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RX 480 - MSI or XFX GTR (8GB)?

Furious George
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I'm torn between these two. Anyone with experience with either of these cards? Who has better customer support (North America)?

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The MSI Gaming X and XFX GTR are the two best, I would pick the GTR out of the two because of better power delivery for intense overclocking, and swappable fans for ease of RMA.

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The GTR has the better VRM and hard-swappable fans. The Gaming X is the quieter card. Both are solid... but I'm going to be the person who says to just get the cheaper one out of the two.

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How are the noise levels on the GTR? Are they significantly worse than the MSI card?

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1 minute ago, Furious George said:

How are the noise levels on the GTR? Are they significantly worse than the MSI card?

They should be pretty much the same. If they are different its only by a small margin.

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Well see the only difference here is customer support and I hear MSI has pretty bad customer support.

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18 minutes ago, Furious George said:

How are the noise levels on the GTR? Are they significantly worse than the MSI card?

There is definitely a difference, but the GTR is not bad. It's the 2nd best of the 480s in noise levels.

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15 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

The GTR has the better VRM and hard-swappable fans. The Gaming X is the quieter card. Both are solid... but I'm going to be the person who says to just get the cheaper one out of the two.

The VRM of the MSI card is no worse than Sapphire Nitro(the Nitro only has five phases). I don't think a better VRM of the XFX will give better overclocking.

 

BTW, my Nitro RX480 can do 1465MHz on air and 1520MHz on water, no watt mod or custom BIOS. How well the card can overclock is really a matter of luck.

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10 minutes ago, Deli said:

The VRM of the MSI card is no worse than Sapphire Nitro(the Nitro only has five phases). I don't think a better VRM of the XFX will give better overclocking.

 

BTW, my Nitro RX480 can do 1465MHz on air and 1520MHz on water, no watt mod or custom BIOS. How well the card can overclock is really a matter of luck.

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39 minutes ago, Deli said:

The VRM of the MSI card is no worse than Sapphire Nitro(the Nitro only has five phases). I don't think a better VRM of the XFX will give better overclocking.

 

BTW, my Nitro RX480 can do 1465MHz on air and 1520MHz on water, no watt mod or custom BIOS. How well the card can overclock is really a matter of luck.

The GTR I believe has 6 phases and practically has the most powerful VRM out of any RX 480... I know, not really an issue unless you're going for some serious hardcore overclocking since overclocking has always been dependent on the silicon lottery.

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43 minutes ago, Deli said:

The VRM of the MSI card is no worse than Sapphire Nitro(the Nitro only has five phases). I don't think a better VRM of the XFX will give better overclocking.

 

BTW, my Nitro RX480 can do 1465MHz on air and 1520MHz on water, no watt mod or custom BIOS. How well the card can overclock is really a matter of luck.

You're right about the MSI gaming having good VRMs, but it only had 4 phases compared to 6 for basically every other 480. This is most likely why we haven't been seeing great OC numbers from that variant.

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33 minutes ago, ivan134 said:

You're right about the MSI gaming having good VRMs, but it only had 4 phases compared to 6 for basically every other 480. This is most likely why we haven't been seeing great OC numbers from that variant.

4 phases? I saw Buildzoid's video. The MSI card has 6 phases.

 

https://youtu.be/nolak4SwX3M

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19 minutes ago, Deli said:

4 phases? I saw Buildzoid's video. The MSI card has 6 phases.

 

https://youtu.be/nolak4SwX3M

Nevermind. Now to go find the place I saw it had only 4 phases.

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