Are EVGA cards any good?

Are EVGA cards any good?

Aside from the 1070 VRM fiasco, EVGA has always been the best when it came to nVidia cards. Sapphire is the best when it comes to AMD cards.

>nvidia
It's like you WANT the most dogshit performance possible.

they're p good and have the best warranty

go away AMD shill
and I don't want to start a housefire

>VRM explodes
You tell me.

>best warranty
That is Zotac.

That's nvidias job.

Used EVGA since the FX5900 days. All of the cards have outlived their usefulness. The only time I changed to team red was when the HD6990 was king of the hill. Currently on the 1080ti SC2 after the 780ti turned out to be a waste of money.

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amd is great if that's the ONLY game you want to play.

No.
They catch on fire

I've always been curious as to what the differences are between the different manufacturers. Is there a neat little graphic floating out there somewhere with all the details or do I actually have to look it up?

>playing Dirt

EVGA is the best for customer service and warranty. i always buy from them no shill. bought an asus card once but had to return it because i didnt realize it was too tall

>GPU making contact with HSF
What could go wrong.

why was this guy filming his PC turning on unless he know it was going to explode

Gigabyte and zotac are just as good imo

My gtx 770 oc from many years ago benchmarked recently just like in day 1... And I've used it intensively, they've always been known to package the Nvidia chips inside best shit available at their time.

yeah. best looking cards, best warranty, best customer service, best addon features like step up program and extended 3 year warranty. if your gpu breaks but is no longer in production e.g. if you had a 970 but it broke in warranty they'll send you the closest current gen gpu based on the value of the 970 e.g. a 1060.

>Sapphire is the best when it comes to AMD cards

Isn't Sapphire like, out of business?

None. There are no differences. They all have the exact same GPUs, the only difference is the cooling solutions. Every company has models with good coolers, every company has models with shitty coolers.

Just like RAM, the manufacturer literally does not matter. GPUs are commoditized.

AMD really shit the bed with VEGA especially with performance per watt, there is really no point in buying AMD at this point unless they release some magical drivers that rev up those cards to good performance

t. amd shill and fanboy with 1800x

That's not entirely true. There are also differences in warranty, customer support, and bundled software. These are all areas EVGA excels at. GPUs themselves, the chip embedded in the board, are standardized. Graphics cards can be quite different.

Yeah, they have incredibly bro-tier customer support and an amazing warranty
The coolers could be better but that's alright

Besides the FTW VRM issue, the cards are great. EVGA know they fucked up ordering the shit tier VRMs and they aren't going to make that mistake again. You can tell by the last couple coolers they made. I can tell there is some incredibly paranoid EVGA engineer running around slapping copper pipes and thermal pads on everything.

My there was a massive surge that killed my power supply and 980ti
EVGA sent me a new power supply and a 1080 back no charges. Besides the 10 dollar shipping I had to pay for the power supply cause I didn't have a warranty

Had an EVGA 650ti for the last 5 years. Still ain't planning on upgrading.

They used to be trash, they were well known for popping capacitors on the reg, I have had a few in the past that did just that. I havent used EVGA in many years, theyre probably fine now

I think currently the differences are fairly small all offer decent quality.
Not too much can go wrong between end of warranty and end of life.

In the days of liquid capacitors you really wanted a quality brand that didn't cheap out on the caps.
Especially when the quality brands started using solid state capacitors but the cheaper ones still used liquid.

I would pick a card solely by benchmarks (including noise) and features, rather than stick to any given brand.
Unless they are all equal, then go with ASUS.

Pretty sure sapphire and zotac are the same company.

Not even close. ZOTAC is headquartered in Macau and spun off from PC Partner. Sapphire is, and always was, independent and based in Hong Kong. The only real commonality they have is that they both do their manufacturing in the same city, Dongguan.

Looks like the solder on the power pin melted immediately with that flash. Idiot shorted the pins out there on purpose that's why he's filming.