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With EVGA out of the GPU market, what brands are good options for a new GPU purchase? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was an EVGA customer for many years. I'm looking to buy a new GPU soon to replace my 2080Ti. What brands would you consider when making a new GPU purchase and why?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm an AMD guy myself due to Linux compatibility. I prefer Sapphire, PowerColor, XFX, and Asus cards, in that order.

[–] Eeyore_Syndrome 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've always been AMD myself.

Unfortunately I've had an Asus Strix Vega 64 suffer from voltage spikes and ended up seeing it has bad quality control thermal pads ❎

Then seeing Asus melt motherboards with the AM5 X3Ds at launch 🤔...

I think the current generation of Power Color was having a similar issues with thermal pads, but don't quote me on that. My PC 5700xt and 6900xt Red Devils worked fine.

I went with Sapphire this go round for my 7900xtx.

Make friends, resell old parts. Subsidize upgrades 🙃

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've been using ASUS/AMD for 20ish years now with excellent results. Just upgraded from a R9 380 that was and is still running fine. Will be my kid's new card.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My Radeon 290X gave me a lot of Linux problems before it died. Like freezing a while after resuming from sleep. Hate to admit the GTX 1660 Ti hasn't given me any problems on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AMD revamped and open sourced their driver sometimes around the Vega era, I think? It's been super solid since then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's good to hear. For the longest time I suspected my Ryzen 3 CPU was causing the freezes. But no, it was the Radeon's dynamic power management that I had to disable with GRUB to fix it.