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Good brand of 780TI

Techen

Techen

Techen

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Hey guys, gonna grab a 780TI and was wonder what brands are decent? Am a big Asus fan but is there any others that are better or worse than some?

Inno, MSI and all that have different clocks, coolers and so on. Was just curious!

Thanks :)
 
+1 EVGA

I will only buy from them in future purely down to support. I could easily register a 2nd hand card with them for another 2 years warranty support and things like dominik on here that answers all questions

I had a nightmare in the past when I had an issue with MSI. They were total toss pots
 
To add, for me it's not all about the support although excellent. It's the combination of build quality and the almost gauranteed chance of getting a good chip if it's a classfied, yeah you will get a rogue one but 95% of the time there good, MSI, ASUS take note, if you demand a premium for your matrix/lightning cards you could at least bin them to suit, owned both and will not again till this is sorted, the cards are superb but the chips are NOT.

Well done EVGA for getting the package spot on, thank you ;)
 
Nickolp1974 said:
To add, for me it's not all about the support although excellent. It's the combination of build quality and the almost gauranteed chance of getting a good chip if it's a classfied, yeah you will get a rogue one but 95% of the time there good, MSI, ASUS take note, if you demand a premium for your matrix/lightning cards you could at least bin them to suit, owned both and will not again till this is sorted, the cards are superb but the chips are NOT.
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I totally agree. I bought a 7970 Matrix Platinum on a massive sale (£222) right after the R9 series launch in October. The core was more than mediocre - 1150MHz at most an with 1.25V, despite the great cooling and total overkill PCB and VRM. All left aside but the GPU actually died in January just three months after purchase. After a month in Asus RMA (the card was bought from OcUk and the RMA from their side was handled perfectly) they decided its dead and gave me back my money which was hardly enough to buy the VTX3D from the signature. I asked for a 280X Matrix and was told that they are not substitutes (what, its the same chip...). I will never buy a premium Asus product ever again just because of that. And I have heard about a lot more cases with similar outcome both in Europe and North America. Their RMA just sucks and it is not worth to get "the beast" and hope it won't die. I think the Lightning-s are binned though so they should be better and MSI RMA is with one of the best reputations. EVGA is always worth though if you can afford it.
 
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Have owned
7970 lightning
780 lightning
2x 7970 matrix plat

One of the matix was ok and the 780 lightning core was ok, none were great!! Built very well and would handle anything but ref cards were beating them and they shouldn't, all these cards are £100+ over reference, no point building them like a tank if the core/mems are poop!!! And both msi/asus have been crippled by poor software.

All the above cards are probably great with extreme cooling and the unlocked software but for 99%+ of users they need to improve and correctly bin there chips.
 
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My only complaint with EVGA, in my small experience, is the same as with Corsair, their RMA service requires you to ship to mainland Europe, which can be expensive. Otherwise it's great. CardS seemed decent too.
 
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