finally our 390x video is here ASUS was
nice enough to hand us over a beautiful stxs Edition card and it's time to see
if the rumors are true is this just a rebadged 9 uh 290x with a bunch of more
RAM stay tuned to find out and heat up that like button down below if you'd
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the actual GPU core the ASUS STX 390x is
running at 1,070 MHz in gaming mode and
1090 MHz in OC mode for memory you've
got a somewhat classic 512-bit memory interface and 6 GHz of memory clock all
pushing the upgraded 8 GB of gddr5
compared to the 290x is 4 GB for iio
you've got one DVID one HDMI and three full-size DisplayPort connection so no
surprises there on the bottom of the card you've got a standard PCIe 16x gen
3 slot to plug into your motherboard and in the top left hand corner it's Barron
as AMD has been cross-firing their cards directly through the motherboard for a
while now so no longer is uh Crossfire fingers needed and in the top right hand
corner you have a six pin and eight pin PCIe power connector just to fuel your
card moving to the back of the card we have a glimpse of what most of you will
be actually seeing in your case if you go with this card on one side you have a
grid of hexagon holes for which realistically there are more aesthetic
reasons than anything else on the other side you have the STX Face logo thing
and near the top of the card you have the ASUS and STX logos both in type face
we can also see just how damn tall the card is the cart's dimensions are 11.8
in long 5.44 in tall and 1.7 in in depth
which make it tall but almost more notable than that is the measurement of
length there's a fair amount of cases on the market right now that only support a
maximum of 11 in for a GPU and this card
simply wouldn't fit be careful and just check your compatibility first you'll be
okay on the top of the card we have some cool aesthetic styling a back lit
stricks logo a little bit of thermal performance show off with one of their
heat pipes coming for a pass outside the bounds of the regular shroud moving to
the front of the card we get a better look at the direct cu3 cooler with its
dual direct touch 10 mm massive heat pipes that you can actually better see
on the bottom cooling this big heat pipe and finer are triple Wing blade fans
which are designed to push more pressure from the edge of the fan in order to
increase maximum air flow with a little extended Edge on the end of the fan
blade so you know the performance specs and we know it's a beast at cooling what
about its actual performance well I have to address one claim right off the bat
they say that their zero DB gaming mode which is playing games with the fans not
spinning is a big thing but I needed to test that and to be honest they're right
League of Legends Starcraft 2 and even World of Warcraft to a certain degree
can take advantage of this feature but don't expect this to work with every
game in your library once the load picks up those fans will start spinning which
don't get me wrong is a really good thing in terms of actual performance
yeah it's faster than a 290x uh at least our sample but comparing two drastically
different aftermarket cards gets a little weird as Factory clocks are
different all in all this card is better than our 290x sample but still trades
blows with our 980 not really the performance I was hoping for when the
390x was announced overclocking okay this was a little
rough considering it stock load temperatures was 83° already with the
fans on auto I didn't expect I'd have much more Headroom keeping the fans on
auto and I did not I was able to get the
core to 1130 and the memory to 1530 which is an increase just not much of
one but if it was a particularly hot day
I bet the card would have been unstable it was fine on my bench right now but a
little bit more ambient temperature and we might have had some problems in
conclusion just like the 290x this is a
hot card and unfortunately just like the 290x it's still trading blows with the
GTX 980 sure it's cheaper than the 980
but if we want to play that game you should probably just go for a 290x or a
290 anyways looking on newegg.com a 290x
is about $100 cheaper and a 290 is even cheaper than that they're within the
same kind of performance envelope what do you guys think thanks for watching
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