Some Lifetime warranties are for the "Lifetime" of the product. So in essence, seeing the GTX 560 Ti, EOL, your warranty is technically over, since the lifetime of the GTX 560 Ti cards have expired.Other lifetime warranties are better, for example I had an EVGA 7900GT that failed, through EVGA's lifetime warranty I got sent an 8800GT.So, you really just gotta read your warranty to see which lifetime warranty you have. Most warranties are moving to the "Lifetime of the Product", so those tend to be good for only 6-18 Months. I've moved on to products with 3 year warranties like Asus. My GTX460 stopped working, and I did and RMA and they sent me....another GTX460. Still happy, though would have been happier to get a GTX560 or 560 Ti.

I think they're telling folks that don’t look for long strung-out EoL or deals (if any), it will be short and sweet.



Looking for SLI of a 550Ti (just don’t :laugh:), while a 560 or on a 560Ti maybe, but I'd say you'd have to see prices in lines line $120 and $150 respectively to even begin to call it a BfB opportunity. I think Nvidia knows that if they don’t go EoL as soon as there intend replacements hits "Green marketing" will be in the position... Folks looking for Nvidia won’t like the price/performance and if the channel is full of 5XX series those will scavenge higher margin sales. they have to compel people to go with cut-down GF104 to start getting a pay-back.By this they've already told AIB's don’t be thinking about cheap legacy products, gear up for Kepler. They’re telling the rest get ready to jump to the new, as the 5XX series pipe is now shut, what's left will dry up quick meaning less need to work-down inventories.



The strange thing as like AMD had retained the 6850 in the channel at prices slightly under the 7770 once they hit; I'd think Nvidia would keep just a GTX 560 in the mix. Although, I just don’t think the GF114 has been as lucrative for Nvidia as say the old G92+ that they soldiered on as GTS 250. So time to cut bait.



Then there’s also TSMC's change in business model, which now charges fabless customers (Nvidia) "per wafer manufactured", rather than "per working chip yielded". Again that means if Nvidia hold to 5XX dies they aren’t enticing buyers with the new geldings, still buy what’s by now fairly pricy GF114 as they purchase fully functioning parts only. I don’t think the yield on GF114 is like what they got from the matured G92+, and why they continued with cost effective GTS250 for so long.