Would avoid XFX like the plague, had issues with them before and their RMA procedure is a joke.

Had a 6850 that was artifacting when i purchased it, the retailer (overclockers) refused to take it back and said i need to take it up with XFX. The card was around £120 from OCUK and XFX's offer was £97 in credit on the XFX store, of which NONE of the GPU's they provided at the time were near that, in fact THE SAME gpu they did sell, and it was another £50, plus shipping BOTH WAYS. Ended up just shoving it in a box back to OCUK and doing a chargeback through my credit card provider.

All Fury Nano cards are exactly the same. Made by AMD and then XFX, sapphire, Asus etc put some stickers on them.

There's a reason XFX are cheap. I would recommend spending more for a proper brand.

After several months my 5870 developed an annoying issue where snowy white pixels would appear on videos -- it had something to do with video playback when the card was close to idle. They were prepared to give me £80 (i.e. less than half of what I paid) or a 6870 -- a card well known to be lower in performance to the 5870. Essentially, they're not willing to stand by their product fully -- I felt slightly like they were saying I should suck it up despite having paid £175 for the card at the time.

Honestly -- I don't want to be the one to say I told you so, but if you buy this just remember this thread for when it dies.

The Nano is a reference-only card. MSI/ASUS, etc, are all selling the same card with different stickers. Unless you're talking about RMA.

I think Sapphire make AMD's reference cards. I could be wrong though.

Smashing deal. This is perfect for my skylake mini itx build. Thanks OP.

Has XFX improved with regard to European RMA / warranty?

Comments on here are gonna be great with that write up :smile:

There's a reason XFX are cheap. I would recommend spending more for a proper brand.

After several months my 5870 developed an annoying issue where snowy white pixels would appear on videos -- it had something to do with video playback when the card was close to idle. They were prepared to give me £80 (i.e. less than half of what I paid) or a 6870 -- a card well known to be lower in performance to the 5870. Essentially, they're not willing to stand by their product fully -- I felt slightly like they were saying I should suck it up despite having paid £175 for the card at the time.

Honestly -- I don't want to be the one to say I told you so, but if you buy this just remember this thread for when it dies.

All Fury Nano cards are exactly the same. Made by AMD and then XFX, sapphire, Asus etc put some stickers on them.

The Nano is a reference-only card. MSI/ASUS, etc, are all selling the same card with different stickers. Unless you're talking about RMA.

I think Sapphire make AMD's reference cards. I could be wrong though.

My understanding of 'reference card' is that the design is by AMD, but the cards are manufactured by the different makers. If that's not correct then that's certainly interesting.

Well, if that's true I'd say it's a specific arrangement only in place for this card -- as I said, my understanding is that the reference cards are rigid to the original design specs laid out by the chip manufacturers. I have never heard it used to mean that the cards were literally generic rebadges from a single manufacturer.