Bit of a mad decision going from an extremely capable Windforce 290X to two Sapphire 290X Tri X, but I had my reasons. These are my reasons, perhaps beyond logic and sense, but reasons none the less. 
I have been wanting to go Crossfire and get a 4k monitor some months down the line so having the two cards seems ideal. Another shallow reason is I fancied having the yellow of the cards marry up with the yellow on my motherboard. Which won't make much sense at all reading on... I also mine on the cards and the noise of two 290X's going at it combined with the PC being in the living room, well, I was given a firm no by the long haired general. I think I will get a few days before I will have to give up. Plus, my RAM is red!
This in addition with my urge to watercool means I will soon be donning a pair of EK blocks and with Gigabyte using a non reference I was never fully convinced of the blocks matching up. With these new cards I know that they are 100% reference design underneath. They are also mining beasts, hitting well over 960 khash each with little tinkering.
Anyway, enough of me, here are some pics.
Shiny boxes:
Peeling the protection of gives me a guilty feeling:
So shiny, much wow:
Current Windforce 290X will have to make way:
Here's some GPU power! The Tri X's are longer than the Windforce. I was getting worried if they would fit in the case. Like any good consumer I didn't bother to check before ordering:
Phew, it fits:
Just! My Fortress FT02B made the 5850's I ran look small, GPU's are getting big these days.
Second card in. Plenty of breathing room for the two:
I am happy with the look. Although I did find myself looking at yellow RAM last night. Can anyone guess what colour watercooling fluid I will be using?
All done:
I have been wanting to go Crossfire and get a 4k monitor some months down the line so having the two cards seems ideal. Another shallow reason is I fancied having the yellow of the cards marry up with the yellow on my motherboard. Which won't make much sense at all reading on... I also mine on the cards and the noise of two 290X's going at it combined with the PC being in the living room, well, I was given a firm no by the long haired general. I think I will get a few days before I will have to give up. Plus, my RAM is red!
This in addition with my urge to watercool means I will soon be donning a pair of EK blocks and with Gigabyte using a non reference I was never fully convinced of the blocks matching up. With these new cards I know that they are 100% reference design underneath. They are also mining beasts, hitting well over 960 khash each with little tinkering.
Anyway, enough of me, here are some pics.
Shiny boxes:
Peeling the protection of gives me a guilty feeling:
So shiny, much wow:
Current Windforce 290X will have to make way:
Here's some GPU power! The Tri X's are longer than the Windforce. I was getting worried if they would fit in the case. Like any good consumer I didn't bother to check before ordering:
Phew, it fits:
Just! My Fortress FT02B made the 5850's I ran look small, GPU's are getting big these days.
Second card in. Plenty of breathing room for the two:
I am happy with the look. Although I did find myself looking at yellow RAM last night. Can anyone guess what colour watercooling fluid I will be using?
All done:
