Warranty, Availability and Pricing
HEXUS.note: All of the information on this page was gathered at the time of writing: 9th May 2006eVGA offer two warranties for their graphics hardware -- Lifetime and 1+1 -- depending on SKU. Since their GS has a product number ending in AX, the Lifetime warranty applies. It's worldwide, they're very proud of it and all they ask is you pay the shipping back to the them. They pay for the replacement to come to you and try and turn it around within a few working days. Winner.
eVGA also offer a 90-day step-up program for upgrading your board within 3 months. Buy a board from them and fancy a new one within 90 days? Buy the one from them (as long as it's an upgrade) and you only pay the difference in cost, nothing more. Again, really good stuff and it's part of what makes eVGA boards stand out for us.
XFX offer what they call a double lifetime warranty for their GS, which means it's warrantied for the time you have it and the time any second owner has it (that you give or sell it to), as long as the 2nd owner registers it online. However the warranty does come with some explained caveats, so check out the XFX website for details. Like eVGA, XFX seem to look after their customers with a solid warranty.
BFG Tech have a lifetime warranty for their graphics board, outlined here, provided the original sales receipt is retained so BFG can check proof of purchase. The warranty has some caveats as outlined on the linked page and on the whole it seems pretty solid, protecting their customers from manufacturing or production defects and the like. The company doesn't warranty any further overclocking on their hardware though!
Availability wise, BFG's is in stock and very much available at Scan, here, eVGA's 430/650 version is in stock and available here and you can find XFX's too, here.
In terms of price, eVGA are the most expensive (with the 430/650 variant) at £234.33, followed by BFG at £220.27 and XFX at £219.95.
That means sadly the eVGA is hard to find at 460/657 and even the 430/650 version is more expensive than the 440/650 XFX Extreme Edition. With the BFG clocked at 400/625, price performance is won by XFX, by a decent margin to boot.