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Is custom air cooling enough for the R9 290X?

Rangerjr1 said:
Is your 780ti faster than my 290? :cool:
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I have no idea really, seems you have a very nice card indeed, however i cant really compare as the only bench i have seen of yours is the 3dmark 11 , you score a Gpu score of 18515 Vs my gpu score of 18838 (http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/7871710) , however you are running on i platform i can only dream of owning. I'd love to run my 780ti in that rig at 5.2 :D

PS: I spank you in heaven and valley :p
 
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LtMatt said:
Here we go lol.

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Originally Posted by LtMatt
Found it.

I got it slightly wrong. There's 5 heatpipes and only 3 make any contact with the core. To be honest it looks like only two of them make decent contact. That's pretty poor tbh. I think they just used the Nvidia DC cooler version for the AMD card and its clearly not an ideal fit.
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I Guess [H] missed that? that reviewer is full of useless noobs these days. :rolleyes:

Bottom line. Don't Buy Asus, at least not until they fix it.
 
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I don't think the cooler is to blame, if you check TPU's cooler shots, the 780ti core contact gets cooled by the same number of heatpipes as the 290X core contact-it's the same heatsink.

Asus has skimped out using lesser parts than the reference model, that's where it's possibly failing, not to mention it might have been a poor sample.:)
 
tommybhoy said:
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I don't think the cooler is to blame, if you check TPU's cooler shots, the 780ti core contact gets cooled by the same number of heatpipes as the 290X core contact-it's the same heatsink.

Asus has skimped out using lesser parts than the reference model, that's where it's possibly failing, not to mention it might have been a poor sample.:)
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I did read Gibbo's comment, its put me off Asus GPU's TBH.

I want to see some reviews of the MSI Gaming and Powercolor cards.
 
darket said:
I have no idea really, seems you have a very nice card indeed, however i cant really compare as the only bench i have seen of yours is the 3dmark 11 , you score a Gpu score of 18515 Vs my gpu score of 18838 (http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/7871710) , however you are running on i platform i can only dream of owning. I'd love to run my 780ti in that rig at 5.2 :D

PS: I spank you in heaven and valley :p
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So it is faster then! Good :D
 
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