Best word Graphics card manufacturer???

Whats your fav manufacter mines EVGA or Saphire followed closely by Zotac

My least fav is by far HIS

ASUS, Gigabyte and Zotac.

Whatever's cheapest and doesn't suck I guess.

EVGA, Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, Sapphire.

i believe in the market standards. anyone who vilates those never gets my money. as a result i will NEVER buy anything from:

palit, sparkle, biostar, foxconn, or pny

MSI>Gigabyte>Asus Awesome coolers.MonsieurX

KFA2 are probably my favourite, then MSI and Gigabyte.

[QUOTE="MonsieurX"]MSI>Gigabyte>Asus Awesome coolers.ionusX

[QUOTE="MonsieurX"]MSI>Gigabyte>Asus Awesome coolers.ionusX

Yeah, I remember seeing that. I was wondering why they didn't just stick with a pair of larger axial fans around 92MM or so. Either way, the card's gonna take up 3 slots, so it's not as if they're saving any space by using a set of 5 40MM fans:?

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

[QUOTE="MonsieurX"]MSI>Gigabyte>Asus Awesome coolers.MonsieurX

Linky

ASUS

EVGA

XFX

SAPPHIRE

In that order.

After a few bad experiences with some manufactors, I tend to stick of one of the 4 above. the top two generally with NVIDIA Chips and the lower 2 with AMD Chips. I tend to cycle between Nvidia and AMD each time I buy cards, altho I ultimately prefer the Nvidia cards from ASUS and EVGA over the AMD cards from XFX and Sapphire.

Gainward and msi have been very good for me.

[QUOTE="MonsieurX"][QUOTE="ionusX"] gigabytes new windforce looks bad... 5 fans

GS550L

Linky

:lol:

[QUOTE="MonsieurX"][QUOTE="ionusX"] gigabytes new windforce looks bad... 5 fans

GS550L

Linky

[QUOTE="GS550L"]

[QUOTE="MonsieurX"] Where? :OMonsieurX

Linky

uhh that seems like an understatment!!

[QUOTE="GS550L"]

[QUOTE="MonsieurX"] Where? :OMonsieurX

Linky

Used to love me some BFG.

But since thier demise I am an EVGA type of guy.

Used to love me some BFG.

But since thier demise I am an EVGA type of guy.

danjammer69

i believe in the market standards. anyone who vilates those never gets my money. as a result i will NEVER buy anything from:

palit, sparkle, biostar, foxconn, or pny

ionusX

Care to elaborate on "market standards"? Im a evga guy but I was thinking of going for "those" guys since its cheaper for my new upgrade.

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

i believe in the market standards. anyone who vilates those never gets my money. as a result i will NEVER buy anything from:

palit, sparkle, biostar, foxconn, or pny

cdragon_88

Care to elaborate on "market standards"? Im a evga guy but I was thinking of going for "those" guys since its cheaper for my new upgrade.

biostar was caught 2 years back putting a gt205 with a 240's bios in a box and selling it as an actual 240 (when it was still losing to a 9400gt in benches). this year sparkle was caught making a gt440 that couldnt even beat a gt420 and pulling the same stunt biostar has.

ive personnaly witnessed poor quality control on the part of palit. i witnessed a new in box 9800gt fall apart during an in-store unboxing for a customer.

foxconn doesnt make gu's very often. but when they do they often both price them poorly and dont give them any real care or attention. as a result lifespans are poor and rma is poorer

finally PNY while they have made good gpu's and some folks swear buy them. EVERY other variety of part they amke sucks. so idk i jsut get bad vibes due to brand association. their ram stink, their other hardware stinks. their gpu's got me all shook you dig.

My 460 and 560 have both been EVGA's, had a XFX 9800gt before that. I'll probably just stick with EVGA in the future until I have a reason not to.

Right now I'm favoring Gigabyte. They made a serious card with the GTX 560 Ti SOC. The cooler is pretty much silent and it runs very cool.

ASUS

EVGA

XFX

SAPPHIRE

In that order.

After a few bad experiences with some manufactors, I tend to stick of one of the 4 above. the top two generally with NVIDIA Chips and the lower 2 with AMD Chips. I tend to cycle between Nvidia and AMD each time I buy cards, altho I ultimately prefer the Nvidia cards from ASUS and EVGA over the AMD cards from XFX and Sapphire.

Maddie_Larkin

Agreed I like Sapphire because of quality and cooling.

