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PCMasterGuy
By PCMasterGuy
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Why is every single AIB open air graphics card so ugly? They all look like plastic toys for 8 year old kids. Are there any open air graphics cards out there for us grown ups? The only graphics cards I really like the looks of is the blower style cards like the Asus turbo ones, MSI, EVGA etc, although not a fan of the plastic shrouds on them...  and the RX Vega with the brushed aluminum shroud is the most beautiful, clean, sleek and "grown up" of all graphics cards I've seen to date. I also love the design of previous gen nVidia reference cards, but I don't really like the angular look of the 10 series tbh. Problem is the only cards that look good is the blower style cards that are clean with no BS with their design, but I don't think they're very practical unless you do SLI or have a SFF case... I'm doing a build in the CaseLabs Mercury s5 and have found a nice motherboard to go with it, but no luck on the graphics cards. Companies seriously need to ditch the plastic shrouds and start making clean aluminum ones that fit cases like the Fractal Design or CaseLabs etc. Am I the only one who is annoyed by all the "gamery" angular RGB EVERYTHING looks on graphics cards today? Don't get me wrong they're fine, but I just wish we could see something different for once...

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I actually bought my graphics card for function over aesthetics. I have the EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 icx. The thing looks kinda crappy imo, but it performs like a dream. 

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Is it really that much of an issue? The card is probably going to go inside a case, right? Out of sight, out of mind.

Stop and think a second, something is more than nothing.

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Nah you're not the only one. I think they went overboard in pandering to their target demographic, gamers. It feels a bit like

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Meh, I don't really care much for aesthetics, performance always comes first. But I can tell you the Gigabyte Aorus cards are butt ugly.

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Tell me about it, I got the 1080 Ti Founders Edition because it looks much better and seems to be much better built, no plastic ugly parts etc... the card is such a beast that if I play my games 2560x1080p80hz the card hardly breaks a sweat so it stays very very quiet despite people loving to claims FE cooler is loud :P

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15 minutes ago, chiller15 said:

Is it really that much of an issue? The card is probably going to go inside a case, right? Out of sight, out of mind.

Not exactly, the case I'm building in has a side window and a horizontal motherboard layout, so I'll be seeing the bottom of the graphics card through the window. So looks is kinda important in my case, (pun not intended).

 

I'm now considering just going with the 1080ti founders edition. Hopefully it wont be too loud/hot...

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