Should I give EVGA GPU a third chance?

[orinrj]

Back in 2012, I bought a brand new EVGA GTX 560ti.
It worked perfectly for 35 months, until one day it started showing artefacts. As it was the last month of the warranty, I quickly RMA'd it to EVGA, their customer service was awesome, a couple of days later they sent me a GTX 660.
This new card worked for at least 40 months, before it started showing the same problem, forcing me to stop using her.

I'm now considering buying a GTX 1060 6gb, I wish to pick one either from EVGA, MSI or ASUS, as they all have 3 years warranty.

I really liked EVGA customer and warranty service, but I'm a bit weary of buying another GPU from them.

What do you guys think?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

I have the ROG Strix 1060 6GB , great card. I also own a 1080 EVGA Gaming , still running strong. I like EVGA and ASUS cards. EVGA CS is very good like you stated.

 

[kiss-method]

I have 2 friends who both have EVGA cards. One has a 670ti, still running since 2012 and the other a 670 about 2013....

EVGA is a good manufacturer for Nvidia.

As mentioned, Strix cards are pretty awesome as well (higher end ones, lower tier Strix are pretty worthless for their price).

 

[izoli]

They are all fine, I would base decision based on price as long as warranties are identical.

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

I would say stick with EVGA. They are well known and they've appeared to treat you well. You can't beat that.

 

[orinrj]

Thanks for the answers, guys.
I think I'll stick with EVGA, seems like I had a stoke of bad luck, let us hope it changes.

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

If you do have a rough way to go, they seem to have helped you out when you needed it, sometimes good customer service is worth a lot.

 

[DavidVioMC]

All my life I've been using EVGA when it comes to GPU's. Since 2012 I have owned three EVGA GTX 670, I bought two of them for my SLI rig and worked perfectly fine until about 4 years later, somewhere in 2016, the master card started hard crashing randomly in games, anything from a black screen to a purple screen or a green screen, I sold it as some-what working and bought another EVGA GTX 670 and used it in my SLI, they both worked perfectly fine until a month ago when I upgraded to a brand new Asus Strix GTX 970 4GB OC, didn't have much time to experience it yet but Asus' power delivery is fanstastic and an absolute legend when it comes to OC, I'm currently running 1070 speeds on it, not sure if I got a golden chip one or they are actually that good at OC'ing.