01-29-2015, 08:06 AM
You will absolutely have cooling problems with non-reference design GPUs, especially in a multi-GPU setup. In addition to cooling problems, yes, OEM design cards are of inferior quality. I have lots of horror stories from using OEM design cards. They are junk, do not waste your time and money buying them.
Buying used reference design GPUs -- especially GPUs still within their warranty period -- is very low risk. True story: most all of the GPUs we run in our data center were in fact purchased second-hand from eBay and mining forums. We've only lost one second-hand GPU in the last four years, and since it was still under warranty we just RMA'd it. Reference cards are over-engineered and very high quality.
750Ti is a great budget card. But you just went from top-of-the-line cards to budget card, so I'm kind of confused.
Buying used reference design GPUs -- especially GPUs still within their warranty period -- is very low risk. True story: most all of the GPUs we run in our data center were in fact purchased second-hand from eBay and mining forums. We've only lost one second-hand GPU in the last four years, and since it was still under warranty we just RMA'd it. Reference cards are over-engineered and very high quality.
750Ti is a great budget card. But you just went from top-of-the-line cards to budget card, so I'm kind of confused.