I would get nVidia, and I would want a 660 or 670. Mainly I want to know which manufacturers are trustworthy, and which aren’t. Budget is around $450.
Is there a website that compares video card performance? And is there somewhere that tracks sales on hardware?
Sapphire, zotac, msi are generally good in my experience.
“Limit 20 per customer.[/SIZE]”
I’ve been buying EVGA cards for the past few years. Never had one quit on me so far.
Hey, if he’s gonna let that stop him, he doesn’t deserve my help.
Touche.
I got an EVGA 670 and it’s great so far.
Jethro, if I could somehow rig those into a 660 or 670, I’d be all for it 
I had been considering this but it’s at the limit of my budget. I’ll look at the brands acade suggested as well.
Alright, I ordered one. I’ll pimp it in the pimp thread once it arrives. Thanks for the input everyone!
Jethro, I did not go for your suggestion, since my mobo doesn’t have 45 slots of any kind, and my hardware building skills are weak (mainly non-existant) so it wasn’t a realistic solution.
Get a one video card to 45 video cards adapter. You can find one for, like, $15 on Newegg.
Damn, didn’t think of that. I’d have been willing to go over budget for that.
(or bitchin’ fast + new case, but bitchin’ fast is hard to find a good deal on)
the gtx 670 is 50 % cheap than the 680…
you should have made a sli for 200 $ more or made a sli of 2 gtx 660 with the price of the gt670 .
at least i would have tried to find vga with plenty of ram ;’]
that is a choice you did too
WTF did I just read?
Seriously though, most card manufacturers use the same reference design for cards under the same manufacturer spec. So underneath the cooler sheath and bios settings the cards are often mostly the same ( from a layout and design standpoint ). Even the bios settings can be modified to make the clock settings on one card the same as another ( assuming the equivalent card, just from a different manufacturer ). Unless the binning on the chips is different, or they have a deviation from the reference design you like for some reason, the cards themselves are often much the same.
So what it comes down to ( for me ) is price and warranty. I haven’t bought a card lately ( let alone an nvidia card ) but I used to be a big fan of eVGA, Asus, and Gigabyte cards.
You went eVGA, so you should be fine. What are you looking to do with it? What games are you hoping to push that bad boy with?
my setup is 2 x hd5970 powercolor and 1 x gtx 570 pov .
it s very powerful despite ram is only 1 Go , i do hybrid physx too ;’]
i recently changed mobo for a x79 with a 3,6 ghz cpu and pcie 3 . it s a very good thing i did .
for the rest and back in the topic : a 570 is a 480 gtx ; it a one “cpu” less than the 580.
it is the same with 670 and 680 .
so it is very good to have 2 x 14 “cpu” as gpu instead of 1 x 15 “cpu”
then select a 570 that has 2 x ram than normal card .
vga official layout is important for watercooling because waterblock should install well
out of topic : i liked your sig long times ago : they were plenty of naked girls ;’]
Your grammar is horrible.
Don’t bring that bullshit here.
On topic: Well there’s this one;
https://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php and regarding the “tracking sales” thingie, those websites are usually restricted to a specific country. E.g, pricerunner.com
Personally in the last year I’ve gone through two MSI cards (560ti Twin Frozr II), both started developing artifacts caused by what I assume is faulty VRAM, so I’d stay away from them.
ASUS has always made very good graphics cards in my opinion.
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