Is Galax Ex Gamer a good brand for a 5000 series GPU? Anyone have experience with Galax?

Never heard of the brand before (Europe). But a naive Google search reveals that people on the PC building subreddit say it's an OK "middle spec" brand. Apparently, their temperature sensors for their 4000 series cards were bugged at some point.

Personally, I had Gigabyte, Asus and EVGA (please come back, EVGA!) cards most of the time. And I don't have anything bad to say about Gigabyte and EVGA. Asus can go fuck themselves, though.
 
Hudo said:
Never heard of the brand before (Europe). But a naive Google search reveals that people on the PC building subreddit say it's an OK "middle spec" brand. Apparently, their temperature sensors for their 4000 series cards were bugged at some point.

Personally, I had Gigabyte, Asus and EVGA (please come back, EVGA!) cards most of the time. And I don't have anything bad to say about Gigabyte and EVGA. Asus can go fuck themselves, though.
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Evga made great cards!
 
What price difference are we talking about?

Either way I would personally never go outside of the more common brands on a $1000-3000+ investment. Let the money sit on stocks for awhile and buy the one you really want instead.
 
demigod said:
Palit owns Galax. Can't remember which series but it was the top overclocker i think, probably 1000 series.


I disagree. They cheaped out on thermal pads in 1000 series and had issues on their 3000 series. Their only saving grace was step up program and good warranty service.
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Yeah, when I think of evga cards, I think of the excellent RMA service, never actually used one of their GPUs, but their psus are top notch.
 
Hudo said:
Never heard of the brand before (Europe). But a naive Google search reveals that people on the PC building subreddit say it's an OK "middle spec" brand. Apparently, their temperature sensors for their 4000 series cards were bugged at some point.

Personally, I had Gigabyte, Asus and EVGA (please come back, EVGA!) cards most of the time. And I don't have anything bad to say about Gigabyte and EVGA. Asus can go fuck themselves, though.
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They are KFA2 in Europe.
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Palit
Gainward
Galax
KFA2

Are all upper midtier right now.
Some of their base models are also easier to find MSRP depending on where you live.
Their upper tier models are built like tanks most of the time.


Ive been in the Palit family for quite a few generations, all of them were great pre(RTX) their overclocking potential was also very high.
My GTX 570 pictured here was the second fastest on GAF when we had the PC racing thread.
I think I was around 950Mhz stable.

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I've had so many GPUs made by so many different manufacturers over the years it's embarassing for me really. All I can say from my own experience, which of course still is just anecdotal evidence: it doesn't matter which brand you buy, you always play the lottery. Every brand has shit cards from time to time, no matter how expensive. If you bring in "minor" stuff like coil whine, you really only know if your card is shit once you have it in your PC. Fantastic customer experience.
 
HerjansEagleFeeder said:
I've had so many GPUs made by so many different manufacturers over the years it's embarassing for me really. All I can say from my own experience, which of course still is just anecdotal evidence: it doesn't matter which brand you buy, you always play the lottery. Every brand has shit cards from time to time, no matter how expensive. If you bring in "minor" stuff like coil whine, you really only know if your card is shit once you have it in your PC. Fantastic customer experience.
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This is mostly true....all the chips come from the same places after all.


But Zotac had that thermal pad issue a while ago.
QA on coolers vary, screws loose, pads misplaced or missing etc etc.
With the weight of cards these days, GPU sag is an issue.
GDDRX RTX30s also had memory that could easily overheat, clever manufacturers had metal backplates with thermal pads.
Most manufacturers have terrible software.(dont bother using it honestly)
 
Just get it, it probably won't explode. I took a chance with unknown to me Zotac for 1080 and it turned out ace, a "mini" that had full specs/clocks so basically smaller size than most for no compromise and a lower cost than the next best at the time (probably Gigabyte too) & I still use it :messenger_beaming: ( :messenger_loudly_crying: )
 
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This is gonna be a weird recommendation, but if you can find a PNY version, go for it, it's cheaper than the well-known ones and the thermal performance is astounding, their experience lies in servers' GPUs and they do a very fine tuning getting the most out of cards, GALAX and PALIT aren't bad either but PNY is a much more trusty option from my experience
 
Pyral Phoenix said:
This is gonna be a weird recommendation, but if you can find a PNY version, go for it, it's cheaper than the well-known ones and the thermal performance is astounding, their experience lies in servers' GPUs and they do a very fine tuning getting the most out of cards, GALAX and PALIT aren't bad either but PNY is a much more trusty option from my experience
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Palit is Nvidias biggest GPU distributor, their top tier RTX cards have almost always punched above their price range, boosting as high or higher than "top tier" manufacturers, Pre-RTX they were always one of the highest clocking cards while not melting themselves...............but yeah PNY isnt bad either but im guessing OP cant find PNY as it would be cheaper than something from the Palit family.
 
