Sapphire Radeon R9 390 Nitro vs ASUS STRIX-R9390-DC3OC

[cisto1999]

Which one of both would you choose and why?

Sapphire Radeon R9 390 Nitro or ASUS STRIX-R9390-DC3OC?

[Indus Monk]

Nitro

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

 

XFX= Full cover waterblock available. Good clockers usually, and cooling is sufficient for core, but not stellar, and VRM's tend to get hot

Sapphire= No water block available, but has excellent air cooling. Require 8+8 pin connectors versus 8+6. Some would prefer that, in hopes of obtaining higher OC results, but unfortunately OC results so far on the Nitro and Tri-X are only mediocre-good

Gigabyte= No waterblocks. Well built card, decent cooling, but the voltage is hard locked, so expect clock ceiling to be very limited... most likely 1100 or less.

PowerColor= Offers full cover waterblocks, and also has excellent air cooling, but so far there have only been weak-mediocre-ish overclocking results. 1150 or less on the core seems to be the norm, with most landing between 1130-1140, even despite it's excellent cooling.

MSI= No full cover waterblocks available. Stock air cooling is good but not great with regards to the core temps, but seems to be very good for the VRM temps. So far, these seem to have the best overclocking results. Most poeople hitting 1160-1200

Asus= (DCU2) Full cover block available. Not much info on these, but theyappears to use the same cooler as the 290 series, which was a poor performing cooler. I have seen very few purchasing the Asus card. Overclock results seem to be average so far, but have very little data to make a general claim.

Asus= (Strix) Unsure on waterblocks with these... stock cooling is good. Very little OC information, but from what I have seen, they are average. Probably in line with Sapphire when it comes to binning.

 

 

http://www.overclock.net/t/1561704/official-amd-r9-390-390x-owners-club

 

I'd personally pick sapphire. 

[cisto1999]

I just thought that maybe it might be a helpful information that i use the Silverstone FT05 - in this case the air-flow is from bottom to top - does it help then with the cooling-fins on the ASUS card because they would also be vertical.

[domini123]

Which one of both would you choose and why?

Sapphire Radeon R9 390 Nitro or ASUS STRIX-R9390-DC3OC?

Sapphire for every amd card

[jc980]

Sapphire

[xAcid9]

Which one of both would you choose and why?

Sapphire Radeon R9 390 Nitro or ASUS STRIX-R9390-DC3OC?

Between these 2 the Nitro is the better cooler because of proper cooling on the VRAM. 

[don_svetlio]

Sapphire - Strix is loud and hot

[Nena Trinity]

Sapphire because ASUS have screwed up the 290X in the past...