series, you could still mix brands of cards. When I had my Crossfire setup one card was an ATi card and the other was Asus. I have read articles confirming that you can mix brands. As Maziar stated you should try to match the cards as closely as possible...

video card: PNY9600GT - 4750 Visiontek 3870 - would not load 3dmark06 EVGA 9600GT - 6715 Brand selection is obviously very important. I would have to speculate that other brands would get different results as well. I was limited to what brands to...

Because they want you to get both cards from them not just one if you wanna go SLI :) By the way why would you get 2 different branded card anyways ? just out of curiousity, checking if BFG was bullshi*ing or not. I thought it was a contradiction saying...

Some help needed on brands please. Hi I am considering the purchase of the newish Nvidia 7950 gx2 and am a little confused by the different brands that are available selling this card: So far I have seen BFG, Leadtek, XFX, EVGA etc and I was considering...

ATI AMD Brand Bingo and Driver Dilemma. Now that the price gouging on the HD3870 cards is easing up I'm considering replacing my 1950XTX. I've always been a brand whore and so I always bought the ATI -branded cards rather than the partner products, but that...

up. Shepy If a card is branded msi, asus, evga, sapphire or xfx etc. isn't relevant when it comes to compatibility. It's the same gpu on either of these cards. So if the gpu works with the motherboard, it won't matter what brand the card is. The main difference...

gen card and pay the difference instead of buying a new one. I mean like a difference in hardware. Maybe thats a stupid question, but my experience seemed to indicate that "generic" brand cards have worse quality. Correct me if I'm wrong though. each of the...

only brand I have ever had bad luck with is Jaton. Good luck. nVidia does not sell nVidia branded cards, they only make engineering samples and reference cards for testing I believe. However Ati is a whole different beast, they do sell their Ati branded...

just need the clarification: Upon looking up prices for the Nvidia 8800 GTX, I saw many different brands. Why would a person not buy an Nvidia card, as opposed to the others with a different label branded on it. I saw another post where there were several...

should I risk it? Maybe the same card but a different brand? Please advise What are you doing buying socket 939, now? Problems. So do people with nVidia cards. Grab a different brand if your unsure. One destinct difference is the power draw on Radeon cards....