I am going to buy one, so should I just go for the cheapest one? What would you recommend otherwise? I have no clue about hardware stuff, so simple answers pls.
I am going to buy one, so should I just go for the cheapest one? What would you recommend otherwise? I have no clue about hardware stuff, so simple answers pls.
EVGA has the best warranty, but tend to be a bit expensive, so if you plan on tinkering with the card in any way, go with EVGA.
Outside of that, just go with a brand whose name you recognize
Stay away from MSI Armor series and don't buy anything with only 1 fan, that's a pretty good rule to follow.
I tend to like Gigabyte... I havent ever ran into any problems with their products ever. There are some @ newegg for 350-400 range...
I've had my last desktop and laptop prebuilt by pcspecilist (was cheaper than building it myself fml) they use the "Zotac" brand. My desktop is a 1080ti and this laptop a 2070 MaxQ,
Online Zotac seems to be cheaper for their cards, I've had no issues what so ever with any of my rigs with it
Hmm I'd say ASUS are top personally, I've used nothing but ASUS in past builds but recently built a 2nd system for my son using all Gigabyte parts and I have to say it's no where near the quality of ASUS...rattling fans on the GFX card and then the clunky motherboard bios and the crappy software.
Each to their own I guess though.
Well i never said top or best.. Just said its good and reasonably priced...
Its electronics things tend to wear differently for no reason... My current board is an ASUS ROG but it keeps throwing temp errors at boot randomly. And I dont even nor have I ever OC'd the components.
Yeah i have the 2070 armor OC card from last year too, only issue i had was the normal early RTX issues, 2nd card works fine.
Temps are below 70c in games and thats with messed airflow for cpu reasons.
For OP, helped mate build a budget gaming pc with some old parts i had, he brought a GPU, he got the msi 2060 ventus, it was the cheapest.
Definitely runs hotter than my 2070, but it works just fine. He was playing Anthem too which i believe is known to cause a lot of heat? Not too sure about that.
I prefer 3 fan GPUs as when coupled with a Noctua heatsink and intake/outtake fans, the system is basically silent even under full load. But make sure your card has at least two.
Aftermarket means the board partner cards, for AMD this is: Sapphire, Powercolor, XFX, Asrock, MSI, Asus, Gigabyte.
The only version of the RX 5700 and 5700XT that are yet on the market is the reference design by AMD.
The partner's own designs will be releasing next week.
RX 5700 is faster than RTX 2060, so you might wanna wait and see how the pricing of the partner cards ends up.