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Re: Considering building a gaming PC. Advice on this build

Just in case you haven't noticed, or are not aware, make sure you get this: 3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)

It costs all of £5 and is well worth it for piece of mind.

Re: Considering building a gaming PC. Advice on this build

3 year labour but only 1 year parts?

So basically it's a 1 year warranty with 3 years service (as long as you buy replacement parts yourself)? Makes no sense to me...

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Originally Posted by Rob (Post 35688542)

Very few people will appreciate any benefit of running two graphics cards. If you do want to go that route, even if that is a remote possibility for the future, look closely at your motherboard specs for bandwidth of the PCIe slots when both are in use. What was a 16x slot may well be limited to only 8x or worse 4x depending on the board's configuration.

There were lots of issues with the R290 AMD cards at launch as they got the drivers wrong. That is effectively sorted now. Even so, don't get stock cards and get ones that the manufacturer's have added their own dual / triple fan coolers and they will do for most people.

That's certainly the case for high end graphics cards, but low/midrange ones not so much. You can often get the performance of a top end card by combining two cheaper cards of less than half the price.

With regard to the PCIe slots, what you say is true, however, very little ever needs the full capacity of a PCIe3 16x slot, there is virtually no performance drop from going down to 8x or even 4x in some cases.

Re: Considering building a gaming PC. Advice on this build

Thing is, the standard warranty is only for 1 month collect & return, so £5 to have that extended to 1 year seems pretty good to me. I'd hate to think how much it would cost to courier a big PC, certainly more than £5

Re: Considering building a gaming PC. Advice on this build

1 month warranty? That's absurd, even returned/refurbished goods from Ebuyer have 90 days... Most things have 1 year as standard and even beyond that you've got consumer protection laws that extend rights to 5-6 years if you're willing to take it that far...

Re: Considering building a gaming PC. Advice on this build

Sales of good means it has 1 year anyway. Most companies do collect and return as standard of systems and some even with components. I have not had to pay to return faulty goods for a while now

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq (Post 35689608)

I think he means the collect and return part not the guarantee