My 6800 Ultra is bust.

I was playing a game then all of a sudden it locked up then the system crashed and restarted. Before windows could boot BIOS was displaying cascading numbers and letters then and an atari style series of colors until the Operating System loaded. After screwing around with it a bit I determined it's just the GPU. I had to replace it with an oldGeforece 3 because my 6800 no longer accepts drivers. So I can't install it to acceleration anyway.

I'm not sure if it's shoddy design or manufacturing flaw. This was a BFG make. I had an older ASUS make that did something similar, but straight out of the box. Didn't even have the ASUS make for a week.

I hope BFG wil do something about it because a new GOODGPU isn't in my budget at the moment. Not too happy right now. What's the best bang for the buck at the moment?

If you do a little research you would notice that a lot of people are having their 6800 series GPU's fail on them. Its good you went with BFG and you get lifetime warranty. I am pretty sure they will send you a 8600GT as a replacement.

Since BFG has been offering lifetime warranty with their graphics card products from day one, you shouldn't have any problem getting a proper replacement. I wouldn't expect an 8800 Ultra out of the deal, but even at this stage, an 8600GT(S) would be a fair bit faster and enable you to do some DX10 eye candy.codezer0

Yeah I could see them doing that for him.

It's natures way of telling you it's time to upgrade your video card.

The 6800 series is under powered for today's games. You now have an excuse to get a new video card.

It's natures way of telling you it's time to upgrade your video card.

The 6800 series is under powered for today's games. You now have an excuse to get a new video card.

howiesfunware

I'm not atall impressed with their warranty service. They just keep telling me that everything else in my computer is broken. They don't want to replace anything, they are not willing to replace anything. So what is their warranty worth? NOTHING. It's all talk, it sounds good and makes them lookgood. Just some BS. They aren't gonna replace anything, they're gonna fight and argue so they won't have to replace it. BFG is just another Compaq.MagnumPI

When my brothers 6800 Ultra died, He sent it back to them and the replaced it (with another one) free of charge.

[QUOTE="MagnumPI"] I'm not atall impressed with their warranty service. They just keep telling me that everything else in my computer is broken. They don't want to replace anything, they are not willing to replace anything. So what is their warranty worth? NOTHING. It's all talk, it sounds good and makes them lookgood. Just some BS. They aren't gonna replace anything, they're gonna fight and argue so they won't have to replace it. BFG is just another Compaq.Hellsing2o2

When my brothers 6800 Ultra died, He sent it back to them and the replaced it (with another one) free of charge.