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Sapphire R9 290x 8GB Vs Sapphire r9 390x 8GB

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I am buying a new GPU for my PC and plan to watercool it. I found these two cards:

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202147

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202144

 

I have heard that a bios flash makes the 290x sapphire perform the same as the 390x. Is this true? also, do they use the same PCB layout as a reference cooler? I was looking at this watercooler: http://koolance.com/video-card-vga-amd-radeon-r9-290x-water-block-vid-ar290x

 

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Deff get the 290x as its 100$ cheaper.

I bleive its non refernace

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First correct the title. Do you game in 4k and 1440p? 

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I bleive its non refernace

 

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The 390X is likely binned higher, but YMMV on that so I probably wouldn't bother.

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well the 290x is very similar to the 390x, so the 380x is actually worse

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You dont even need a bios flash you can just overclock it a bit. That should do the trick.

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whoops, didnt notice that. I play games at 4800x1200 and I am upgrading soon. I also do a fair amount of CAD work and rendering.

I'd say grab the 290x 8GB, it's not really a great perfromance improvement to warrant the extra 100 dollars and you can overclock it to try to reach the 390X league.

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I'd say grab the 290x 8GB, it's not really a great perfromance improvement to warrant the extra 100 dollars and you can overclock it to try to reach the 390X league.

and so with this, what block should I use? is it a reference card?

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Are you ok?

No, my computer is curently dissablemed and i have to type on my moms imac on an apple ekyboard.

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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and so with this, what block should I use? is it a reference card?

That I really don't know.

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I have heard that a bios flash makes the 290x sapphire perform the same as the 390x. Is this true? also, do they use the same PCB layout as a reference cooler? I was looking at this watercooler: http://koolance.com/video-card-vga-amd-radeon-r9-290x-water-block-vid-ar290x

 

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You don't need to flash BIOS, just overclock the damn card manually,

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There is a thread in the news section that has links to hacked drivers/bios that give you the straight tesselation improvements of the 390x. I don't have the courage to link them myself.

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There is a thread in the news section that has links to hacked drivers/bios that give you the straight tesselation improvements of the 390x. I don't have the courage to link them myself.

interesting. I might try them... But first I must get the card and block.

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No, my computer is curently dissablemed and i have to type on my moms imac on an apple ekyboard.

 

Ah that explains everyhting. Those apple ekyboards are the worst... :P

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150727&cm_re=Radeon_R9_390X-_-14-150-727-_-Productconsidering that the sapphire card looks slightly different than reference, I will probably go for an xfx r9 390x as it looks the same as reference and it already has a backplate. this puts me closer to max budget though.

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