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JasonO

JasonO

JasonO

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I have an ASUS P5Q motherboard holding all the bits and pieces of my current machine together. I'm fairly impressed with the quality of the board which I believe is par for the coarse with Asus parts.

I'm currently looking for an upgrade to the onboard sound, and I'm after the Xonar D2X from Asus.

All of the above is fine, but here's the question....

I would like to upgrade my 8800GTS GFX card, for a new generation card. Should I consider an Asus branded card so I can have their apparently high qualilty parts throughout my machine ? Are there any benefits from doing this ?
 
JasonO said:
I have an ASUS P5Q motherboard holding all the bits and pieces of my current machine together. I'm fairly impressed with the quality of the board which I believe is par for the coarse with Asus parts.

I'm currently looking for an upgrade to the onboard sound, and I'm after the Xonar D2X from Asus.

All of the above is fine, but here's the question....

I would like to upgrade my 8800GTS GFX card, for a new generation card. Should I consider an Asus branded card so I can have their apparently high qualilty parts throughout my machine ? Are there any benefits from doing this ?
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There are no benefits to having all the bits from the same manufacturer as far as i am aware. Something i have never done myself. I just go for the brand with the most competitive price/performance. Which GTS is it? 320/640/512mb? What res do you game at?
 
It's a very early 320Mb PoV 8800GTS, it's a good enough card but not doing me any favours at 1920x1200.
 
If you game at that res then you're really after a 4870, a 1GB one if you want to ue more AA/AF and get some more life from it. Asus do 4870's but you should just get the cheapest as they're all the same.
 
Anyone else have an opinion on this, or aware of any benefits from having a full-on Asus build ?
 
JasonO said:
I have an ASUS P5Q motherboard holding all the bits and pieces of my current machine together. I'm fairly impressed with the quality of the board which I believe is par for the coarse with Asus parts.

I'm currently looking for an upgrade to the onboard sound, and I'm after the Xonar D2X from Asus.

All of the above is fine, but here's the question....

I would like to upgrade my 8800GTS GFX card, for a new generation card. Should I consider an Asus branded card so I can have their apparently high qualilty parts throughout my machine ? Are there any benefits from doing this ?
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Most cards come from the same factory then just get a different sticker......just get the cheapest
 
You mean that the base circuit board from some manufacturers might start off as coming from the same subcontractor before each manu attaches the surface elements, capacitors and chips etc, themselves?
 
NO only Graphics cards.

All Nvidia Graphics card starting from the 8000 series are built by a contractor and then Vendors put there stickers/sometimes unoffical coolers and Bioses on them.

EVGA/ASUS/BFG etc no longer solder all parts onto a PCB in a FAB plant.
 
JTrickle said:
You mean that the base circuit board from some manufacturers might start off as coming from the same subcontractor before each manu attaches the surface elements, capacitors and chips etc, themselves?
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No they literally rebrand the same cards.....
 
The Funktopus said:
I'd suppose they don't sell them themselves as it allows them to outsource marketing, distribution, warranty support etc to the various manufacturers, and allows them to focus solely on R&D, which is where they'll make their money.
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I suppose......but nVidia do market their own product independently of the boards vendors
 
So, other than the Xonar, I should just purchase whichever ATI or nVidia card best suits my budget/performance requirements.

Thanks folks, appreciate the discussion. :D
 
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