Is Zotac an inferior company than Asus, Gigabyte or MSI?

[vijay_001]

Why are their Video cards cheaper than the other company cards? Do they use cheap component in them or what?

 

[R_1]

I still have a working GT 440 from zotac. I have found them to be fine.

 

[n0ns3ns3]

No, they are mostly not inferior. Zotac has an excellent engineering team and they do cool things.
I personally recently switched to the EVGA for the GPUs as they have the best warranty terms and excellent support.
In fact, Zotac AMP! Extreme cards are awesome and can be compared to EVGA classified/FTW only.
Regarding the pricing - Asus is top tier vendor and the other two are "wanna be top tier", so they set the pricing accordingly.
I don't like the GB engineering and cooling solutions as they were very loud (no recent experience though).

 

[Tradesman1]

Zotac cards are very good, and their pricing reflects there wish to grow the brand as they are still a relatively small manufacturer trying to find their niche. For nVidia cards I normally look to Asus and EVGA as the top tier, have used other brands including Zotac, but tend to keep going back to EVGA and Asus for primary choices

 

[jimmyEatWord]

not necessarily , if they specialize in gpus they might be even better