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390: Sapphire or MSI

mryashin

mryashin

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Hi,

I'm planning to buy a Radeon R9 390 sometime before Christmas, either the MSI or Sapphire version (these two seem to get the most consistent recommendations).

Both seem to be available in the £260-270 price bracket and I would welcome any advice on which of the two to plump for.

I'm slightly concerned about power consumption and cooling given the 390's reputation so particular advice on which brand might be better on those fronts would be especially useful. (I have a 650W power supply and a Fractal Design Define R4 case with two fans - one 140mm intake, one 140mm exhaust).


Thank you for your help.
 
I have a sapphire nitro 390 which is exremely quiet and pretty cool. I dont think its gone above 72c and my case is tiny/hot. The power consumption i cant say botheres me as i have a corsair tx850.

I would have had the msi over the sapphire if they were the same price as i like msi, but the quality of this sapphire has made me rather pleased and surprised, it really is top class.

Edit: i had a gtx580 in there for 4 years running at least 10c hotter!
 
I have a MSI 390, overclocked in a Coolermaster 690 case. It's very quiet, maxes out in games at about 72C and the fan speed only goes above 60 % if I run Furmark. For desktop use / idle it sits about the 59C mark with the fans off. Highly, highly recommended.
 
iv always been a fan of Sapphire due to cheap price and great coolers, But the MSI Gaming 390 absolutely blows any cooler iv ever had for any GPU out of the water, it truly is the most silent most efficient and quietest Air cooled GPU iv ever owned.

It's such a good cooler, when your on your desktop / idling / web browsing, the fans aren't active its cooling passive, ofc you can switch them on 24/7, but there is no need, the GPU is so cool the fans wont be running unless the GPU is 60c or more, and iv never had this card go higher than 70C and even then fans are around um, 20or less, and they are 100% silent.

It truly is a great card.
 
Thanks for the responses, guys.

Good to get endorsements of both brands. The MSI seems more widely available at the moment in the UK so looks likely I'll be going with that.

Should be some improvement over my current integrated HD4000 graphics. :)
 
AFAIK,the Nitro is probably the best of the R9 390 cards overall and the MSI while being good,might consume more power than the other R9 390 cards,as the R9 390X is easily the most thirsty of the R9 390X cards reviewed.

I would also consider the Powercolor R9 390 PCS+ as a mate just got one today and it seems to have a decent cooler,is quiet,easily available and usually not more than £250 it appears.
 
Been happy with my Sapphire so far... And that is before un-bottlenecking it in my {almost built} 8-Pack bundle.;)
 
like others i have the sapphire 390, i like the fact that when on desktop the 3 x fans are off completely and doesn't make a noise.

even when gaming the fans are rather quite.

the sapphire version may not be in stock much recently as it was part of the black Friday deal (paid £205.99) and waiting on stock to arrive back
 
ED209 said:
the sapphire version may not be in stock much recently as it was part of the black Friday deal (paid £205.99) and waiting on stock to arrive back
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Yeah, that was what I thought at first but doing a bit of hunting around it seems a slightly newer model of the Sapphire 390 is coming onto the market.
Several outlets have the 11244-00-20G model listed as discontinued with the 11244-01-20G an imminent replacement.

Not sure what the difference is though.
 
+1 for the MSI.

My MSI 390X runs at 30-40 idle (fans off), 50'ish when watching youtube videos or video in MPC, and 65-70 in games. Absolutely great cooler.

I did redo the thermal paste on it though, as mine had too much applied from the factory. That lowered my temperatures by 12dc across the board.
 
I have the MSI 390. I thought something was up at first as I was getting stupidly high temps of 80+ but it was down to how I had my fans set up in my case. Sorted the fans out and the card runs so much cooler now.

I run mine at -19 Core Voltage with a mild clock of 1150mhz and Ram at 1625mhz.

Just done a Valley benchmark and card maxed out at 65C with the Fans at 41%
 
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