Which Video Card is better?

[Guest]

I'm not sure what video card to get for my build. I don't know the differences (aside from price and brand) These two caught my eye, but if you have any better suggestions, I'm all ears.

EVGA GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card - ($339.99)

Asus GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card - ($328.98)

Just ask if you want to know my specs.

 

[Avocade]

Both the same. EVGA has great customer care is is generally perceived as the top quality for Nvidia products

 

[d1rtydeedz]

Go with ASUS if pulling your hair out while waiting on your RMA is your idea of a good time.

 

[Liberatas]

Hi Pwn Cakes,

Both are very similar, in the end it comes down to what sort of EVGA card you want, but the standard 770 OC has a better Base clock of 1086Mhz and better Turbo clock of 1137Mhz. As Avocade has said, EVGA has great customer service, they're known for their gaming tech and hence understand the 'classic' gamer. Not to bag ASUS but they're very diverse and don't quite understand the specifics that many hardcore gamers 'require'.
Reason to choose ASUS? DCII Cooling. They have very good cooling but in the end it comes down to preference I think. Very similar products.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Can't tell..... are we talking reference cards or the factory overlcocked cards ?

If reference, they both the same.

If factory OC'd the EVGA SC would be at the bottom of the list as it's a factory OC'd card but all they change is the cooler. MSI, Gigabyte and Asus all use custom PCBs with beefed up VRMs to better handle and spread the load when overclocking. The EVGA Classified OTOH, is a fine card with huge multi-phase VRM ion a class with just the MSI Lightning.

If you are not going to overclock, I'd put them in this order:

MSI Gaming N770 - 1137 Core / 1198 Boost
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127741

Gigabyte Windforce - 1137 Core / 1198 Boost
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125463

EVGA Superclocked - 111 Core / 1163 Boost
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130921

Asus DCII - 1058 Core / 1110 Boost
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121770

The Asus would be at the top from a "built" perspective but for whatever reason Asus has drastically under clocked this ah heck. Overclocked Id put it in 2nd place behind the MSI. On the 780, move the Asus to the top, leave rest same.