I can't recommend EVGA cards enough, they even offered me an extended warranty period for my 1080ti for just 25€, so it now has 5 years of warranty (more details about that here). The "pill" worked on me too... I mean it worked on "it", not "me", I don't need any pill!

I got burned 2 times trying ASUS motherboards, the ROG series. In one case they had a problematic sound card that started crashing the system after the warranty period was over and I had to buy a PCI sound card.
The other ASUS had some issues with the memories and maybe the BIOS settings, at random times it wouldn't boot unless I would remove every RAM, start the system, shut it down, then put one more RAM stick and repeat until all RAMs are in place. Never got a BIOS update after the first few months of its release.