What is the best Nvidia partner?

[steelfox]

Well I'm glad every gpu ever welcomed to my arms, got naked and dived into water.
So much for the looks.


When I see a rog asus 4080 costs same as a rag gigabyte 4090, I have second thoughts.


Do you like the box or the backplate?

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As a man of culture, both

 

[lightning70]

EVGA-MSI-ASUS but I think MSI is the best among them.

 

[Hyderz]

I’ve had asus, evga and galax and they have been good cept my asus strix 1070ti is sagging hard lol

 

[Sithaer]

Honestly I can't say since I never had the same brand Nvidia cards before, always went with something different or the one that fit in my budget range.
Looks do matter to me but not to the point of taking priority over temps/noise and price.

For example the main reason I went with Asus/TuF this time around is cause this model only has a 1x8pin PCIe connector/same power draw as the founder edition and that was a safer bet with my 500W PSU. 'works perfectly with it'
Originally I wanted to pick up a Gigabyte Aorus Elite for the looks but then I changed my mind right before buying the card. 'they were priced exactly the same'
The look of TuF card did grew on me tho and the build quality is pretty nice so I can't complain.

Probably my fav looking card was my EVGA GTX 1070 FTW ACX 3.0.
Pretty card but sadly it had coil whine/buzz under load.

 

[gffermari]

For nvidia the best partner is Asus who sells multiple times more cards than any other.
For the consumers, the best partner is anyone who proved to be decent and reliable without putting a ridiculous markup on the already ridiculous msrps.
The aesthetics are subjective and in general I like the Founders design.

 

[Flanker]

Unless I have specific needs like PCB dimensions, I normally just grab the cheapest.

 

[Chrispy_]

There is no best they all make good and bad models.

This is the only valid comment here about the quality of a specific brand. People stating their preference of a brand is meaningless without larger sample sizes and specific information about which exact model.

I've bought hundreds of Ampere and Turing GPUs and I'm still not really talking about sample sizes valid enough to form a meaningful verdict. I'm generally avoiding Palit (cheap materials, poor mechanical design with inadequate PCB/cooler support, and fan control bugs in their firmware for two completely different models). Asus make some of the best/coolest/quietest and also some of the worst/hottest/loudest cards I've ever seen. MSI are a safe bet for the models I've bought so far but I've never bought their bottom-of-the-range model (Ventus?) so I don't know for sure that their budget offerings aren't just as bad as budget offerings from other brands. Zotac seem okay at the cheap end and okay at the high end. Gigabyte are typically expensive here but the few models I've procured have felt cheap/plasticky/RGBLED-o-rama and yet were quiet and trouble-free. Inno3D and KFA2 seem to be okay at the value end but nothing special, and their premium offerings are waaaaay overpriced in my region so I've no experience (of being ripped-off).

TL;DR - Ignore the brand, it's utterly meaningless. Look for a proper review of THE EXACT MODEL you're interested in.