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Mike d.

Mike d.

Joined on 04/21/01

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Most Critical Review

Poor experience overall

PNY GeForce GTX 650 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 Graphics Card VCGGTX6501XPB
PNY GeForce GTX 650 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 Graphics Card VCGGTX6501XPB

Pros: I'm required to fill this in, but all I can say is PNY offers multiple rebates, but the product workmanship is shoddy. The 9800GT I bought from several years back, the fan malfunctioned in 3 months which I had to mod the card with an Arctic Cooler Accelero.

Cons: Ordered 2, 1 worked out of the box but the other card reboots desktop. 50% success product .. I will be thinking twice before buying from PNY again. I wasn't able to return the packaging intact to NewEgg, because I cut out the POP for rebate. I hope I still get a working graphics card anyway.

Overall Review: And the rebate - the company is so shady. The terms was a purchase from Nov. 16 - Dec 31, 2012. I purchased Dec 10, and they received the rebate info Dec 28th, AND I WAS DENIED, due to invalid date !!! On some other reference they used - they told me that that the rebate expired Nov 30. Am I that stupid? I would buy something outside of the rebate time. PNY - you have lost me as a future customer.

Buy it for Performance, not Rebate

HIS Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card H487QT512P
HIS Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card H487QT512P

Pros: Stable Drivers, Excellent Overclocker, I have 4 gaming PCs that were originally NV***a GPUs, now have new AMD and Intel mboards running CrossFire, but probably not with HIS Digital.

Cons: I like HIS as a tech company. I've read many reviews on how good IceQ4+ is, and the low temps show for it.

Overall Review: The thing is that HIS Digital (not NewEgg) will never see another purchase from me. I followed explicitly the rebate instructions and mailed it on 9/11/08, followed up in Nov, Jan, and Feb. I've been acknowledge twice that I should be receiving a rebate, but never received it yet. I called again Mar 11, and now the rebate number is no longer working. Hmm, some of you may not care about MIRs, but I do since these manufacturers have the same AMD hardware platforms and therefore compete on price and value. This MIR issue has been a frustrating experience, so going to another manufacturer wouldn’t be an issue for me, but lost dollars for HIS Digital moving forward.