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** OcUK WW EXCLUSIVE: SAPPHIRE AMD R9 290X GRAPHICS CARD!! **

OcUK Staff
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Hi there


As AMD cancelled the 8GB 290X for now, Sapphire had made a small amount of these cards but are now allowed to sell them. As OcUK is Sapphires main partner and friend for many years, it has being approved that OcUK can sell this truly amazing card engineered for 4k gaming, so two or three of these in Crossfire are perfect for 4k gaming with 8GB of RAM. Especially on games such as Skyrim with additional graphics packs at 4k resolution.

We are also bundling all AMD awards with these cards as well, that means you can redeem upto six games from the AMD store. :)


Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK WorldWide Exclusive** @ £599.99 inc VAT

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OcUK has a worldwide exclusive on the only 8GB 290X in existence, but this is not any 290X it's a highly fine tuned machine being the Vapor-X edition with near silent cooling solution. Running with a 1060MHz core clock and with memory clocked at 5600MHz makes this card absolutely perfect for a 4K setup, even more so with a pair or three of these in Crossfire. That means you could play games like Skyrim with expansion packs at 4k resolution and still not run out of VRAM.

Based on the award-winning Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture from AMD with 2816 Stream Processors, the SAPPHIRE R9 290X Vapor-X is an Overclocked edition which boasts 8GB of the latest GDDR5 memory running at 1400 MHz (5.60GB/s effective) and high speed engine clocks of 1060MHz.

SAPPHIRE’s innovative Vapor-X cooling technology allows products to run not only cooler but also much quieter. A Vapor-X product means a virtually silent gaming experience and more headroom to explore performance tweaking!

Choke is an important component of the graphics card. By working with the component engineer, Sapphire’s patent pending choke is 10% cooler and offers 25% more power efficiency than a normal choke. The graphics card will be more reliable and save energy.

Improved reliability and better overclocking are possible by using only high-polymer, aluminum capacitors which posses far superior characteristics than regular aluminum capacitor for a longer product life. When operational temperatures drop by 20°C, the product life span is extended by a factor of ten, when the operational temperature increases by 20°C, the product life span only decreases by 10%.

Along the edge of the card the PCB is extended and one of the copper layers left exposed. An additional heatsink mounted directly to this copper layer allows heat absorbed into the PCB from the GPU and other components to be transferred to the heatsink and cooled by the airflow. This feature alone can reduce core temperature by 2 degree C.

Specification:-
- GPU: Hawaii XT
- Litecoin Hash Rate: 850-1000
- Stream Processors: 2816
- ROPS: 64
- Core Speed: 1060MHz >
- Memory Speed: 5600Mhz
- Memory interface: 512-Bit
- Memory capacity: 8192MB GDDR5
- PCI-Express X16 lane required
- 600W or greater PSU required
- Power Connectors: 8-pin + 6-pin required
- Display Outputs: 2x Dual Link DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
- Warranty: 2yr


Only £599.99 inc VAT - WITH SIX FREE GAMES!!

ORDER NOW
 
OcUK Staff
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@Gibbo

Have you had a play with one?


Would be pointless for me at 1080P, need a 4k screen for these of something like eyefinity.

We shall have a play with the Vapor-X 290X 4GB though as like these they features Sapphire Digital 10-Phase PWM and temperature LED's, very very nicely engineered cards.
 
OcUK Staff
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At least the 6 people on that other thread wont have to fight over them :D
These wont take too long to sell out tbh, the bigger the numbers, the better? :p

The last time Sapphire did a card like this, think it was 7950 or 7970 with 6GB of RAM, we sold them very quickly as surprisingly back then it was graphic/CAD professionals buying them.

It is also the reason we believe AMD cancelled the idea as it could harm their FireGL sales which sell for like 3x more money. ;)
 
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I'd have thought doing a crossfire special offer on these would be better, nobody in their right mind is going to buy one - just doesn't have the grunt to take on 4K alone. But I guess as it's a WW exclusive, it doesn't really matter and those that want them will just buy them up anyway.
 
OcUK Staff
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I'd have thought doing a crossfire special offer on these would be better, nobody in their right mind is going to buy one - just doesn't have the grunt to take on 4K alone. But I guess as it's a WW exclusive, it doesn't really matter and those that want them will just buy them up anyway.