[QUOTE="MonsieurX"][QUOTE="ionusX"] gigabytes new windforce looks bad... 5 fans

GS550L

Linky

I only ever buy from EVGA..which kind of limits me to nVidia cards. Thats ok, they usually do better in the driver side of things then AMD/ATI.

they have been caught numerous times paying quality control to turn a blind eye. while your welcome to use them here are my experiences thus far:

biostar was caught 2 years back putting a gt205 with a 240's bios in a box and selling it as an actual 240 (when it was still losing to a 9400gt in benches). this year sparkle was caught making a gt440 that couldnt even beat a gt420 and pulling the same stunt biostar has.

ive personnaly witnessed poor quality control on the part of palit. i witnessed a new in box 9800gt fall apart during an in-store unboxing for a customer.

foxconn doesnt make gu's very often. but when they do they often both price them poorly and dont give them any real care or attention. as a result lifespans are poor and rma is poorer

finally PNY while they have made good gpu's and some folks swear buy them. EVERY other variety of part they amke sucks. so idk i jsut get bad vibes due to brand association. their ram stink, their other hardware stinks. their gpu's got me all shook you dig.

ionusX

I guess you really do "get what you pay for". Looks like my plan of going cheaper just went out the door. I like evga and have been using them for a while now but, they're just so damn expensive. I'll just suck it up and pay for quality and services. Thanks for the info because I would've not known and bought a half-arsed card.

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

they have been caught numerous times paying quality control to turn a blind eye. while your welcome to use them here are my experiences thus far:

biostar was caught 2 years back putting a gt205 with a 240's bios in a box and selling it as an actual 240 (when it was still losing to a 9400gt in benches). this year sparkle was caught making a gt440 that couldnt even beat a gt420 and pulling the same stunt biostar has.

ive personnaly witnessed poor quality control on the part of palit. i witnessed a new in box 9800gt fall apart during an in-store unboxing for a customer.

foxconn doesnt make gu's very often. but when they do they often both price them poorly and dont give them any real care or attention. as a result lifespans are poor and rma is poorer

finally PNY while they have made good gpu's and some folks swear buy them. EVERY other variety of part they amke sucks. so idk i jsut get bad vibes due to brand association. their ram stink, their other hardware stinks. their gpu's got me all shook you dig.

cdragon_88

I guess you really do "get what you pay for". Looks like my plan of going cheaper just went out the door. I like evga and have been using them for a while now but, they're just so damn expensive. I'll just suck it up and pay for quality and services. Thanks for the info because I would've not known and bought a half-arsed card.

I'm not impressed with EVGA's quality. I've had 4 or 5 EVGA cards, and it's been hit or miss. Much more impressed with Asus and Gigabyte.

I like MSI and Gigabyte because of their proper coolers and reasonable pricing. [QUOTE="GS550L"]

[QUOTE="MonsieurX"] Where? :OC_Rule

Linky

Air conditioner :lol:

[QUOTE="C_Rule"]I like MSI and Gigabyte because of their proper coolers and reasonable pricing. [QUOTE="GS550L"]

Linky

wis3boi

Air conditioner :lol:

I think they've went hunting for the smallest person they could find to hold that card. Or is she actually 6 foot and the card really is as big as it looks? ;)

EVGA :)

Gigabyte but I prefer EVGA.. step up and customer service is brilliant..

Plus i have this model i think their cards look great with the illuminated logo :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1dGwJw0VYc

evga ftw!!

ASUS used to be my favorite when it made the ViVo cards. I had an ASUS AGP GF4 Ti4200 followed by a PCI-E X800XL, both ViVo enabled.

Once ViVo disappeared, I just kind of wandered from manufacturer to manufacturer.

Whats your fav manufacter mines EVGA or Saphire followed closely by Zotac

My least fav is by far HIS

TKdreamAge

Whats your fav manufacter mines EVGA or Saphire followed closely by Zotac

My least fav is by far HIS

TKdreamAge

Right now I'm favoring Gigabyte. They made a serious card with the GTX 560 Ti SOC. The cooler is pretty much silent and it runs very cool.

hartsickdiscipl

Right now I'm favoring Gigabyte. They made a serious card with the GTX 560 Ti SOC. The cooler is pretty much silent and it runs very cool.

hartsickdiscipl

I have a similar GTX 560 Ti except it's teh non-overclocked version. The Windforce 2 cooler also keeps the noise levels down.