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finally our 390x video is here a soos was nice enough to hand us over a beautiful Strix Edition card and it's time to see if the rumors are true is this just a rebadged 9 290x with a bunch of more RAM stay tuned to find out and heat up that like button down below if you'd like to see us test GPU boost using 6 tight Nexus freshbooks is the super simple invoicing solution that lets you get organized save time and get paid faster click now to learn more starting with the good stuff we've got performance for the actual GPU core the Asus Strix 390x is running at 1070 megahertz in gaming mode and 1090 megahertz in OC mode for memory you've got a somewhat classic 512 bit memory interface and 6 gigahertz of memory clock all pushing the upgraded 8 gigabytes of gddr5 compared to the 290 X's 4 gigabytes for i/o you've got one DVID one HDMI and three full-sized DisplayPort connections 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 barren as AMD has been cross firing their cards directly through the motherboard for a while now so no longer is crossfire fingers needed and in the top right hand corner you have a 6 pin an 8 pin a 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 Strix face logo thing and near the top of the card you have the Asus and Strix logos both in typeface we can also see just how damn tall the card is the cards dimensions are eleven point eight inches long five point four inches tall at one point seven inches 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 inches 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 backlit Strix 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 millimeter massive heat pipes that you can actually better see on the bottom cooling this big heat pipe and fin array our 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 know the performance specs and we know it's a beast at cooling what about its actual performance well after just one claim right off the bat they say that their 0db 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 can be wrong is a really good thing in terms of actual performance yeah it's faster than the 290x or at least our sample but comparing to 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 ok this was a little rough considering its stock load temperatures was 83 degrees already with the fans on auto I didn't expect that have much more Headroom keeping the fans on auto and I did not I was able to get the core to 11:30 in 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 290 X is still trading blows with the GTX 980 sure it's cheaper than 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 a hundred dollars 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 guys if this video suck do you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed hit that like button or even consider supporting us directly by using our affiliate code to shop on Amazon I believe they have some crazy sale thing going on right now or buying a cool t-shirt that has our logo on it or with the directly monthly contribution through the community 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