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Thanks for the video. Will you guys be reviewing any 390 Non-X cards?
Great video again Wendell thanks.
That Asus cards looks realy cool with that strix cooling unit on it.
Not sure how hot this card runs, but you can probably just ramp up the fan speeds,
as long as the card stays arround 80°C you are totaly fine.
Without sounding too stupid, the other video wasn't there no?
When i tried I just got the slideshow of the benchmarks
idk, I have my love for ASUS but i feel like the fell off when it came to cooling AMD GPUs. I mean considering the old 290x Matrix Platinum cooler was MADE for the 290x and it still reached the 90ish degree threshold. I've just feel discouraged picking up an ASUS cooled AMD GPU.
I can see it now - Logan and Wendell, live for one night in a two-man show where they recite all their classic puns.
It would be similar to this, but with only puns . . .
Yup I don't see the link to the other video yet either. Maybe it's not live yet?
I disagree on the whole "the temperatures are not an issue" thing, mostly because there are other coolers on the market that keep the card cooler while being more quiet. Pulling from guru3d here, the MSI version of the 390x keeps it at 76°C with a noise level of 41dB while the ASUS card runs at 87°C with a noise level of 43dB. So if you ramp up the fan speeds to compete with other coolers you'll make the card even noisier, it's not an issue with the fan profile it's clearly the cooler itself.
Sure, the temperatures are still fine for a Hawaii GPU, no doubt about that, but the cooler is simply inferior to other models on the market. Asus has messed up so many AMD cards in the past (didn't properly cool the VRMs, just re-used coolers from Nvidia cards, etc.) that I wouldn't trust them on this one either.
I'm leaning towards MSI for this one.
My two DCUII R9 290s run about 2-3 degrees warmer on average than other 290s with similar noise levels. To me it isn't a huge deal (not something I'd rage about or return the cards over) but I probably wouldn't go with ASUS again. Sapphire and MSI seem to be the way to go.
Please stop using 'gb' to denote gigabytes, 'b' stands for 'bit' and 'g' stands for 'gram'.
You did bother capitalizing other appropriate letters in the title.
Technically, you're wrong too. It's Gibibytes, not Gigabytes, denoted by GiB. When you say GB, you mean 1000 MB instead of 1024 MiB.
Personally, I wouldn't worry about it, because the truth is in the context. Anyone who sees a graphics card name followed by a number and 'gb' probably won't be thinking 'grambits'.
Sure in this specific context, people get what is meant.
But the differentiation between b and B is important (more important than the differentiation between GB and GiB) as I often see people confusing them where bandwidth, flash memory die capacities and other not so common topics are concerned.
And it's sloppy. People would have gotten the point if they hadn't capitalized anything in the title, but they did capitalize what they thought needed to be capitalized, cause that's nicer to read.
Only 1 game benchmarked in the performance review? :S
A little disappointing but it also looks like the settings used in GTAV arent even that high. The GTAV settingsseem to have lots of things turned off and the game only using 2.4GB of VRAM?