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New Video card for @Zed Clampet
der8auer uses that same card in his personal rig:

View: https://youtu.be/o21CDqlCSps?si=Xho3aw4tDKji4cVo






What are your guy's thoughts on PNY brand GPUs? They have always been a bit strange to me. They don't give into any marketing gimmicks, but their cards are well reviewed, if anything they're a bit boring. They provide sufficient enough cooling while not innovating any new cooling techniques. Their website is plain and has no full page ads about how their dies are German Military Grade Engineering or whatever BS other brands fill their pages with. Could this be a case of a company not following market trends and instead focusing on delivering a quality product, or are they just a "good enough" kind of company?

On paper though, their cards seem great. Higher than average clock speeds just from what I've seen, good build quality, and currently it is the only 5060 Ti 16GB I see on Amazon for MSRP. Some other brands have cards with lower max boost speeds, which in the grand scheme of things is pretty incomprehensible for most people, but my thinking is if you're buying cards at that budget and do not want to overclock, you're gonna want the highest speeds you can get.

Where they seem to lack is any other features that make them stand out from the competition. They do have an RGB version of this card, but it's so basic compared to a company like MSI's offerings. They've just been kind of strange to me, almost like comparing a grocery stores own brand of products to the real thing.
 

Zed Clampet

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der8auer uses that same card in his personal rig:

View: https://youtu.be/o21CDqlCSps?si=Xho3aw4tDKji4cVo






What are your guy's thoughts on PNY brand GPUs? They have always been a bit strange to me. They don't give into any marketing gimmicks, but their cards are well reviewed, if anything they're a bit boring. They provide sufficient enough cooling while not innovating any new cooling techniques. Their website is plain and has no full page ads about how their dies are German Military Grade Engineering or whatever BS other brands fill their pages with. Could this be a case of a company not following market trends and instead focusing on delivering a quality product, or are they just a "good enough" kind of company?

On paper though, their cards seem great. Higher than average clock speeds just from what I've seen, good build quality, and currently it is the only 5060 Ti 16GB I see on Amazon for MSRP. Some other brands have cards with lower max boost speeds, which in the grand scheme of things is pretty incomprehensible for most people, but my thinking is if you're buying cards at that budget and do not want to overclock, you're gonna want the highest speeds you can get.

Where they seem to lack is any other features that make them stand out from the competition. They do have an RGB version of this card, but it's so basic compared to a company like MSI's offerings. They've just been kind of strange to me, almost like comparing a grocery stores own brand of products to the real thing.
PNY is a great company. They aren't flashy; they just make great GPUs (and other stuff). Most of their business is in making commercial GPUs for data centers as a partner with Nvidia.
 
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I don't know of any known GPU maker I would avoid, so I don't really have an opinion on PNY. If I never heard of company before I may question it.
Makers of the cards themselves never really been a thought. They don't actually make the silicon, they just make the wrappers
 
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