>offers a free upgrade from 980 Ti to 1080
>runs low on stock 1080s
>instead of making everyone wait several months for them to get more they just upgrade everyone to the next higher model for no additional charge
Tell me again why you buy AMD?
>>342406398
>EVGA
Well they cost around 40% more as their equivalent Gigabyte cards, guess thats where the money goes.
>>342406398
Shit is the promotion over how much better is the 1080 to 980ti
>>342406684
>gigabyte
>>342406948
I know man, its good quality, warranty and super cheap here.
>>342406684
Where are you pulling this out of your ass from? Or do you live in some fucking europoor country where they tax the shit out of it?
>>342406948
I'm gonna have to agree with this.
Pic related, my 780 Ti GHz Edition from Gigabyte, burned last week. RMA'd it on Monday, waiting for response.
>>342407124
Yes, it is the astounding fact that I'm not in the US.
I know its harsh when the outside world just intrudes into your life.
>>342407159
AND LOOK AT THIS MASTERFULLY APPLIED GIGABYTE THERMPASTE
>>342406398
i buy evga too. best customer service known to man. based Cali company
>>342407201
kek, glad your smelly ass isn't living in my country, let me know when your ISIS decapitation vid is on liveleak
>>342407201
>lives in a third world shithole
>posting on a board hosted in the us and created by an american
>expects people to base their purchasing decisions around his third world pricing
>>342407432
>expects people to base their purchasing decisions around his third world pricing
Can you point out exactly where I did that?
Or wait, let me do this too
>be murrican
>god given right to be retarded anywhere all the time
>ad hominem anyone who disagrees or is not a murrican with his god given right to be retarded together with me
>>342407290
GPU thermalpaste is applied differently than CPU paste. Just saying.
>>342406398
>not wanting to wait months for a far superior product
>>342407802
I know but that doesn't change the fact it's still very shoddily done. I had MSI 570 GTX before that and the thermpaste was applied 10/10 perfectly. Said card also didn't give out after 3 years of overclocked heavy usage, I sold it 2 years ago and the user STILL uses it just fine. So that's 5 years that card clocked without any maintenance.
Meanwhile this piece of shit from Gigabyte burned after mere 21 months, with no extra overclocking beyond the stock factory OC. I'm never buying Gigabyte again, that much I know for sure.
Yeah, I buy EVGA when I can.
You do pay for it, though. Nothing in life is free, and EVGA stuff has a premium on it.
>>342406398
I find that evga makes great graphics cards but good lord their motherboards are massive piles of ass.
>>342408256
I can say the opposite about Gigabyte.
>>342407985
Are you stupid? Try reading the post again and get back to me. Go on, I'll wait.
>>342406948
>Gigabyte
>good quality
My 660 crashed day one. Traced it to a voltage issue with the hardware OC. RMA, went into the void, came back STILL broke with no explanation.
Had to underclock it to stop cradhing 90% of the time. A month later the damage controlling cunts replaced it with a new model and cobtinue denying mine had any issue.
They are cuck tier terrible. I'd sooner buy Zotac.
>>342408530
I had 13 gigabyte cards, used half of them for mining, only one burned out and it was ofcourse, a mining card.
But ofcourse, maybe paying for that EVGA will be worth it.
>>342408638
>works for me : ^)
Powercolor and PNYs work for most people too. Your anecdote means nothing.
>>342407432
>Speaking a European language via a European invention to use another European invention
FOY
>>342408638
He's not the only one with Gigabyte issues, see >>342407159
I'm sorry Gigabyte shill but I'm never buying Gigabyte again.
And I never even bought EVGA nor plan to simply because I can't afford their premium, I'll just go back to MSI or ASUS which actually never failed me in the past.
>>342409030
>Your anecdote means nothing.
As opposed to yours?
>>342409117
>its TWO, not ONE
>never failed me!
You people are ridiculous.
You attack me and what I say for being an opinion and "anecdotal" evidence but then behave like your opinion and anecdotes are any one bit fucking better.
Are you serious?
Lemme guess the picture posted is anecdotal too? Just an errant heatpipe.
>>342406398
Because I don't need the second most expensive GPU on the market to not play games on
>>342409334
amazon.com/GIGABYTE-WINDFORCE-PCI-Express-Graphics-GV-N66TOC-2GD/product-reviews/B008UG2W20
>conplaining of burnouts is ridiculous!
Sort by newest reviews first shitlord. They build garbage designed to fail. Sometimes that garbage fails on day one like mine did.
Meanwhile my EVGA and sapphire cards 5+ years old are still going with no issues.
>>342407201
>>342407667
>>342409079
Aren't you european shitters supposed to be asleep? Fuck off.
>>342407432
Why did the europoor maymay even start? Most Americans have the same quality of life as slightly better off Eastern Europeans.
>>342410046
>only 50 reviews because they yanked the defective model early
>pulled it because it was false advertising a windforce cooler when it didn't have one
>said false windforce cooler was literally overheating the card, hence the discontinuation
What fucking scumbags Gigabyte are
>>342410046
Your page means nothing, like literally nothing, except that americans are very bad at handling their shit, like you guys:
>RMAd twice but its still giving driver errors!
>first power-on power surge killed my vga, clearly their fault
>didn't work with my computer
I'm really unsure what you are trying to say, but do not worry your anecdotal evidence in the last sentence means a lot to me and my farts.
