GTX 760. Which brand?

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Goodday!

I want to buy an GTX 760. But I was wondering which one is the most interesting card.

ASUS, MSI, Ichill, or EVGA?
I Don't want to overclock it.

The only thing I want is to have it cool, at gaming, and silent! As well as having some decent FPS.

I have:
Asrock extreme3 r2.0
AMD FX 8350 4.0GHZ
750 watt psu. (shit quality, gotta buy a new one xD)
8GB 1600mhz.
K380 Case.

One more thing: I only have 1 PCI-e 8-pin connector left. I noticed that the Asus only needs one 8-pin, and the other brands need atleast 2x6 or 1x6 1x8.

Can someone also tell me why that is?
And which card would be the best for the price?

Thanks in advance.

Greets,
Leon.
 
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grebgonebad

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I would personally strongly recommend EVGA, but I suggest this mainly for Overclocking, which you say you dont want to do. But even so, EVGA is stil the best manufacturer of Nvidia cards as EVGA work very closely with Nvidia during the design and manufacturing process.

You want it cool and silent? Who doesnt? XD but seriously, these two things dont usually come together. But if you are not overclocking the 'cool' aspect of it is irrelevant, as the manufacturer will ensure that the card will not overheat using thier cooler. I would take a look at Gigbyte's windforce range or MSI's Frozr (Apologies if I spelt this wrong, never had an MSI card). I can personally couch for Gigabyte, as I have previously owned a windforce 670 before now and it was as silent as it comes. But I ahv also heard the Frozr's are good for silence also.

Power, this can go on and on and on, but it basically comes down to 3 things. How effeicient the card is at using it's supplied power, how much it is over/underclocked by the manufacturer and how large/how many fans the cooler has. If the card is running at base clocks with 1 cooling fan and is efficient, then it will not need as much power being supplied as a card that is using 3 fans and is heavily overclocked by the manufacturer.

As far as which card is best for the price, well, that's hard to say. The absolute best card for the price would be the cheapest one from EVGA, becuse you can almost guarentee you can OC it enough to perform between 10-15% better. But going by your requirements, I would say you are limited as to which is the best value, per se. Just go with one of the two I mentioned above and you shouldnt go far wrong.

If you need any more help, please dont hesitate to ask. =)
 
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While I agree with you that EVGA have excellent customer service and manfuacture quality parts, I dont think that EVGA would be suitable for thier needs. My experience with EVGA has been that the coolers can get get rather noisy under load, (Reference: Have previously owned 4 EVGA cards) not that it matters to me anyway because of the bloody racket my 4000rpm CPU fan puts out. XD

Anyway, just out of interest I looked at your system specs. Where the hell did you manage to find a 2.5Tb HDD!?
 
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EVGA Precision X by any chance? =)

Yes, I have to say providing you use a suitable fan controller the fan noise isnt unbearable. I think if I were to slow down a few of my chassis fans I would just about be able to hear the GPU fans. But under load they can get a bit, whiney, for want of another word. =P
 
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