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Your Experience With GALAX

SamTheWelshDragon
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I'm interested to hear if anyone has any juicy stories (good or bad) about GALAX. I'll get the ball rolling; I'm the not-so-proud owner of a GTX 780 Ti HOF+ and have had nothing but issue with it after 2 RMAs (firstly for constant blue screening and then for not booting at all). I have a somewhat working card right now but with it's 50 degree idles and 90 degree loads, seemingly random instability and freezes (which are accompanied by beautiful rainbowing, might I add), random 100% fan speed boots and unresponsive support team I've opted to leave it to rest while I run a backup GTX 460 and sulk as I feel ripped off.

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I think @Overkilled has a Galax HOF GTX 970

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Even when they were Galaxy the support was bad on the western side of the globe. They do make some of the best GPUs i have see though and when it works, it just works and OCs like no other.

 

You can void your warranty for just removing the cooler to clean it, even though they don't didn't have, not sure about now, a sticker on the screw like how MSI does it.

 

I had created a custom BIOS for my 660Ti from them and after just over a year and using many different custom BIOS and all still was great, i updated my GeForce Experience, one that was glitchy, and bricked the GPU. It took about 2 days for a reply saying we will get to you soon from my initial support email, then it took almost two month for a reply of "warranty is void if a custom BIOS is used" 

 

Left them and went to EVGA, have not looked back nor will i.

A water-cooled mid-tier gaming PC.

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too poor

donate ur 780 <3

 

You're a collector of expensive bricks? Interesting hobby.

 

Even when they were Galaxy the support was bad on the western side of the globe. They do make some of the best GPUs i have see though and when it works, it just works and OCs like no other.

 

You can void your warranty for just removing the cooler to clean it, even though they don't didn't have, not sure about now, a sticker on the screw like how MSI does it.

 

I had created a custom BIOS for my 660Ti from them and after just over a year and using many different custom BIOS and all still was great, i updated my GeForce Experience, one that was glitchy, and bricked the GPU. It took about 2 days for a reply saying we will get to you soon from my initial support email, then it took almost two month for a reply of "warranty is void if a custom BIOS is used" 

 

Left them and went to EVGA, have not looked back nor will i.

 

That's brutal. With their main sales point being overclocking you'd think they wouldn't mind a custom BIOS.

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My cards pretty great but I've got one issue, in gta (doesn't really happen in other games) there is some loud noise that comes from the card but it isn't high pitched like coil whine other then that I'm pretty happy with it/galax

@SamTheWelshDragon the link to the HoF owners club is in my sig

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Even when they were Galaxy the support was bad on the western side of the globe. They do make some of the best GPUs i have see though and when it works, it just works and OCs like no other.

 

You can void your warranty for just removing the cooler to clean it, even though they don't didn't have, not sure about now, a sticker on the screw like how MSI does it.

 

I had created a custom BIOS for my 660Ti from them and after just over a year and using many different custom BIOS and all still was great, i updated my GeForce Experience, one that was glitchy, and bricked the GPU. It took about 2 days for a reply saying we will get to you soon from my initial support email, then it took almost two month for a reply of "warranty is void if a custom BIOS is used" 

 

Left them and went to EVGA, have not looked back nor will i.

the 900 series hof cards have custom dual bios switches not sure about the older ones though

[spoiler=Project N|ghthawk] http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/472430-project-nghthawk-black-and-white-hof-build/ 

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http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/408546-unofficial-galax-galaxy-kfa2-hof-owners-club/

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You're a collector of expensive bricks? Interesting hobby.

 

 

That's brutal. With their main sales point being overclocking you'd think they wouldn't mind a custom BIOS.

and here i thought i did a brub-a-derp.....this was my exact thought.

A water-cooled mid-tier gaming PC.

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the 900 series hof cards have custom dual bios switches not sure about the older ones though

My 660Ti was not a HOF nor did it have a dual BIOS but i would never thought that a custom BIOS would void warranty.

 

Oh one more thing that voided my warranty....i could have bought the GPU from amazon.com and ship it to my country but i could not do an RMA because it was out of the US...that was also voided my warranty.....nice huh!

 

I still have the 660Ti and it performed like an OCed 770 and kept cool while doing it........... before it bricked! &*$@#$%

A water-cooled mid-tier gaming PC.

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I have a KFA2 (Galax in Europe) 980 ti hof and it is great. Until nvidia drivers broke my overclock, I had it at 1450 mhz boost (from a 1400 base boost) with room for more. Their build quality is reallygood apparently and its cooler is silent and works like a charm.

Main rig: Shockwave - MSI Z170 Gaming 7 MOBO, i7-6700k, 16GB DDR4 3000 MHz RAM, KFA2 GTX 980ti HOF, Corsair RM1000 PSU, Samsung 850 EVO 250GB SSD, WD 7200RPM 3TB, Corsair Air 540 White, ASUS P278Q 1440p 144Hz display.

 

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You're a collector of expensive bricks? Interesting hobby.

 

 

That's brutal. With their main sales point being overclocking you'd think they wouldn't mind a custom BIOS.

yea i collected an gt 430, an gs 8400, a x1650 pro, and now a gtx 760

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138 is a good number.

 

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I'm interested to hear if anyone has any juicy stories (good or bad) about GALAX. I'll get the ball rolling; I'm the not-so-proud owner of a GTX 780 Ti HOF+ and have had nothing but issue with it after 2 RMAs (firstly for constant blue screening and then for not booting at all). I have a somewhat working card right now but with it's 50 degree idles and 90 degree loads, seemingly random instability and freezes (which are accompanied by beautiful rainbowing, might I add), random 100% fan speed boots and unresponsive support team I've opted to leave it to rest while I run a backup GTX 460 and sulk as I feel ripped off.

 

So, an update; the card was returned after a lot of emails and replaced with a KFA2 variant... Which happened to be about 1/4 of an inch thicker than the Chinese version. Waiting on a new case now as it doesn't fit into my Bitfenix Prodigy. First World problems. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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