Certain MSI motherboards claim to apply further overclocking on top of the factory OC when an MSI card is used. I'm not sure how much exactly, because they discontinued their 4GB GTX 770s in every place which sells to the UK, so haven't been able to get one and see (I got a gigabyte card with slightly higher clocks than I'd planned, though, so except the fact it was £50 more than I'd have paid for the MSI card and I had a pre-order which was never going to be fulfilled for 6 weeks it isn't so bad).
It's reasonably likely that if this does actually happen, it'll only be a small amount, so the main reason for matching brands is so the aluminium dragons on your motherboard match the dragon engravings on the GPU cooler. For most people, more OC is more important than dragon synchronisation.
It's reasonably likely that if this does actually happen, it'll only be a small amount, so the main reason for matching brands is so the aluminium dragons on your motherboard match the dragon engravings on the GPU cooler. For most people, more OC is more important than dragon synchronisation.
OS: Windows 10 64 bit Professional
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5900X
RAM: 16GB
GPU: Radeon Vega 56
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5900X
RAM: 16GB
GPU: Radeon Vega 56