What brands do you consider premium? Multi choice.

[KarateHottie93]

I put galax and sapphire only for those reasons

the only company I will say is shit is GB...

Fuck yeah bro. The only two GPU brands I have NEVER had any bad experiences with whatsoever. Even their customer support is amazing!

[babadoctor]

wheres apple

[thekeemo]

Fuck yeah bro. The only two GPU brands I have NEVER had any bad experiences with whatsoever. Even their customer support is amazing!

Sapphire is so and so with support but their products are solid and look great.

[KarateHottie93]

Sapphire is so and so with support but their products are solid and look great.

I've only had to RMA a Sapphire card once but they handled it with the most ease possible. I rank them so high on CS cause that and the fact that they always respond within the hour(when open) from my experiences.

[Curufinwe_wins]

Finally somebody who knows my pain lol.

 

It sucks but I have faith that one day MSI will love us like they do everyone else alive

I just couldn't believe it.... freaking insane, I could use basically random ram slots on each one to get it to post, but I could never get quad channel (or dual channel for that matter) to post on the boards which really really irked me (seeing as its x99 man, gotta go quad channel). However a little bit of troubles I have had with my cpu and trying to even get xmp working (which I eventually did, but man the stupid ass process I had to take..) suggests to me that it actually is a cpu related issue, but that the msi boards seemed to be more sensitive to it for whatever reason. I would have considered rma'ing the cpu, but it hits 4.5 Ghz at 1.25 V so yea... (although it can't hit 4.6 even at 1.45 V so again some weird ass shit going on with my cpu.)

 

 

But hey, my msi 980 ti is only 68% ASIC and yet still hits 1507-1514 on air cooling, stock bios.

[thekeemo]

I've only had to RMA a Sapphire card once but they handled it with the most ease possible. I rank them so high on CS cause that and the fact that they always respond within the hour(when open) from my experiences.

Took them a week to tell me no if you take off the cooler and weeks later a mosfet lights on fire your not covered... but I have heard so much good stuff about it I can only assume I got a fluke.

[Thebman712]

I'd probably vote Gigabyte as well.....if I hadn't done 5 RMA and gotten my original and still faulty card back.

 

 

Which is where "you consider" comes in.

yeah it took me 3 times to get a new card, and after my 5th i still have a card that has semi broken fans but is stable

[Curufinwe_wins]

I've only had to RMA a Sapphire card once but they handled it with the most ease possible. I rank them so high on CS cause that and the fact that they always respond within the hour(when open) from my experiences.

It's not on the list, but I've never had a RMA process as smooth as when I had to return a crucial (micron) product. The guy was super considerate, helpful, and not condescending like so many times I've had with ASUS. Plus I had the new product in my computer 3 days later up and running like a charm (although I did put in a HUGE deposit to allow them to ship immediately as I shipped mine out the same day, but the debit transaction wasn't processed before the original arrived so it never counted against me.)

[KarateHottie93]

I just couldn't believe it.... freaking insane, I could use basically random ram slots on each one to get it to post, but I could never get quad channel (or dual channel for that matter) to post on the boards which really really irked me (seeing as its x99 man, gotta go quad channel). However a little bit of troubles I have had with my cpu and trying to even get xmp working (which I eventually did, but man the stupid ass process I had to take..) suggests to me that it actually is a cpu related issue, but that the msi boards seemed to be more sensitive to it for whatever reason. I would have considered rma'ing the cpu, but it hits 4.5 Ghz at 1.25 V so yea... (although it can't hit 4.6 even at 1.45 V so again some weird ass shit going on with my cpu.)

 

 

But hey, my msi 980 ti is only 68% ASIC and yet still hits 1507-1514 on air cooling, stock bios.

Haha at least you've had an MSI product that was good. Even the only mobo I've ever killed was MSI lol. Kinda my fault for saying I don't believe in anti-static bands...but still lol, I've touched over 50 mobo's in my life and it was the only one. It was a fucking $300 dual opteron board too so it was even harder to accept.

Took them a week to tell me no if you take off the cooler and weeks later a mosfet lights on fire your not covered... but I have heard so much good stuff about it I can only assume I got a fluke.

Yup lol, sounds like you have my MSI luck but with Sapphire

It's not on the list, but I've never had a RMA process as smooth as when I had to return a crucial (micron) product. The guy was super considerate, helpful, and not condescending like so many times I've had with ASUS. Plus I had the new product in my computer 3 days later up and running like a charm (although I did put in a HUGE deposit to allow them to ship immediately as I shipped mine out the same day, but the debit transaction wasn't processed before the original arrived so it never counted against me.)

