EarthDog Same here. Most seem to touch the VRM and RAM as well... no beef here with that cooler.

Windforce3X wasn't bad. It was just obnoxiously huge for its performance relative to what others had. And not exactly better. I wasn't a huge fan :rolleyes: of it on my 780ti...You do find hit and misses everywhere. Its just that GB seems to stack them more easily than others lately. They also had a batch of crappy motherboard VRMs not too long ago... and one gen later they fixed that. Its like... you never really know what'll happen next with them. Consistency is zeroI mean compare it with MSI. When you buy a Gaming X, you know you've got a quality card throughout, its not a shitty bin, and it'll work as advertised. When you buy an Armor, you know its a Gaming X with a little bit less of everything, but still solid enough to not throttle like a madman and with a similar noise profile.And for boards, compare it to Asrock... GB quickly becomes a joke.With Gigabyte, you could have any amount of luck whether you buy a top end model or a budget one.