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finally our 390x video is here ASUS was

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nice enough to hand us over a beautiful stxs Edition card and it's time to see

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if the rumors are true is this just a rebadged 9 uh 290x with a bunch of more

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RAM stay tuned to find out and heat up that like button down below if you'd

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click now to learn more starting with the good stuff we've got performance for

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the actual GPU core the ASUS STX 390x is

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running at 1,070 MHz in gaming mode and

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1090 MHz in OC mode for memory you've

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got a somewhat classic 512-bit memory interface and 6 GHz of memory clock all

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pushing the upgraded 8 GB of gddr5

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compared to the 290x is 4 GB for iio

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you've got one DVID one HDMI and three full-size DisplayPort connection so no

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surprises there on the bottom of the card you've got a standard PCIe 16x gen

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3 slot to plug into your motherboard and in the top left hand corner it's Barron

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as AMD has been cross-firing their cards directly through the motherboard for a

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while now so no longer is uh Crossfire fingers needed and in the top right hand

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corner you have a six pin and eight pin PCIe power connector just to fuel your

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card moving to the back of the card we have a glimpse of what most of you will

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be actually seeing in your case if you go with this card on one side you have a

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grid of hexagon holes for which realistically there are more aesthetic

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reasons than anything else on the other side you have the STX Face logo thing

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and near the top of the card you have the ASUS and STX logos both in type face

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we can also see just how damn tall the card is the cart's dimensions are 11.8

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in long 5.44 in tall and 1.7 in in depth

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which make it tall but almost more notable than that is the measurement of

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length there's a fair amount of cases on the market right now that only support a

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maximum of 11 in for a GPU and this card

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simply wouldn't fit be careful and just check your compatibility first you'll be

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okay on the top of the card we have some cool aesthetic styling a back lit

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stricks logo a little bit of thermal performance show off with one of their

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heat pipes coming for a pass outside the bounds of the regular shroud moving to

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the front of the card we get a better look at the direct cu3 cooler with its

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dual direct touch 10 mm massive heat pipes that you can actually better see

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on the bottom cooling this big heat pipe and finer are triple Wing blade fans

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which are designed to push more pressure from the edge of the fan in order to

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increase maximum air flow with a little extended Edge on the end of the fan

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blade so you know the performance specs and we know it's a beast at cooling what

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about its actual performance well I have to address one claim right off the bat

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they say that their zero DB gaming mode which is playing games with the fans not

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spinning is a big thing but I needed to test that and to be honest they're right

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League of Legends Starcraft 2 and even World of Warcraft to a certain degree

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can take advantage of this feature but don't expect this to work with every

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game in your library once the load picks up those fans will start spinning which

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don't get me wrong is a really good thing in terms of actual performance

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yeah it's faster than a 290x uh at least our sample but comparing two drastically

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different aftermarket cards gets a little weird as Factory clocks are

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different all in all this card is better than our 290x sample but still trades

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blows with our 980 not really the performance I was hoping for when the

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390x was announced overclocking okay this was a little

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rough considering it stock load temperatures was 83° already with the

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fans on auto I didn't expect I'd have much more Headroom keeping the fans on

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auto and I did not I was able to get the

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core to 1130 and the memory to 1530 which is an increase just not much of

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one but if it was a particularly hot day

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I bet the card would have been unstable it was fine on my bench right now but a

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little bit more ambient temperature and we might have had some problems in

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conclusion just like the 290x this is a

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hot card and unfortunately just like the 290x it's still trading blows with the

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GTX 980 sure it's cheaper than the 980

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but if we want to play that game you should probably just go for a 290x or a

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290 anyways looking on newegg.com a 290x

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is about $100 cheaper and a 290 is even cheaper than that they're within the

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same kind of performance envelope what do you guys think thanks for watching

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