asus VS sapphire

[Memphills2]

what's better on amd's r9 390:

-asus

-or sapphire nitro

 

thx

 

[Kobathor]

@Memphills2

ASUS sucks with Radeon. Sapphire makes the best in terms of both cooling AND noise generated, if you have the budget definitely buy theirs.

[Castdeath97]

Definitely sapphire Nitro, sapphire works with AMD cards exclusively.

[SteveGrabowski0]

Sapphire. It's like asking what's better between Kool Aid and Coke.

[Sauron]

Sapphire is generally the best brand for amd aftermarket cards, however I find the hate against asus isn't really justified. There have been a couple of bad or faulty designs in the past (most notably and recently at least a couple of batches of faulty r9 290/x and 280/x cards), that doesn't mean we should automatically condemn everything they push out without specific information that they are having issues. The bottom line is, the nitro is somewhat better, but don't spend 50 bucks more on it if it comes to that.

[Senzelian]

Sapphire is generally the best brand for amd aftermarket cards, however I find the hate against asus isn't really justified. There have been a couple of bad or faulty designs in the past (most notably and recently at least a couple of batches of faulty r9 290/x and 280/x cards), that doesn't mean we should automatically condemn everything they push out without specific information that they are having issues. The bottom line is, the nitro is somewhat better, but don't spend 50 bucks more on it if it comes to that.

^ This.

ASUS did a great job with their coolers and especially their PCB designs in 2014 and 2015.

They're the only company that produces their PCBs completly automated.

[SuperShires]

Sapphire is generally the best brand for amd aftermarket cards, however I find the hate against asus isn't really justified. There have been a couple of bad or faulty designs in the past (most notably and recently at least a couple of batches of faulty r9 290/x and 280/x cards), that doesn't mean we should automatically condemn everything they push out without specific information that they are having issues. The bottom line is, the nitro is somewhat better, but don't spend 50 bucks more on it if it comes to that.

Whats wrong with their 280x? (I have 2 of them )

[TechStyle]

I've heard bad things about Asus and their AMD coolers.

 

Sapphire is the #1 AMD brand anyway. Followed by MSI or Gigabyte.

[Memphills2]

ok, what about FXF, I've never heard how good they are

[don_svetlio]

Sapphire

Asus should be avoided not only for off products but for awful support as well

[don_svetlio]

ok, what about FXF, I've never heard how good they are

XFX* - they're solid.

[Sauron]

Whats wrong with their 280x? (I have 2 of them )

 

SOME of them have had black screen and artifacting problems. If you haven't had any by now, you're clear.

[SuperShires]

SOME of them have had black screen and artifacting problems. If you haven't had any by now, you're clear.

Oh right, I think I remember reading about that before buying mine and I found out I bought mine with the new batch that fixed them issues, I thought you were going to say the heatsink is faulty or something haha. The only reason I went with Asus at the time was the looks of the cooler, it looked way better than any of the other brands' coolers

[Sauron]

Oh right, I think I remember reading about that before buying mine and I found out I bought mine with the new batch that fixed them issues, I thought you were going to say the heatsink is faulty or something haha. The only reason I went with Asus at the time was the looks of the cooler, it looked way better than any of the other brands' coolers

 

it does look pretty nice ^^ it was also the cheapest when i got mine and thankfully my card works just fine

[Coaxialgamer]

the asus coolers are pretty bad on radeon cards.

Sapphire is specialized in radeon cards , and their coolers are much better.

[SamwiseDB]

Sapphire. Sapphire are much better with radeon cards than ASUS. Also, (sorry to bring this off topic) Sapphire do the Rx 3xx series, unlike someone *cough* MSI *cough*. There's probably a reason why MSI haven't gotten round to/aren't doing the Rx 3xx series.

Also, what about gigabyte's radeon cards. I have a windforce radeon card.

[Guest]

Sapphire is THE ONLY direct board parter (Sapphire makes all the stock cards that are then shipped out to the 2nd board partners) to AMD.

Also, MSI makes some great cards.

[katiekitsune]

asus is alright but the sapphire cards are going to run cooler since they all have amd heat levels in mind (they also claim to bin their chips so you are more likely to get a good silicon lottery ticket)

[Ivelin__]

Sapphire is like EVGA for AMD cards, ASUS had made a 280X with 770's cooler, you can imagine what happened.

Not that Sapphire didn't also fk up with the 280X, google "280X Toxic artifacts".

I would go with Gigabyte, windforce cooler is worth just for the looks.(and it also cools quite well).