I didn't know that three year warranty is from date of manufacture and NOT date of purchase:
GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO LTD
GBT-UK 3 YEAR RMA WARRANTY REPAIR SERVICE
START DATE: 26 November 2003 (effective to products released in 2003)
OBJECTIVE: To enhance the quality of after sales service
SUBJECT: Gigabyte defective goods (Mainboards, VGA Card)
Repair Schedule:
GBT-UK will endeavour to complete repairs within 14 working days of receipt into GBT-UK Warehouse. The only exceptions to this are manpower and component constraints and quantities exceeding 100 pcs per week.
Freight cost:
Customer shall pay incoming RMA delivery charges.
Outbound RMA delivery charges shall be paid by GBT-UK.
3 year RMA policy:
Three free labour cost + free component replacement Warranty validation is from the date of manufacture indicated by the serial number. It all depends on serial number not invoice date.
For example the number start from: SN0 0301317915
The first two numbers indicate the manufacturing year, i.e. 03 means year 2003. The second two digits indicate the manufacturing week in that year, i.e. 01 means week 01 of year 2003.