graphics cards

SC2903 · June 2, 2018

Graphics cards from Nvidia are cheaper than the ones from other companies. Is it worth it to spend extra when i am going to overclock it and liquid cool it anyway.

Mira Yurizaki · June 2, 2018

7 minutes ago, SC2903 said:

Graphics cards from Nvidia are cheaper than the ones from other companies. Is it worth it to spend extra when i am going to overclock it and liquid cool it anyway.

I'm confused. There's only two manufacturers (as of now anyway) that make GPUs for add-in cards. There are no "other companies", just "other company."

If you're talking about NVIDIA and AMD's AIB partners like ASUS, MSI, EVGA, etc. then at that point it's just preference for which company you like more. One's not really better than the other in terms of the product you get, only the service you receive.

Anyway, it's potentially worth the extra money on a card you plan on seriously tweaking because more expensive SKUs mean that the AIB partner went beyond the reference design to make sure it can handle the extra tweaking.

Christophe Corazza · June 2, 2018

5 hours ago, SC2903 said:

Graphics cards from Nvidia are cheaper than the ones from other companies. Is it worth it to spend extra when i am going to overclock it and liquid cool it anyway.

I'm confused as well. There are only two GPU manufacturers: NVIDIA a.k.a. the green team and AMD a.k.a. the red team.

They release so-called 'founder edition' cards. The founders edition is, well... the founders edition from NVIDIA. It's a reference card with a blower style cooler (loud and not very good cooling performance, but great for small form factor cases) and runs at NVIDIA's stock clock speeds.

Third-party companies like ASUS, EVGA and MSI use these 'founder edition' cards and tweak them. Those tweaked versions often have an open air cooler (usually quieter and runs much cooler over the founders edition) and have typically a custom PCB. Due to their beefier cooler design, their intended use is more towards overclocking, since they are more capable of dissipating the excessive heat inevitably results from overclocking a graphics card.