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Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X OC 8192MB In Crossfire-X

rsturbomad

rsturbomad

rsturbomad

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Hi all,

First of all apologies for the post regarding the price of a second hand GPU new to this. My bad!

So I have today received two of the above! All fitted and Crossfired! You probably think im crazy for getting two but sod it its my hobby!

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Ive only really ran BF4 so far and very impressed with the performance and quality.

If you want to see stats and benchmarks let me know in the thread and ill get some put together.
 
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Very nice mate. Would love to see some BF4 benchmarks. I bet you've got serious wheels under Mantle.

What cpu have you got?
 
Gerard said:
If its cool and quiet id consider swapping out my reference card for a second vapour x :) Systems pretty quiet besides the stock blower fan.
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What case have you got? My reference card didn't go over 60% fan speed which was surprisingly quiet!
 
Wow!

Currently at work unfortunately but will run some benches against them when i get back. Do you guys use any specific software for recording benches against games or do you manually jot the info and make shiny graphs :) ?

When I was on BF4 I was getting highs of around 70 - 75 on the top card. Was running everything on ultra 1080p and full AA though.....on test range and was constantly blowing things up for a good 40 mins. That's when I noticed the temps shoot up.

Idle temps out of game are around the 45-50s.

Im new to Crossfire but done my fair share of research.....Now i understand BF4 has a predefined Crossfire profile....Is this coded into CCC or is it something i can tweak? I literally installed the Cards, enabled CFX and went to the test range. If im missing something please share :)

The Cards are really quiet specially with IFC enabled. Much quieter than my 7970.

One thing I will say regarding the temps...Ive noticed a lot of peeps hammer AMD for this but my 7970 used to run 65-75 constantly when in game and never missed a beat after nearly 3 years so im not too worried about the temps. However if you can recommend anyway of getting them to run cooler without water cooling then please share too: )

Again thanks all for the interest!
 
rsturbomad said:
Wow!

Currently at work unfortunately but will run some benches against them when i get back. Do you guys use any specific software for recording benches against games or do you manually jot the info and make shiny graphs :) ?

When I was on BF4 I was getting highs of around 70 - 75 on the top card. Was running everything on ultra 1080p and full AA though.....on test range and was constantly blowing things up for a good 40 mins. That's when I noticed the temps shoot up.

Idle temps out of game are around the 45-50s.

Im new to Crossfire but done my fair share of research.....Now i understand BF4 has a predefined Crossfire profile....Is this coded into CCC or is it something i can tweak? I literally installed the Cards, enabled CFX and went to the test range. If im missing something please share :)

The Cards are really quiet specially with IFC enabled. Much quieter than my 7970.

One thing I will say regarding the temps...Ive noticed a lot of peeps hammer AMD for this but my 7970 used to run 65-75 constantly when in game and never missed a beat after nearly 3 years so im not too worried about the temps. However if you can recommend anyway of getting them to run cooler without water cooling then please share too: )

Again thanks all for the interest!
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75c is perfectly fine :D its right around where my two sit... 70's I would say you have very good air flow. High 80's say past 85c I would be more worried. 90c very worried.

It dont matter if you come from Nvidia or AMD all these fancy aftermarket GPU fans push the hot air into the case, its how you deal with the air that makes the difference.
 
rsturbomad said:
Hi all,

First of all apologies for the post regarding the price of a second hand GPU new to this. My bad!

So I have today received two of the above! All fitted and Crossfired! You probably think im crazy for getting two but sod it its my hobby!

Few pics: -


ZuhsrKY.jpg


Ive only really ran BF4 so far and very impressed with the performance and quality.

If you want to see stats and benchmarks let me know in the thread and ill get some put together.
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Awesome :)
 
Gibbo said:
Only at OcUK, we have the world exclusive on this. :)



P.S. OP your 850W PSU might struggle, so if you run into issues, look at that first.
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Will Sapphire be making anymore or is this it.

I was thinking the PSU was cutting it fine as 3 of my 290Xs and an i7 3970X were too much for a 1200 watt PSU.
 
Kaapstad said:
Will Sapphire be making anymore or is this it.

I was thinking the PSU was cutting it fine as 3 of my 290Xs and an i7 3970X were too much for a 1200 watt PSU.
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Nope and we've got only like 40 left now, they will be sold out in a week or so.
 
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