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My JDM STi

(Actually imported from Japan, not just "meh car's le JDM cus Subahuruu)
 

My JDM STi

(Actually imported from Japan, not just "meh car's le JDM cus Subahuruu)
 

My JDM STi

(Actually imported from Japan, not just "meh car's le JDM cus Subahuruu)
 

Why does anyone even care about 1080p?

Show me the 4K Performance.

Why does anyone even care about 1080p?

Show me the 4K Performance.

Alright guys.

So I have been contacted today by the Customer Service, and we have reached an agreement on this situation.


I will not mention names, but a person from Customer Services has saw my post, and found a new MSI 295x2 - They will send it to me immediately and apologized for all the problems.


I am dissatisfied that I had to do that to reach results, and I will not question how you can just "miss" that you have a new MSI 295x2 in Stock, but well. I will confirm whether it has been refurbished or new with MSI, but as long as it works - I'm happy.


So Tips to anyone that is in situation like me:

I did not want to absolutely shit on their reputation, but they forced my hand with this one. (The Returns Department)

Point is, that it made more work for the Customer Service department, because they had to save the reputation.


If anyone is in a situation like me, contact first and foremost the Customer Services department / Complaints department, and go from there. I believed that since I asked for a Manager on E-mails, and specifically discussed options - and there was no 295x2... Well, you guys forced my hand. Why even contact Customer Services?


Regardless the problem is solved. They provided me with an equivalent, which is exactly what I wanted.

They will replace my GPU with a brand new MSI 295x2, so I would like to ask the moderator to close this thread in good will, no need to shit on Scan, after all it was just a guy in returns department being an a**hat, and not the Scan in its entirety. But well, life is life.

Alright guys.

So I have been contacted today by the Customer Service, and we have reached an agreement on this situation.


I will not mention names, but a person from Customer Services has saw my post, and found a new MSI 295x2 - They will send it to me immediately and apologized for all the problems.


I am dissatisfied that I had to do that to reach results, and I will not question how you can just "miss" that you have a new MSI 295x2 in Stock, but well. I will confirm whether it has been refurbished or new with MSI, but as long as it works - I'm happy.


So Tips to anyone that is in situation like me:

I did not want to absolutely shit on their reputation, but they forced my hand with this one. (The Returns Department)

Point is, that it made more work for the Customer Service department, because they had to save the reputation.


If anyone is in a situation like me, contact first and foremost the Customer Services department / Complaints department, and go from there. I believed that since I asked for a Manager on E-mails, and specifically discussed options - and there was no 295x2... Well, you guys forced my hand. Why even contact Customer Services?


Regardless the problem is solved. They provided me with an equivalent, which is exactly what I wanted.

They will replace my GPU with a brand new MSI 295x2, so I would like to ask the moderator to close this thread in good will, no need to shit on Scan, after all it was just a guy in returns department being an a**hat, and not the Scan in its entirety. But well, life is life.

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Addet a Better kind of Ambient Occlusuion and a Depth of Field to AC4 ^-^!!
What do u Guys Think ?
First one shows the normal game
the second is with ReShade !(:
 
AC4 Presnetation Video:
Download Link dor the Preset is inside the Video Description if anyone is interested !!

Hmm Interesting.. I have the owner of Scan on facebook... might point him towards this thread
 
 
You should visit the store and go and speak in person to explain - could be a good idea
 
if not speak to an obundsman
 

@Slick

This is a story of how Scan UK returns department absolutely screwed me over.
If you have a High End card and something is wrong with it, you're screwed too.


TL;DR:
208£ refund after one year for a GPU worth 780-1100£ (Click on it) on the market - or a replacement for a GPU with 55% performance of the original one.
 

Refusal of repair. (Yes they can repair it, it's a water pump failure, which they confirmed.)

I am a hostage of the Returns Department at Scan.
My voice as a Customer doesn't even matter. You either take this worse card, or 1/4 of the card's worth...
Or you know what? Doesn't even matter what you think - We will just give you that 208£ because you do not agree with us.

____________________________________________________
So, long story.

I have returned a FAULTY graphics card after one year. [Water Pump Failure] (2 Year Warranty)
Since the card is no longer in production, (R9 295x2) I expected a replacement of similar performance or value. (Current Market Value - approx. 800£, it's basically 2x 290X on one PCB, or 1.6x of one 980Ti.)

