Which manufacturer would you choose for Nvidia and AMD based graphics cards?

[ronnn]

The cheapest

 

[s44]

Gigabyte's Windforce cooler is awesome, though if it's Nvidia then the reference stuff of late (from, say, EVGA) is great as well.

 

[dac7nco]

nVidia- EVGA, ASUS, MSI, Zotac, PNY, Galaxy...... <<<BFG>>>:'(.
AMD- Powercolor, Sapphire, XFX, MSI, AMD

Daimon

 

[pandemonium]

While I've used both AMD(ATI) and nVidia cards, I've found ATI have better hardware and nVidia are more mainstream supported by more games.

Of all of the vendors in the last 12 years, I've had 1 Sapphire, 1 ATI OEM, 2 eVGA, and 2 MSI. The Sapphire (ATI) Rage128 was expensive and not that great; it died after 3 years. The OEM card, Radeon 9800SE, lasted for 4 years before it died. The first eVGA died within two years and was replaced and the second died after only a year; both were nVidia 6600GTs. Both of the MSIs are currently in use - HD4830s 1GB (Crossfired) - and are going on 2 years. The only overclocking I've done with any of these is with the MSIs that I'm using now and only by +5% of their original speeds.

 

[insurgent]

Powercolor for AMD, EVGA for Nvidia

 

[Morg.]

Currently I'd go for the church of Gigabyte : good O/C products, cheap, tough, I like em.

Also, very bad experiences with MSI, XFX (their 5770 was total shit compared to the gigabyte one), point of view (RMA my *ss).

I don't like ASUS because it's always more expensive for no good reason.

eVGA seems to get mad reviews on their customer support, I guess that can always be good, but as I haven't RMA-d anything from Gigabyte I wouldn't know.

 

[Barfo]

Right now my favorite is ASUS.

 

[formulav8]

Definitely XFX for AMD

eVga for nvidia

 

[morbidman]

Sorry to interrupt, but I'm about to pull the trigger on a galaxy gtx 570 for $290. Is this a good idea? Thanks.