New Video card or new CPU?

[pinotnoir]

It's hilarious that everyone has such different experiences with video cards and their manufacturers and, at
times, an extreme bias. The main reason I actually stopped using ATi back in the day (like 8 years ago) was
because of a very poorly designed Sapphire 9700. There was a known hardware issue that Sapphire had used
bad Hynix or Samsung memory chips and there were endless complaints on their forum. They did absolutely
nothing to help any of the affected customers. They were completely ignoring the problem altogether and that
obviously really turned me off to any ATi product ever again. I used to use Asus nVidia video cards but have
now moved to eVGA because they have, from what I have seen and personally experienced, the best technical
and customer support anyone could ask for.

I will give props to EVGA for replacing my 7800's. It was a headache at the time but at least they replaced them. Overall I think most of the major manufacturers are decent. The random chance something goes wrong determines how people shop. I use to only buy MSI until I had a bad board. Now I buy Asus. When they screw up I may move to Gigabyte. They are all pretty good. I try to assess the past performance vs price of the items when I buy. I would be open to buying MSI and Evga again but they are not the first places I start my search. It's just the randomness of life.