That sounds to be very nice.. .

You're right . ASUS products are priced much higher than the other brands found over here e.g MSI and Gigabyte, especially for the graphics card. Fortunately I know a seller who sold me the GTX560 TI from ASUS for a pretty low price .

Yes, all the B3 version of the H67 / P67 motherboards should have no SATA 2 ports issue anymore.

I believe it's the protruding wire that owikh84's not pleased about. .

You mean nVidia cards.

Anyway, for nVidia cards, you can only SLI cards of the same model e.g a GTS250 with a GTS250, not a 9800GTX with a 9800GT as an example. AMD cards are much more flexible and as long as they're in the same family then you can CrossfireX them, though I wouldn't exactly suggest that anyone do that cause the faster card will be bottlenecked by the slower card.

For some reason, my ASUS GTX560 Ti DirectCU II card seems to have gone semi-faulty. I just came back home a few minutes back, and everything seemed fine until the nVidia driver kept crashing multiple times. I thought it was an issue with the latest nVidia driver ( 280.26 ) but reverting to 275.50 doesn't seem to have helped.

In fact, when it was reverted, I could see lines flickering here and there for a bit, and some blemishes on my screen's wallpaper ( a curved-line patch of green as if someone used paint and edited windows' default wallpaper ). This quite convinced me that the card has indeed gone faulty for no apparent reason.

Because the seller that I bought the GTX560 Ti from has made it clear that any warranty issue should be handled by the buyer ( me ), I am unable to send it back to him to request for a replacement card. So ASUSMY, I'd like to know where can I send the card personally for warranty before I turn to the members offering warranty services here. Please reply as fast as possible, thanks.

Right now it's working fine at the moment after I shut my system down and turned it back on rather than reboot like I did previously. But I don't want to take any chances and would like to return this card for a replacement card.


Update 1 : Looks like the card is still working fine even when being stressed by MSI Kombustor, and when running Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Left 4 Dead 2. I'll continue the testing of the card and if the issue doesn't appear again, I'll probably call off my request for a replacement card.

Update 2 ( 01 Sept ) - Looks like it was indeed an isolated incident. I'm currently suspecting something else as the source of the problem and and concluded that the card itself is totally problem-free.

This post has been edited by TDUEnthusiast: Sep 1 2011, 02:21 PM