I need you guys to confirm if this reasoning is still correct nowadays, cause I'm getting old for this stuff
One thing that I'm wary of when it comes to good brands is that although their factory granted overclocked versions, in Asus case the OC and TOP versions, mean guaranteed overclockability it probably means the "normal" versions are probably granted to not overclock well. Why ? Because they choose the best GPUs for the OC and TOP versions so they have to do something with the remaining ones right ? So that means it's probably best to get a reference version. Regarding the cooling solution one can get a 3rd party cooler that could be used with even upcoming cards..
Right ? Or one can get lucky and get a normal version that overclocks well ?
Reason I'm asking is because I just bid highly on an Asus GTX 680 normal version that occupies 2 slots, because I don't want 3 slots occupied and I'm now thinking I should've saved the money for a TOP version with 4GB (these only occupy 2 slots). Ignore the memory on these, it's just that their 4 GB OC version occupied 2 slots and the 2GB 3, go figure..
Thanks as allways....
One thing that I'm wary of when it comes to good brands is that although their factory granted overclocked versions, in Asus case the OC and TOP versions, mean guaranteed overclockability it probably means the "normal" versions are probably granted to not overclock well. Why ? Because they choose the best GPUs for the OC and TOP versions so they have to do something with the remaining ones right ? So that means it's probably best to get a reference version. Regarding the cooling solution one can get a 3rd party cooler that could be used with even upcoming cards..
Right ? Or one can get lucky and get a normal version that overclocks well ?
Reason I'm asking is because I just bid highly on an Asus GTX 680 normal version that occupies 2 slots, because I don't want 3 slots occupied and I'm now thinking I should've saved the money for a TOP version with 4GB (these only occupy 2 slots). Ignore the memory on these, it's just that their 4 GB OC version occupied 2 slots and the 2GB 3, go figure..
Thanks as allways....