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Which r9 390

genicide

genicide

genicide

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Morning guys

I recently bought an EVGA 970 ftw and at first, was really pleased with it.

Unfortunately I can't live with the coil whine with it as i have had to move my rig into our bedroom as we having some work done on the house. Every time I move my mouse on wow it changes the pitch of the whine and my wife says it's driving her nuts.

I am looking to replace the card with a 390 today but my local shop doesn't have the MSI card in that I would have preferred.

Out of Saphire, Xfx and Asus who offers the better cards? I am not bothered about having it mega clocked but it does have to be quiet.

Regards

Gen
 
Sapphire 100%
Pretty sure its the best one out the lot, I know with the 2xx series the tri-x, vapor-x and the powercolor were the best, with asus being the worst, xfx, msi and others being in the middle.
 
Ok bought the Sapphire on your advice despite the guy in the shop telling me XFX customer service was much better than Saphire's.

Fingers crossed

Gen
 
genicide said:
Ok bought the Sapphire on your advice despite the guy in the shop telling me XFX customer service was much better than Saphire's.

Fingers crossed

Gen
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This shouldn't concern you awfully lot since the "contract" is between you and the retailer, not you and the manufacturer. :) Enjoy the card mate.
 
I'm a bit miffed for all of us that the noise isn't seen as a fault. I know OcuK offer a return if you have a gold standard psu but does that mean that any less standard is therefore faulty. Given that my psu cost around £70 and is fully modular I would expect to be able to return any gfx card that wasn't 100% compatible. I fully understand the frustration from the retailers point of view but I don't feel it should be pushed onto the consumer.
 
genicide said:
I'm a bit miffed for all of us that the noise isn't seen as a fault. I know OcuK offer a return if you have a gold standard psu but does that mean that any less standard is therefore faulty. Given that my psu cost around £70 and is fully modular I would expect to be able to return any gfx card that wasn't 100% compatible. I fully understand the frustration from the retailers point of view but I don't feel it should be pushed onto the consumer.
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Surely you could have returned the whiner within 14 days, citing "unwanted item"?
 
They did exchange it but not without a lecture about whine not being a fault and me forwarding my EVGA customer services emails to them.I think I have had the card 14 days in total and I would have returned the card sooner but was on holiday.

Just for the record, we are not talking about OcuK customer services here.

I bought most of my rig from OcuK and have always had great service from them but they are just a bit too far away when you want something in a hurry.
 
Could you try to arrange another return/exchange directly with EVGA? They could be forthcoming to such proposition.

Oh yea you bought the 390 already so scratch that. Should be a good card anyway so in the end you are not worse off, assuming there was not a world of extra cost involved.
 
EVGA told me to return the card and to be fair, handled it very well.

They did offer to exchange the card but after googling 970 coil whine I was a bit put off
 
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