Work out to be $350 delivered (with 2% transaction fee), cheapest local stock I can find, just bought one for my X51 R1.
Cheaper than the previous PLE deal if you combine with the AMEX offer.
Leadtek have been around for a long time (1986, thanks Google), no problems there
they primarily had workstation cards. should be indicative enough of quality for you
….wow
A gamer's dream to get a Winfast Geforce2 GTS around 18yrs ago.
They made cards back in the Geforce 4 days about 15 years ago. They continued making them for a few more generations, but then they seemed to have disappeared from GPUs for a long time and have only recently resurfaced. I owned two cards from them, a Geforce 4 Ti 4400 and 6600LE. Both made very loud fan noises after a while that were intermittent. Very loud. I tried to RMA it, but because the noise was intermittent, the retailer didn't see anything wrong and then returned it to me saying, there's nothing wrong, we're charging you $35 for our testing labour and wasting our time.
I swore off the brand after that.
Not saying this card will have the same problems I had — I'm pretty sure it won't — but that's my personal stance on Leadtek. If there are other OEMs I can still choose from, I'll get either Gigabyte or MSI.
They're the "budget" variant of Nvidia cards. Kinda like Powercolor for AMD. The only difference in brands is warranty, cooler and in some cases custom PCBs.
they used to be one of the more reputable brands nearly 10 generations of graphics cards ago (GeForce FX5XXX series)
Yeah I remember them being a premier brand at the time. Not sure what happened to them.
Australian suppliers just stopped getting them in. Synnex,altech, can't remember the other ones now, didn't bring them in from us/Taiwan. But they definitely continued to make graphics cards. I still have my FX5700 and it works
Thanks to everyone that commented.
Good find. This is the closest to retail price, very tempting but my PC only have a 6 pin PCIe
Provided you have enough wattage, you can use a molex to pcie power adaptor
6gb of vram on a 1080p card really essential?
not at the moment no… in 2-3 years from now, maybe :) .. but then again 2-3 years from now a low end card with 8gb's would cost less and be faster
Have a look here:http://www.tweaktown.com/tweakipedia/90/much-vram-need-1080p-1440p-4k-aa-enabled/index.html
Future proofing. A lot of games nowadays have very high memory requirements when FSAA is turned on, E. G far cry, GTAV and Just Cause 3
3gb is not enough, 4gb is just enough and 6gb is plenty.
I see the cooler fan looks small and noisy. Is it much different to other larger/twin fans?
It should be noisier under load, if it's like the other cards I've had with this kind of blower design.
It would be pretty similar perf to a Founder Edition or reference card.
Never heard of Leadtek before. Anyone can vouch for it?