Quote Originally Posted by Zumi View Post
Too many times have I bought something that was factory overclocked and it would end up crashing, I actually went back and underclocked it. Some companies are really bad at overclocking their cards, so I would just stay away from them alltogether.
If you're going to buy a factory over-clocked card, make sure you trust the manufacturer and the chipset of the GPU. I had EVGA Nvidia GeForce 7900GTX SLI cards over-clocked and they were unstable, but it wasn't the fault of EVGA. The 7000 series from Nvidia just had stability issues at the time across the board, it is what it is. However I have the EVGA 670 GTX SC over-clocked edition and it's a DREAM to work with. If I ever buy a over-clocked version of hardware its usually from EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI, or Zotac; in that order.