Yeah, I’m leaning towards the asus/gugabyte/msi trifecta. I find good and bad either way. I got my current Asus strix as a microcenter open box deal. I love that is quiet. It’s probably the one 1 quirk I have, I hate noisy PCs. My hatred of noise reached is peak with my old gt 260. OEM reference cooler. That was the last item reference cooler I ever owned for anything… 
So yeah, I don’t need rgb, don’t really need a pre-oc’d card, bonus if priced right. So I’m thinking Asus TUF, gigabyte windforce. I’ll have to go recheck the msi offerings.
Thanks!