Oh yeah, Asus is the fucking worst! I buy their mobo's cause they are great but I hear horror stories about their RMA. I had to RMA a DOA RoG laptop a few years back and they walked me through countless fucking powercycles.

[ashtaroth]

Evga for the graphics

Asus for the mobo and monitor

Corsair dominator platinum or G skill for the ram

Evga/superflower for the psu

Samsung for SSD

Intel for the cpu

Well thats it for me those brands havent let me down yet. Your milage may vary though. I could give more detail but im off to work and on my phone so....

[thekeemo]

Yup lol, sounds like you have my MSI luck but with Sapphire

It takes alot of heat to melt a PCB...

[KarateHottie93]

It takes alot of heat to melt a PCB...

Haha that sounds fucking scary!

[iamdarkyoshi]

HIS will stay to the bottom of the list. Or at least should. My brother owned an HD 6870 and the stock cooler was a MASSIVE POS. I replaced the thermal compound with arctic silver 5 and ran the fan on full speed (its a friggin insanely noisy fan at 100%) and gaming temps were usually in the 90's at stock clock

[thekeemo]

Haha that sounds fucking scary!

you should have seen me man..

[iamdarkyoshi]

you should have seen me man..

The PCB didnt melt, it carbonized. I have done successful repairs on this kind of failure. Not easy, but I havent had any of my repairs fail me yet.

[KarateHottie93]

you should have seen me man..

Haha or I could haved watched that card melt instead...sounds like a real sight.

[thekeemo]

The PCB didnt melt, it carbonized. I have done successful repairs on this kind of failure. Not easy, but I havent had any of my repairs fail me yet.

I garuntee it melted. Something like 1300w went through that card... The card deformed..

Edit: and no heatsink

[iamdarkyoshi]

I garuntee it melted. Something like 1300w went through that card... The card deformed..

Edit: and no heatsink

"The basis of textile-grade glass fibers is silica, SiO2. In its pure form it exists as a polymer, (SiO2)n. It has no true melting point but softens up to 1200 °C, where it starts to degrade. At 1713 °C, most of the molecules can move about freely."

 

Stolen from Wikipedia.

 

Solder melts at a much lower point than fiberglass so parts would have fallen off. and the fiberglass that the board is made of has several layers of copper running through it. Copper melts at 1,085°C. If it got hot enough to melt the copper and fiberglass, I will seriously pay 50 bucks plus shipping to own whats left of the card.

[thekeemo]

"The basis of textile-grade glass fibers is silica, SiO2. In its pure form it exists as a polymer, (SiO2)n. It has no true melting point but softens up to 1200 °C, where it starts to degrade. At 1713 °C, most of the molecules can move about freely."

 

Stolen from Wikipedia.

 

Solder melts at a much lower point than fiberglass so parts would have fallen off. and the fiberglass that the board is made of has several layers of copper running through it. Copper melts at 1,085°C. If it got hot enough to melt the copper and fiberglass, I will seriously pay 50 bucks plus shipping to own whats left of the card.

your making me doubt my own eyes now..... I threw out the physical card out in rage. (At that point I had been trying to get it to work for 4 months and I had just finished dealing replacing my motherboard and CPU due to a bent pin that was totally avoidable which ended up costing me hundreds (and saving my friends hundreds because I now know a guy that can you CPUs for $100 off BNIB with a warranty who I referred to many times..) So now I only have the cooler. And 2 days ago I sold my gtx 650 so I can upgrade again and I have been surviving on a gt520 + igpu until someone replies to my ad on kijiji or the forums. But yea ref 290x heatsink and dead 6870 (courtesy of aniallation) in my closet now) and a dedicated GPU that is less powerful than integrated graphics.

[ConnorDahne]

Msi, Evga, Galax(y), Sapphire, and Asus.

It's not so much as the brand as it is individual releases from these companies.

Take Msi gaming 4g, a really nice card but not premium... The lightning cards though...

Same with the Kingpins, HoF, Vapour-x, and Matrix Platinum/Posieden/Ares 

Tl;DR- I'm indecisive point out obvious fact that's obvious

[ICantThinkOfAnyGoodName]

You missed Palit, although they certainly aren't premium.

[Sammael]

WHAT ARE YOU ALL SAYING ABOUT MY REFERENCE HIS 290 ?!??!?!??!?!?!?

 

 

/criesincorner

[Razzee]

Well, I particularly prefer Elsa Gladiac.

[MattLantis]

Can confirm Powercolor is not premium.

 

Fuck powercolor.

 

Fuck them.

[Snadzies]

None and all.

Most all of them have normal consumer models and more expensive "premium" models.