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Upgrade to 390x

rallyslag

rallyslag

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I feel my old 7950 is struggling now! Shame,its a Gigabyte windforce with unlocked voltage and been ticking over at 1100mhz for years now:D.. I game in 1080 and have decided on a 390x .. But from experience what do you guys recommend? My priority's are noise/temp and warranty(ease of using) ... Thanks !!
 
Best bets are MSI, Sapphire and Powercolor in terms of temps and noise, but i would take the 390 instead of the 390X, the difference is just a few percent, less than the price gap.
 
Other than advising a 390 instead of a 390X for 1080 gaming (The difference between them is negligible and a 390 is more than enough for high end 1080 gaming), I would recommend MSI Twin Frozr or Asus Strix because both of those cards have the fans turned off at lower temps to keep noise down.

They also have good RMA processes and a recent review stated that Asus had the lowest RMA percentages of all the major component producers.
 
rally[COLOR="Yellow" said:
*[/COLOR]***;28908036]I feel my old 7950 is struggling now! Shame,its a Gigabyte windforce with unlocked voltage and been ticking over at 1100mhz for years now:D.. I game in 1080 and have decided on a 390x .. But from experience what do you guys recommend? My priority's are noise/temp and warranty(ease of using) ... Thanks !!
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Check out these benches. Performance difference between the 390-390X varies from 7.5%-17%, depending on the game and resolution used.
 
Frank Jeagar said:
Other than advising a 390 instead of a 390X for 1080 gaming (The difference between them is negligible and a 390 is more than enough for high end 1080 gaming), I would recommend MSI Twin Frozr or Asus Strix because both of those cards have the fans turned off at lower temps to keep noise down.

They also have good RMA processes and a recent review stated that Asus had the lowest RMA percentages of all the major component producers.
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MSI have one of the worst RMA processes I have ever seen. I RMAd a 11 month old motherboard and five weeks later they confessed they did not have a replacement. Two more weeks of waiting passed by before they offered me a GTX 960 (I had asked for a GPU so I could sell it) for a £300 motherboard.

After another week of arguing they finally shipped me a GTX 970. I also had to pay £23 to send it back to Holland.

As for Asus? that study was conducted on their motherboards not their GPUs. Asus have had many fails on GPUs, especially AMD ones (the Matrix and so on).

If you want a solid RMA that is UK based then right now as I type this Gigabyte are the only company to offer a UK based return center. This is set to change and EVGA are going to do the same but right now if it's RMA you're concerned about buy Gigabyte.
 
ALXAndy said:
MSI have one of the worst RMA processes I have ever seen. I RMAd a 11 month old motherboard and five weeks later they confessed they did not have a replacement. Two more weeks of waiting passed by before they offered me a GTX 960 (I had asked for a GPU so I could sell it) for a £300 motherboard.

After another week of arguing they finally shipped me a GTX 970. I also had to pay £23 to send it back to Holland.

As for Asus? that study was conducted on their motherboards not their GPUs. Asus have had many fails on GPUs, especially AMD ones (the Matrix and so on).
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Wow... My experience with MSI was fine, I emailed, they replied, I posted it, they sent a replacement. And I understood that the study was on motherboards, but I thought it was worth noting as a general point on product quality, I should have posted a link to the study really...

Your experience sounds really bad, that encounter with MSI is just atrocious.
 
ALXAndy said:
If you want a solid RMA that is UK based then right now as I type this Gigabyte are the only company to offer a UK based return center. This is set to change and EVGA are going to do the same but right now if it's RMA you're concerned about buy Gigabyte.
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This is a good call, I would recommend you go with Gigabyte if you are worried about RMAs. I haven't had any experience with Gigabyte AMD cards though so I can't tell you much about their quality, their nVidia line are top quality though for temps.
 
Frank Jeagar said:
Wow... My experience with MSI was fine, I emailed, they replied, I posted it, they sent a replacement. And I understood that the study was on motherboards, but I thought it was worth noting as a general point on product quality, I should have posted a link to the study really...

Your experience sounds really bad, that encounter with MSI is just atrocious.
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Up until that stage they were pretty good. But as soon as there's a problem you find out how annoying they can be. I sometimes had to send the same email three times just to get a reply and my longest wait for a reply was 11 days. All I asked was if they were going to get any more boards in the same as mine.

It seems that I'm not the first person this has happened to either. MSI do not keep replacement stock for any longer than the "for sale" shelf life of the product.

A couple of years back I RMAd an older card and they had a replacement.. Maybe that was getting too expensive? but 11 months on a flagship board? joke.

Their UK rep was equally helpless as the communication between him and them wasn't working too well.

I've only RMA to Gigabyte once but it was a seamless pretty much flawless experience and only cost me £9, not £23.

I've got a mate who used to buy broken Giga cards from the auction site then send them in for RMA. Not that I condone that (he's a bit of a stain) but yeah, they've always been quick to help. They have began stomping that out lately by asking for receipts etc but you can't blame them for that..
 
ALXAndy said:
I've got a mate who used to buy broken Giga cards from the auction site then send them in for RMA. Not that I condone that (he's a bit of a stain) but yeah, they've always been quick to help. They have began stomping that out lately by asking for receipts etc but you can't blame them for that..
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Although a bit dodgy, this tells me all I need to know about Gigabyte RMA haha.

Just keep the receipt (which if you buy online is very simple) and you apparently have nothing to worry about.
 
My 7950 is Gigabyte ... And would go same make for my 390x! But did gigabyte not make a terrible 390x,and that's why Overclockers don't stock it?
 
rally[COLOR="Yellow" said:
*[/COLOR]***;28924637]My 7950 is Gigabyte ... And would go same make for my 390x! But did gigabyte not make a terrible 390x,and that's why Overclockers don't stock it?
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It's a nice shorter pcb, the 390/390x only takes up x2 slots but the voltage controller is locked out and there is no way to change the voltage.
 
I have a Sapphire 390X and I have to say I am very impressed. I never see it above 65C at all and is quiet at all times.

I am also currently running at 1080p and I have no issues with any games I play and am looking to go 1440p/4k in the near to mid future. This is why I picked the 390X over the 390 and 970 for the horsepower advantage along with the VRAM benefit over the 970.
 
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