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Sapphire Tri-X OC hands down

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tri-x by far

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the Sapphire Tri-x has reference board with non ref cooler

 

I would go with Asus, as it has a nice backplate, custom board and there are EK WB for it

Asus amd models are absolute crap. Gather some information before spreading stuff.

TriX is fantastic, very silent even under load and stays very cool. Feel free to pm me in case you have any questions since I own one myself.

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Asus amd models are absolute crap. Gather some information before spreading stuff.

TriX is fantastic, very silent even under load and stays very cool. Feel free to pm me in case you have any questions since I own one myself.

I remembered some rumours that their cooler was faulty, but as it is £210 posted on Amazon, I looked for reviews and the problems and I could not find any specific, thermals and noise were good...

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I'd get the MSI or Sapphire version, but you should also consider buying something like a GTX 970.

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the Sapphire Tri-x has reference board with non ref cooler

 

I would go with Asus, as it has a nice backplate, custom board and there are EK WB for it

No, the Asus models of the R9 290 series are not good. They don't cool they VRMs properly.

 

@xMishax I would go with the Sapphire Tri-X by far.

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I remembered some rumours that their cooler was faulty, but as it is £210 posted on Amazon, I looked for reviews and the problems and I could not find any specific, thermals and noise were good...

They slapped a 780 cooler on a 290. The heat pipes only contact for about 70% of the total surface. Thermals are still ok, but only because no one looks at vram temps which are absolutely horrible in Asus models.

TriX-VaporX are 290(x) kings

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. Thermals are still ok, but only because no one looks at vram temps which are absolutely horrible in Asus models.

 

No, the Asus models of the R9 290 series are not good. They don't cool they VRMs properly.

 

@xMishax I would go with the Sapphire Tri-X by far.

 

Oh right I see, thanks for letting me know!

What about MSI? Sapphire is over 30cm and that is too long for my case

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Oh right I see, thanks for letting me know!

What about MSI? Sapphire is over 30cm and that is too long for my case

Pretty good, but it is known for getting a bit loud sometimes.

Can't you remove hdd cages?

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the Sapphire Tri-x has reference board with non ref cooler

 

I would go with Asus, as it has a nice backplate, custom board and there are EK WB for it

ASUS is your worst choice if goig for r9 series. Temps are the worst unless they fixed it which i am not aware of.

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Pretty good, but it is known for getting a bit loud sometimes.

Can't you remove hdd cages?

its a Z11 case, so no

Although I will go for a mini ITX (Bitfenix prodigy or 380t, I will see) and they can hold rather large GPUs.. I will see

Noise will not be a large concern, I will game on 3 monitors (1080p) or 1, depends on game and I will use many monitors later on ( hopefully 4 and above) for work

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