Best to worst non reference cooler for AMD card ?? (r9 380)

Cryteknologi · Oct 3, 2015

XFX with its Double Dissipation "Ghost Thermal"
Power Color With its "i dont feking know the cooler name"
MSI with its "twin frozr"
Gigabyte with its "Windforce" (not sure)
Asus with its "strix"
Sapphire with its "TRI-X / Vapor x"
HIS with its "ICEQ X2"

list it from the best to the worst one please

Anonymouselite5 · Oct 4, 2015

In my opinion. Cooling wise only + accoustics.

1. Sapphire vapour X (different to the tri X, uses a vapour chamber) Tri X
2. Gigabyte windforce
2. Asus STRIX
3. MSI frozr
4. XFX
5. power colour/HIS

HOWEVER, all these coolers do their job quite well. They all cool the GPU perfectly. This is just my PERSONAL order of list.
You should make your own choice based on looks of the cooler, and you can look at temp charts for different models. Although I think personally Sapphire are the best acoustic/cooling wise for AMD cards (as they only do AMD cards). Also Gigabytes new windforce design also keep the card cooler.
So in my OPINION, Gigabyte and Sapphire are slightly above the crowd, possibly by 1-4 degrees, but any of these cards will deliver adequately the cooling needed.
ALSO DO YOU MEAN THE NITRO CARDS, AS VAPOUR AND TRI-X ARE NOT FOR THE R9 380?

Also I believe the Sapphire vapour X (depending which one) is actually a custom PCB. So is a little more expensive

-good luck, make your decision based on pricing and the look. You can look up reviews of the cards to see their temps.
here is one.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-r9-390x-r9-380-r7-370,4178-11.html
On temps this MSI r9 380 got a max of 66 degrees on a gaming loop.

Cryteknologi · Oct 4, 2015

Anonymouselite5 :

In my opinion. Cooling wise only + accoustics.

1. Sapphire vapour X (different to the tri X, uses a vapour chamber) Tri X
2. Gigabyte windforce
2. Asus STRIX
3. MSI frozr
4. XFX
5. power colour/HIS

HOWEVER, all these coolers do their job quite well. They all cool the GPU perfectly. This is just my PERSONAL order of list.
You should make your own choice based on looks of the cooler, and you can look at temp charts for different models. Although I think personally Sapphire are the best acoustic/cooling wise for AMD cards (as they only do AMD cards). Also Gigabytes new windforce design also keep the card cooler.
So in my OPINION, Gigabyte and Sapphire are slightly above the crowd, possibly by 1-4 degrees, but any of these cards will deliver adequately the cooling needed.
ALSO DO YOU MEAN THE NITRO CARDS, AS VAPOUR AND TRI-X ARE NOT FOR THE R9 380?

Also I believe the Sapphire vapour X (depending which one) is actually a custom PCB. So is a little more expensive

-good luck, make your decision based on pricing and the look. You can look up reviews of the cards to see their temps.
here is one.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-r9-390x-r9-380-r7-370,4178-11.html
On temps this MSI r9 380 got a max of 66 degrees on a gaming loop.

can you also recommend me some VRM cooling thingy ??

Anonymouselite5 · Oct 4, 2015

The Heatsinks on the cards should make contact with the vrms of the card as well. Not sure about the other brands but my Sapphire card definitely does.

Some of the coolers make direct contact with the vrms whereas some just use the air flow from the coolers fans.
Your vrm's SHOULD be in safe operating temperature (below 130 degrees) anyway, unless you plan to overclock and heavily over-volt your card?

-good luck

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