I was an EVGA customer for many years. I’m looking to buy a new GPU soon to replace my 2080Ti. What brands would you consider when making a new GPU purchase and why?
Before my current card which is an EVGA 980 ti I had Asus cards which I liked but the last one I had was an r9 270x so things might have changed since
I’m an AMD guy myself due to Linux compatibility. I prefer Sapphire, PowerColor, XFX, and Asus cards, in that order.
I’ve always been AMD myself.
Unfortunately I’ve had an Asus Strix Vega 64 suffer from voltage spikes and ended up seeing it has bad quality control thermal pads ❎
Then seeing Asus melt motherboards with the AM5 X3Ds at launch 🤔…
I think the current generation of Power Color was having a similar issues with thermal pads, but don’t quote me on that. My PC 5700xt and 6900xt Red Devils worked fine.
I went with Sapphire this go round for my 7900xtx.
Make friends, resell old parts. Subsidize upgrades 🙃
My Radeon 290X gave me a lot of Linux problems before it died. Like freezing a while after resuming from sleep. Hate to admit the GTX 1660 Ti hasn’t given me any problems on Linux.
AMD revamped and open sourced their driver sometimes around the Vega era, I think? It’s been super solid since then.
I got a sapphire for my latest card because it was the only brand with a 7900 xtx short enough to fit in my case (aside from the reference edition, which was of course sold out everywhere). Thus far my experience has been that it works and it doesn’t not work. I guess that is as good as it gets, lol. There was some coil whine the first day I had it but that seems to have just gone away or I haven’t noticed it and now I’ve had it for about 6 months.
I’m only looking at buying an MSI 40 card.
ASUS charges extra for the name, I’m concerned about Gigabyte build quality and denying warranties, it looks like MSI is the quietest card for this gen and coolest ot second coolest card, I have tried Zotac and they seeem to have cheaper or louder fans.
I am very pleased with PowerColor for the price. My RX580 has been beaten a ton for 5-6 years now, and goes on strong. Same from other PowerColor GPUs of friends