XFX R9 390 Double dissipation vs Asus direct CU II ?

[Fictionvl]

So as the title says which is better?

The XFX is slightly cheaper than the Asus one but is the performance margin noticeable? Also heat and power consumption wise how does it do?

[SeanAngelo]

So as the title says which is better?

The XFX is slightly cheaper than the Asus one but is the performance margin noticeable? Also heat and power consumption wise how does it do?

get the XFX, Asus coolers on AMD cards are trash

[don_svetlio]

XFX - much better than Asus

[royalcrown]

XFX - much better than Asus

How is that ? The fans and cooler are almost exactly the same between Asus and XFX ? By fans I mean blade pitch, count sand size. I know the Cool it fan is different for asus but IMO better than the old design .

[Kirky2k15]

My Asus 290x doesn't OC very well

[don_svetlio]

How is that ? The fans and cooler are almost exactly the same between Asus and XFX ? By fans I mean blade pitch, count sand size. I know the Cool it fan is different for asus but IMO better than the old design .

Asus doesn't cool the VRMs resulting in overheating of the power delivery and throttling. Asus are crap. (I own an Asus card )

[byalexandr]

How is that ? The fans and cooler are almost exactly the same between Asus and XFX ? By fans I mean blade pitch, count sand size. I know the Cool it fan is different for asus but IMO better than the old design .

No they're not. ASUS doesn't sufficiently cool the GPU, and the VRMs are basically left in the open (not good).

[royalcrown]

Asus doesn't cool the VRMs resulting in overheating of the power delivery and throttling. Asus are crap. (I own an Asus card )

So do I.

[don_svetlio]

So do I.

You have a 780 Ti - Asus and AMD are the devil - Asus and Nvidia Kepler are good - Asus Maxwell is meh

[royalcrown]

I'm not debating that part, ppl hate the new fans on Asus 980 up and such, just asking you guys why Asus AMD sucks so bad in your opinion. I obviously can't say they don't without having one. I can't see the basic design of the DCU2 sucking in general though. I know that sapphire triple fan was regarded as the best 290x cooler when they came out.

 

I actually bought my 780ti because I wanted the absolute quietest card, thermals aren't a huge issue with me because I don't OC and I have 140mm fans and a dark knight 2 stealth CPU cooler.

[don_svetlio]

I'm not debating that part, ppl hate the new fans on Asus 980 up and such, just asking you guys why Asus AMD sucks so bad in your opinion. I obviously can't say they don't without having one. I can't see the basic design of the DCU2 sucking in general though. I know that sapphire triple fan was regarded as the best 290x cooler when they came out.

 

I actually bought my 780ti because I wanted the absolute quietest card, thermals aren't a huge issue with me because I don't OC and I have 140mm fans and a dark knight 2 stealth CPU cooler.

Well - the 280 (my card) uses the same cooler as your 780 Ti - that's fine - I get 67*C max @ 37% fan speed - all fine and dandy - but the first revision had boiling VRMs since Asus forgot to put a heatsink on them. Same for any other Asus R9 200 or R9 300 card.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

I'm not debating that part, ppl hate the new fans on Asus 980 up and such, just asking you guys why Asus AMD sucks so bad in your opinion. I obviously can't say they don't without having one. I can't see the basic design of the DCU2 sucking in general though. I know that sapphire triple fan was regarded as the best 290x cooler when they came out.

 

I actually bought my 780ti because I wanted the absolute quietest card, thermals aren't a huge issue with me because I don't OC and I have 140mm fans and a dark knight 2 stealth CPU cooler.

 

It has always been a bad design. Right here is the cooler used on the 290/x and also 390/x

 

 

There was always never any form of vram cooling present. Vrm 2 is also missing its heatsink. Even now, the new Strix cooler has no vram cooling present for the 390x. That is pretty pathetic considering all the other cards have vram cooling. Even going back to the 290/x series, everyone else had proper vrm and vram cooling on their cards. Except for Asus.