People speak very highly of this brand's HOF models. As for the entry-level ones, I can't really say much since I've never owned a card from this brand, but friends who have owned them spoke well of the cards.
 
I had Palit before, pretty solid card. Used it all the way until it couldn't handle more graphic demand game.

My brother had Zotac cards and 2 failed on him. Made me avoid the brand.
 
Hudo said:
Never heard of the brand before (Europe). But a naive Google search reveals that people on the PC building subreddit say it's an OK "middle spec" brand. Apparently, their temperature sensors for their 4000 series cards were bugged at some point.

Personally, I had Gigabyte, Asus and EVGA (please come back, EVGA!) cards most of the time. And I don't have anything bad to say about Gigabyte and EVGA. Asus can go fuck themselves, though.
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For real, Asus can fuck themselves, i bought a monitor from asus where the on/off button got damaged with normal use and i send the monitor for repair to asus, at first they told me they would repair the monitor but then they wanted money 70 Euros if they don't repair it and 125 euros for repair. Asus sucks big times. never ever Asus for me.
 
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HerjansEagleFeeder said:
I've had so many GPUs made by so many different manufacturers over the years it's embarassing for me really. All I can say from my own experience, which of course still is just anecdotal evidence: it doesn't matter which brand you buy, you always play the lottery. Every brand has shit cards from time to time, no matter how expensive. If you bring in "minor" stuff like coil whine, you really only know if your card is shit once you have it in your PC. Fantastic customer experience.
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Same here. I've bought/sold/traded so many video cards just for the hell of it (especially during the pandemic when I could sell a slightly used GPU for more than I paid for it new). Pretty much all of them are based on the Nvidia/AMD reference design so the only real difference is the cooler, and most of them have big ass triple/quad-slot coolers that easily keep it cool at stock speeds without being very noisy at all.

Oddly enough the WORST card I ever had was the 3090 Founders Edition. First one I got was broken out of the box, one of the fans had fallen off (the fans are just like, glued to a flattened section of the heatsink). The replacement had the most horrendous coil whine I've experienced. Sucks because I loved the design.

I'm currently using the PNY 5090 EPIC-X, second cheapest 5090 after the FE ($2200 from Microcenter) and it's awesome. Great temps, quiet fans, zero coil whine.
 
amigastar said:
For real, Asus can fuck themselves, i bought a monitor from asus where the on/off button got damaged with normal use and i send the monitor for repair to asus, at first they told me they would repair the monitor but then they wanted money 70 Euros if they don't repair it and 125 euros for repair. Asus sucks big times. never ever Asus for me.
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Had a similar experience with one of their monitors. And also one of the mainboards. Their customer "support" is fucking shit.
 
Is Galax the same as Galaxy? Cause I had a Galaxy GT 460 GC and it was an extremely solid card. Only had 768mb ram though in an era when cards were coming with 1gb. It could overclock like a mf'er though.
 
demigod said:
Palit owns Galax. Can't remember which series but it was the top overclocker i think, probably 1000 series.


I disagree. They cheaped out on thermal pads in 1000 series and had issues on their 3000 series. Their only saving grace was step up program and good warranty service.
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This, I had tons of issues with EVGA. But also some problems with Asus and Gigabyte.

MSI has not let me down yet.
 
DonkeyPunchJr said:
Same here. I've bought/sold/traded so many video cards just for the hell of it (especially during the pandemic when I could sell a slightly used GPU for more than I paid for it new). Pretty much all of them are based on the Nvidia/AMD reference design so the only real difference is the cooler, and most of them have big ass triple/quad-slot coolers that easily keep it cool at stock speeds without being very noisy at all.

Oddly enough the WORST card I ever had was the 3090 Founders Edition. First one I got was broken out of the box, one of the fans had fallen off (the fans are just like, glued to a flattened section of the heatsink). The replacement had the most horrendous coil whine I've experienced. Sucks because I loved the design.

I'm currently using the PNY 5090 EPIC-X, second cheapest 5090 after the FE ($2200 from Microcenter) and it's awesome. Great temps, quiet fans, zero coil whine.
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Little anecdote.
PNY and Palit group share factories and have an agreement on tooling PNYs better cards are basically rebandged Palit/Gainward cards.


People don't realize Palit group is massive world wide.
 
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