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390 :D

not sure about the black cardboard type material going on to cover the cables , surely a fire hazard , but nice build anyway i order mine soon :-)
 
@bloodkill - always have been, only owned a 7800gtx back in the day and a 6600gt before that heh.

@Jackboo - yeah it's black cardboard if you see my project log when I did it it looked smart, now a year on its started warping and looks messy but oh well am too lazy these days as long as it works.
Also the extra cables are from when I cross fired now there just laying there doing nothing but it's that or having a nasty hole heh.
But nah not a fire hazard, it doesn't touch anything hot and there's fans blowing from the front unrestrictedly so there's incredibly little chance of anything setting a light

Cardboard ignites at 450c so if anything reached that temperature then something catastrophic has gone wrong :p
 
Nice, clean setup! The 390 is amazing value especially as that sweet spot has been steadily increasing in price over the past few years.
 
Done the same 2 months ago from 2x 7950(1050/1250) to 390(1105/1730).
In most game I get more performance out of the single 390. And it is almost silent, the 7950 CF was very noisy.
Also with 3GB vram I was limited in 2560x1440.
In Unigine Benchmark I lost 12%, but only a few games reflect this.
 
Do it Secret Window :) You will not regret it :) As you can see from my posts above, I like Iceshock had been using 7950 crossfire for so long, and whilst it's still a very strong combo, I felt moving up was necessary for 1440p 144hz Freesync experience. Kinda bided my time, jumping the 290x and finally opting for the MSI 8GB 390's as soon as the Fury line was one of the biggest flops to date IMO. I feel at under £300 this is an absolute steal at the moment, pair them up in crossfire and the performance bang you get is incredible.
 
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Do it Secret Window :) You will not regret it :) As you can see from my posts above, I like Iceshock had been using 7950 crossfire for so long, and whilst it's still a very strong combo, I felt moving up was necessary for 1440p 144hz Freesync experience. Kinda bided my time, jumping the 290x and finally opting for the MSI 8GB 390's as soon as the Fury line was one of the biggest flops to date IMO. I feel at under £300 this is an absolute steal at the moment, pair them up in crossfire and the performance bang you get is incredible.
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I must admit, all of that sounds awfully tempting. The problem for me is seeing which way things go with dx12 performance next year. So I may (although more than likely) wait to see what happens, but in the mean time this means I will have nothing new to play with.:(
 
Great looking system, although It kind of shows you don't need a case nearly as big as the one you have.
Got to say, 'old tech' or not, I think the 390 is the single best card about right now, for performance/ value, which is to say, the best card.
 
Huh, i thought forums were for people to complain about the stuff they just bought.....why aint you complaining?...... :)

Nice tidy case btw, makes mine look like a scrapyard.
 
Hehe, Iv made a msi afterburner fan profile and I'll quickly explain just how incredible the cooler on this card is.

Basically unless I play a game like battlefield 4 or a benchmark or unless it's summer, I never ever have the two fans at the front of my case spinning because I like silence, and the read fan and two radiator fans on the roof are at the minimum rpm before they turn off (they are the corsair quiet edition fans) so they are slow speed to begin with before a fan controller.

And this card cools passively untill 60c then the fans are switched on, well for playing 8 hours of Warcraft a day at 1080 ultra graphics etc, and even doing some video recording in 25 man raids with all the spells and effects going on can be gpu intense, it records it absolutely fine only drops below 60 fps a occasionally but rarely.

But, the fan profile Iv made fans run at 0% at 60c and 10% at 70c and 15% 75c. And then if for some reason it hit 77c I put the fan curve to go up to 100% to be safe.

I have Never yet seen this card at more than 72c ever with the fan running at 10-12% fan speed, and the fans are 100% silent up to around 20% then you can hear a slight air woosh if you stick your head to the case.

The cooling of this card is incredible. It cools that good in a case that's not being exhausted that much due to fans almost being turned off and the intake fans are turned off because they're not needed!

You might think why not just have 20% fan speed and 60c constant well that also would work but I like the 100% silence for what I play 70c is absolutely fine, cool and quiet :)

The old 7950 was played around 75c and the fans was 3x louder but still I thought that was quiet, I ran the 7950 at 25% fan speed all time which was minimum it could go to they was audiable slightly. The 390 is quieter than the 7950 vapour x right up to around 30% fan speed. And like I said you don't need the fans hardly running at all
 
I've recently upgraded from a 570GTX to an MSI R9 390 and is it amazing, games look great and run so smoothly! It really is a great card!!

It's interesting that although we have the same card and processor I get 5 fps higher in heaven.
 
This is an oddly positive thread for the Graphics forum... seems like some sort of communist plot :p

Lol, seriously glad you are happy with your new card though! You're right, nothing like the feeling of a successful hardware upgrade :cool:

I picked up an R9 380 4GB a few weeks back (for a very old PC!), and it's given the machine a whole new lease of life. Tearing through newer games at 2560x1080, I was pleasantly surprised.

Oh and the dreaded AMD drivers - apart from .NET still sucking - they've been great!

Su
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
I was like yourself mate, had the 7950's for so long. I was waiting on FuryX, but after it's ridiculous launch and it's totally underwhelming performance for the price it was, I decided on going the MSI 390 route months back. Not one card, but two of the beasts, once you've had two cards, very hard to go back to one lol. But I can back it up, these cards are insane for the money, no need to go for the 390x for £100 more, 390 are good enough and in crossfire are so impressive.

At least change out the blue accents for red ones on the Corsair fans Ice ;)

my two babies, soon to go under water next week, 90% of project parts are sitting next to me :)
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And the money saved could buy another SSD :D.
 
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