Best Company for 6800GT?

[stryker999]

Has any tech website done a side-by-side comparison yet? The companies I know of that are making 6800GT's are eVGA, BFG, XFX, Albatron, Leadtek, PNY, and Gainward. I've heard rumors of eVGA's card having lots of trouble running FarCry (heh, and it's bundled with the card!) and was just wanting to know if anybody has a link to some comparisons, or any experiences you have had with your card.

 

[guptasa1]

Two things made me go with the BFG 6800GT OC:

1. Lifetime Warranty. If anything goes wrong with it PERIOD, they'll replace it.

2. It's overclocked like 20 MHz out of the box, so it's a little faster than the competition. (At least as far as I know, nobody else is doing this - could be mistaken).

 

[Genx87]

In theory they should all be the same as they are going off the Nvidia reference design. Now the quality may be a bit different along with the warranties and bundles.

 

[wraith3k]

The only problem I've heard with evga is that the 2d performance is weak when using the vga output, but I don't have one so I can't be certain of this. Also, they only have a 1 year warranty, whereas some other brands such as BFG have a lifetime warranty.

Sounds like the most popular ones are BFG, PNY, and Leadtek.

 

[Schadenfroh]

BFG's warrenty and customer support cannot be beat, plus they perform better because they are factor overclocked.

 

[Evdawg]

enoooough threads on this!!