How noisy is the R9 290X compared to the 780 / 780Ti?

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vbuggy

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If you have a local dealer that sells XFX 290's you could always cherry pick the Rev P.0's if available. They all unlock to 290x's as far as I've seen. You'd pretty much get the same performance and water blocks for free with the savings.

Yeah cost isn't a big issue, I'll just go with the 290x's if going the AMD route. However all things considered, I've pretty much decided to toss out the current rig that I built recently and will be going with IB-E with a multi-GPU setup instead. Dual-GPU just doesn't have the power I'm looking for out of a surround gaming rig, whatever I run.

I also won't bother building the replacement. None of the guys I contacted to throw the replacement together can guarantee equivalent silence, but one has a solution with a specialised cabinet, and the other's willing to demo a silence-biased WC setup to me before they build mine. So we'll see how it goes. Thanks, and I think this thread is done.
 
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