230-250w isn't the end of the world.

Good deal.

Agree, its good deal for a 390.

Prefer the 3 fan coolers on Hawaii cards, a back plate also makes handling them easier for installation / removal for cleaning.

Going by how when I changed from a 290 to a 290X and saw negligible benefit I think better value than a 390X (unless they get cheaper). I'd have been upset if it was not for a great deal on the 290X and being able to sell my 290 for practically what I paid for it.

As a word of caution, I just returned one of these today because it was incredibly loud. By far the loudest of the many cards I've owned. PowerColor have for some reason chosen a ridiculously-aggressive fan profile that tries to keep the GPU under 65 degrees. Anyone with experience with Hawaii/Grenada knows how hot those chips run, so you can imagine how hard the fans need to work to keep it so (unnecessarily) cool. I only purchased one because PowerColor assured reviewers that the retail cards would have a different BIOS with a less aggressive fan profile. That was apparently a lie.

I decided on one of cheap 780s that OCUK are getting rid of and the difference is night and day. Not that it's anything against AMD cards in general, that's just a great deal. The 290X Vapor-X that I owned for a while was far quieter than this too.

Cheers for info on fan profile :wink: .

Fan profiling editing in bios is one of the easiest mods, DDSZ did a fan profile editor that works on most ROMs.

There are other edits and things in this OCN thread.

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Typically are Powercolor known to be a good make of graphics cards ?

This deal is crazy hot! Have some heat!

I can really only speak for one card but my Powercolour r9 285 is quite loud under load (not so much of an issue as I play with headphones on) so I personally would avoid the make, but happy to hear if this is unusual for the brand.