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390X hands down is better value so get that.

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Hi there! I'm in the process of building my first (gaming) rig. In my country, the GTX 970 sells for 440USD while the R9 390X surprisingly sells for only 22USD more. 

 

Should I jump to the AMD boat? Or stick with the Windforce card. I do plan to overclock but right now, the priority is to get the best deal and the R9 390X looks tempting.

 

My build will basically consist of an i5 4690K, Cooler Master Hyper Evo 212X, Gigabyte Gaming 5 Z97 Mobo, 16GB of Ram, 256GB SSD. I currently have a Dell u2410 (1920 x 1200) and I'll buy another one down the line. Aside from gaming, I plan to do photography editing on the rig and that explains my choice of monitor. 

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390X hands down is better value so get that.

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R9 390X seems the best choice considering the price.

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390X hands down is better value so get that.

 

 

r9 390x goes with the competes with the 980 brah

 

 

R9 390X seems the best choice considering the price.

 

Thank you! 

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What PSU do you have?

You need at least a superb 600W PSU.

Keep that in mind when getting a 390X. They consume way more power than a 290X.

Just a reminder to not stress or kill a PSU if it doesn't support it :)

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Thank you! 

 

It is better, just be aware that it's really, really power hungry. Like, extremely.


 

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*500w

Thats that. If you need to get in touch chances are you can find someone that knows me that can get in touch.

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What PSU do you have?

You need at least a superb 600W PSU.

Keep that in mind when getting a 390X. They consume way more power than a 290X.

Just a reminder to not stress or kill a PSU if it doesn't support it :)

 

Thanks for the reminder! I'm planning on getting a bigger PSU, a SeaSonic M12II-750 EVO. It's rated Bronze so it should be more than enough to power the GPU and an overclocked i5 4690k :)

 

 

*500w

 

Settling for a 750W since pcpartpicker as of now rates my rig at 505W. I think it'll jump by 150W more once I overclocked the i5 4690k and the GPU (by a bit, but maybe not... I don't know that part yet. The future is mysterious) 

i5 4670k | Noctua NH0-U12S | Asus Z97M Plus | Kingston HyperX Fury 8gb | Palit GTX 980 Ti Super Jetstream 6G | Samsung 850 EVO 250gb


WD Caviar Blue 1tb | Seasonic M12II 850W | Fractal Design Define R5 | Dell U3014 1600p 30" 60Hz


Corsair K65 | Razer Orochi | Bose QuietComfort 15 | Creative SBS A350 2.1

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Thanks for the reminder! I'm planning on getting a bigger PSU, a SeaSonic M12II-750 EVO. It's rated Bronze so it should be more than enough to power the GPU and an overclocked i5 4690k :)

Nice! That PSU is superb. Good luck :D

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r9 390x goes with the competes with the 980 brah

But who cares about the value, we are talking performance. Which one?

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390x is hotter but it got dat more vram brah

At 1080p the amount of vram from 3.5 onward doesn't matter lol ;p Boom checkmate 970 it is!

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At 1080p the amount of vram from 3.5 onward doesn't matter lol ;p Boom checkmate 970 it is!

it actually does. games like gta 5 it dosent allow you to max out.. beacuse of the 0.5 slow vram

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One problem, on the 390/x owners club in ocn. It is known that the Gigabyte version of the 390/x is voltage locked. So far no one has found a way around this yet... :/

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Nice! That PSU is superb. Good luck :D

 

Thanks, Doughnutnator :D

 

it actually does. games like gta 5 it dosent allow you to max out.. beacuse of the 0.5 slow vram

 

GTA V has a hand in temping me to go for the 390X, haha! But that's bit irrational on my part since most of my gaming time will be consumed by Battlefield games. The 970 card can easily handle that one.

 

One problem, on the 390/x owners club in ocn. It is known that the Gigabyte version of the 390/x is voltage locked. So far no one has found a way around this yet... :/

 

Ah crud, thanks for the tip! I was actually wondering if it's worth it to overclock since games only report 6% - 9% FPS increase

i5 4670k | Noctua NH0-U12S | Asus Z97M Plus | Kingston HyperX Fury 8gb | Palit GTX 980 Ti Super Jetstream 6G | Samsung 850 EVO 250gb


WD Caviar Blue 1tb | Seasonic M12II 850W | Fractal Design Define R5 | Dell U3014 1600p 30" 60Hz


Corsair K65 | Razer Orochi | Bose QuietComfort 15 | Creative SBS A350 2.1

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