Someone got the Radeon R9 290 by mistake 'primouf' OCUK

Boomstick777 · 31 Oct 2013 at 11:34

This post will explain to you why delaying the launch of new graphics card is never a good idea. It will also prove that the naming of R9 290 series is quite unfortunate.

http://videocardz.com/47479/someone-got-radeon-r9-290-mistake

LtMatt · 31 Oct 2013 at 11:36

We're famous!

Mei · 31 Oct 2013 at 11:37

i was famous anyway!

Silent_Scone · 31 Oct 2013 at 11:38

Well that was always going to happen lol.

shadow_boxer · 31 Oct 2013 at 11:38

Haha. That's brilliant. Well done primouf!

primouf · 31 Oct 2013 at 11:41

LOL ! well that was quick

Marine-RX179 · 31 Oct 2013 at 11:42

The 290 would be much more "bang for bucks" than the 290x anyway.

primouf if you are keeping the card, then you should still chase whoever he bought from for refund of the price difference.

NoNameNoNumber · 31 Oct 2013 at 11:43

I don't get it... You paid for a 290x and you got a 290 thinking it was a 290x?

LtMatt · 31 Oct 2013 at 11:43

Have AMD been in contact with you primouf?

Marine-RX179 · 31 Oct 2013 at 11:44

NoNameNoNumber said:
I don't get it... You paid for a 290x and you got a 290 thinking it was a 290x?

He's well aware of it is not the 290x.

LtMatt said:
Have AMD been in contact with you primouf?

lol

Fulax · 31 Oct 2013 at 11:44

Hilarious

Saitex · 31 Oct 2013 at 11:49

Never knew that this kind of thing could actually happen

NoNameNoNumber · 31 Oct 2013 at 11:51

I'm still lost, he paid for a 290x-it turned up as a 290 and he's happy to have paid 290x money and become laughing stock?

Martini1991 · 31 Oct 2013 at 11:53

NoNameNoNumber said:
I'm still lost, he paid for a 290x-it turned up as a 290 and he's happy to have paid 290x money and become laughing stock?

He's sending it back.

I don't know how people jump to this conclusion..

Marine-RX179 · 31 Oct 2013 at 11:54

NoNameNoNumber said:
I'm still lost, he paid for a 290x-it turned up as a 290 and he's happy to have paid 290x money and become laughing stock?

Laughing stock? He's the only consumer in existence with a 290 and did bench runs on it and provided confirmation for details on spec. Nobody would be laughing at him.

varkanoid · 31 Oct 2013 at 11:54

"Of course there wouldn’t be a point of being member of Overclockers UK forums if he didn’t run some tests."

Why wasn't he purchasing one from OCUK!
I know which french retailer too.

Looks like GPU-Z needs an update as the memory bandwidth and Texture fillrate is way way off the pace and memory size 0mb !

Yaayuh! · 31 Oct 2013 at 11:54

NoNameNoNumber said:
I'm still lost, he paid for a 290x-it turned up as a 290 and he's happy to have paid 290x money and become laughing stock?

Nope, he'll send it back and get what he paid for. But post up benchmarks whilst he has it so he can leak the info to us lot.

primouf · 31 Oct 2013 at 11:59

Marine-RX179 said:
The 290 would be much more "bang for bucks" than the 290x anyway.

primouf if you are keeping the card, then you should still chase whoever he bought from for refund of the price difference.

i would love to, but as the 290 aint out yet and we don't know the price, How will they refund me the difference :confused:

i'm sure this retailer is still selling 290 at 290x prices...

Marine-RX179 · 31 Oct 2013 at 12:04

primouf said:
i would love to, but as the 290 aint out yet and we don't know the price, How will they refund me the difference

i'm sure this retailer is still selling 290 at 290x prices...

Contact them and see what they say. They might rather just refund you the price difference (after 290 is officially launch), considering it doesn't benefit them to have to pay for the return postage (they have to, since it's their screw up) as well as taking back an opened and used item.

Martini1991 · 31 Oct 2013 at 12:04

Etailers should know the price about now.