#5201512

MacHodor

2015-12-04 18:52

Wow, is it just me or did they reduced the power consumption on the 390 drastically? that would be a big buying point for me, because I never wanted to upgrade from a 600w to a min 700w psu for a single gpu...

#5201537

icedman

2015-12-04 19:45

^ It's probably a new revision die or much better binned gpu even the 290x was only rated around 250-275w but 208w is dam good.

#5201550

Scorch666

2015-12-04 20:10

Hmmm sounds interesting.

#5201577

Paco Ignacio

2015-12-04 21:08

Wow, is it just me or did they reduced the power consumption on the 390 drastically? that would be a big buying point for me, because I never wanted to upgrade from a 600w to a min 700w psu for a single gpu...

I use mine (MSI 390 Gaming) with a Cooler Master G6550M and has no issues.

#5201634

Glottiz

2015-12-04 23:36

Wow, is it just me or did they reduced the power consumption on the 390 drastically? that would be a big buying point for me, because I never wanted to upgrade from a 600w to a min 700w psu for a single gpu...

this is the same 390 with the same TDP but with "worse" binned chip. MSI always release these cheaper LE cards some time after full priced ones. they usually run lower clocks than non-LE and are not very good overclockers, but might be decent purchase for people who don't overclock and just want a bit cheaper card.

#5201673

plopingo

2015-12-05 01:10

LE is like v2 ? better ? or they shrink something ? Light Edition of gfx in the past was craps.

#5201700

waltc3

2015-12-05 03:00

I've had the MSI R9 380 4GB for a few months. Maybe they're going to rebrand my 380 to the "Light Edition" and sell the 380x in its place. Sounds likely. (This has been a great card, so far.)

#5201751

rl66

2015-12-05 08:42

LE is like v2 ? better ? or they shrink something ? Light Edition of gfx in the past was craps.

light edition: you have everything like in the gaming version but nothing is overclocked, you have to do it yourself. in 80% of the case you can OC as the regular gaming, in 15% only at gaming level and in 5% left you have done a bad deal... for only 20$ saved i don't know... up to you... never liked lotery 🙂

#5201909

fantaskarsef

2015-12-05 19:42

Really does sound interesting, if they take similar chips and the lower power consumption is really done with the new GPUs, the dual gpu card might be really nice and not that much throttled.

#5202453

Blackfyre

2015-12-07 06:09

These are interesting because I wonder if as suggested above (they are golden chips), then unlocking the voltage and increasing it should see some amazing overclocking capability (provided it runs cool under a decent water cooling loop).

#5202689

ManofGod

2015-12-07 15:43

These would be much more viable in a crossfire setup. The other ones run to hot and consume to much power. Oh, and the spec sheet clearly says 208 watts of power consumption, not tdp.