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Nope, they fucked me. Called Fedex and said there was a freeway closed 2 days ago and the package is now rescheduled for monday. Funny, the package went out yesterday so wtf does that have to do with a closed freeway 2 days ago??? I reamed the idiot on the phone out. Of course he's some fucking shithead sitting in a call center in india so what the fuck does he care....
I have written an email to ZZF requesting being reimbursed for the $27 for overnight shipping. Fedex and ZZF will never be delivering items for me again. Newegg / UPS only from now on.
Sorry card is running behind. But why get on ZZF's ass? ZZF has to pay FedEx and it was FedEx's mistake. And its not like they don't move a zillion packages a day. Not to mention how all the shippers are getting reamed by fuel costs.
We've all had shipping mistakes occur but at the same time if we think about how often they happen, its pretty rare overall.
lmimmfn - Yes of course. I've dispatched a 4800 card to Unwinder so he can start working on the RT compatibility, after which we'll max out the OC and likely update the reference article. The overclocking guide might be a good idea, in fact even to include in all reviews.
Cause it was ordered weds. Newegg would have shipped it weds - but ZZF being lazy sat on it another day. Im pissed at ZZF cause they should've shipped it the same day. The order was in early.
Failure on both parts.
We've all had shipping mistakes occur but at the same time if we think about how often they happen, its pretty rare overall.
I ordered my third GTX 280 from NewEgg last Friday, before noon PST with all the verification done before noon PST and even paid $3 for rush processing and NewEgg didn't ship the card till Monday. I've order tons from both ZZF and NewEgg overnight and from time to time it doesn't ship till next day. Most of the time but not always. Neither one guarantees same day shipping.
Yup, same here. I ordered at ~1pm yesterday with UPS ground and it was in my hands at 10:00am today! Sucks when they randomly decide not to ship your order from CA though...Depends on when you place your orders too. Too late in the day and itll likely slide to the next day
I have the benefit that Neweggs CA warehouse is a 2 minute drive from my house so UPS ground is usually UPS Next Day. The fact i have to pay for shipping and can't pick it up though is ridiculous
Yup, same here. I ordered at ~1pm yesterday with UPS ground and it was in my hands at 10:00am today! Sucks when they randomly decide not to ship your order from CA though...
I think my wife would have to disagree with you. She has witnessed every issue i have with either UPS, DHL,and Fedex and can truthfully say that my packages are delayed for one reason or another more than 50% of the time. I have the direct number to both my UPS and Fedex local facilities and am on first name basis with the UPS supervisor. I'm not rude, but its almost comical how often i end up having to call them up. I don't even bother calling the 800 number anymore because all they do is put in a ticket to have the local facility call you, no point since I can call them. I'm thankful that none of my shipments have been lost, just delayed and usually its simple human error.
ZZF used to be really really good a couple years ago. Not only were almost all of their items free shipping, but they were about as consistent as Newegg. I have noticed with my last few orders with them that when they say 1-2 business days processing time, they aren't kidding. Newegg, atleast for me, usually has the item out the door the same day.
50% of the time? Do you live near a sigularity! Seriously, there's no way these companies could stay in business if that was their average performance.
We'll see overclocks on the 4870 soon since Unwinder is getting a 4800 sample from Guru3d soon:
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BIOS editing is always risky, especially when voltages are used but RivaTuner should alleviate that.
Glad you got it working! Quit screwing around and play some games!
I'm sorry guys, but the card died on me when I tried flashing to 870/4500 with a slightly higher voltage in BIOS... it worked fine for Crysis and others for about 15 minutes just running hot, but due to temps I flashed back to stock... suddenly bluescreen, now no boot... put in a card alongside it and it shows up in Windows, flashed to default BIOS with higher fan speeds and it won't come back to life still.
I'm getting... odd... Crysis results here. Other games are running fine, but Crysis seems WAY below the pack of games vs. the 280, whereas the 4870 is very competitive if not equal to it with 8x AA and 16x AF in the games I'm testing. Crysis seems to be having some major issues with tons of loading and complete stuttering at parts of the timedemo, while FPS stays the same whether I have no AA, or all the way up to 8x AA, the framerate stays exactly the same (the AA is changing looking by eye during the demo, just not the framerates). Any ideas? This card looks to be a beast, but I'm thinking there's a driver issue with Crysis at the moment. Other games are giving VERY good results though. Also, GPU-Z is showing the non-DDR5 bandwidth (i.e. bandwidth as though it was running at the RAM speed it actually is, rather than 4x bandwidth which = DDR5 bandwidth). Hopefully the next few days will see a new driver release and some bugfixes.
I guess you don't know that crytek pretty much built crysis as a benchmark tool for nvidia. Nvidia paid for some of the engine r/d and was pretty much involved in the development of crysis by crytek. That's probably why even newer ati cards perform rather poorly compared to newer and older nv gpus and that fps gains from crossfiring either 4850s or 4870s are virtually nonexistent.