What's the beat brand to buy pic related from, first time

>>59184714
best brand*

fuck mobileposting

There is no "best brand" pretty much every GPU manufacturer has realised some really shitty cards, and some absolutely amazing ones. Look reviews for the card you're thinking of buying first.

>>59184741
so it really doesn't matter who I buy it from? that's what I assumed

>>59184741
>realised
Nah some brands are worse than others. Sparkle, Galaxy, Biostar, Gainward, Inno3D, HIS, BFG, and Club 3D are particularly bad.

Zotac, PNY, Diamond, Visiontek, PowerColor, XFX, and EVGA are all pretty mediocre.

Top tier is usually Asus, Gigabyte, Sapphire, and MSI are usually the top tier ones. Asus is sometimes lazy with cooler design and reuses old ones which results in bad cards, but if you get the heatsink designed for the card it's top tier. Gigabyte sometimes dabbles in voltage locking which is shit. Sapphire had an issue with fans failures about five years ago but it hasn't really popped up since. MSI sometimes puts out godawful PCBs and had a bug that'd set fan speeds to zero on AMD cards two years back.

>>59184714
EVGA is good, don't believe the FUD

>>59184774
It does matter which brand you choose but it's different for every card.

>>59184714
If you're going with the reference edition, then just go with the brand with the best warranty(EVGA) or cheapest price.

>>59184957
EVGA was top tier six years ago, it's just leftover fanboyism

>>59185071
EVGA still has better customer support than what you'll get from most of these 3rd party retailers.

Reference is the "best brand" if you buy it and put a waterblock on it.