has been received. Please allow 24 hours to process your rma request. You will be emailed your rma number and shipping instructions. You may need to print this page out."
ill let u guys know how it works out, worth a try i guess....just hope whatever they replace it with is equal to or better than the 4200
Good luck :D
let me know what you get as soon as you can. I will 100% get an msi card overclock it until it dies then say "oh it's screwed up" for a FX5900.
So I'm a bad kid, your still paying $100 for a 5900 ;)
Well heres what they will do, they will tell you that they can replace it with a 5600 with 256 ram. I called them and asked them if they could do anything better than that because the 5600 is worse than the TI4600 in most cases. They called me back and said they would send me a TI4800SE now or I could wait for 2 weeks and theyed send off a 5900. Of course...i think experiences could vary, I wish you good luck.
*THREAD JACKING IN PROGRESS*
I have a gainward 64mb golden sample... then one with the bad capacitors... and I was thinking, would gainward throw in a new badass 5900 if I told them my card was flipping out in high stress situations? I might try talking to tech support this week, maybe they will cut a deal with me if I sound pissed enough.
well they got the card 3 days ago, and i havent heard anything (email, phone) so i'm not sure what to do....wait cause maybe a tech didnt get to it yet, call them and ask about it...stfu and wait...id much rather have a ti4200 than a 5600, ultra or non ultra...
*UPDATE*
called to check rma status and they said my rma will be sent out within 4 or 5 business days, what does this mean? they fixed it or what? lots of info from these guys.
Maybe you'll get a 5700 that would be about the equal of the 4200 when you bought it
that would be awesome....but i get the feeling they're gonna end up sending me a 5200...or 5600, ill just keep it unopened, call em up and ask them for something else....tell em i didnt even open it cause its such a bad card LOL
edit to add: also these companies figure people are stupid and will be more than thrilled to get a 5200 in rturn for a 4200, thinking people dont know the skinny on these cards...
The (not so)funny thing is, they're right.Quote:
Originally posted by vairox
edit to add: also these companies figure people are stupid and will be more than thrilled to get a 5200 in rturn for a 4200, thinking people dont know the skinny on these cards...
Only last week i checked out a new PC store in my area who's owner was trying to tell me the 5200 is faster than a ti4200 and the matrox parhelia is the fastest card available.
Then he top's it off by telling me i shouldnt belive magazine reviews cause they're bias. And...
I was on the army R&D team which developed the first modems in australia.
Senile old fart! :)
i was just at walmart so my g/f could get some stuff for her neices b-day/xmas....and they had an fx 5200 for and i shyt you not $154.99 and a radeon 9000 for $94, i dont know what the 9000 usually goes for but a price like that for a 5200 and i can imagine its probably twice what it should be. insane.
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Originally posted by GB_Cobber
The (not so)funny thing is, they're right.
Only last week i checked out a new PC store in my area who's owner was trying to tell me the 5200 is faster than a ti4200 and the matrox parhelia is the fastest card available.
Then he top's it off by telling me i shouldnt belive magazine reviews cause they're bias. And...
I was on the army R&D team which developed the first modems in australia.
Senile old fart! :)
:D I called best buy earlier because I have seen some posts with the 9800np for sale. Asked the sales lady if they had them in store and she said "Well, we have many 9800's for sale" I then asked the prices so that I could decide for myself if they were the np or pro maybe the xt. "They range in price, but the cheapest 9800 we have starts at $100.00." :p I once talked with a guy from Compusa who swore he was in the networking business for 20 years and argued with me that they don't make a Power over Ethernet device. Sounds like your guy makes the most profit off of his matrox cards :)
er its usually around $80, crappy card.Quote:
Originally posted by vairox
i was just at walmart so my g/f could get some stuff for her neices b-day/xmas....and they had an fx 5200 for and i shyt you not $154.99 and a radeon 9000 for $94, i dont know what the 9000 usually goes for but a price like that for a 5200 and i can imagine its probably twice what it should be. insane.
the 9000 is just as crappy (ok about the same)
well my RMA came back...they sent me back my same card i sent them and said everything was fine with it... even though the VGA connector is obviously misaligned in the manufacturing process, u have to tweak the cable to get it to work.... i had to call back 4 times and was put on hold for 15 mins each time to finally reach someone that leveled with me.
the result?
msi didnt have any other ti4200's to replace it with so they sent me mine back.
excellent company to buy from. saphire here i come.
edit to add: to those who rma's with msi did u send your card to the california center in city of industry? to others who will rma....dont send it there!!!!!!!!