Sapphire 290x toxic vs 780 ti

[Limbothefirst]

With this new cooling, how do you think it will stack up?

You can find the specs on the sapphire site
Can't post like as I'm on my I pad

The 280x toxic was a beast was it not?

 

[fixer762]

cooling wise about the same. the 290X and 780TI are about the same performance wise. Currently Radeon prices are bonkers (+$100 or more above MSRP) because of everyone crypto currency mining.
Both are great choices, what is the purpose of the card? high end gaming? editing videos? mining coins?

 

[Limbothefirst]

Mainly for gaming, but I've just found out about bit coin mining and would like to give it a try

 

[fixer762]

Radeons are the only answer for bitcoin, litecoin, feathercoin mining. I would advise against mining bitcoins at the moment because the difficulty has increased so much.
Try litecoin mining or feathercoin mining or one of the other currencies

https://litecoin.org/

http://feathercoin.com/

-Usually best to join a mining pool, find one you like
A word about what I have learned about mining,

-Find a mining program you can use. I like this one, its easier for newbs like me to use. http://guiminer.org/guiminer-scrypt.html

-Monitor your temps- with something like Gpu-z. try to keep it at a temperature you like
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2297/techpowerup-gpu-z-v0-7-4/
I try to keep my 7950 sapphire vapor x below 60C on the gpu and below 65C on the power delivery vrm1 and vrm 2 on the gpu.

-Make sure you set your power setting to stay always on and never sleep. And in advanced options make sure you change the hard drive sleep time to like 5000 minutes (I thought my miner was crashing but the hard drive was sleeping)

-In Amd overdrive you may have to allow power to go up +5% to + 8% for it to be stable while mining.

-Search the internet for mining settings for the radeon card you end up getting
I like Intensity 16, worksize 128, thread concurrency 22000 for my 7950 (this value- thread concurrency will be higher most likely for a 290X.)