NVIDIA, EVGA, Gigabyte, etc

[Mondale]

When the 3000 series GPU's come out, which company would everyone recommended purchasing from? I currently have a Gigabyte 1080 looking to upgrade to a 3080 but I'm wondering if I should buy directly from NVIDIA or go with one of the other companies?

[Slottr]

We can't say for sure without reviewing the actual coolers

 

But EVGA usually does a killer job even in their low tier cards 

[Daniel1]

I recommend EVGA for their customer service.  Their new designs for the RTX 3070, RTX 3080, and RTX 3090 might not look as good because of the red line.  

[JakeSublime]

I agree with Slottr.

 

My two cents, I have a Gigabyte Aorus 1080 Ti and it hasn't given me any issues ever. It also OCs out the butt. Maybe thats silicon luck, but I'll definitely go with Gigabyte for my GPU again. 

[BTGbullseye]

1 hour ago, Mondale said:

When the 3000 series GPU's come out, which company would everyone recommended purchasing from? I currently have a Gigabyte 1080 looking to upgrade to a 3080 but I'm wondering if I should buy directly from NVIDIA or go with one of the other companies?

It all depends. I plan on going for a Founders card if I can get one, because it's a better looking card, with way fewer gimmicks used as primary selling points. (it also doesn't look like it's made of plastic, unlike ALL the others)

[Josey21]

I  Have always used EVGA GPU's. Never had a problem.

[xg32]

3 hours ago, Mondale said:

When the 3000 series GPU's come out, which company would everyone recommended purchasing from? I currently have a Gigabyte 1080 looking to upgrade to a 3080 but I'm wondering if I should buy directly from NVIDIA or go with one of the other companies?

i've had 3 gpus catch fire on me since i started, asus, saFFIRE, evga, pretty sure it's just RNG. As for warranty, evga was better than asus. Each companies had their share of bad QC (gigabyte had an entire line of vega 56 that was defective) over the years so just do some research that this gen isn't one.

 

Only reason i'd get a gpu from nvidia directly is for waterblocks, as custom models will have better temps to compete.

[jasonc_01]

EVGA period, hands down. 

 

The best customer service and warranty, it's not even close and the warranty is easily transferable.

 

As stated also, even the entry level card the xc black is amazing quality. In the last week I've had a 1080ti ftw3 hybrid, an gigabyte windforce 2080ti and now I have a 2080ti ftw3.

 

Honestly the gigabyte windforce felt cheap. Super thin pcb, half the vrm was missing and it ran hotter than the sun.