While what you said is true about the hardly any difference, main reason people suggest AMD Sapphire cards isn't just the overclock potential, it's that if you are also using an AMD CPU (and most people are nowadays with the Ryzen and Threadripper models), you can use the same drivers program to configure both at once more efficiently, as AMD basically has a driver suite, greatly simplifying some stuff if you need to minutely configure something, although to be honest there's not really THAT big a difference, just faster to have both in one is all I'm saying.
Can you explain what you are talking about here? It seems to me you are suggesting that cards from different brands (MSI, XFX, etc.) would use different drivers than the Sapphire card, which is not the case (at least, based on my understanding).
Also, my understanding is that MSI Afterburner is actually the goto program for configuring GPU's w.r.t. overclocking and etc.
Also, completely unrelated, but I guess things have changed in the ~10 years since I last built a PC. Sapphire used to be considered absolute ****. I tried to go to their website yesterday, and it was completely down, which doesn't fill me with confidence that their position in the market has changed...
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