Different brand for nVidia cards, does it matters?

[Hornet85]

As per title, I saw a Geforce 9800GTX+, Forsa brand, its really cheap, much cheaper than other usual brands such as MSI or Gigabyte.

Is it ok if I get this Forsa card?

 

[cmdrdredd]

SHould be ok. They're all pretty much designed after Nvidia's reference card.

EVGA, BGF, and XFX have a lifetime warranty.

 

[palladium]

SHould be ok. They're all pretty much designed after Nvidia's reference card.

EVGA, BGF, and XFX have a lifetime warranty.

I saw a Leadtek GTX280 that is much cheaper than a XFX one. Is the Leadtek card more likely to fail than the XFX one ( perhaps due to poorer quality control), even though they are designed from the same reference?

 

[FalseChristian]

Just remember that the less known brands are cheaper for a reason.

 

[Manticorps]

Not all EVGA cards have the lifetime warranty, those with that particular warranty cost more. Be aware of what you are buying. That said, I have some "cheaper" cards, such as a leadtek 6800 and pny gf3 that still work fine when called back to duty.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Forsa card is liable to have worse specs than other cards. Downclocked, GDDR2 instead of GDDR3, etc.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: Manticorps
Not all EVGA cards have the lifetime warranty, those with that particular warranty cost more. Be aware of what you are buying. That said, I have some "cheaper" cards, such as a leadtek 6800 and pny gf3 that still work fine when called back to duty.

Can you provide examples? I can't find this information online.

On the subject of branding. There are many companies who are based in Taiwan (Asus, gigabyte, MSI etc) and do not offer a lifetime warranty. That factors into the cost of their cards. These companies can sometimes buy in higher volume as well due to their main business not being video card manufacture which gives them more buying power since they have a wide variety of product markets.

 

[Hornet85]

Thanks for all the replies. I'll definitly look out for those stuff such as warranty

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Forsa card is liable to have worse specs than other cards. Downclocked, GDDR2 instead of GDDR3, etc.

OMG... thanks for the info, unless I can comfirm the card spec, I'll probably stay away from it now

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: Manticorps
Not all EVGA cards have the lifetime warranty, those with that particular warranty cost more. Be aware of what you are buying. That said, I have some "cheaper" cards, such as a leadtek 6800 and pny gf3 that still work fine when called back to duty.

Other than "B Stock", what EVGA cards dont have the same warranty?

 

[Manticorps]

Originally posted by: Ocguy31

Originally posted by: Manticorps
Not all EVGA cards have the lifetime warranty, those with that particular warranty cost more. Be aware of what you are buying. That said, I have some "cheaper" cards, such as a leadtek 6800 and pny gf3 that still work fine when called back to duty.

Other than "B Stock", what EVGA cards dont have the same warranty?

This one at Newegg

is just one example. I currently have an EVGA card and was looking at others, it seems certain models have a 2 year(1+1) warranty now.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Ocguy31

Originally posted by: Manticorps
Not all EVGA cards have the lifetime warranty, those with that particular warranty cost more. Be aware of what you are buying. That said, I have some "cheaper" cards, such as a leadtek 6800 and pny gf3 that still work fine when called back to duty.

Other than "B Stock", what EVGA cards dont have the same warranty?

My EVGA 9600GSOs only have 1+1 year warranty.