Originally Posted by
Fascinate
1. Highest temp ive ever seen my card is 67c (galaxy model)
2. I own a kill-a-watt meter, ive never seen my PC draw over 350 watts from the wall, i have a 2500k and 8gb of ram.
3. Faulty parts? Have you ever heard of part binning? With your logic no one should ever buy a gtx 570, gtx 560 448 core, gtx 670, gtx 660ti, gtx 470, radeon 6950, radeon 5850, radeon 7950. I could go on and on and on lol.
4. In over a year ive never had a black screen or driver crash with my gtx 465, it has been the most reliable video card i have ever owned. Go look at the wow tech support forums it is littered with 500 and 600 series crashes (as well as lots of 7000 series AMD cards) and low performance numbers. GTX 400 series is rock solid.
5. 90 days is a standard warranty for refurb products, ive only seen rare cases of longer (the gtx 480 has a 1 year warranty from EVGA for 100 bucks more).
6. For wow perfomance the gtx 465 is faster than a 6850 or 6870 and possibly a 6950. Nvidia just runs wow better than AMD cards.