Gainward: Good or Bad?

[Aa-back1234]

Hello,

I am intressed in upgrading to a 770, i love the look of the Gainward Phantom (4gb)
but i dont have experience with Gainward and heard some bad things about there cards.

Is this still the same story? I heard there phantom are extreamly silent. At 450 euros (Dutch) it isnt expensive and it is also the only 4gb version around here.

I would also like to hear your opinion on the amouths of GB's i need, as you can see i am running Eyefinity and would switch to Nvidia surround.

So should i get:

1150 Ghz with 2 GB (keep in mind i use 3 full hd monitors with bezel fix)

or

1050 Ghz with 4 gb (This will cost me 50 euros more)


I would love to hear you opinion on this!

Thanks!

(I have dislexia, please dont flame me :C)

 

[SuB]

when you say 3 monitors at full hd, I assume thats 1920x1080 on each?

Personally I'd go with the 4gb model if your tripple screening.

As for Gainward, can't say much about the later years, but I had some of their VERY much older cards and they were all stella. Can't say anything about any releases since the Geforce MX 440 though (yeah it was that long ago)

 

[Aa-back1234]

Yes with full hd i mean 1080p, i was thinking i could just buy it at a good retailer so i could swap it with ease.

 

[Roooker]

I dont really see the point of paying extra for more Vram.
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphi...marked-4K-Resolutions/Crysis-3-Single-GPU-Car

Even on 4k resolution there is almost no difference ...

 

[Aa-back1234]

Hhmm interesting. But i hear other storys from other poeple who say the have problems with to little vram :S

 

[Roooker]

Complete BS imho

Imagine:
3 time 1920x1080 monitor setup: 5760x1080 res -> 6,2 million pixels
4k = 3840x2160 res -> 8,3 million pixels

still no noticable difference


But other that that, me personally, i would recommend a Gainward card. I have never heard anything bad about them and depending on which moddel you are looking to buy (aftermarket coolers and stuff) they are not loud or warm at all.

 

[Aa-back1234]

Hmm i think youre right. Screw it 50 more bucks woth of games! But anyway, what is your opinion on Gainward?

 

[SuB]

I'm sorry but he's not right, it completely depends on the game, what settings you run at and how high your anti aliasing is....

Battlefield for example, on it's own, on ONE screen can use 3GB of vram... So can Crysis, Arma 2 and 3...

If you hit the wall where your setup runs out of vram, you're toast. it doesn't just slow down, it stalls.

 

[Aa-back1234]

Damnit guys this isnt making it easy on me! xD I was just looking at an msi :/

 

[Roooker]

I just edited my post but here you go again:
But other that that, me personally, i would recommend a Gainward card. I have never heard anything bad about them and depending on which moddel you are looking to buy (aftermarket coolers and stuff) they are not loud or warm at all.

 

[Aa-back1234]

Ah, well i am going to buy it after 7/8 days so i could just wait a bit and see if the Evga comes out!

 

[NRG!]

If BF3 uses more than 3gb of vram @ 1080p how do people with 2gb 680s play it?

Answer: it doesn't *need* that stuff it's caching.

@ thread

Gainward are are the 'posh' branch of palit.

The phantom cooler was rubbish on the gtx 580.

Warranty is average/poor in the UK, but got better recently via an exclusive warranty deal with overclockers uk.

The 770 is a 680 with a small ram oc, the 7950 will beat it at 3 x 1080p.

The 4gb vram isn't very useful because the card is too weak to use it, even in SLI. It's worth getting if the price difference between 2gb and 4gb isn't very large.

 

[SuB]

Turn bf3 up to it's max, put in the shader injector to get proper anti aliasing, turn everything up and watch the VRam usage go nuts... My cards have 3gb, so it's happy to use it. Using it and needing it are two different things, at 3x1080p display you're very much at the need end of the scale if you want decent image quality.