GPU Brand Reliability

[SactoDoug]

I will be building my new main desktop computer next month. I value reliable hardware over lowest price. My current machine has served me well for 10 years now because I bought quality parts. I want to build a system that will last another ten years if needed. This GPU has to run flawlessly for at least 5 years before I begin considering upgrading it.

Unfortunately my previous go to brands are not available for the GPU I want. EVGA got out of the GPU market and MSI is currently out of stock. I have ruled ASUS out. ASUSs recent debacle with frying AMD CPUs sealed the deal for me. I will never buy another ASUS product. I have had a Gigabyte motherboard fail on me before but I am not ruling them out yet as it might have just been bad luck.

That leaves XFX, Gigabyte, Saphire and ASRock left. I don't know too much about these brands. Has anyone had any failures or bad experiences with any of these four?

[meccjoo]

MSI has always been my go to. Sucks you can't find stock.

[The Hamsterball]

Yeah. I have an MSI Pre-built creator PC.
It's aircooled, with an MSI brand GeForce GTX 3070 Ti.

I have never had problems with neither the video card, nor the PC.

You might try getting a good prebuilt PC from NewEgg instead of building your own and waiting months for the parts.

You will get a better deal too.

[Mute]

That is a bit of a dilema. I've always used EVGA also, though I've had good results with Saphire as well but that was back when ATI was still a thing.

[Marauder2003]

Are you a gamer?

[cyphr02]

For starters, you need to decide if you're team green or team red. XFX, and Saphire are AMD exclusive. I have always gone with EVGA, XFX, or ASUS and am in the same boat and won't be going with ASUS following their handling of the AMD issue. If you want an AMD card XFX is the brand to go with. If you want a factory overclocked card from Nvidia, I would go with Gigabyte, MSI or Zotac. If you don't care about factory overclocking, you could also get an Nvidia Founders edition card, which is their own OEM mfg.

Another MFG I would avoid is PNY, I don't know what their current quality is like, but they have been historically unreliable.

[dC0m]

Are you going to do an aftermarket cooling set up on the GPU?

Reason why I ask is because the brands that failed on me within the past 5 years tend to have "basic" cooling designs (thin heatsink coupled with a thin fan). The ones that lasted me longer tend to have a beefier cooling set up. I don't pay much attention to brands these days, just what's bang for my buck/budget as well as whichever doesn't have a "basic" cooling design but also doesn't require full watercooling.

[jmaglipay]

I've always used evga for the past two decades. They had excellent customer service, offered lifetime warranty on their gpu and had an upgrade program. Fortunately I only used the warranty once and they upgraded the gpu to the current version. My current gpu is msi.

[billofrights]

You know ASRock is owned by Asus, right? It's their "budget" tier line a la Honda/ Accura

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I don't think the recent AMD frying is a ASUS issue, it's is on the AMD side with other board brands too. With that, go with Intel ��. Personally I would stay away from Gigabyte if reliability is the main point.

GPU prices are still up there, would just buy pre-built when on sale. They are reliable enough these days.

[SactoDoug]

You know ASRock is owned by Asus, right? It's their "budget" tier line a la Honda/ Accura

I didn't know that. That crosses them off my list.




This has been very helpful. Thanks for all the of input. My alternative if I can't find an MSI GPU next month will be XFX.

[cyphr02]

I don't think the recent AMD frying is a ASUS issue, it's is on the AMD side with other board brands too. With that, go with Intel ��. Personally I would stay away from Gigabyte if reliability is the main point.

GPU prices are still up there, would just buy pre-built when on sale. They are reliable enough these days.

It has occured in other systems, but ASUS has by far been the worst offender. Gamers Nexus did a really detailed analysis of the issue and found that ASUS boards are providing higher voltages than what's being defined in the BIOS. You essentially have to underclock to system to not burn out the x3d chips, and their GUI based OC system caused even more overvoltage issues.

https://youtu.be/cbGfc-JBxlY

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It has occured in other systems, but ASUS has by far been the worst offender. Gamers Nexus did a really detailed analysis of the issue and found that ASUS boards are providing higher voltages than what's being defined in the BIOS. You essentially have to underclock to system to not burn out the x3d chips, and their GUI based OC system caused even more overvoltage issues.

https://youtu.be/cbGfc-JBxlY

Yea, valid points and can see the dislike for Asus currently for that.

[ibanezfoo]

My company uses a ton of Quadro cards and evga has always been solid for us. PNY has sucked balls. I don’t actually know what brand is in there at the moment, we order them built and I have guys that do all the imaging and stuff. I need to look into that. What I do know is we haven’t had any graphics card failures in several years. We have a few hundred of these CAD machines. In the past MSI and PNY have been unreliable for us. ASUS and EVGA, I can’t remember them ever failing to be honest.

[Regular guy]

You can find EVGA 3080s for a pretty good price these days. Thats what I'm getting as my next card. Currently using a 2060 super.