They made good on the fee and very nice to me about it.

Awsome .... I would be hitting them up Dent ...... 75 buck is BS ..... for the type of money you spend there ....

I bet if the entire team boycotted them they would loose 100K a year ...... LOL

The way I see it, if it wouldnt run at stock speeds, then yeah I should get all my money back.

As it is, I just wasnt happy with the oc headroom on ln2 ... hardly a reason to claim it was defective ... so I eat the $75 and keep rolling.

That is very admirable of you Winger, but ponder this. I guarantee that the egg is getting every dime they spent back from MSI...add to that the fact that it wasn't as advertised, not even close brother. Get your $'s back bro, more to spend there in the future. Maybe ask them for a credit?

Well, "as advertised" would be stock speeds, which it did fine with.

I dont really count the guys on hwbot setting records with modded cherry cards as advertising, although it certainly is to guys like us.

I get your point though, Ill call them up and see what they say ;)

I too have received full refund for my card. :)

Whenever you need an RMA from newegg, call. If its a defective return, they will not charge a restocking fee, and will pay for shipping. If you return because you dont want it, then you have to pay for both. I got a Scythe Big Shuriken once, that blocked half the ram slots on my mobo, and they wanted to charge me for shipping and the restocking fee on it, which wasnt worth sending it back.

I understand where you are coming from. Due to a bad insulating job I destryed 2 4870x2's when they were first released. I threw them away and purchased two more because I was at fault.

As advertised would be the card performing the same as the samples they put in the hands of the sponsered guys before the retail cards were released. The retail version should perform as well as that. If they wanted us to buy for advertised speed they should make that known and the prereleased versions should be show cased at stock speeds.

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Don't trust on their automated RMA service. Call them or contact them thru Live Chat and they will return any fees plus rma shipping label.