Re: [ANN] [1080 | 1080TI] ETHlargement - The Hashrate Hardener
Rule No1 in mining. Never buy ASUS card.
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.
+1 more for EVGA's quality GPUs. I bought EVGA 1080ti which hash slightly lower than Zotac 1080ti's but i have never had problems with the EVGAs. The Zotac 1080tis crash more often and i had to send back 1 to get RMA-ed.
ASUS motherboards on the other hand, i feel are pretty good. At least the ASUS B250 mining expert motherboards i've been using have had no problems at all.