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Recently my two or so year old Gtx 670 died, leaving me with no card. And after some window shopping, I've narrowed it down to a R9 290x, that brings me to my problem. Who makes the best 290x? I was looking at a MSI Lightning card but it's out of stock most places and I've seen some mixed reviews, so what's the best 290x in your opinion? Thanks.

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I'm always picking MSI just because they never let me down on GPU's.. but another guy can say another brand, so it's up to you really.

 

My opinion is MSI r9 290x or MSI GTX 970.

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Best 290x imo is the msi lightning for sure. The sapphire tri x and gigabyte windforce are also pretty good

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Sapphire makes great AMD cards as far as I know but why 290X, you could get 970 for that money or wait for 300 series. Current AMD cards are not worth it IMO.

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+1 for MSI Lightning 

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Recently my two or so year old Gtx 670 died, leaving me with no card. And after some window shopping, I've narrowed it down to a R9 290x, that brings me to my problem. Who makes the best 290x? I was looking at a MSI Lightning card but it's out of stock most places and I've seen some mixed reviews, so what's the best 290x in your opinion? Thanks.

The best would be the MSI lightning but otherwise I would go for the Sapphire TRI-X version.





 
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The best would be the MSI lightning but otherwise I would go for the Sapphire TRI-X version.

Agreed

 

 

 

 

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Sapphire Vapor-X > Sapphire Tri-X > Gigabyte Windforce > MSI Twin Frozr II

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I would be more partial to getting a 970 or even a 960 4gb myself, but I would get sapphire's 290x's just because I think their coolers look ballin'  :P

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Sapphire Vapor-X > Sapphire Tri-X > Gigabyte Windforce > MSI Twin Frozr II

 

I agree with this ^^^ 

 

 you can usually find a tri-x for a pretty good piece :) 

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Just don't get anything with the stock (reference) or any other crappy cooler on it (e.g tri X)

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Personally I like the sapphire tri x r9 290x's.

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Hands down: MSi 290x Lightning

 

If you can't get one, grab any variant to your liking by Sapphire.

 

Don't let the paid-off reviews & bar graphs fool you, 290x eats 970's for dessert.

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MSI lightning or Sapphire Vapor-x.

Both are awesome. Take your pick.

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  1. Sapphire 290X Vapor X

Msi 290X Lightning

Sapphire 290X TriX OC

Gigabyte 290X Windforce <--- a little bit louder.

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Recently my two or so year old Gtx 670 died, leaving me with no card. And after some window shopping, I've narrowed it down to a R9 290x, that brings me to my problem. Who makes the best 290x? I was looking at a MSI Lightning card but it's out of stock most places and I've seen some mixed reviews, so what's the best 290x in your opinion? Thanks.

Sapphire Vapor-X or Tri-x, the MSI lightning and so on. I cant talk about the MSI Twin Frozr, i like the cooler though i have heard that its supposed to be quite bad on the 290x.

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Sapphire makes great AMD cards as far as I know but why 290X, you could get 970 for that money or wait for 300 series. Current AMD cards are not worth it IMO.

You seem to have missed the part where he doesn't have a card. Can't wait and he already narrowed it down to the 290x being his best option
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I would be more partial to getting a 970 or even a 960 4gb myself, but I would get sapphire's 290x's just because I think their coolers look ballin'  :P

 

You'd rather get a 960 instead of a 290x? o_O 

 

And for the OP; Sapphire Vapor-X.

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Lighting 290x is a monster  ;)

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Even though this answer doesn't really match the question per say...

 

The best 290x is one that is cooled with an Asetek AIO cooler using a G10/GH10 and Gelid VRM heat sink (if the card doesn't already have a VRM heatsink).

 

Without modification, the best 290x is the Vapor-X hands down, followed by Powercolor PCS+, Lightning and a few others.

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