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post #31 of 64
2/8/11 at 10:23am
EVGA - Nvidia

HIS - ATI

Those are the brands I stick with...
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post #32 of 64
2/9/11 at 7:07pm
Nvidia: XFX and EVGA

Both have great warranties. I've had great luck with EVGA's warranty service, and XFX has the transferable warranty which is great for a tech community like this that's always buying/selling used equipment.

ATI: No experience.
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post #33 of 64
2/16/11 at 1:43pm
Nvidia
1. ASUS
2. EVGA
3. Gigabyte

ASUS has a decent warranty, and I've never had a problem with any ASUS products. If I have the choice, I'd definitely choose ASUS above all else.

ATI
1. ASUS
2. Sapphire

I don't have any experience with ATI, but I haven't heard any bad things about Sapphire, and I'll always remain loyal to ASUS. You can pretty much disregard the ATI portion of this post. lol.
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post #34 of 64
2/24/11 at 8:46pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by r31ncarnat3d View Post
Nvidia: XFX and EVGA

Both have great warranties. I've had great luck with EVGA's warranty service, and XFX has the transferable warranty which is great for a tech community like this that's always buying/selling used equipment.

ATI: No experience.
XFX no longer does nvidia cards
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post #35 of 64
3/22/11 at 9:24pm
Of all the brands I've owned the list is as follows from best to worst (covering everything such as support, drivers, quality, reliability, etc):

ASUS - Best cards I've owned, never had to RMA ever, some driver problems w/ custom pcb cards
EVGA - Excellent all around
XFX - Great brand imo, but know of some friends who had problems w/ their midrange cards (5770s maybe?)
HIS - generally solid cards imo, maybe not the best quality though. Had some random issues w/ them in past (intermittent graphics bugs and drawing more power than the rated amount)
Sapphire - OK quality, some questionable bundled drivers in my experience
BFG - Defunct now, but had gotten cards DOA from them
Edited by SamuelL421 - 3/22/11 at 9:30pm
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3/26/11 at 4:54am
Asus....
So, yeah...
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3/29/11 at 6:56pm
EVGA - Quality is astounding. They're the only company I'll buy from for the reference edition cards. Not to mention they'll last well beyond their warranty.
-EVGA GTX 260 c216
-EVGA 9800GTX+
-EVGA GTX 295 Co-op Edition
-EVGA GTX 470
(cards I've owned)

XFX - Fantastic cards. RMA system is a little sketchy according to reports, but I've never had a problem with them.
-3 XFX HD4770s - All three in TrifireX hit 900/1900
-XFX 1GB GTS 250
-XFX 896MB GTX 275

ASUS - Again, quality matters. Not to mention overclockability matters and these cards always hit higher for the reference editions.
-ASUS 768MB GTX 460 - Hit 875/1750/2100 @ max voltage
-ASUS 1GB GTX 460 - Hit 900/1800/2000 @ max voltage

MSI - First MSI card is the one I'm using. It's a flashed GTX 465 Golden Edition, now a GTX 470, and it's amazing. So far it's the highest quality GTX 400 series card I've owned. Makes me wonder why I didn't buy a Twin Frozr when it came out...
-MSI GTX 465 Golden Edition - Easily hits 850/1700/2000 as a GTX 465 and 790/1580/1900 as a GTX 470.
Edited by Imglidinhere - 3/29/11 at 7:01pm
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4/13/11 at 11:30pm
For overclockers msi twin frozr is the best.

Sapphire and Zotac are also great.
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4/13/11 at 11:34pm
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For Nvidia -

EVGA (RMA service is 1337)

Asus

MSI

in that order.

ATI:

Asus

Sapphire

MSI

in that order.


But from what I hear Zotac is awesome.
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4/14/11 at 11:25pm
evga ftw!!!
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