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http://www.ebuyer.com/491568-zotac-gtx- ... -61201-10m

OR

http://www.ebuyer.com/398799-zotac-gtx- ... -61103-10m

Im a casual gamer (Skyrim, Portal 2, Alan Wake etc), so while I don't strictly NEED to upgrade, I can't help being tempted.

Definitely the boost version. It is essentially a GTX 660 (non ti) with some shader cores disabled and will serve you better in the long run. I just upgraded from a GTX560ti to the GTX 660 and I am very happy with it. I wasn’t going to upgrade either but the low price of $169 USD was too tempting. It was essentially the same price as a GTX 650 ti Boost with all the shader cores so why not.

Cheaper than the Zotac and comes with a better cooler too.

Thankyou.

And I've never trusted MSI...!

awakeningcry wrote:

Thankyou.

And I've never trusted MSI...!

ZOTAC and MSI are both smaller, relatively low-end, cheap brands. Preference for one or the other is going to be more or less mindless brand loyalty with no real evidence or reasoning beyond subjective experience.

TBH, reliability is pretty much irrelevant with Ebuyer, since they will handle the RMA's for you for the duration of the warranty. It means the difference between a cheap brand like Zotac/MSI and a premium brand like EVGA or Asus is pretty much nonexistant. All you have to worry about is clockspeeds and cooler noise.

auxy wrote:

ZOTAC and MSI are both smaller, relatively low-end, cheap brands.

I think that Zotac just doesn't release a lot of its higher end product in the the U.S. I was shopping for a graphics card recently and in Tokyo the Zotac cards are ubiquitous and can command a price premium over other brands. If you remember they were the first manufacturer to make those mini-GTX 670s.

Also, Zotac is owned by PC Partner which manufactures all of Sapphires GPUs which are rather well regarded.