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MSI radeon r9 390

mururoa said:
I have a Sapphire 390X that would beg to differ... It does 1120 on the core somewhat stable but not more; upping the voltage doesn't help either.
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should have gone for the MSI, they have active VRM cooling and that makes a difference.
 
Is the sapphire a good bang for buck card (assuming gibbos promotion)? I'm looking for something to tide me over for the next year or so as the noise of this 6970 is taking away from my gaming.
 
Lustral said:
My Sapphire 290X Vapor-X can run 1130 // 1375 without any add voltage nor power limit increase. ASIC Quality is 76% though. Can the ASIC be tested on the new 390/390X yet ?
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My MSI TFIV 290x gaming has an asic of 72.4 and for it too be 100% stable I can't go over 1090 without voltage and with voltage it's 1120/30 at best. And the only way to keep temps under 90 degrees is to use a 1X1 fan profile.

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/b2721/msi-r9-290x-gaming-oc.html
 
anyone had signal loss on a MSI 390 gaming?

Only ever had it while at the desktop - never while gaming - and it usually takes a couple of seconds to come back, just as if nothing had happened (ie no app /OS crash etc). Same mDP cable Ive been using previously with a 970 with no issue, so imo that counts out the moitor (Dell 34") and the cable itself - so its either a card or driver issue at this stage at a guess.

Reserved my Win10 upgrade, and just waiting for it to see if it goes away during this install - just wondering if anyone else has had this happen?
 
FrankJH said:
anyone had signal loss on a MSI 390 gaming?

Only ever had it while at the desktop - never while gaming - and it usually takes a couple of seconds to come back, just as if nothing had happened (ie no app /OS crash etc). Same mDP cable Ive been using previously with a 970 with no issue, so imo that counts out the moitor (Dell 34") and the cable itself - so its either a card or driver issue at this stage at a guess.

Reserved my Win10 upgrade, and just waiting for it to see if it goes away during this install - just wondering if anyone else has had this happen?
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can still be the cable or other hardware. different card brands can use different timings so while it work on one it might not for the other.
check with a different cable and also if its amd certified etc..
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
I can get 1150 on the core on my MSI 390 without any voltage increase apart from +50 power limit. I don't know many 290/290x cards that could pull that, I reckon she'll easily go past 1200MHz on the core with a bump in voltage, but more than happy with performance on my 390 crossfire so no need fo the extra heat and stress.

Long story short, these MSI 390 are incredible.
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How is the 390 cf performing in games? I have just made the jump to skylake and looking a good graphics setup for 1440p. I would go fury x but hearing the feedback right now is off putting. Could be that 390 in crossfire is the way to go :)
 
absolutely, 390 crossfire is beastly mate, very impressed with it. Although not much different than 290 cards, temps are lower, clocks are higher and the build quality just feels better. Def get the MSI 390/390X if your thinking about it, very sexy card and VRM cooling as well.

Not worth FuryX IMO, a lot of money for ok performance, and looks more likely than not you'll get a whiner. Yes the temps is definitely nice, and crossfire looks really good with them, but that's over a £1k in GPU's lol, one FuryX IMO isn't good enough for 1440p unless you're ok with dropping eye candy levels, which I'm not. That's why I put the money I had saved up for the FuryX towards the 2 390's.

Games are epic with them, running 1440p Freesync myself, able to throw masses of eye candy at my games and still achieve 100+fps. Check out my scores for Heaven and Valley for a gauge on where it sits, think I got more than 5k in Valley, so absolutely flying. Top FuryX only scoring 3500k so for less money it made a lot more sense to me to go for the 390's and wait till the proper big cards next year. The games I play most all have Crossfire profiles as well, so it works out good, but do your homework, obviously crossfire can be a little hit and miss for new titles.

My Valley bench
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That's good :) I'm sure it runs great on your screen. I got the same monitor. It's a beautiful screen. How's the temps holding up while gaming?
 
better than I imagined considering I'm on Z77, the PCIe slots are pretty close. Top card hits in the mid 70's under extreme load and the bottom card for me about 10-15c cooler. I'm sure on newer boards with much better spacing temps would be better, but I do have really good airflow in my case.

edit...a screenie with overlay in GTA V to give you an idea. Thats with Sweetfx injecting SMAA and 2xmsaa in game with everything maxed out apart from grass on high. Temps are a little low here to be honest, both cards average around 5-10c hotter than that usually.

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That's impressive. You have definitely gave me food for thought! Lets see what deals come along :) Thanks Tony
 
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