What is the difference between this and Gigabyte's 290?
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After doing some research online my personal opinion was that the cooler on this card not only performed better, but also allowed for better temperature control when doing overclocking. I don't overclock, but in my opinion, if it performs really well with overclocking applications then it will perform above and beyond when running stock applications. At stock speed and with good case ventilation I can run ANYTHING I want at MAX SETTINGS and I have never gone past 65 degrees on this card...the Vapor X cooler is just plain awesome.
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Gigabyte GPU cards have a horrible cooling system, they last less and they are super big and bulky, never buy any gigabyte card.the Sapphire and MSI have the best cooling, tho Sapphire is abit bigger.
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Toms hardware web site explains the situation here http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1653731/whats-difference-pcie-x16-pci-express-x16.html#.
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I don't know about that card specifically but I can tell you I have a Sapphire Radeon R9 290 installed in mine and its huge!!
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You will have to check for yourself. Here's Gigabyte's website. http://www.gigabyte.us/ Good Luck.
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If you compare the two products on Asus' website, it shows no spec difference. However, the pro has one less PCI slot for one more GPU/PCI-E expansion slot. Which on the grand scheme of differences is practically nothing. Oh, and the Pro has an internal eSATA port. eSATA isn't really in use for general users, so it probably doesn't make a difference except in price.
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Really nothing, only difference between the 2 is the core clock, wich if you overclock at all you could overclock the 1 to match the other. But basically the 770 is a charged up 680. Its same chip GK104, the 770 has a better memory clock than the 680 and the 770 has gpu 2.0 boost wich the 680 doesn't. but all in all there the same. I ve got the FTW myself and its been great, no problems here.
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I dont know much about the EVGA version, but my understanding is that this ASUS version run cooler and quieter. You can look up comparison videos on like 5 or 6 different versions of the gtx780
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One is Superclocked and for the money is better to get from EVGA IMHO... it will not make a WORLD of difference but EVGA Superclocked Edition still runs very cool and no extra power needed... and will give just ever so slightly smoother gameplay.... I almost always buy the EVGA Superclocks because the price isn't usually anymore and even SOMETIMES less than standard!!! Plus I dont' like to Overclock myself so the little extra that a product can be overclocked will come out of the boxed overclocked.
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Sorry, I don't know the 230. Sure it runs with the 02 mb mory stick. The 290 becomes very slow with hier memory capacities sticks... and I am afraid both don't function with the 32 mb one.
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I'm afraid I have no information or insight into the differences between these two cards. The appear to be interchangeable. Who knows - they might have come out of the same factory....
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While i agree the 290 is a powerhouse check out the problems they have like the black screen my card had that problem and became annoying so google the issues of both cards before purchase
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They are the same base model, but since they are from separate companies, they differ in exact specifications. Also, the one you mentioned is the 4GB memory model, while this one is the 2GB model. 2GB VRAM is usually enough, but 4GB is handy in very high performance gaming. Also EVGA Superclocked isn't necessarily equivalent to MSI Overclocked (they probably aren't). EVGA SC typically has a slightly higher frequency boost. There may be other differences. The specifications should clarify for each card.
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A 270 x is basically a 270 over clocked. Basically paying more money for a card when you can just download MSI afterburner and over clock the card yourself. Which is what I did. I got a 290 instead of a 290 x and saved myself over a 100 bucks at the time. Then I just boosted the core and memory clock myself and it performs on par with the 290x.
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My driver was a mid-range board at low cost and TWO ports for DVI. I can only compare differing NVIDIA products but "better" is in the eye of the beholder. They both use 2GB worth of GDDR5 memory at 128-bit. The tipping point would be which features on each card are triggered by your favorite game(s).
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If you want a quiet or cool card stay far away from the AMD R9 series. The reference R9 290x sounds like a leaf blower sometimes when I would game with eyefinity. I ended up selling it for a GTX 970.
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They both are, I am using the GTX 750ti FTW and am very happy with the performance to cost ratio.
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A reference card is the card that either Nvidia or AMD present to the board partners to create. The board partners can make the exact one or they can put their own tweaks into it ie. MSI twin frozer. The overclocked one provides better cooling but the drawback is that you can't put a waterblock on it if I can recall. The overclocked one would be better for lower Temps unless it's going to use water.