Leadtek, MSI, or Gainward ti4600?

dttdar

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I'm confused as to which one I should get. From the reviews that I've seen, MSI and Leadtek outperform the Gainward so why does everyone recommend and buy the Gainward.

I plan on running one at stock speeds, and only oc'ing for benchmarks, but I want the highest speeds for both situations.

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Mnx4

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It really doesn't matter which one you get because they're practically the same card. The reason it could be reccomended is the price, the package, the extras, etc... I've got a leadtek and it's a pretty good card so far.

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williamc

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Why people limit themselves is beyond me...Visiontek is a damn fine card. And if you carefully read out the tomshardware overview, its overall probably the finest quality one built in my opinion. Reference can be a good thing sometimes. I've installed and tested quite a few visiontek 4400 and 4600's and one MX, they are all fantastic i think. Especially their 4600 though.

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i have a visiontek xtasy ti4400 and i love it, but to be perfectly honest if i had the money i wouldve bought the leadtek. I mean look at it, its awesome, and has greater OC'ing abilities due to the large HSF. but unless youre going to enter your comp in a beauty contest, or want an extra 5-10mhz when overclocked, i say buy the cheapest one you can find, which is probably the visiontek. i added some heatsinks to my RAM by mixing epoxy with arctic silver 2 and i can now get higher speeds for ram. i also added 2 case fans on the side blowing directly on the card which helped both ram and gpu speeds.

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