AMD Radeon R9 370 Reference Design Board Pictured

Kaapstad · 9 Jun 2015 at 12:57

http://www.techpowerup.com/213301/amd-radeon-r9-370-reference-design-board-pictured.html

~Mike~ · 9 Jun 2015 at 13:15

Have to say it doesn't look very nice.

Expect it was posted in the garbage thread.

Disco_P · 9 Jun 2015 at 13:18

Please don't be bad. Please don't be bad. Please don't be bad.

Dygaza · 9 Jun 2015 at 13:18

I personally like the simpified looks.

RavenXXX2 · 9 Jun 2015 at 13:20

It looks understated and professional, this is good.

Boomstick777 · 9 Jun 2015 at 13:22

Dygaza said:
I personally like the simpified looks.

RavenXXX2 said:
It looks understated and professional, this is good.

Agreed, liking the style.

SkeeterUK · 9 Jun 2015 at 13:24

It looks well it looks like a gfx card with a huge case around it and a fan. Nothing else, how boring. AMD advertising a new cool gfx card, needs refining. As if that was aimed at me id be like pff 1 fan, a chunk of plastic with no detail or heat pipes showing. Pff..

ubersonic · 9 Jun 2015 at 13:24

Preferred the 290 shroud.

Guess it looks similar to the fury one though which is what they are going for.

Vinno · 9 Jun 2015 at 13:26

I don't mind the looks. Its not particularly good looking, and not particularly ugly either.

varkanoid · 9 Jun 2015 at 13:27

Wow well that was worth clicking on the thread for.

Dimples. Lots of them.

shankly1985 · 9 Jun 2015 at 13:30

Stunning

snips86x · 9 Jun 2015 at 13:30

I genuinely thought this was a joke, like someone had used PS and pasted the fan into the single block as it doesn't look overly appealing.

Davedree · 9 Jun 2015 at 13:31

please don't be Pitcairn v3

1. No true-audio,
2. No Hdmi 2, outdated Uvd3
3. No freesync support

Stagnation

bru · 9 Jun 2015 at 14:04

If it has the metal sides with that plastic dimpled front plate, I think it will look alright.
Assuming it goes across the whole range, they could be on to a winner, on the looks front.

Now of course cooling performance is another thing all together, the 290x ran rather warm with the stock fan and shroud, if the 390x version is similar to this one, it looks like it might also run rather warm.

Not long to go till we find out.

kaku · 9 Jun 2015 at 14:06

I don't like the red 'Radeon' text but otherwise I think the cooler looks okay.

Shame it's a card we already have though. Just feels like a massive waste of time.

SkeeterUK · 9 Jun 2015 at 14:08

I wonder why stock coolers from nvidia and amd but more so amd i think have pretty crap looking and performing coolers i mean last time amd had somit like this the gfx cards were very toasty so didnt really cool very well then came aftermarket cooling which helped a lot i think for them. Why dont they just copy aftermarket coolers and have 2 fans etc.

Troezar · 9 Jun 2015 at 14:09

Not like you ever see the front of the card once installed. Is it cool, quiet and powerful is really all that matters

_Alatar_ · 9 Jun 2015 at 14:23

The card has a crossfire finger:

It's pitcairn alright

Boomstick777 · 9 Jun 2015 at 14:30

SkeeterUK said:
I wonder why stock coolers from nvidia and amd but more so amd i think have pretty crap looking and performing coolers i mean last time amd had somit like this the gfx cards were very toasty so didnt really cool very well then came aftermarket cooling which helped a lot i think for them. Why dont they just copy aftermarket coolers and have 2 fans etc.

Cost, this card is likely the price equivalent of a GTX 750 Ti. Shouldn't expect extravagant cooling, nor is it needed.

For a low cost GPU. This shroud / design looks nice. Expect higher end cards to come with more extravagant cooling, where it's needed. With flagship cards coming with AIO and custom air cooling.

Here's a reference 750 Ti from Nvidia for comparison. Notice Nvidia don't go all out on low end solution cooling either. I know which I prefer out of the two.

humbug · 9 Jun 2015 at 14:51

Looks better than the old ref cooler, not bad, like the Radeon LED's

_Alatar_ said:
The card has a crossfire finger:

It's pitcairn alright

Yeah OEM Pitcairn, don't confuse with retail.