Galaxy Video Cards

[paul878]

What is the deal with Galaxy? no one seem to want to buy their GTX780.

 

[nanaki333]

i've never had a problem with galaxy cards. never had a premium galaxy card though, usually just low-mid cards. but yeah... never a problem.

 

[blackened23]

Galaxy cards are great. I just want to point out, all reference cards are built by nvidia anyway - so if you're buying reference there's really no difference. I also like their GC overclocked cards quite a bit, although my favorites are usually the asus DC2 and msi lightning.

In terms of support, their support is excellent - their RMA turnarounds should you need to use it are VERY quick. I'm talking, within a week which is far better than what i've experienced with MSI and asus (2-3 months or longer). Their email and phone support is polite, professional, and actually speak english which is more than i can say for asus . As an aside, when you call asus USA and their support gets mad at YOU for not speaking cantonese....what's wrong with that picture! Well, at least asus products are top notch - I've only had to use Asus support once in many, many years. I still like their stuff, because it's all very high quality.

Anyway, Galaxy is a relatively new name so they're not selling the volume that EVGA is, but that doesn't mean they're a bad company - I personally wouldn't hesitate to buy Galaxy for reference.

 

[exar333]

I love my Galaxy 670, been great (and quiet).

 

[yepp]

Had a KFA2 GTX 660 which is Galaxy's European brand and the build quality was excellent. Same goes for my Galaxy 460, which I'm still rockin.

Never dealt with their RMA though, since both cards have been solid for me.

 

[mr Sean]

I believe they have official online representation over at [H]
See: http://hardforum.com/member.php?u=214408

 

[hyrule4927]

I think one of our members is a Galaxy rep? I might be mistaken.

 

[wand3r3r]

Yeah they do and he seems pretty willing to help. I'd take a Galaxy over some of the other brands, and if they made a couple tweaks to have warranties the class of MSI/EVGA then I'd take one any day. (Tie to serial, allow cooler removal)

 

[Insomniator]

Their website is pretty goofy, but I had a great experience RMA'ing a GTX470, receiving a 560ti 448 in return.

 

[birthdaymonkey]

I had to RMA a 560Ti with Galaxy for a clicking fan, and the process was pretty painless. Other than that, it was a good card.

 

[Xarick]

My card is well built and runs good, but the default bios lets the card hit 74c so I have to create a custom fan profile and I got a dog of an Overclocker so I can only hit 1175/6600

 

[tidy]

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[frozentundra123456]

My own personal experience with one galaxy card was very poor. I had a low profile galaxy 9600gt. From day one it idled at 60deg and ran 95C deg at load. The fan started squealing like a banshee after only a couple of months, so I tossed it. Should have returned it for a refund, but just didnt bother with it. Obviously cant generalize to all galaxy cards from this one instance, but I never had another card with problems even close to that.

 

[blackened23]

I want to know what happened to the Galaxy Titan with fixed clocks:

http://wccftech.com/galaxy-launch-geforce-gtx-titan-boost-reference-clocked-875-mhz/

I was looking forward to that.

Sounds like a bad rumor, as has happened before on WCCF. All titan's are produced by nvidia, not AIB partners, so they all have boost clocks. GPU boost isn't trivial to disable, and i'm sure nvidia would not allow such a thing on a SKU for desktop - perhaps mobile, but definitely not an nvidia produced SKU.

 

[SithSolo1]

I got a used Galaxy GTX 470 about a year and a half ago from a cross-trade on here. Doesn't get super hot and runs quietly even with a single fan. I would have no issues owning another one of their cards.

 

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[dragantoe]

I think the galaxy gtx 770 would be my first choice for the 770's, it's very sexy

 

[wand3r3r]

My card is well built and runs good, but the default bios lets the card hit 74c so I have to create a custom fan profile and I got a dog of an Overclocker so I can only hit 1175/6600

The OC part is completely the silicon lottery and unrelated to Galaxy itself.

My own personal experience with one galaxy card was very poor. I had a low profile galaxy 9600gt. From day one it idled at 60deg and ran 95C deg at load. The fan started squealing like a banshee after only a couple of months, so I tossed it. Should have returned it for a refund, but just didnt bother with it. Obviously cant generalize to all galaxy cards from this one instance, but I never had another card with problems even close to that.

They should allow you to change the thermal paste and not void the warranty. (I mean as a suggestion, can't recall if they do)

 

[paul878]

Seem if some component burn out on the video card their warranty would not cover it. I can see case where a faulty video card would burn out some of it own components.