ubercake said:
mikeny said:
sonic123 said:
I know it's to early to talk about this but based on former experiences, when buying video cards, which of this 4 big name companies would you choose to buy it from? Have you seen an advantage of buying the video card of the same brand of your motherboard? e.g. ASUS motherboard + ASUS video card.
Thank you!!
I love MSI's cards. I have the Twin Frozr IV O/C'd 570 GTX and it's never failed me and always stayed cool. I also have the mPower motherboard but as another poster said, there is no real gains in having both GPU and MB from the same company. I do plan to get the 780 and from MSI. I'm just waiting to see if the 780 will be available as the "lightning" or Twin Frozr but I do like the reference design. It looks metallic/aluminum.
I've had a bad experience with EVGA. I had a motherboard with them and I filled out the warranty information. The board was giving me trouble right from the start and I contacted EVGA. Sometimes it took days for them to respond. When they did, they wanted my warranty information which I gave them, then they wanted proof (odd). I sent them my receipt and they still wanted proof. I took a picture of the MB where the S/N was stamped and they still claimed it was registered with another person. I then dug into my old email and found a correspondence with them when the issues first started happening. They refused to acknowledge there mistake and stopped emailing me back. Then they had the balls to block me. Every time I email them, my email gets bounced back. Others I'm sure will praise them; each to their own.
That sucks about your experience with EVGA. Did you try calling them at the number posted on their site 888-881-3842? They are pretty responsive that way? I dialed that support number before I bought my first EVGA cards (as I do with most companies when trying to decide whether or not to spend money on their stuff) to see if I could talk to a real person and had success.
At any rate, it sounds like they dropped the ball in your case. I've heard similar stories with just about any vendor. I just hope I never have that experience myself.
In my case, I've had great experience with EVGA cards.
Yepp, I called them and they pretty much uttered what the emails said and I even went as far as taking a picture with me in the picture time stamped lol. It was 3 months of hell until I finally told them that I had enough and was never buying from them ever again. Coincidently, the email bounced back saying it was blocked or something. I even copy and pasted from EVGA's website and it got returned. Exactly, for me, it was a horror show but I'm sure not everyone experiences it; through some friends though, it seems to be happening more often.
Concerning MSI's Twin Frozr, I would be playing Civ 5, Simcity (2013) for hours and my card would be extra frosty
I liked Asus and their customer service. I was just annoyed that my MB (back then) was less than a year old and had a bad chipset. So I moved to MSI and I love there mPower board. I only wished it had 3 SATA III (6) ports instead of 2 but truly it's all I need. I got a Samsung SSD and a WD Velociraptor in those ports and a SATA III (3) Velociraptor plugged in as backup but honestly it's not needed since it's only a gaming machine and don't have any important files on it. All my games are pretty much on Steam and Origin. With 2 not even on either. The other minor downside is where the USB 3.0 socket is located. Other than that; it's a fantastic board with it's PCIe sockets spread out nicely. For the first time, my PCIe sound card and PCIe video card and a good distance away from each other