Neither of those has occurred. The reutrns department offered me 208£ for a card worth 780-1100£ on the market or a replacement for a graphics card that doesn't NEARLY come to the performance of 295x2. (One 390X worth 330£.)
I asked for repair of the card - refused. "We will not repair the card."
To add an insult to an injury, I have requested to not go any further until I seek legal advice (Can they do that? What should I do if we are in this patte situation?), and have thought of proceeding further on Manufacturer's warranty - which is still on (2 years.) - HOWEVER SCAN HAS DECIDED TO REFUND ME 208£ AND CLOSED THE RMA.
"As we can't come to a resolution we are processing the refund of £208.14+vat"
So where is my graphics card now Scan? You have literally stolen my GPU, and decide what to do despite my specific disapproval of this refund amount and request to **hold** until I contact how can we decently solve this situation.

I have specifically said, NOT TO PROCEED, until I have contacted a solicitor on the matter.
What a BRILLIANT customer service. Do one thing, that customer has specifically said NOT TO DO. I declined a refund of 208£, as the card is currently worth MUCH MORE THAN THAT (Again, 780£ is the cheapest i found.), and is WAY BETTER than what has been offered.

Better yet, I have asked for REPAIR which IS POSSIBLE (Water Pump exchange) and Scan has refused to do that, without giving me the possibility to discuss such matter with the Manufacturer. (XFX)

But wait!
There's more!

I have decided to negotiate with Scan - Okay, I am willing to take a GPU that is BETTER than what you offer, (Still worse than my original one) - and I will BUY a SECOND one, so you can keep a net profit and it will be an upgrade for me, as well as business for you. (I asked for one 980 Ti - and I will buy a second one.)

Sounds great right? - You win for a happy customer, and you still get to profit as I will buy another one. It would be an upgrade for me, and an RMA for you.
One E-mail later saying - Please hold, I will contact you shortly.
For 208£.
 
For a GPU better than one Titan X...
 
Customer Service? What's that.

That's the thing, I have 2 year manufacturer warranty. The card only was in my possession for a year (From new.)
But they just went through with refund, without giving me an option to say anything on this.

Other thing is, I found it cheapest for 780£ on PCPartPicker. (Sapphire though, not XFX) Which is why I said 780-1100£.

If you think about it, it has a performance of 2x 290X, which is better than a single Titan X and 980 Ti. (800£ and 500£)

So I should AT LEAST receive one 980Ti, I would be satisfied with that. It's actually what I offered, - I told them that I can accept one 980 Ti for a refund - and I WILL BUY FROM THEM another one just to get an SLI Setup.

But nope, you can get one rehashed 290X apparently, worth 320£, or go stuff yourself with 208£ which you cannot even buy one 970 for.

Point taken. Allow me to challenge that.
For a second let's forget market value, potential upgrades, generations and everything.

Let's talk Performance.


So I understand your point that people do not want to pay more for 295x2 - Because that's all it can achieve. You can SLI another 980 Ti - but 295x2 is already a Crossfire card by having 2x Hawaii GPU's on one PCB.

The problem is, as you can see, 295x2 has better 4K Performance. And that's what I need.

I have a 32' 4K Panel.
What else can you offer to balance the scales out? This card was the sweetspot, and because 980 Ti is based more on the future upgrade than the current performance today, I was okay with having RMA one of them, and keep the business with them and buy another one. That's an upgrade for me, business for them.

I have offered this to the person in the E-mail - I am willing to replace the 295x2 for one 980 Ti, and I will buy another one from you. Which gives them a profit of me upgrading my setup, as well as having a good RMA experience. But that's still a cost of 560£ for me, to get a bit better over my previous 4K experience.

I'd understand two 390X's. That would be an actual replacement of 295x2. Still a bit shitty, because it takes more space and I'd have to battle heat differently, but it's basically rehashed 290X - Which is what the the two 290X GPUs inside 295x2 are. 

However, one 390X not only offers 78% (Again, rehashed 290X - Look up chart above) but it's worth less than I paid for 295x2 originally - and MASSIVELY less than the "Current market Value".

