selection of nvidia's gtx 960 different varients

[harsh vardhan 04]

So actually I am planning a new GPU and decided to go with mid range nvidia gtx 960 but I am in a kind of dellema as their are way too many tweakers of this fab GPU like zotac,Asus,gigabyte,MSI etc,so which among these or any other shall I go for?thanks in advance for giving my thread time

 

[davidarad02]

ok. here's the main things you need to know about the companies:
gigabyte and zotac - max cooling and performance (while overclocked), with the sacrafice of noise.
asus - silence, not the best overclockability.
msi - the best of two worlds. its really reall quite, even under 100% load, and overclocks like a champ. I have a GTX 970 from MSI, and its super quiet, and I could overclock it a ton.

also, most of the companies make their same models of the 960, but with 4GB of RAM, if you're interested.

just make sure when buying cards, to get the real cards from the comapies, not the budget ones. the gigabyte one is called the G1 gaming gtx 960, the zotac one is the GTX 960 AMP! edition, the Asus one is the Asus Strix GTX 960, and the MSI one is the GTX 960 Gaming 2G (or 4G)

 

[warhead0]

They all try to add their own 'flair' to the GPU, they will all perform almost identically.

What the big differences you should look for is the clockspeeds (higher is better) and warranty length (3 years seems to be standard).

 

[harsh vardhan 04]

Does 4gb of ram instead of 2gb be even better?

 

[warhead0]

Yes it's better, typically more VRAM will help performance in high resolution.

You will be paying a little extra though.

 

[davidarad02]

Yes it better, typically more VRAM will help performance in high resolution.

and future and vram heavy games, like GTAV and shadow of mordor.

 

[harsh vardhan 04]

Will a MSI gaming 100ME of 2gb just do fine as I live in India & and a 4 could become a pain in the butt due to its availability?

 

[davidarad02]

Will a MSI gaming 100ME of 2gb just do fine as I live in India & and a 4 could become a pain in the butt due to its availability?

the 100million edition is basically MSI celebrating the fact that they sold 100 million GPUs, and the card itself is basically the Gaming 2G version, with a different color.