About these new cards

[Craig234]

Before black Friday, I got a Sapphire R9 390 for $335+tax = $20 rebate, probably about $340.

I haven't built the system yet.

Was that a mistake, seems it might have been - so, thinking about what to do now, seeing the new 480 listed as slightly faster, for $199 MSRP.

Forget it and use the R9 390, or sell the R9 390 now and buy new (sometime this year)?

 

[Shmee]

The $230 8 GB version may be what you want. I would consider getting one of those, depending on how much you can get back for the 390.

 

[Newbian]

Why have you not used it yet?

It's one thing if you had used it since you had gotten it as it's a great card but now that the rx 480 is almost out and if it's still unused it seems to had been a waste to had gotten it and not at least toss it in a mining rig.

 

[medi04]

It really depends on the price you can sell it for and performance that you are after.

480 is expected to be 390x-ish, which is 10% faster than your 390 and consume less than a half of the power, possibly 2.5 times less.

 

[Insomniator]

$340 for a 390 is a total rip off. Mine was $240 6 months ago.

There are 1070's going for $400 now... 340 is too close to that territory for a 390.

 

[mjdupuis]

In your specific case I'd keep it. You haven't used it yet which indicates (I'm assuming here) that you aren't interested in being on the bleeding edge of gaming. The 390 will last and age well, most likely. You would have to take a loss if you wanted to get out of it and sidegrade (+10%) to a 480. Everything points to the 480 being a better card but in your case it'll cost you $300+ for the new card when you factor in your 390 purchase (340 initial cost minus 240 in resale value, plus 230 for the new card).

 

[topmounter]

In your specific case I'd keep it. You haven't used it yet which indicates (I'm assuming here) that you aren't interested in being on the bleeding edge of gaming. The 390 will last and age well, most likely. You would have to take a loss if you wanted to get out of it and sidegrade (+10%) to a 480. Everything points to the 480 being a better card but in your case it'll cost you $300+ for the new card when you factor in your 390 purchase (340 initial cost minus 240 in resale value, plus 230 for the new card).

I concur. I see no reason not to use the 390 since it's spent money.

 

[Craig234]

$340 for a 390 is a total rip off. Mine was $240 6 months ago.

There are 1070's going for $400 now... 340 is too close to that territory for a 390.

It was the best price I could find at the time. I did watch for a few weeks and that was a Newegg sale.

 

[Insomniator]

It was the best price I could find at the time. I did watch for a few weeks and that was a Newegg sale.

I don't think its a bad price in comparison to today's prices, but overall it's just not worth 340 when it was much less in the past.

 

[Craig234]

In your specific case I'd keep it. You haven't used it yet which indicates (I'm assuming here) that you aren't interested in being on the bleeding edge of gaming. The 390 will last and age well, most likely. You would have to take a loss if you wanted to get out of it and sidegrade (+10%) to a 480. Everything points to the 480 being a better card but in your case it'll cost you $300+ for the new card when you factor in your 390 purchase (340 initial cost minus 240 in resale value, plus 230 for the new card).

I don't get that math, though. My math is, if I can sell it for 240, I get ten dollars (240 - 230)and a better card.

 

[Craig234]

I don't think its a bad price in comparison to today's prices, but overall it's just not worth 340 when it was much less in the past.

At least that $20 rebate came through. The MB one - asrock - was decline for no invoice though the invoice was enclosed. Thieves.

 

[nerp]

Just use it and stop worrying about dollar amounts. It's a decent card, after all.

 

[sxr7171]

I don't get that math, though. My math is, if I can sell it for 240, I get ten dollars (240 - 230)and a better card.

Exactly. Just sell it soon. Sunk cost is sunk cost.

 

[Stuka87]

Why side grade? You will be losing a whole bunch of money. Just use the 390X.

 

[Madpacket]

Unless power consumption or heat is of major concern just keep the 390. You likely won't be able to sell it for a decent price with the 480 around the corner.

 

[boozzer]

Q: when are you going to build the pc? if it will take you a few more months, wait for vega/1080ti and sell the 390.

I have no idea why you bought a 390 so early. it isn't exactly popular.

 

[Elixer]

In this case, I also don't see the need to get a newer 480, unless you need HDMI 2.0 support or DP 1.2/1.3 support, or need hardware accelerated 4K H.265 encoder/decoder.

If you need any of those things, then, yeah, sell it.

However, I wouldn't drop the price that much, sell it on fleabay for $320, and I bet you would get that much.

 

[SPBHM]

In this case, I also don't see the need to get a newer 480, unless you need HDMI 2.0 support or DP 1.2/1.3 support, or need hardware accelerated 4K H.265 encoder/decoder.

and less than half the power draw

 

[Flapdrol1337]

If you don't care about powerconsumption you could just use it. Polaris will be a sidegrade.

 

[nenforcer]

You've got 2 choices

1.

- You can just keep it and be happy with a 8GB GDDR5 graphics card at 250W power draw. You will have same performance and frame buffer as RX 480 which will therefore give you the same expected life time.

2. Try and sell it immediately before the RX 480 comes out on Wednesday, June 29th. Brand new in the box will get you around $300 while a used or opened box will get you in the neighborhood of $240. Either way you are losing a bit of money - from your original purchase price. However, if you do a 3 day auction on eBay for instance and get $300 you've got the purchase price of a RX 480 covered and will have $50-60 in your pocket.

 

[Craig234]

Q: when are you going to build the pc? if it will take you a few more months, wait for vega/1080ti and sell the 390.

I have no idea why you bought a 390 so early. it isn't exactly popular.

Not sure. I could wait for a better plan. I was hesitant when I got it, and discussed here. Why the 390? Seemed to do all I want, pretty future proof, good price/performance, 8GB.

 

[Craig234]

You've got 2 choices

1.

- You can just keep it and be happy with a 8GB GDDR5 graphics card at 250W power draw. You will have same performance and frame buffer as RX 480 which will therefore give you the same expected life time.

2. Try and sell it immediately before the RX 480 comes out on Wednesday, June 29th. Brand new in the box will get you around $300 while a used or opened box will get you in the neighborhood of $240. Either way you are losing a bit of money - from your original purchase price. However, if you do a 3 day auction on eBay for instance and get $300 you've got the purchase price of a RX 480 covered and will have $50-60 in your pocket.

Ya, it's still a great card and I'd be happy to use it, but it seems option 2 makes a lot of sense. It is still brand new unopened.

 

[Paul98]

are you actually building your computer now?

 

[Rezist]

I don't think you will get more then 200$, more likely like 170$.

 

[thesmokingman]

Sell it ASAP, take a huge loss, accept it and move on. There's no hope in getting anything monetary wise near a 480 msrp in resale, no way in hell. In the future when buying tech, use it use it real good. Otherwise you're not getting your value back during its depreciation.