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Trouble in Paradise
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The reason I mention my woes with the card is to warn others who may want to purchase a Gainward card. After talking further with my contact at Monarch, it looks like Monarch has a very high RMA rate with Gainward's GeForce 4 cards. Worse, Gainward doesn't want to admit the problem to their vendors, so they aren't replacing batches with the bad memory. Instead, someone must buy the card and find out that it's bad, and then send it in to be replaced. The problem with this is that it costs extra $$ to send the card to them and it costs extra time in the delay to get a functioning card. When you look at the price of the card and think about whether or not you want a Gainward card, keep these facts in mind.
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w/Graphics: 865G
VIA: P4X
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