GTX 770, Which card?

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David Mather

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Well im looking to hear what people think of the Gigabyte Geforce GTX 770 OC - 4Gb. I have heard some places that Gigabyte isn't the greatest graphic card makers, but also the complete opposite. So just to hear whether it would be a good choice, or i should go for another maker. Right now i am not planning on SLI, yet i have thought maybe at a later time.

Hope i can get some help :)
 
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I have the Gigabyte 2gb edition. Granted I've had it installed since Thursday so I can't speak to it's long term reliability. However in researching products while building my rig I frequently found people that were more then happy to vouch for the reliability of Gigabyte products.

Personally though the reason I choose the Gigabyte version of...
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Gigabyte, Asus, EVGA, and MSi are all great brands for graphic cards. Anyone one of them are more than capable of playing at 1080p as well as 2560 x 1440. The reason you would go for a 4gb version would be if you were playing at those higher resolutions. Getting a SC version is well worth it if you plan on just playing at 1080p, don't waste your money on the 4GB version if you only plan on playing in 1080p. As for the coolers, they are really personal preference. I personally really like Asus's directCU 2. Good Luck!
 
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In general, I consider GIGABYTE to be a nice board manufacturer- but a 2nd Tier GPU manufacturer. Honestly though, every round up I've seen of the GTX 770 seems to show that they made a very good card this time around.

That said, I went GIGABYTE on my last card (GTX 460) and I recall that it was a 5 Egg product on newegg when I bought it- but ended its life as a 3 egg product. That means an abnormal number of their cards failed sometime after purchase. GIGA does a very high factory overclock on their cards compared to the competition, so positive for performance there but I have to wonder if it leads to issues in the long run. My GTX 460 ran like a dream for 3 years btw, overclocked sometimes, factory at others. I had a good experience and it seems like GIGABYTE made a nice GTX 770- Windforce x3 is a great cooling solution.

I'd still recommend EVGA to you though. The reason a GIGABYTE GTX 460 is my old card is because I picked up an EVGA GTX 770 SC w/ ACX, I won't dare to compare apples to oranges between the two cards I have right now, but can say that the EVGA 770 oozes with a feeling of quality manufacturing.
 
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I have the Gigabyte 2gb edition. Granted I've had it installed since Thursday so I can't speak to it's long term reliability. However in researching products while building my rig I frequently found people that were more then happy to vouch for the reliability of Gigabyte products.

Personally though the reason I choose the Gigabyte version of the GTX 770 was that it came with 3 fans (dubbed Windforce by Gigabyte). Maybe the 3 fans isn't that much better then 2 fans but either way it made me feel a little more comfortable.

Regardless the only Nvidia models I've heard of with problems is the MSI versions of the GTX 660 Ti and 670 Power Edition Cards last year when they were caught overvolting against Nvidia specs leading to GPU's failing. And that was last year so ironically enough MSI might be the last company to try a stunt like that again.
 
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I've been searching a bit, and looked on some reviews, and most says the same as you about the EVGA card :). Yet on another note, i have been looking on the stores and such from where i live, and i am able to get the evga 2gb 770 sc acx card for about 30-40 $ cheaper then the non-superclocked, would you recommend that card over the non-SC card or is it maybe better with the non-SC?? :)

Thank you very much for the help so far though :)
 
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I have no clue mate, that's a bit why i asked as it seemed odd to me
 
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The Superclocked (SC) card is better than the non-SC in all cases (unless it is a non-SC 4GB card, and even then, I'd only take the 4GB card when gaming on 2+ monitors or 1440+ resolution). If you're in the 90% that game at 1080p or less- buy the EVGA SC 770 2GB, you won't be disappointed.
 
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