I honestly don't know how they are able to charge a premium with such a bad cooler tbh. (In my experience). The windforce card I (only a GTX 460 massively overclocked I admit) was really quiet, and started off my appreciation for quiet computing.
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R9 390 - Gigabyte vs MSI vs ASUS
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I honestly don't know how they are able to charge a premium with such a bad cooler tbh. (In my experience). The windforce card I (only a GTX 460 massively overclocked I admit) was really quiet, and started off my appreciation for quiet computing.
The cooler its self was fine, the problem is they pulled it right off the GTX 780TI which is bigger and positioned differently to Hawaii, as a result two of the four heat pipes have no contact with the die.
I have the Powercolor PCS+ 290, next to the Lightning and Vapour-X its the best 290/X, its been very good to me.
If its a 390 go for the MSI Gaming, they have come a long way, the VRM Cooling is active, as far as i know the only GPU with active VRM cooling.
Good VRM cooling matters more than most people think, if the VRM's are cool they are stable, the more stable they are the less power the GPU will use the higher it will clock.
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