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Choose: A or B or C

I suppose the EVGA has the faster clocks overall, though there really isn't much in it hence my initial thoughts about the price since it was the only thing I could say that really set them apart.

If it's any help I can vouch for the cooler on the Gigabyte, my SOC 480 has the same one. Very cool and quiet.
 
haha thanks, but I definitely want to stick to a single card and a GTX 580 at that, so will continue to consider a,b,c and the new d.
 
No problem, don't know what your missing though, 6950>70 xfire, probably about Southern Isles performance(at least) for the same price as a single 580.
 
C would be my choice.

A: Not guaranteed to be stable with factory OC without volt bump; Twin Frozr II cooler has a high failure rate of fans, i.e. intermittent fan noise.

B: Can't really comment on that, as I don't know much about it. The color of the PCB looks cheap (lol just kidding).

D: The noise is very low but it's a triple-slot card, which may be trouble for future SLI. Also, many reviews suggested low potential of overclockability.
 
harmony said:
C would be my choice.

A: Not guaranteed to be stable with factory OC without volt bump; Twin Frozr II cooler has a high failure rate of fans, i.e. intermittent fan noise.

B: Can't really comment on that, as I don't know much about it. The color of the PCB looks cheap (lol just kidding).

D: The noise is very low but it's a triple-slot card, which may be trouble for future SLI. Also, many reviews suggested low potential of overclockability.
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Triple slot? How so. My board has two GPU slots and one for my Xonar DX 7.1 sound card. Are you saying the sound card would have to come out!?
 
10 year warranty means didly squat, who the hell keeps a card more than 2yrs and if you do what are you doing buying that price of card. Most who buy the top end cards will have upgraded\changed within a year so I wouldn't decide my purchase on length of warranty. Has to be best performing card.:)
 
The EVGA says only 3 years warrenty on that note...

I would got for the ASUS Matrix with the higher quality vrms should allow for a higher overclock and with the massive 2 slot cooler should run cooler which should help you as you dont want sli and squeezing every last fps out of it will help :D

but tbh you cant go wrong with any of them

so in order of choice and reason why

1st...... D as it should overclock highest and be the coolest

2nd...... A as its the cheapest

3rd....... C as evga warrenty is very good

4th....... B the gigabyte offers nothing over the rest


hope this helps
 
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