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I get any number of inquiries about uh which brand of video card should I

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choose I want to get a a GTX 580 or I

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want to get a Ron 5770 what whatever

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whatever card you're looking at and you want to know which brand to choose so uh

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for the launch of the GTX 580 I happen to have the luxury of having two cards

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to compare so I have one from EVGA so

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this is an EVGA reference GTX 580 so you

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can see it uses the same cooler

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as the MSI GTX 580 it also uses the same

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PCB layout as the GTX 580 and um I have

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a lot of people asking me like should I pick based on overclocking results and

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reviews or should I pick based on

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um you know the uh the overall quality

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of the product well I can tell you one thing right now these are both reference

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design products especially when you buy a high-end GPU at launch they are quite

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literally exactly the same thing there is no quality difference between an MSI

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GTX 580 and an EVGA GTX 580 none

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whatsoever so put that out of your mind so some of the ways that you can

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differentiate is in terms of the other

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ways that the brands differentiate each other from each other

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that's awkward anyway so MSI has a three-year warranty and EVGA has a

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lifetime warranty if you register so there's uh one tick boox for EVGA uh

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MSI's card actually comes with a slightly better accessory package

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although I do mean slightly it comes with a long HDMI cable about a 6t cable

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versus the EVGA 1 comes with one that's about this long so that's a mini HDMI to

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HDMI cable and the MSI 1 also comes with my preferred type of six pin to eight

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pin so it just has a single six pin on the one side that goes to a single eight

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pin on the other side whereas EVGA uses one of those dual six pin to 8 Pin

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adapters that I'm not all that fond of

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now in terms of connectivity overclocking results etc etc it's all

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luck of the draw except remember these two are just reference products both of

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these manufacturers will release all kinds of different non-referenced

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products so EVGA for example on the GTX

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460 has their external exhaust version

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they've got any number of overclocked skews so that is they have GTX 460s that

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are overclocked out of the box now you do pay a slight premium for them but

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that means that you're getting a higher speed bin and if you don't know what a

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speed bin is go ahead and check out my NCI Tech tips episode on the process of

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binning and that'll explain what that means but you're basically getting like

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a higher a higher graded chip okay

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because it passed at a higher speed you're getting

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um yeah well basically that's it when you buy a factory overclock card that's

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what you get and MSI also does some pretty unique Solutions as well so you

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can see here I've actually got some MSI

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GTX 460 Hawk edition cards so these guys have triple overvoltage so that means

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you can overvolt the GPU the RAM as well

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as the uh GPU PLL voltage so you can get some great overclocks it's actually got

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a uh a switch on the back where is it right there where you can even change

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the voltages so that you can go even higher and get real crazy uh aftermarket

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cooler so uh oh yeah EVGA like I said they have their external exhaust coolers

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versus the reference one MSI's got the twin frozer too they've got the Cyclone

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all kinds of unique stuff that these particular vendors are doing now they

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also have some software differences although they aren't really differences

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evga's got their Precision Tool which is for overclocking and tweaking all that

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good stuff monitoring your temperatures fan speeds and MSI has afterburner which

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is a fairly similar uh utility now bear in mind that both EVGA and MSI have

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graciously allowed uh all other board

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Partners to use their particular software so you can actually buy any

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card and use MSI After Burner and the same goes for EVGA Precision which is

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pretty cool of both of them to do that uh EVGA also has their 247 tech support

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as well as their uh where is the uh the

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terms and conditions for that one I believe they still do offer a tradein

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program if something newer and faster comes out so that you can uh you can

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trade in your old card got some little bragging on on the side of their box

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here which is uh definitely some interesting

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stuff there you go evga's number one and

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then what do we have on the MSI box not

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a whole lot there just I mean these are

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reference cards so it becomes very difficult to differentiate so like I

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said I've brought up a bunch of different things that both of these brands do to separate their products

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from the other NVIDIA partners for these particular cards it's going to come down

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to uh what kind of price how much of a value you put on the uh the value ads

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that each of these board Partners have attached to their GTX 580 and your

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personal preference because really nobody can tell you what experience

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you've had in the past with MSI or what experience you've had in the past with

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EVGA I mean there's all kinds of different factors like you could go oh I

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got an MSI Motherboard and it's great so I want to buy an MSI product great good

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for you but that's no reason why you can't use an EVGA card on an MSI

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Motherboard and similarly if you have AMD chipset there's no reason you can't

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use an NVIDIA card and the other way around you got EVGA board you want to

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throw a Missi card in it no problem so

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there you go there is my little guide on EVGA versus MSI as far as being NVIDIA

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board Partners

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go oh yeah I should have probably mentioned my my one of my personal

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favorite ways to pick uh video cards is based on the aesthetic of it you know

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whether you like the EVGA sticker or you like the uh the MS size sticker better

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can actually make a difference to people and you can even run into differences a

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little bit later when we're not all using reference cards uh where you know

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some will have a green PCB some will have a black PCB so uh so yeah and yeah

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like I said it's a goofy thing but that that is actually something that factors

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in for me personally