When our Samsung 4k monitors arrive into stock, we shall look at some bundle deals for sure. :)
 
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Hi there


As AMD cancelled the 8GB 290X for now, Sapphire had made a small amount of these cards but are now allowed to sell them. As OcUK is Sapphires main partner and friend for many years, it has being approved that OcUK can sell this truly amazing card engineered for 4k gaming, so two or three of these in Crossfire are perfect for 4k gaming with 8GB of RAM. Especially on games such as Skyrim with additional graphics packs at 4k resolution.

We are also bundling all AMD awards with these cards as well, that means you can redeem upto six games from the AMD store. :)


Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK WorldWide Exclusive** @ £599.99 inc VAT

GX-353-SP_400.jpg


OcUK has a worldwide exclusive on the only 8GB 290X in existence, but this is not any 290X it's a highly fine tuned machine being the Vapor-X edition with near silent cooling solution. Running with a 1060MHz core clock and with memory clocked at 5600MHz makes this card absolutely perfect for a 4K setup, even more so with a pair or three of these in Crossfire. That means you could play games like Skyrim with expansion packs at 4k resolution and still not run out of VRAM.

Based on the award-winning Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture from AMD with 2816 Stream Processors, the SAPPHIRE R9 290X Vapor-X is an Overclocked edition which boasts 8GB of the latest GDDR5 memory running at 1400 MHz (5.60GB/s effective) and high speed engine clocks of 1060MHz.

SAPPHIRE’s innovative Vapor-X cooling technology allows products to run not only cooler but also much quieter. A Vapor-X product means a virtually silent gaming experience and more headroom to explore performance tweaking!

Choke is an important component of the graphics card. By working with the component engineer, Sapphire’s patent pending choke is 10% cooler and offers 25% more power efficiency than a normal choke. The graphics card will be more reliable and save energy.

Improved reliability and better overclocking are possible by using only high-polymer, aluminum capacitors which posses far superior characteristics than regular aluminum capacitor for a longer product life. When operational temperatures drop by 20°C, the product life span is extended by a factor of ten, when the operational temperature increases by 20°C, the product life span only decreases by 10%.

Along the edge of the card the PCB is extended and one of the copper layers left exposed. An additional heatsink mounted directly to this copper layer allows heat absorbed into the PCB from the GPU and other components to be transferred to the heatsink and cooled by the airflow. This feature alone can reduce core temperature by 2 degree C.

Specification:-
- GPU: Hawaii XT
- Litecoin Hash Rate: 850-1000
- Stream Processors: 2816
- ROPS: 64
- Core Speed: 1060MHz >
- Memory Speed: 5600Mhz
- Memory interface: 512-Bit
- Memory capacity: 8192MB GDDR5
- PCI-Express X16 lane required
- 600W or greater PSU required
- Power Connectors: 8-pin + 6-pin required
- Display Outputs: 2x Dual Link DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
- Warranty: 2yr


Only £599.99 inc VAT - WITH SIX FREE GAMES!!

ORDER NOW

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250pc, we have them all. :)

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I'd be very tempted by a couple of these and a 4K monitor.
It's just annoying you can't watercool them. I realise the cooler is very good and all that, but I think my 900D is a better watercooling case than it is air cooling, especially with these sorts of coolers. Pity.
 
Soldato
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Cool, would love to see a pair of these run a 4k gaming benchmark vs something like a pair of Titans.

Price is on the heavy side but they are limited and I doubt those 250 will stay in OCuk hands for very long.

I would be interested but i see that ludicrous amount of RAM and think of how much harder RAM clocking would probably be. To be fair 8gb RAM, 512bit bus and the grunt of a 290x does make the price seem pretty good, that is until you realize its the same price as two 290s.

*Edit* saw the ram comes clocked at 1400Mhz off the bat, apparently the extra RAM isn't dead weight!
 
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Price is on the heavy side but they are limited and I doubt those 250 will stay in OCuk hands for very long.

You say 'limited' as if it makes it worth the extra price premium ? , its a graphics card , next year it will be worth peanuts, its not a collectors item , that is unless you're really weird and nerdy :D
 
Associate
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Wish there were more higher GB cards but the above posts are right... Just wait for the next gen of cards. If you get one of these now you have to get 2 or 3 now because there is no way you'll be able to add to a CF setup down the road since they are so limited. Thus the 8gb is useless. A big investment...

Hopefully this means the next gen of cards will have bigger VRAM available from the get-go since higher resolutions are being pushed.
 
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