Hi! You see, I purchased 4 months ago an Asus R9 280X, and the experience hasn't been nice. I came from a Sapphire HD6950 that never gave me a single problem. And now this R9 280X it's full of problems. There's a thread in the ROG forums talking about those R9 280X problems. I get artifacts from time to time with this card, and it has been like 4 months with that problem, but I now have some money to buy a new one again (can't RMA because of the country I live and all the complications it has to do that in the country). The thing is, I still want in part, to stay with AMD. I like RadeonPro, and also like Morphological AA. So I want to buy now an R9 290. I've been deciding between the Sapphire Tri or the Gigabyte counterpart (or another brand that you can recommend). The thing is that in Internet, there's still people that have problems with those cards. I mean, there's still artifacts sometimes, some cards come with fan crackling, and other ones come DOA. So I really don't know if to buy an R9 290 is a good option, especially when at the other edge, there is an EVGA GTX 780 SC, that apparently NO ONE seems to have problems with it. The thing is I can't afford again another defective card. What do you recommend? Thanks for your answers!
Hey bro, I'd go for the gigabyte wf oc http://www.gigabyte.com.au/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4884#ov i've never had a single problem with it
Sapphire makes the best r 290 and X. tri-x and vapor-x are the best coolers out there, they have the lowest temps and they are the quietest. Asus are the worst, with the highest temps. Its like this: sapphire-msi-gigabyte-asus cooling wise.
I always go with Sapphire if we talk about AMD. Like @stat1cx said their coolers are just great. Never had any problems with it.
Until my current card (Only because there was no sapphire stock) I have always gone Sapphire, never had any problems with them at all from 5770, 6850, 7870, and would have been the TRIXX 290 but was 2 days too impatient
When I was purchasing my parts I was told to stay way from Gigabyte and go with Sapphire and thats what I did.
Sapphire or Gigabyte. On old rig i have Sapphire Radeon 7750 OC,never had a problem. But if you dont have many money get Sapphire,if you have cash get Gigabyte. Both are good.
Personally, I never owned a gigabyte graphics card, but I never had problems with sapphire, so I'd stick to it.
Yeah I was just thinking about the Vapor model. But check out my build for a sec: Main: AMD FX-8350 with OC to 4.5Ghz COOLER MASTER Seidon 120XL ASUS Sabertooth 990FX CORSAIR Vengeance DDR3 12GB PSU CORSAIR TX 850M (the PSU has 2.5 years aprox.) SAMSUNG SSD 840 PRO 256GB Plus: Seagate HDD 7200RPM 1TB Asus Optical Drive DVD-RW 24X Cooler Master HAF 922 Case, with all possible fans placed The thing is now that the Vapor model uses a lot of power. Do you think that the PSU can hold all this build with that card without any problem? As I said, the PSU has 2.5 years.
850w is plenty, i run one with a 750AX Your model is also single rail, so there are no power issues with the PCIe connectors. Its worth the money, its an exceptional piece of engineering.
One more vote for Sapphire here. Get the Vapor-X if you can, the Tri-X if you can't, like said. You'll be happy with either.
Get sapphire since it's also amd's largest supplier, the gigabyte 290 windforce i think it uses a modded windforce 780 cooler so yea..
First of : You can never be sure 100% But : Personnal experience > Never had a probleme with Sapphire. I did get a Gigabyte R9 290 Windforce and .... got black screening. I had to RMA it, and the second card was a keeper. But... I had to go throught RMA first. So I guess if I had to do it again I would get a Sapphire.
I'd seriously just get a 780. I really like my cards, but I am honest enough to admit that the 290x's have their share of problems, particularly with DX9. If you're used to dealing with AMD then just find a used 290 or 290x on the cheap and save some dough .
dont have a single problem with mine, nor do lots of other people. Just like everything else in life, its all individual.
Yup some people have zero issues, some do not, but my experience and a lot of others has been one of issues from time to time and particularly with dx9 and with crossfire. My first cards from sapphire were defective, and black screened , but they were launch cards. However you still see people who have to down clock memory in order to not black screen. That's an issue and one even AMD admitted to. Now you have people with YouTube problems, the solution is to turn off hardware acceleration....mmmk. The other issue a lot of people have is monitors not waking from sleep, which again AMD has acknowledged. Stretched textures in dx 9, the fix? Put old dll's in the game folder....etc.. So yes individuals have problems but collectively groups have them too and a large group of 290/290x users have had issues and it has been both hardware and driver related not just their particular pc's. In addition,if you decide later to run a overclocked monitor be aware this will break various media functions on amd, but not on nvidia. Believe me I am not a nvidia fan boy, I bought 3 290x's at launch for msrp. At the same time I won't pretend these have zero issues.
Yeah the problem is that it's not a few people only. There is a considerable bunch of people with those problems. In my case, I had the stretching problem, but at least there's a solution. Still all those problems sucks, especially when at the other edge no one seems to have problems with Nvidia. Obviously always there's a tiny amount of people that seems to have problems with Nvidia from time to time, but the problem ratio is pretty low compared to AMD.