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Much like most R9-390X cards the card has a power consumption that lies, give or take, in the 260 Watts range. The board's overall power consumption from idle to load is okay really, roughly 10 Watts in idle and, when the monitor goes into sleep mode, just 3 Watts. And yes, it is a nice looking card alright. 

I have to give props to MSI here for this back-plate. MSI was among the first that applied little gaps and holes on the back-plate allowing the VRM area and GPU to ventilate and not trap heat. In fact look at the photo below taken from the top side:

Excellent to see that there is a lot of clearance space in-between the PCB and backplate. So yeah, that helps cooling wise instead of trapping heat. Back-plates do protect the PCB SMT & DIP components, make the product way more sturdy and sure, it looks much nicer.

 
You will need to hook the 390X card up to your power supply with one 6-pin and one 8-pin PCIe PEG connector. We recommend a 550~600W power supply to start with, with one card of course.

There's no dual BIOS selection anymore though, on the last-gen 290 series reference cards you had the choice for a performance and silent mode. I guess this card maxes out performance and remains silent anyway. A terrific looking card alright, albeit a notch thicker than its predecessor.