Sapphire, MSI, ASUS or Gigabyte

[FinestRyeBread]

Friend buying a r9 380, which one provides the best cooling, noise level doesn't matter

[Zackfoo]

sapphire best cooling. dont ever ever ever ever ever buy asus for god sake. gigabyte voltage lock on 390 cnt be overclock no idea about 380. msi good overclocking. 

[OAcesync]

Sapphire provides best cooling and noise efficiency. MSI best overclocker

Don't touch ASUS. Gigabyte is meh

[_JohnB330ci]

I'd opt for the Gigabyte or MSI one

[FinestRyeBread]

sapphire best cooling. dont ever ever ever ever ever buy asus for god sake. gigabyte voltage lock on 390 cnt be overclock no idea about 380. msi good overclocking.

why never asus

[Constantin]

Asus is the best!!!

[Guest]

Asus is the best!!!

Please be sarcasm

 

I'm just hoping

[OAcesync]

why never asus

Cause they suck on AMD cards, they had a big thing with the DirectCUII cooler where they basically just take the 780Ti cooler and litterally just slapped it on the 290 and 290X causing a lot of problems because most of the 5 pipes didn't even touch the GPU and caused many overheated GPUs which is really bad considering the 290 can handle 95 C.

[manikyath]

asus has its place, "best cooling" is not where that's at.

 

asus is also very much not an amd brand.

[FinestRyeBread]

Cause they suck on AMD cards, they had a big thing with the DirectCUII cooler where they basically just take the 780Ti cooler and litterally just slapped it on the 290 and 290X causing a lot of problems because most of the 5 pipes didn't even touch the GPU and caused many overheated GPU.

so asus is good on nvidia but not on amd?

[Guest]

why never asus

-mostly poor cooling

-Bad customer support when it comes to cards

-overclocking is kind of meh

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

why never asus

They cooling no good on amd cards...

The use the STRIX coolers they use on NVIDIA cards and like those coolers do horrid on amd since they were made for silence and stuff

 

However on the NVIDIA side asus do got some good cards.But still bad if you want overclocking.They are silent though

[OAcesync]

so asus is good on nvidia but not on amd?

Yes

[kameshss]

I'd choose Sapphire just for it's cooling.

 

If you wanna overclock, go for MSI.

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

Sapphire 

[Ihaveswag]

lol, never get sapphire, we once had a mobo from them and the pc crashed and freezed and ran like 5 FPS in all games that were more intensive than bf 1942 even doe the gpu was a gtx 560, it couldnt even handle browsing without havng to load 30sec per page....sapphire never again, we changed the mobo and a 10% faster CPU and now BF4 runs @60fps on low

[Zackfoo]

why never asus

their cooling is shit first of all. overclocking is shit too. price is shit again.

 

i had a asus strix dc3 390. It is more expensive than any other but perform at mid range or even lower.

[FinestRyeBread]

lol, never get sapphire, we once had a mobo from them and the pc crashed and freezed and ran like 5 FPS in all games that were more intensive than bf 1942 even doe the gpu was a gtx 560, it couldnt even handle browsing without havng to load 30sec per page....sapphire never again, we changed the mobo and a 10% faster CPU and now BF4 runs @60fps on low

i heard sapphire was like the EVGA of amd

[Zackfoo]

lol, never get sapphire, we once had a mobo from them and the pc crashed and freezed and ran like 5 FPS in all games that were more intensive than bf 1942 even doe the gpu was a gtx 560, it couldnt even handle browsing without havng to load 30sec per page....sapphire never again, we changed the mobo and a 10% faster CPU and now BF4 runs @60fps on low

they actually make mobo? but their gpu is really good like no joke, a lot of them bought and have not heard any complain tho. I will complain if i have one for not having a freaking backplate in 2015.

[don_svetlio]

Sapphire Nitro - no competition

[OAcesync]

lol, never get sapphire, we once had a mobo from them and the pc crashed and freezed and ran like 5 FPS in all games that were more intensive than bf 1942 even doe the gpu was a gtx 560, it couldnt even handle browsing without havng to load 30sec per page....sapphire never again, we changed the mobo and a 10% faster CPU and now BF4 runs @60fps on low

Sapphire makes motherboards? And if so why would you buy it and how would a motherboard affect fps?

[itachipirate]

Cause they suck on AMD cards, they had a big thing with the DirectCUII cooler where they basically just take the 780Ti cooler and litterally just slapped it on the 290 and 290X causing a lot of problems because most of the 5 pipes didn't even touch the GPU and caused many overheated GPUs which is really bad considering the 290 can handle 95 C.

Their STRIX 970 and 980 weren't very good either

[OAcesync]

Their STRIX 970 and 980 weren't very good either

Yeah tbh if I got a Nvidia card I wouldn't get ASUS probably Gigabyte or EVGA but on Nvidia they're not cards to just completely avoid like AMD

[Guest]

lol, never get sapphire, we once had a mobo from them and the pc crashed and freezed and ran like 5 FPS in all games that were more intensive than bf 1942 even doe the gpu was a gtx 560, it couldnt even handle browsing without havng to load 30sec per page....sapphire never again, we changed the mobo and a 10% faster CPU and now BF4 runs @60fps on low

There are three thing wrong with this statement:

1) The motherboards made by Sapphire were quite decent and it was actually praised as a great motherboard (in fact crypto-currency miners used it)

2) A motherboard has almost no effect in FPS besides its overclocking software or support

3) You disproved your own statement by stating that when you changed CPU and motherboard, you got an increase in performance

[Whorax]

MSI or Sapphire.