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AMD 290x - the new ATI 9800pro?

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Well over 10 years ago, I owned a 9800pro and they sold like hotcakes. It was difficult to get hold of these from OcUK! The best scores on 3dmark2001 were based on these cards, no question.

On the subsequent generation, I switched to Nvidia and, for no particular reason, remained (devoted?) to Nvidia over the years, until now.

I purchased the 290X last week as my existing Nvidia card was slowing on BF4, and most importantly, I liked the fact that I was getting a 'bargain', compared to the Titan, lol.

Wow. Wow. The 290x (I have the MSI gaming) is a great card, very quiet, and BF4 runs like silk.

As an aside, I found out about mining and, as I write this note, I am 'earning' money, to pay off the card. Something that Nvidia cards simply cannot, currently, compete with.

Welcome back ATI, or should I say AMD :D
 
I don't know about equating it to a 9800 pro - mainly because I'm not qualified to really say since I haven't used a 290 card. However, if I was to suggest or buy a card right now, it would be either a 290 or 780, though I doubt I would get that much of a boost from my current card anyway.
 
Yea the 290 cards certainly are a bargain for the price. Although I decided to go for the 290x just because I could lol and will be overclocking so looking to squeeze performance from this beast so 290x would get tht bit further.
 
I'd equate it to whatever ATi card caused Nvidia to slash prices massively on their overpriced boilers that were £600 and had only been out for a few weeks or something. I can't remember either company's card but someone must remember that. :D :cool:
 
Good post!

AMD have pulled off a stellar move from a business perspective, and I hope this is a 'turn for the better' - genuine competition means that we, the consumers, benefit. The 290 series are the cards to buy in my view.

It's a shame that the CPU market is saturated - intel have a free reign.
 
MjFrosty said:
Not a chance, 9800 Pro was the perfect GPU. 290X has had a far from smooth launch, no matter how much of a beef bus it is.
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9800 pro sucked, expensive and pointless refresh of the massively better 9700 pro. 9700 pro was a generational change of a card that went from ATi... poo to ATi... blow me that card is awesome. The 9800 pro was just a pretty tame refresh.

In terms of launch and cards, back then the cards had little coolers that thermaltake orbs beat, and that was basically a round sheet of metal with some prongs sticking up(was likely mostly in the thermal paste). These days it's standard, card launches with meh stock cooling, 6-8 weeks later, non reference design coolers. ALL cards launch the same way when they are new cores/pcb's. Titan was the same, since titan the 780/780ti are the same card, same core, so the existing cooler designs already worked, like the 280x, rebrand of a 7970. The 7970 being new, had the 6-8 week wait for third party coolers, as did Titan, the 680gtx, the 580, the 480, etc, etc, etc.

9700 pro was such a game changer. I had a gf3 ti 200 I think, I got a gf4 ti something or other, it was rubbish(the gf3 was hand me down from brother, gf4 ti first upgrade)... barely an upgrade. Shop I got it from took it back just because performance wasn't as good as expected, no problem, and I got a 9700 pro like two weeks later, very happy with that decision. 9800 pro, genuinely can't remember if I got one.
 
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9700/9800 were a lot more affordable. I don't think we will ever get that kind of performance/price again :(
 
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