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AMD Vesuvius R9 295 X2 Inbound

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Yeah, just don't want to see another one of these:

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Because 780's dont exactly run hot at stock and these temps are far too toasty for such an expensive cooler and a dedicated 240mm radiator for just the 780. The GPU fans are still at 34% even under water...

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Imagine a similar solution for TWO 290x's and paying the insane premium for it!

Either a hardcore chunky 3 or 4 slot air cooler or a EK/Heatkiller/Kryoblock please.

*I am not a fan of HARDOCP, but it was the first results that came up. I am surprised to find power of it under air the same as water, considering the temp difference and differences in resistance. I am going to put it down to them probably not even bothering measuring the power usage of it at stock for both air and water*
 
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Agreed. The Hybrid coolers are a bit show-riggy. I would like to see more partners doing this anyway. Seeing a reference card available at launch waterblocked would be too convenient to pass up on.

Sorry EK, no offence :D
 
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Argghh, don't know whether I should hold off my purchase of 3 x Titan Blacks now :(
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Yes hold off. Atleast wait a couple weeks to see how these turn out for the price. Titan blacks are not going anywhere. It may well be that you can get two of these for the price of less than two titan blacks which will blow them out the water
 
Three Titan Blacks? Blimey :)


I forget I had three Titans, just feels weird spending that much on Kepler at this stage. Not that we will be seeing anything else anytime soon.
 
Radeon R9 295 is a 500W card




Dual-core Hawaii is power hungry

It turns out that Radeon R9 295, the upcoming dual-core Hawaii card, might be a demanding beast. This might be the first ever 500W card that will end up water cooled.

It is also on the heavy side but, not that this will bother most high performance freaks. AMD didn’t announce the price of the card yet. Compared with Nvidia's $2,990 Geforce GTX Titan Z, AMD is likely to end up significantly cheaper, but probably north of $1,000.

Since AMD is the current king of Scrypt cryptocurrency mining this card could end up quite popular for this specific purpose as well for deep pocketed gamers. However, the first Scrypt ASICs from KnCMiner and Alpha Technology are on the way and they should deliver much more performance than any GPU out there. They are coming in a few months and that will be the end of the GPU mining craze.

The dual-Hawaii card should ship soon, but we don’t know the exact date. We know that Radeon R9 290X/290 cards are still hard to get, even months after they launched.

http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/34347-radeon-r9-295-is-a-500w-card
 
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