MSI vs Gigabyte

[BitCoinPokerBro]

Which company makes better graphics cards (kh/s) for not over/under clocking. I'd rather not mess with the settings of a gc if I don't understand what those settings do and/or what the long term affects might be. So for the time being I'd rather not over/under clock.

Also wondering which type of fan is best for long term use. The squirrel cage fan blowing threw the card from one side or 2/3 horizontal fans.

[Blazed]

Gigabyte hands down.  I own about 100 or so MSI GPU's and they have fans die all the time.  Gigabyte's hash faster and have way less issues.

[Blazed]

Also you do not want any squirrel cage (reference) cards... go for at least 2 fan cards.

[BitCoinPokerBro]

Gigabyte hands down.  I own about 100 or so MSI GPU's and they have fans die all the time.  Gigabyte's hash faster and have way less issues.

Also you do not want any squirrel cage (reference) cards... go for at least 2 fan cards.

Thank you Blaze!

[zneww]

Ive got my Gigabyte R9 280x pumping out 720Kh/s @ 76-80C all night and day 

If you grab it, I can send you my settings for cgminer.

[fredeq]

Go for gigabyte. I had a good opinion about MSI, still like their motherboards but gfx are a joke. 2nd card is dieing on me plus some oily strange thingy spills from fans.

Really MSI? o.O

I must say that 280x are generally problematic... My favourite sapphires are having probs with VRM temps, what a generation of cards

[notlist3d]

Gigabyte is best by far on hashing, but if you do have to do a RMA their system is very slow.

[enviouk]

Ive got my Gigabyte R9 280x pumping out 720Kh/s @ 76-80C all night and day 

If you grab it, I can send you my settings for cgminer.

Gotta get that undervolt going! 725KH atm at 65c (box fan on low, milk crate) in California 

[zneww]

Ive got my Gigabyte R9 280x pumping out 720Kh/s @ 76-80C all night and day 

If you grab it, I can send you my settings for cgminer.

Gotta get that undervolt going! 725KH atm at 65c (box fan on low, milk crate) in California 

Its my desktop as well, otherwise I would I play a lot of BF4

However, would I notice I big difference if I undervolted just a tad? I don't know much about it.

[enviouk]

I was able to undervolt from 1.20w to 1.06 without having to reduce the engine clock. This not only brought the 280x down about 50W (electric bill) but it also allowed another 280x on my 1000W PSU making it that much more cost effective. Very simple procedure, you only have to back-up Bios, change voltage to 1.06, flash the Bios from MS Dos flash drive, log on and add the volt settings in CGMiner. Would help more but on 3G mobile at the moment, limited access to source. Temperatures used to be 76-78, now 65-68; if I put box fans on high and opened windows at night I see sub 60s. Would reccomend/10!

[zneww]

I was able to undervolt from 1.20w to 1.06 without having to reduce the engine clock. This not only brought the 280x down about 50W (electric bill) but it also allowed another 280x on my 1000W PSU making it that much more cost effective. Very simple procedure, you only have to back-up Bios, change voltage to 1.06, flash the Bios from MS Dos flash drive, log on and add the volt settings in CGMiner. Would help more but on 3G mobile at the moment, limited access to source. Temperatures used to be 76-78, now 65-68; if I put box fans on high and opened windows at night I see sub 60s. Would reccomend/10!

Have you tried playing any games on it? Send me a pm when you get to a computer.