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Best Aftermarket R9 290

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What is the best aftermarket r9 290?

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PowerColor PCS+

 

Reasons:

1. Metal shroud (not plastic like the ugly orange Sapphire cooler)

2. 2.5 slot heatsink (Better cooling potential)

3. 1 foot long (better cooling potential)

4. three fans (better cooling potential)

5. VERY quiet (my power supply is 99% of the time louder)

6. Mine always stays below 70C when gaming (your mileage may vary)

7. Mine personally, and other people on overclockers.co.uk are getting VERY good overclocks with this

8. High clocks out of the box (1040 MHz core / 1350MHz memory)

 

Why it's better than it's closest competitor: (Sapphire Tri-X)

1. Metal shroud (Not plastic like Sapphire)

2. Black, will fit any color scheme (Not like Sapphire's orange stuff, ew)

3. HIgher clocks (40 more stock MHz core, not sure about memory)

4. Cooler results

5. Arguably better build quality

6. Quieter by a long shot

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The Sapphire Tri-X is really nice if you can fit it.

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Sapphire Tri-X is pretty good too.

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Sapphire, MSI, Asus or Gigabyte

 

Sapphire Tri-X is pretty good too.

 

The Sapphire Tri-X is really nice if you can fit it.

Tri-X is overrated. Ew, orange. Get off that bandwagon now!

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Tri-X is overrated. Ew, orange. Get off that bandwagon now!

It's easier to find in most places.

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It's easier to find in most places.

And it's orange. Ewwww!

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And it's orange. Ewwww!

Orange/black is my favourite combination.  ;)

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I hear that MSI and ASUS are the best (Keep in mind that there aren't really any power-colors or sapphires in the states, so I don't really know about them).

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- "Oh shit, watch out guys, we got a hopscotch bassass here..." ~ @vinyldash303

- "Yes the 8990 is more fater than the 4820K and as you can see this specific Video card comes with 6GB" ~ Alienware 2014

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Orange/black is my favourite combination.  ;)

You're weird

 

I hear that MSI and ASUS are the best (Keep in mind that there aren't really any power-colors or sapphires in the states, so I don't really know about them).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131549

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And it's orange. Ewwww!

It's the only orange card that isn't crap and I actually like the colors
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It's the only orange card that isn't crap and I actually like the colors

are you kidding? Orange is cool but Sapphire's version of orange looks like they smeared it with boogers.

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I know I can order them online, but they're not in any stores that I've seen, and nobody around me talks about them too much. Why is that?

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I know I can order them online, but they're not in any stores that I've seen, and nobody around me talks about them too much. Why is that?

Because most people don't know that they exist. To get attention they need to make really good products. Unknown company + very good design = a sweet sweet love child.

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I know I can order them online, but they're not in any stores that I've seen, and nobody around me talks about them too much. Why is that?

Because they aren't that great
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Because they aren't that great

Then why is everyone saying that they're the best?!

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Because they aren't that great

Not true meanie

theyre great

sapphire is overrated

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Then why is everyone saying that they're the best?!

I'm the only one saying that they're the best :P but this guy on youtube agrees 

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I'm the only one saying that they're the best :P but this guy on youtube agrees 

That guy only has 67 videos and 24 subscribers, so i'm not trusting him as much as i trust Linus and his team

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Msi lightning anyone ?

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That guy only has 67 videos and 24 subscribers, so i'm not trusting him as much as i trust Linus and his team

I tried

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