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What is the best AIB for NVIDIA?

silverzerosv3

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I'm currently on AMD, and I am thinking about switching back to team green this gen. I used to buy EVGA (RIP) cards, but I do not have a lot of experience with the other vendors. Radeon has Sapphire that usually on the top of the pile, but what does NVIDIA have now? Asking for the US Market.
 
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Yeah, Evga was my top choice with Nvidia. Without them, I'd say probably Asus.

It's different with Radeon, though. On team red, I avoid the big three (Asus, MSi and Gigabyte) like the plague. MSi motherboards are okay, though. Asus, too, just overpriced.
 
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"Best" in what regard? In terms of customer service, MSI has one of the smoothest/easiest RMA processes I've ever used. I've heard good things about Zotac too, but never had to RMA anything with them. Far more horror stories from Asus/Gigabyte floating around though.

Build quality? That varies from one line of cards to another. Asus is almost always near the top, but you'll pay through the nose for it too. MSI is great there too.

Resale value? Asus cards def command a premium, up there with founders edition models. I sold my Asus 3070 Ti for more than some 3080s at the time.

Cooler performance/fan noise? Again, varies from one line of cards to another, but MSI and Asus are almost always chart toppers. (Honorable mention to PNY during the 40 series).

TL;DR, that's too broad of a question to answer succinctly. Decide what's most important to you and check reviews for models you're interested in.
 

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if im going nvidia im usually looking at msi or asus.
 

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"Best" in what regard? In terms of customer service, MSI has one of the smoothest/easiest RMA processes I've ever used. I've heard good things about Zotac too, but never had to RMA anything with them. Far more horror stories from Asus/Gigabyte floating around though.

Build quality? That varies from one line of cards to another. Asus is almost always near the top, but you'll pay through the nose for it too. MSI is great there too.

Resale value? Asus cards def command a premium, up there with founders edition models. I sold my Asus 3070 Ti for more than some 3080s at the time.

Cooler performance/fan noise? Again, varies from one line of cards to another, but MSI and Asus are almost always chart toppers. (Honorable mention to PNY during the 40 series).

TL;DR, that's too broad of a question to answer succinctly. Decide what's most important to you and check reviews for models you're interested in.
I guess best as in Sapphire for Radeon like generally superior build quality and thermals.
 

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I guess best as in Sapphire for Radeon like generally superior build quality and thermals.
Astral for air and Suprim for Liquid, though I have not seen what the Astral LC does yet.

Put down your pitchforks, he said build quality and thermals, the Astral line delivers on that with no questions.
 
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Got the supa 4070 Ventus x3. Wonderful card.

But honestly fellas.

Galax.

I had this really bad ass Galax GTX 780 white. Oh man that card was just the tits.

Mean if you all loved, you know those EVGA cards, Galax would probably have to be my go to now. Which the 4090 is one heck of a nice card.
 
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I would say Asus but with the Premium they put in their astral models you can essentially buy a 5090 and a 5080 together for their asking price or a 5090 plus their ROG ally x handheld.

Imo in general whoever is closest to MSRP nowadays wins, warranty wise pick a good retail brick and mortar store you can trust or where you can exercise consumer law with no probs.
 
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