NVIDIA to disallow XFX from selling Fermi based cards in Europe

[Behemot]

Minimum warranty in Czech Republic for consumer is 2 years (1 year for businessmen), some manufacturers offer 3 years, but it's still reseller's thing. Only in case of longer warranty (e.g. Seagate 5 years) the manufacturer is responsible after 3 years.

For that reason Sapphire is probably the most sold VGA producer around, as they have the same warranty as most other, but lower price and usually offer new cards like the first. Others are ASUS (3 year warranty for still good price), MSI, Gigabyte, PowerColor, Gainward, Leadtek; they usually rotate on "best seller list" acording to current stock status and thus the price. Interresting cards offers Zotac.

Others like BFG or eVGA are slightly exotic here (or they least have exotic prices)

[N19h7m4r3]

I know JohnZS it's really bad over here.

I've given up on Asus products, specially after the first 12months in which case you have to send it directly to Asus.

As much as I've always been an Asus fanboy, that was shattered because of their RMA service.

I will truly miss BFG in the EU, I never had more than a 2 week turn around and I even got a free upgrade once.

Sometimes it's just quicker to buy a new part but with money being so tight lately warrenty is even more important.

[Luka_Aveiro]

Minimum warranty in European Union for consumer is 2 years

FTFY.

[Behemot]

Luka_Aveiro: wasn't sure how it is in rest of EU. Thanks.

But only year from resseler's side, it's like a half warranty for me, you know Too complicates things.

[Russian]

It all comes from the same manufacturer. So that theory is shot. Only way they could have more issues is if they bin higher. As far as I have found XFX is not very aggressive at their binning.

Uh, not really... that used to be the case until everyone started to manufacture their own custom PCB versions with different features.

That's horrible news, I only ever bought BFG for Nvidia in Europe, so with them gone and hints of eVGA leaving also, it's bad news.

What are you talking about? eVGA leaving europe? LOL.

[Dragy2k]

well atleast xfx's rma phone line will be a bit quieter now that theres no fermi for them ...

[HelixPC]

As long as eVGA stays on as nvidia's partner, nvidia has nothing to worry about. nVidia can distribute these themselfs if they wanted to, but they would rather not deal with the customer service headaches that would come with it.

[SKYMTL]

Just want to drop this into the conversation.

In order to be an NVIDIA authorized board partner, a company has to meet a certain criteria. If they go without meeting that criteria, they risk being dropped. However, you can still produce products with NVIDIA parts if you are not an authorized board partner.

Here is the list for North America: LINK

You may notice some names missing: Gigabyte and Sparkle are nowhere to be seen but they still release NVIDIA products at launch.

[N19h7m4r3]

Speaking of Sparkle, what happened to them in europe? I haven't seen a product from them since the FX series.

I know they still operate in the states.

[Behemot]

Not sure, but I personally think they've been in the first wave of AIB cut. They just probably buy "second hand" cores now...