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Best R9 290x?

ChrisfromNL
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What's your color scheme? Personally I absolutely love the MSI Lightning and it's my favorite cooler of all time, but I also have a soft spot (read: creepy GPU fetish) for the XFX double dissipation cooler and Powercolor  PCS+ cooler. The powercolor one looks to be pretty good for plasti-dipping too, so it can match almost anything, and if you put a put painters tape in the indentations before spraying ti could look really good.

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Vapor x

Lightning

Tri x

Don't bother with anything less

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1. Sapphire Vapour-X

2. MSI Lightning

3. Sapphire Tri-X/PowerColour PCS+ (there's pretty much nothing to split the two)

5. Gigabyte Windforce

 

I have 2 PowerColour ones, and when only one card is in use it never goes above around 66-70 degrees.

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Vapour-x and the Lightning seem to be the best cards. Also the tri-x if you can't get the vapour-X

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Sapphire 290X Vapor X....

 

Hear the MSI Lightning is pretty decent...just been using Sapphire so long (since the 5000 series cards) so I'm kinda partial.

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you might wanna think warranty when your buying too, if you have something like.. Sapphire, which has different companies handling your warranty. If you look for something like asus, which (at least in Canada) which has a pretty good warranty service, for example having there own warranty office. you gotta research this and keep it in mind too! it''l really save you a headache if it doesn't work.

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you might wanna think warranty when your buying too, if you have something like.. Sapphire, which has different companies handling your warranty. If you look for something like asus, which (at least in Canada) which has a pretty good warranty service, for example having there own warranty office. you gotta research this and keep it in mind too! it''l really save you a headache if it doesn't work.

that's the thing though asus has one of the worst coolers for the 290x it's basically just above reference in most of the comparison videos
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The Ninja (current gaming pc)  Case- h440 red/black cpu- i5-4690k@ 4.3ghz cooler- coolermaster hyper 212 evo mobo- Gigabyte z97x-sli ram- adata xpg v.1 2x4gb 1600mhz gpu- asus strix gtx 970 hdd- wd blue 1tb ssd- kingston hyperx savage 240gb psu- evga 600b peripherals: mouse- razer death adder 2013 keyboard- corsair k70 with chery mx-reds headset- HyperX Cloud 2

my laptop- toshiba satelite p850, cpu- i7-3630qm ram- 8gb 1600mhz hdd- 1tb 5400rpm gpu- Nvidia gt630m 2gb

did you know we have a gun thread ? well we do 

 

and a car thread ! 

 

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that's the thing though asus has one of the worst coolers for the 290x it's basically just above reference in most of the comparison videos

right, that is a big factor as well :")

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right, that is a big factor as well :")

lol
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my laptop- toshiba satelite p850, cpu- i7-3630qm ram- 8gb 1600mhz hdd- 1tb 5400rpm gpu- Nvidia gt630m 2gb

did you know we have a gun thread ? well we do 

 

and a car thread ! 

 

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Thanks everyone for all the replies, I have decided to go with the MSI Lightning card as the Vapor X is slightly out of my price range. Thanks for all of the help.

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Wow the MSI Lightning is cheaper than the Vapor X....wow...the lightning looks cooler as well. Let us know how it plays out for you bud.

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