R9 390x question.

[trooprm31]

I have a XFX r9 390x 8GB. Just recently I've been searching online for one to run cross fire thinking it would be cheap just to buy an older model .. But newegg doesn't sell them anymore and I've found very very few on Amazon and EBay. Problem is, they are all over $500. Highest one was over $1000 used and its the same exact one as mine!!! Is it because they are discontinued ? Should I sell mine and upgrade to cross fire 570's?! Thoughts on this, anyone ?! Thanks!!

[NelizMastr]

6 minutes ago, trooprm31 said:

I have a XFX r9 390x 8GB. Just recently I've been searching online for one to run cross fire thinking it would be cheap just to buy an older model .. But newegg doesn't sell them anymore and I've found very very few on Amazon and EBay. Problem is, they are all over $500. Highest one was over $1000 used!!! Is it because they are discontinued ? Should I sell mine and upgrade to cross fire 570's?! Thoughts on this, anyone ?! Thanks!!

They're used as mining cards as well, and they've been discontinued for about 2 years now so that doesn't help either.

 

Any particular reason you want another volcano in your PC? Is your PSU up to the task? 

 

Oh and the RX570s are like $300+ each right now, so just stay right where you are and wait patiently for prices to come down again, which might not happen on the AMD side for a longer time due to low production on Vega. DX12 games and plenty of DX11 games don't properly support crossfire, so that's also something to consider.

[kelvinhall05]

Crossfire and SLI are dumb. If your current card isn't fast enough, either wait for prices to drop on newer GPUs, or sell your current one and buy something now.

[trooprm31]

36 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

They're used as mining cards as well, and they've been discontinued for about 2 years now so that doesn't help either.

 

Any particular reason you want another volcano in your PC? Is your PSU up to the task? 

 

Oh and the RX570s are like $300+ each right now, so just stay right where you are and wait patiently for prices to come down again, which might not happen on the AMD side for a longer time due to low production on Vega. DX12 games and plenty of DX11 games don't properly support crossfire, so that's also something to consider.

Yes my PSU can handle it. It does run hot during gaming. But I figured if I bought another 390x it would have been cheaper. Do you think people would actually buy my used r9 390x?  And when are prices expected to come down on GPU's?

[faziten]

40 minutes ago, trooprm31 said:

I have a XFX r9 390x 8GB. Just recently I've been searching online for one to run cross fire thinking it would be cheap just to buy an older model .. But newegg doesn't sell them anymore and I've found very very few on Amazon and EBay. Problem is, they are all over $500. Highest one was over $1000 used and its the same exact one as mine!!! Is it because they are discontinued ? Should I sell mine and upgrade to cross fire 570's?! Thoughts on this, anyone ?! Thanks!!

why crossfire?

And excuse my second question: why AMD?

 

Prices, power draw and temperature are all off the charts with air cooled Crossfire setups. While performance... well, lets say when it works is good, sadly it often fails to show any difference.

[NelizMastr]

1 minute ago, trooprm31 said:

Yes my PSU can handle it. It does run hot during gaming. But I figured if I bought another 390x it would have been cheaper. Do you think people would actually buy my used r9 390x?  And when are prices expected to come down on GPU's?

People might buy it, but you have nothing to upgrade to without shelling out an additional $400 at the very least (GTX1070) for an unreasonable performance increase per dollar.

No signs of decreasing prices at the moment. Might be 6 months, might be 12, nobody knows.

[Morgan Everett]

2 minutes ago, trooprm31 said:

Yes my PSU can handle it. It does run hot during gaming. But I figured if I bought another 390x it would have been cheaper. Do you think people would actually buy my used r9 390x?  And when are prices expected to come down on GPU's?

No one knows when prices will come down. Yes, they'd buy your 390x, and likely for more than you'd think.

[Froody129]

If you can find like a 1070 for not too much more than what you can sell the 390x for I’d go for that. Dramatic reduction in power consumption for a nice increase in gaming power