There are two ways to look at the MSI R7 370 Gaming 2G. On the one hand consumers who can afford $200 and purchase an overclocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, such as the extremely good MSI GTX 960 Gaming 2G, should. They provide noticeably better performance and it will be forty five dollars well spent. On the other hand, consumers who really only want to spend $150 will find stretching their budget to the MSI R7 370 Gaming 2G’s $155 asking price downright easy. Its performance is so much better that saving $10 and going the ‘stock’ R7 370 route is a less than optimal solution to say the least. More impressive still, is unlike typical R7 370’s, comparing this R7 370 to a stock 960 is not nearly as easy a choice as ‘should’ be.
In fact, there is a very good argument to be made for opting for this card and saving $35 and putting that into a bigger SSD (or a SSD instead of a SSHD). After all this card is Crossfire compatible and that opens up a lot of possibilities for the budget limited. In a cold hard dollars and sense calculation this one little addition – something a GTX 950 can’t do – means for only $120 more than a single stock 960, budget constrained consumers can get two of these little cards, overclock the hell out of them and beat the ever living tar out of a 960, or maybe even a 970. Conversely, they can purchase one now, wait for them to get cheaper and purchase a second one later as their needs grow. That is a very decent argument.
Yes, we know this is a rebadge of a rebadge but that is not MSI’s fault. They, like all video card manufactures, were dealt a rather crappy hand by AMD. However, they have taken lemons and made lemonade – instead of bitching and moaning about how AMD needs to get the lead out and release some truly new GPUs! So there you have it, the R7 370 is still a fairly low powered card, but the MSI Gaming 2 R7 370 is a hell of a lot better than expected. Honestly, if the $150 price bracket is your budgets sweet spot, AMD is still the place to be. If you can afford more, but don’t really want to, there still is an argument to be made for not spending more. That however will be up to you to weigh the pros and cons for your needs – and that is still a stroke in the win column for MSI and their not so itty-bitty R7 370 Gaming 2G.
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