Damn... I gave it to a buddy of mine who stripped it for the heatsink/fan. Now that I heard the above story I would have tried to get it fixed. Or at least sold it for $10.
BTW The written warantee with the card said 1 year and that's what was on the Gainward site when the card died. I double checked at the time. Mine was only a GE3-TI200 though. The GE4 may carry a better warantee.
Also, when I went looking for a replacement in April the best I every found on Nvidia based cards was 1 year. That was a big driver for my choice of the ATI Branded 9500 PRO (3 year warantee).
As for an ASUS brand card to misquote an old rule of thumb:
" No one ever got fired for buying ASUS."
BTW The written warantee with the card said 1 year and that's what was on the Gainward site when the card died. I double checked at the time. Mine was only a GE3-TI200 though. The GE4 may carry a better warantee.
Also, when I went looking for a replacement in April the best I every found on Nvidia based cards was 1 year. That was a big driver for my choice of the ATI Branded 9500 PRO (3 year warantee).
As for an ASUS brand card to misquote an old rule of thumb:
" No one ever got fired for buying ASUS."