I learned my lesson buying XFX. I recently put an EK waterblock on an XFX 280 GTX and the card died. I really don't know if it was something I did or not. One thing I know is that I never got a drop of water on the card.
I RMA'd the card a little over a week ago and their support just informed me that the warranty was denied because of water damage. I could understand if they said their warranty didn't cover modification done when installing a water block, but they said there was water damage which is just an outright lie.
Anyway I will be buying EVGA for my motherboard and Graphics cards in the future. There never would have been a doubt in my mind that EVGA would have replaced the card. I really don't know what I was thinking by buying XFX.
Edit
I got an email from XFX showing the back side of the card where I had to peel the sticker off to get to the screws for disassembly. This is what they were calling water damage for some reason, this just makes the support guy ignorant, not a liar, so I take that part back. If it is their policy to not allow anyone to open a card to put an aftermarket cooling device on the card, then I broke that policy. If they do allow this, then the warranty should be honored.
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