Oh I'm just a greedy bastard. I want my 1280x960 with 16X aniso and 8X FSAA at butter-smooth framerates.
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Good info, Arcanine, thanks. Been scoping eVGA cards for a while now. I never knew of the lifetime warranty. Also, didn't know they were American. The chips aren't made in the U.S. though, correct? You were just speaking of the manufacture of the card - the final product?Shining Arcanine wrote: Speaking of eVGA, I plan to get an eVGA Geforce 7800 GTX next year (for several reasons, in order of most important to least important: they're american, they strictly follow the nVidia reference design, they have excellent customer support from what I understand, they have a lifetime warranty, etc) so I'm sure you'll be happy with the eVGA.
What I mean by reference, I mean mostly the coolers. With the exception of the eVGA K.O. and this ASUS 7800GTX TOP the rest look nearly identical. So the vast majority are sticking with the reference cooling solution. Thats what I'm saying.
Yeah I've been the to the eVGA Forums, looks like you have good contact with support staff. Its a $500+ card, I'd like the best, warranty-covered, cooling solution there can be. It appears the ASUS has this but doesn't have the lifetime warranty (probably voided by swapping heatsinks), the support forums, and their cards are much thicker. which has me worries because the PCI-E slots are very close on my Gigabyte board.
Yeah I've been the to the eVGA Forums, looks like you have good contact with support staff. Its a $500+ card, I'd like the best, warranty-covered, cooling solution there can be. It appears the ASUS has this but doesn't have the lifetime warranty (probably voided by swapping heatsinks), the support forums, and their cards are much thicker. which has me worries because the PCI-E slots are very close on my Gigabyte board.