2070 Super

[Ravi S]

Is it good to buy stock 2070 super (founder edition) directly from nVidia or buy a OC card from other vendors ? Please advice.... 

[Fasauceome]

If you go on pcpartpicker.com, you'll get compared rates on all the 2070 super models from the major vendors. You'll see that the founders edition is really expensive compared to basic models, but the cooling actually isn't that impressive.

[Princess Luna]

If you are buying from the US the FE is indeed the best value, it's the cheapest while still being of great quality and yes you can OC it all you want in fact the best silicon is often found FE cards.

[tofuwannabe]

2 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

If you are buying from the US the FE is indeed the best value, it's the cheapest while still being of great quality and yes you can OC it all you want in fact the best silicon is often found FE cards.

Nvidia bin the so that the FE always have the best die.

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, tofuwannabe said:

Nvidia bin the so that the FE always have the best die.

Look at my signature, why do you think it's all FE?

[tofuwannabe]

3 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

Look at my signature, why do you think it's all FE?

You said "Often" !

 

Anyway, some AIB cards will outperform the FE cards due to better heatsinks and fans, so longer time at higher boost speeds.

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, tofuwannabe said:

You said "Often"

Well yes because you know how nVidia still sells their high end binned chips at a premium to those exotic cards like the KingPin, Hall of Fame and such.

 

But anyway returning to OP's question at hand, I do think the FE is best value right now since you can have it at MSRP and all the decent aftermarket cards are significantly more expensive while hardly providing any meaningful difference to the end user.

 

The current FE cooler is very adequate.

[tofuwannabe]

9 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

Well yes because you know how nVidia still sells their high end binned chips at a premium to those exotic cards like the KingPin, Hall of Fame and such.

 

But anyway returning to OP's question at hand, I do think the FE is best value right now since you can have it at MSRP and all the decent aftermarket cards are significantly more expensive while hardly providing any meaningful difference to the end user.

 

The current FE cooler is very adequate.

Fair enough. I went with a 2080 super for my build anyway. Screw the budget.

 

Side note, cheers for all your help with my stupid questions here.... 

[Ravi S]

42 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

If you go on pcpartpicker.com, you'll get compared rates on all the 2070 super models from the major vendors. You'll see that the founders edition is really expensive compared to basic models, but the cooling actually isn't that impressive.

Unfortunately for India, prices are not available. Upto 1800 MHz Gigabyte OC editions were available around $ 746 and FE's MSRP is around $ 614 only. And I will be mostly using the card for video editing and sometimes play HiRes games.  

[Ravi S]

41 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

If you are buying from the US the FE is indeed the best value, it's the cheapest while still being of great quality and yes you can OC it all you want in fact the best silicon is often found FE cards.

I am from India and its showing MSRP of $614 equivalent here and other OC cards starting around $ 633. The aesthetics of FE which pleases me.. 

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, Ravi S said:

I am from India and its showing MSRP of $614 equivalent here and other OC cards starting around $ 633. The aesthetics of FE which pleases me.. 

You can go with it, you're really not losing anything in doing so.

[Ravi S]

6 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

You can go with it, you're really not losing anything in doing so.

Thank you for the clarification..

 

What are your views on 5700 XT Sapphire card? 

[PHYLO]

1 hour ago, tofuwannabe said:

Nvidia bin the so that the FE always have the best die.

Where is evidence of this? To my knowledge (and a lot of others) they sell their highest binned chips to aftermarket vendors (ASUS, EVGA, MSI, Gigabyte, etc.)... Although I will agree with others, the FE ever since the 10XX series have been great for the value.