only at viewnet can use, 390 price there abt 1.6k.
idk what to do right now.

How about 380/380X? Sapphire 380X Nitro 4GB? Do they will give you back the balance? If not, just go get 290X/390 with topup. SAPPHIRE R9 290X tri-x 8GB D5 512 1589?

OR spent for upgrade
1.4k at viewnet:-
- CORE I7 4790K 1150 4.00 8MB 1449
- SSD CRUCIAL M500 960GB 1469
- SSD HYPER X SAVAGE 960GB 1499
- U2515H ips 5yr 25" 8MS 1440p H/W 1479
- MSI Z97A GAMING 9 ACK INTEL 1150 1499

but i dont have any GPU, cannot upgrade T_T
money kinda tight budget right now
290x 8GB? is that the vapor one?

It says there in the price list as Tri-X 290X 8GB. Sapphire have both Tri-X & Vapor-X with 8GB VRAM.

browse over tomshardware and LTT forum,
they said better get 390 cuz of th mem.speed and more TFlops

If i'm not mistaken we have MSI rep here in LYN, why don't you try PM him about this case?

If you can find 290x 8GB Vapor-X that'll be the best option around ~RM15xx imo for it's beefy cooler and 10 phase VRM.. or is it 12 phase?

10 phase

In US, people bitch about their graphics card at 80°c. Meanwhile in here, we're getting 90-100 (and throttled). Looks like these AMD are not suitable to be marketed here. Just like the FX9590. It seems water cooling is a MUST for these mid to high end cards.
Sigh... AMD and nvidia ignored the poor and hot countries.

Asus cooler for Hawaii/Grenada sucks. Same for Gigabyte 390s cooler and MSI TwinFrozr cooler for Hawaii/Grenada need a lot of airflow for it to perform decently in closed case.

This post has been edited by Acid_RuleZz: Mar 30 2016, 07:08 PM

ill give it a try ans see how

It's very easy to reduce the temperature for graphics card for AMD cards. Even without any additional program you can simply lower Power Limit in Overdrive tab in control panel. With programs like MSI Afterburner you can lower voltage, better fan profile without sacrificing performance. For more advanced user, a simple vBIOS edit can gain even more power saving and temperature reduction. My current 290X works at mere 1.08V at stock 1GHz clockspeed, with tighter memory timing and with 150W power limit it never runs hotter than 70C

I had three 390 series cards and I must say, the only one who really know how to cool their card well is Sapphire. Gigabyte (G1 Gaming) is a no-go, temp maxes out at 95C and it is screaming loud at full gaming load. So much for the irony of the original boxed reference cooler on the 290 series. Powercolor (PCS+) fared well, temps will not exceed 80C but again, the fan is screaming loud. Sapphire somehow managed to perfect their Tri-X cooler and temps hardly exceed 80C, fan noise was minimal. Of all the 390 series, I would vouch for Sapphire for a perfect balance between temps and noise. I think AMD used a higher stock voltage for their Grenada cores, and it is indeed a struggle for even 3rd party cooler to cool it down effectively.

This post has been edited by rav3n82: Mar 30 2016, 09:11 PM

Haha so true. I still love the good old days hardware when amd actually whoop intel ass with ATHLON and since the start of core 2 series, the competition became boring. as much i never liked athlon but i still hating monopoly. Hahahaha.

This post has been edited by skylinelover: Mar 30 2016, 09:42 PM

NFS is smoother now with rare dips compare to last week and CPU utilization is higher for me. Not sure if it's the driver or game update or both.

Just noticed Need For Speed is TWIMTBP title now, no sign of Gimpworks DLL yet.

This post has been edited by Acid_RuleZz: Mar 31 2016, 01:48 AM

What you need is investing on a better case & better case fans. Ditch immediately the stock case fans. These cards do really need good air flow and don't shy from using custom fan profile.

Yeah, Grenada cards generally have slightly higher voltage than Hawaii counterparts but it does have higher vdroop. Operating voltage is basically no higher than Hawaii.

is this the new NFS ur testing ? is it out already on pc ?

Yeah it's the new NFS. I think it's out already mid this month, i got it on trial since i subscribed to EA Origin Access. https://www.origin.com/en-sg/store/origin-access

Origin Access only bagi 10 hours of playing the new NFS

wah got time limit 1 ah...i should have know ....since its ea...diu

screenshots looks awesome, hopefully my r9 380x can cope , 60fps at 1080 sahaja saya mahu