Best video card company

[thxdd]

Originally posted by: Pugnate
My only issue with eVGA is that I worry about the step up.

When you step up, what do you think they do with the returned card? Think about it. It isn't handed out to orphans...

I can't speak for everyone else's experience with eVGA Step-Up but I can tell you that I most certainly received a brand new card. I stepped up from a 7900GTO to an 8800GTS and the card I received was in retail packaging, shrink wrapped and all. One could argue it was an RMA but I highly doubt it was.

 

[Deinonych]

Originally posted by: Pugnate
My only issue with eVGA is that I worry about the step up.

When you step up, what do you think they do with the returned card? Think about it. It isn't handed out to orphans...

They probably sell it as a refurbished card, or they recycle it.

 

[Deinonych]

Originally posted by: thxdd

I can't speak for everyone else's experience with eVGA Step-Up but I can tell you that I most certainly received a brand new card.

Same here.

 

[nemesismk2]

I've had over 60 video cards from companies such as:- 3dfx, ATI, diamond, 2themax, Stb Gigabyte, Sapphire, OCUK, Powercolor, Crucial, HIS, Connect3D, Mercury, Palit, 3dpower, Creative, ELSA, Gainward, MSI, Visiontek, BFG, Chaintech, Galaxy, Inno3D, Leadtek, XFX, Shadow, Videologic, Hercules, Foxconn, Club3D, Apollo, Cirrus Logic, Videoexcel and 3dlabs.

Point of View are a fairly well known European brand and my friend has a POV 7800 GTX
which has been problem free since he purchased it last year

Personally I've heard only good things about EVGA and especially with the 8800 GTX so that it my recommendation!

 

[MadBoris]

EVGA made it's way up by being first to bring cards, mobos to market.
I'm not as sold on them as others, but I wouldn't ignore EVGA either.

All things being equal I would prefer BFG. They have excellent 24 hour customer support and excellent warranty system (lifetime I believe).

 

[ViperMichael]

point of view is recommended by Komplett a big european online pc part seller,

Point of view website is http://www.pointofview-online.com/

 

[Pabster]

eVGA or BFG.

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: ViperMichael
point of view is recommended by Komplett a big european online pc part seller,

Point of view website is http://www.pointofview-online.com/

I know Komplett (very good reliable company) very well because I have a trade account with them

 

[evolucion8]

I had very few experience with different brands, so it goes like this:

Powercolor = Nice brand pretty much standard design, a bit sensitive to voltage changes and average overclocker but I sold this 9700 flashed to PRO to a friend and died 3 months later cause his AGP port sent a bit more voltage that it's supposed to.

Sapphire - Very cheap price, bad overclocker, feels a bit cheap on some components, horrible warranty but never had any problems with them.

Gigabyte - Nice cooling, not bad overclocker but they love to die after 1 year and a half of use for no reason. My mother bought twice the FX 5200, the first died 1 year and a half, the other one died 4 months later.

ASuS - Nice and exorbitating cooling sometimes, nice but slow warranty and nice quality but expensive.

GeCube - Their warranty is an enigma, can't find warranty information nowhere in their site, only things that will void it. High quality components but not so high quality control, waiting for the replacement of my X1950XT which came defective :roll:

Chaintec - Bad overclockers, pretty much standard components but are quite durable, my friends still had his GForce 4200-Ti kicking and working with no issues, and it's more than 5 years old.

3D-Fuzion - My brother in law paid 60 bucks 4 months ago for a GeForce 4000 MX, I just wanted to slap his face badly for buying a so outdated card with such high price. The card looks and feels strong in design, I wouldn't even bother to overclock it.

 

[Laminator]

I think most brands will give you a pretty solid card that works at packaged speeds. Usually, cards that poop out trend towards a certain model rather than a particular distributor (7900GT, X1950 Pro, etc.). I've bought many mid-range and value-range cards from strange brands and have never had any problems. Overclocking may be a whole other story.

Diamond, ATI, and I/O Magic have given me unremarkable-yet-solid cards which performed quietly and reliably while gaming for hours. My VisionTek 9600 and PNY 6200 both came with higher than advertised memory clocks. I recently purchased a PowerColor X600XT - it's loud. I also had to down-clock the RAM on that thing (to lower than reference speeds) because it kept artifacting. I did get a very good price on eBay for it, though, because the seller spelled "Radeon" wrong. Go me.

BFG: My friend's 6800GT started artifacting severely in CS:S after a year or two, and he doesn't overclock at all. Don't know if he tried the tech. support.

MSI: Had a friend who bought two vanilla 6800's and used them in SLI. Performance was great but the fan popped off one of the cards after several months.

EVGA: The card in my sig. came at 560/1510. It goes up to 675/1600 (completely stable). Pretty decent, but not amazing. The stock 7900GT copper cooler was terrible. I've had the card for almost a year now and I beat it up a few hours every day with no problems.

I say stick with eVGA, XFX, and BFG for nVidia cards. Why not? Their prices are the same as everyone else's (give or take), and their warranties are way better. Unless you can find an awesome deal or can't order online...

 

[Lokan]

I've used many of the past and out of date companies that were mentioned but I'll keep my comments to some of the newer ones. I've used BFG for 6800's. One is still running on a backup PC and one had to be RMA'd after 1-2(?) years of SOLID EQ/EQ2 use by the wife. The RMA process was painless and BFG was wonderful to work with. I have two eVGA cards now, both have been fine and have had no issues. They are relatively new, and I'm upgrading to a Foxxconn 8000GTX this week; the price was very good and from what I've read, they supply the cards for most of the companies mentioned previously.

 

[pwnagesarus]

Probably already been posted but after some digging around I found PoV is a fairly big European company that sells a lot of gamer stuff. They don't sell to the USA though it looks like. =/

Probably why nobody has ever heard of them.

 

[secretanchitman]

evga, xfx, bfg, pny are good.

 

[zylander]

Originally posted by: Laminator
EVGA: The card in my sig. came at 560/1510. It goes up to 675/1600 (completely stable). Pretty decent, but not amazing. The stock 7900GT copper cooler was terrible. I've had the card for almost a year now and I beat it up a few hours every day with no problems.

booooo, pump it up even more!