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Sapphire Nitro is the best 390.  Sapphire custom support sucks though.

MSI is the next best and has great customer support.  Your choice.

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The best GPU is the best GPU.

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from where are you buying?

ive seen xfx offer good prices for 380

 

oops sorry i though it was 380

il be buying a 390 soon, picking sapphire due to competitive pricing with good reviews

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I plan on getting the r9 390 8gb and there are many brands. I was wondering if brands matter, also if you could you were to pick out of the lineup, who would you pick.

S tier: MSI, Sapphire

A tier: XFX, PowerColor

Trash tier: HIS, Asus, Gigabyte

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Finally we agree on something.

 

Get a room you two :D /jk

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S tier: MSI, Sapphire

A tier: XFX, PowerColor

Trash tier: HIS, Asus, Gigabyte

Clu3D and HIS are good actually - Asus and Gigabrick are the only ones who fuck up that badly :D

Archangel (Desktop) CPU: i5 4590 GPU:Asus R9 280  3GB RAM:HyperX Beast 2x4GBPSU:SeaSonic S12G 750W Mobo:GA-H97m-HD3 Case:CM Silencio 650 Storage:1 TB WD Red
Celestial (Laptop 1) CPU:i7 4720HQ GPU:GTX 860M 4GB RAM:2x4GB SK Hynix DDR3Storage: 250GB 850 EVO Model:Lenovo Y50-70
Seraph (Laptop 2) CPU:i7 6700HQ GPU:GTX 970M 3GB RAM:2x8GB DDR4Storage: 256GB Samsung 951 + 1TB Toshiba HDD Model:Asus GL502VT

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