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Gigabyte or eVGA?

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Kalessian

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I'm buying a 6600GT (PCIe) in a couple of hours. I wanted to get the ASUS or the Foxconn, but Newegg doesn't have either in stock, so I'm out of luck.

eVGA and Gigabyte are both good brands, and I don't mind that the gigabyte might be using crappy thermal glue since I can replace it with AS5 (you guys don't mind if I try to keep my warranty after just resitting the stock HSF, do you guys?).

Anandtech didn't cover the eVGA, so I just don't know. I'm looking for lowest noise, just a fan that works, and awesome build quality. I don't care about overclocking anything, I just want the most solid card.
 
Yeah, but like I said, I have to buy it from Newegg and they're sold out, atm. Er, I meant to say Leadtek. Foxconn = Leadtek. Same thing.
 
Anyone have any ideas? If you had to buy a 6600GT PCIe for less than $180 from Newegg right now, which would it be? I gotta leave in about 30 minutes.

Thanks!
 
eVGA has always been excellent...i don't like much Gigabyte stuff due to their customer service.
 
Oh, I've only ever heard of great things from Gigabyte. Thanks though, but I will go with coolnessrune's advice. The Leadtek extreme card is $200, I figure it's better just to get something better even if it costs me $30. It's overclocked a ton, anyway, so that's great.

Phew, $30 is worth feeling much better about it, right?
 
yep, leadtek is awesome. I think it's the only 6600gt pci-e card that's guaranteed to not have some HSF problem (ok, or close to guaranteed)

i'd get it
 
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