I am going to buy myself a new video card for Christmas. When I look online I see that XFX is usually the best priced card. Are they a good company? Are their cards made well? How about their warrantee service?

  • Leaflet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    21 days ago

    I’ve had two XFX cards, an RX 480 and 6700 XT. Didn’t have issues with either one, no coil whine with the fans.

  • ralakus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    21 days ago

    I’ve had an XFX RX 480 Black Edition and now an XFX Merc310 RX 7900XTX. Both have had no issues except the 7900XTX which had some coil whine but went away for good after binging Baldur’s Gate 3 and KSP for a few days. They’re a good brand in my books but I haven’t had any experience with their customer service

  • Alpha71@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    1·
    21 days ago

    Thank-you to everyone who responded. I found a Killer deal for a GIGABYTE Radeon RX 7600 XT GAMING OC Card at $379.00 CAD ($270.00 USD) I will leave the thread up as I’m sure others will have the same question.

    • Mistic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      19 days ago

      If you go for that card, then, just in case, consider getting yourself a GPU sag bracket.

      I’m not sure if Gigabyte fixed it with this generation of AMD cards, but they’ve gotten into quite a controversy not that long ago over quality of their PCBs in 30th series Nvidia cards. Basically, they would crack too easily under their own weight, rendering them inoperable. Gigabyte then refused to cover them under warranty.

  • Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    21 days ago

    I have an XFX RX 480 that i upgraded to an XFX 5700XT, that I then upgraded from recently to a sapphire 7900xtx. The XFX cards had crashing problems and issues where video would just cut out and go straight to black. This happened on both Windows and Linux, and on two different motherboards and power supplies. As soon as I switched to the sapphire, every single problem just… disappeared.

  • ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    21 days ago

    Had a Merc 319 6800XT, worked great till it got wet. Whoops. There was some coil whine during Automatic1111 runs, but I don’t really remember it during games. Though most of my gaming is of the patient variety and my monitors are only 1440. So it probably wasn’t very taxing. BG3 and Diablo 4 at max settings worked great.

  • TurboWafflz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    21 days ago

    I have an XFX 6650 XT I got a couple years ago and the only issue I’ve had is that I had to flip the vbios switch on it to make it work with my motherboard when I first put it in which is weird because you would think both slots would be the same from the factory, but it worked perfectly after that so maybe there’s just some intentional difference between the two roms