So,
Back to the market value then:
295x2

1100£ Amazon.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sapphire-295X2-Graphics-GDDR5-Mini-DPx/dp/B00JMI5HPO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1461177784&sr=8-1&keywords=295x2

790£ Amazon (NOT WATERCOOLED. So Worse cooling solution.)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/AXR9-290XII-8GBD5-Graphics-DisplayPort/dp/B00LAX3WJC?ie=UTF8&tag=pcp0f-21


980 Ti
518£
http://www.morecomputers.com/product.aspx?pn=GV-N98TWF3OC-6GD&man=Gigabyte&referer=PCPart


So,
Better performance from a single card (295x2)
Bigger value on the market (295x2)

I would not be winning in this situation by accepting 980 Ti, because I would have to spend another 518£ on an upgrade to get decent 4K performance that I had with 295x2.

 
I will contact the manager tomorrow, and see what the owner of Scan says if @ShadowCaptain can contact him for me. I would be really grateful mate.

I do not want to go full on Panama Papers on them. I just want my graphics card fixed.

You can see a difference between 1440p and 4K on a 4K Panel. (I have a 32' BenQ 3840x2160)

I would NOT recommend IN ANY CASE EVER using 1080p resolution. It'd look awful.

Goddamn! is DJ khaled running the FBI?  #AnotherOne

 
BBC is reporting that FBI has agreed to unlock another locked iphone to access it's data to assist in a criminal investigation case of a homicide & Guess what?  the FBI agrees to unlock it using the same method that was used to unlock the San Bernardino case i-phone which was rumored to been hacked using a third party software made my an Israeli Mobile Forensic Firm Cellebrite , there was a rumor whether this third party assisting the agency found a flaw across Apple devices or found a workaround only to the specific phone. this means it's a generic one , pretty much without apple not knowing what it is to even consider patching it, every other device in the planet is literally vulnerable to this!
 


FBI so kawai!  'Willingness to help'
 
Although this is the case there was an official statement from their attorney for Mr Drexler saying that  he was "not concerned" about any data on the phone.(geez , i wonder why they are even making the statement in the first place)
In case of the first unlocking event there was an official statement from A senior federal law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said "it was possible that law enforcement might not find anything useful on the phone" obviously followed up with refusal to reveal what they actually found out
 

it always starts with just one..
 
The New Case:
The New case is for an iPhone 6 and an iPod that may contain evidence in a murder case that belonged to two teenagers accused of killing Patricia and Robert Cogdell in Conway, Ark., in July in 2015
 
the original case that feds were after was for a San Bernardino case in which Syed Farook and his wife were shot dead after killing 14 people in December. this lead the feds to ask the phone manufacturer apple to write a new software that would allow it to gain access to Farook's iPhone. However, Apple refused, arguing it would be wrong to compromise the security of one of its devices since that might lead to vulnerabilities in many other iPhones. And Ladida, it's happening!
 
 

Option that prevented FBI to attempt Brute force on the iphone
 
 
The company was ordered by Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym to offer its technical assistance, including if required, provide signed software to bypass or disable an auto-erase function on the phone. The FBI was apprehensive that if the function had been turned on, the auto-erase function would delete the data on the phone after 10 unsuccessful tries.  Apple somewhat bravely decline that offer & went into legal battle to counteract it , alas atleast extending the time taken for the phone to be unlocked, but no hopes now..
 
Justin Olsson, product counsel at security software maker AVG Technologie said that "The responsible thing for the government to do is privately disclose the vulnerability to Apple so they can continue hardening security on their devices." Pretty sure that would not happen
 

Quote from an open letter to it's customers & public from the Apple CEO Tim cook
 
 
So..the ethical dilemma! ,  what are your thoughts on this? Post what you think & how far should this continue in your opinion or should this be a norm to keep bad guys away & in check? What do you think? post your opinions down below...
 
 
 
 
Source:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35933239
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/31/472497468/fbi-to-help-arkansas-prosecutor-unlock-iphone-linked-to-murder-case
http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/fbi-may-unlock-iphone-in-ark-murder-case/112793333
 
WWLTV link Cort(@SansVarnic)