Asus GTX 260 Top vs XFX GTX 260 Black Edition?

Hey ppls!! Need a winner here..I can't decide between these two?
Thanks a bunch.

PS: Oh yeah, both have 216 stream processors or something? cos I read NVidia is going to stop the 192 ones...

Hey Immortal25,

I did some research on these 2 cards the xfx GTX 260 is faster, BUT not at all to really spend the extra money on. here is a link with benchmarks againts both cards.

http://www.elitebastards.com/cms/i [...] mitstart=3


As you can see its not going to be a noticable difference.

in terms of getting an OC card I would always look at XFX first and compare other cards too it. XFX almost always has HIGHER CLOCK speeds that the rest. So in terms of the ASUS or the XFX I would go XFX

Well what you need to do is pull up all the cards you are looking at that are not OC cards and look at the specs, i.e. clock speeds, frequency, ect and find the 1 that has had the best reviews from benchmarks and CONSUMER posts and compare it to a OC card OF THE SAME MFG and calculate power consumption vs. clockspeeds if you decide to go that route.

it depends what edition of OC you get there are low OC MID OC AND HIGH OC

Asus has a 3year warranty and XFX has the "double lifetime" warranty. If you sell the XFX card the 2nd owner could also be covered by the warranty which might help earn a little more next time you're looking to upgrade.