>>342406684
t. poorfag
>>342411312
>Being this insecure that not everyone puts the same value on things you like
Don't worry anon, you're the only one here who hates you.
>>342411713
t. poorfag
>>342410946
The post above yours literally trashes your desperate appeal.
>>342411780
t. single bachelor with an impressive loli figurine collection
>>342412173
What's the problem with that? You poor?
>>342412219
University, friend.
Surprisingly, €600 GPUs aren't very justifiable or necessary.
>>342412436
>University, friend.
I'm sorry, friend
>>342407159
>>342407290
STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM ZOTAC!
Every single card of theirs I've ever owned has died in a year or two.
Zotac
>GTX 680 AMP
18 months
>GTX 770
11 Months
>GTX 970
13 Months
Msi
>GTX 460
6 years and still going strong
>HD5850
7 years and still working
EVGA
>8800GTS
2006-2012
>6600GT
2004-2011
Because amd has always offered a price/performance ratio I liked. Nvidia may be better but it comes at a premium im not willing to pay and also nvidia has a reputation for sabotaging video games though shit like gameworks
>>342413571
Well idk what to do then. I already bought a gigabyte gtx950, if I'd known I'd have searched for other manufacturers. At least I have two years warranty thanks to eu law.
Anecdotal evidence but I had a gigabyte 8600gt up until two months ago. Never missed a beat but then that never was a performance pushing card
>>342413571
Zotac is a shit company, I'd never even consider them.
Read what I said carefully, I have Gigabyte and am simply never buying one again, going back to ASUS or MSI which didn't fail me in the past.
>>342408393
I have currently a gigybate mainboard, boy it sure double booting everytime also still no win10 driver support the start-up is 12times slower than previously win7 on the same ssd
>>342407290
The entire square is the die, unlike CPU's that have a heatspreader on top of them. If you remove the heatspreader on a CPU you'll see the exact same type of application.
guys you have me worried I just bought a used gigabyte windforce gtx970 some days ago
>>342417513
Better buy a fire extinguisher just to be safe.
>>342417653
fucking hell I didn't know it makes any difference, I previously bought only gainward or msi
EVGA is the best GPU AIB and if you give your money to anyone else you are shit.
>have SLI GTX 780s
>bought them day one May 27th 2013
>3 year warranty expires the same day 2016
>notice artifacting in my games over the last year, decide to RMA them both before warranty expires
>they send me back a working 780 and a 970
>email them saying my cards are mismatched and I can't SLI anymore
>they tell me they'll cross-ship another 970 and I can return the perfectly fine 780
They are the best, they deserve all the moneys. Their customer support hooks you up left and right AND they're US citizens who speak proper english. Fucking love this company.
>>342417847
Each manufacturer makes their own PCB for the chips, the square part in the middle the only one that Nvidia provides, everything else is made by the GPU manufacturer.
>>342417946
EVGA is only good in the US, their EU customer service is awful and they overprice hard compared to competition because they don't have local distribution and thus import everything and pay the shitty import taxes.
>>342418138
>not living in the Greatest Country in the World™®©
>>342417513
>bought a 970 some days ago
>>342407159
>>342407290
>Gigabyte
>not MSI
Gigabyte motherbaords are great, but their GPU quality is hit or miss. MSI is top fucking tier. Their lightning series cards especially.
>>342418292
it was just 150bucks so I thought it would be ok-tier till one generation after gtx 1080 releases
>>342418292
im happy for u
>>342418721
$150 is alright then.
any higher than $200 and you should have gotten a 480
>>342418292
>reading comprehension is hard
>>342419064
that's what I thought too, amd drivers are just too unreliable, not that a 3.5 meme card is so much better thought
>>342419089
I didn't expect him to get it at such a decent price.
970s on ebay in my region are still selling for like 80% of the price of new ones for some reason.
>>342419454
amd drivers have improved in the last couple years, only caveat is if you use nvidia's shadowplay video capture for anything, but other than that amd's shit is pretty acceptable.
Nvidia's been fucking up their game ready drivers a lot lately too unfortunately. I wanted 2 nvidias, not 2 AMDs
>>342419786
so true it's not even funny, I' using a gtx570 right now and surprise surprise after going back to 314.22 my fps nearly doubled on everything it works flawless on win10/64bit
>>342419786
>amd drivers have improved in the last couple years
More like they were never bad in the first place even a couple of years ago. It's just a bullshit meme that nvidiots keep spreading. I've been using amd cards for the past 10 years. Or better yet... they were projecting all their own driver problems.
>>342419573
>>342418721
Still fucked up. It's used and 3.5. The RX470 will be around $150, is more efficient, 4gb, and leaked benchmarks show that it is on par with the GTX 970.
>>342406948
>gigabyte 6950 still runs perfectly after 5 years
LEL
>>342417946
>tfw not american
>always buy evga anyway
I'm jelly of the customer service you guys get
>>342421292
My palit 770 is still running fine since 2013 or something, doesn't mean it's a good manufacturer.
I've also got a 3 year old 3TB seagate drive from THAT batch.
>>342421469
fuck seagate
I bought a 3tb drive from them in 2012 and it died like a bitch in a year
the worst part for me was the god awful parking noises the thing made
You couldn't pay me to use seagate hard drives again
>>342421738
What if i actually payed you though?
>>342421857
I'd probably do it and put data I don't care about on it
>>342421992
So you're a liar then?
>>342422078
yes and I'm not ashamed of it
