Best Custom Cooler for AMD Cards?

[Hatsune Miku 「 」]

HI, I am currently considering a R9 290 maybe R9 290X, which brand has the best custom cooler to dissipate the heat for the unit and which cooler?

[eLucid]

Vapor-X from sapphire or Asus D2C. If you decide on the 290x, I'd get the lightning because that thing looks sick.

[Tacitus]

Sapphire's Vapour-x and Tri-x solutions are both great, the latter being more "budget" oriented. Another good call is the PCS+ by PowerColour. Avoid Asus AMD cards.

[GloriousPain]

Lightning>VaporX>PCS+>TriX>Windforce>ICE²>DoubleDissipation>Most coolers I don't feel to name>Asus>Reference

Vapor-X from sapphire or Asus D2C. If you decide on the 290x, I'd get the lightning because that thing looks sick.

Don't get Asus direct CU2; Asus uses looser fittings, less heatpads, Less VRM cooling and in alot of cases (non 290/290x) they're reusing the coolers from the 7000 Series on R9 and R7 cards even though they have slightly different PCBs making it so the cooler just isn't as good  TONS better than reference but neglible specially since ASUS is usually more expensive than ones with better coolers like say PCS+ or Windforce or DD

[eLucid]

Lightning>VaporX>PCS+>TriX>Windforce>ICE²>DoubleDissipation>Most coolers I don't feel to name>Asus>Reference

Don't get Asus direct CU2; Asus uses looser fittings, less heatpads, Less VRM cooling and in alot of cases (non 290/290x) they're reusing the coolers from the 7000 Series on R9 and R7 cards even though they have slightly different PCBs making it so the cooler just isn't as good  TONS better than reference but neglible specially since ASUS is usually more expensive than ones with better coolers like say PCS+ or Windforce or DD

Hmm, I'm kinda disappointed they don't have a lightning 290 in the market. That's kinda lame...

[GloriousPain]

Hmm, I'm kinda disappointed they don't have a lightning 290 in the market. That's kinda lame...

AGREED

[i_build_nanosuits]

I just came across a video that might be helpful to you whenever you have to recommend a graphics card, those are the coolers that have been tested by Linus for NCIX:

 

ASUS direct CU II

CLUB 3d ROYAL ACE

GIGABYTE WINDFORCE

MSI LIGHTNING

MSI TWINFROZR

XFX DOUBLE D (Double dissipation)

Reference AMD hawaii board cooler (not even worth mentionning, it's trash)

 

The test where the ones of the R9 290X which is the hottest running GPU available on the market ATM, testing was done running a 30 minute pass on Furmark on performance settings for all cards...

so this is really the WORST KEY SCENARIO for these coolers...and also the perfect way to test them against one another!

 

This is why i wanted to show you the results...i see a lot of ASUS and Gigabyte cards being recommended in here...but apparently the cooling solutions on them are among the worst available:

 

TEMPERATURE RESULTS:

 

full video here (there is also a graph about noise level in wich all cards performed about the same so it's not worth mentionning, of course the reference cooler is loud as f*ck and was the only one that standed out) :

[winningsince1337]

Hmm, I'm kinda disappointed they don't have a lightning 290 in the market. That's kinda lame...

 

10/10 would buy a 290 lightning 

[sthzjEe]

HI, I am currently considering a R9 290 maybe R9 290X, which brand has the best custom cooler to dissipate the heat for the unit and which cooler?

Go with Sapphire Vapor-X or Tri-X.