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Hypothetical question.. what price would you consider a 295x2 at?

£500 perhaps. They throttle too much for me to really choose to have one over two separate cards but if the price collapsed a little like the 7990s did then I may be tempted.

I like to overclock though and the core can't really be moved much (if at all) on them so I don't think they're the card for me personally. If you just want to plug in your dual GPU card, set it up and then play away then I can see them being an interesting idea.
 
I don't think I would unless I bought a full watercooling setup and added a custom block. The one it comes with is a joke to be quite honest as the card still throttles for many people.

At the moment I don't really play anything that requires dual cards and I've always preferred using single card setups.
 
I realise they're full fat 290x cores, but they would need to be cheaper than 2 hawaii pro cards (~500) for me to consider it.

that said, i wouldn't buy one even at that price, since my current cards handle everything i need fine. plus i couldn't bring myself to spend 500 on one card, whether its a 295x2 or anything else.
 
jwilliamson47 said:
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£700-800

I have one, and is easy someone who doesn't have one to write what ever they believe but no first hand experience.

No issues what so ever, since I positioned the rad properly according to the manual, which isn't difficult feat if you have a right sided case like everyone else. (I have left sided).

Is a beast of a card, the rad is fine, and can always replace the rad fan with some high pressure ones for better cooling. And is single PCB, no bigger than a GTX780.
Best part, you do not have to consider the case airflow, as long as the fan blows cold air on the rad. Which is not rocket science.

Very quiet, and powerful card. No fans to throttle generating noise, even after 5 hours with both cores working at full load. While overclocked.

Of course people have issues with it, if they replace the stock fan with crap ones because they look better, or position the rad at the wrong place.

Pay a visit on the 295X2 discussion.

I wouldn't expect this card to go bellow £700. For the simple reasons :
The Titan Black is still at the same price mark, and the 295X2 is twice as fast.

970/980 you need two of these for same performance, and still you have
to face the fan noise when working under full load, heat inside the case, case airflow, and costs.
 
jwilliamson47 said:
Interesting to hear your thoughts.
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Rusty0611 said:
£500 perhaps. They throttle too much for me to really choose to have one over two separate cards but if the price collapsed a little like the 7990s did then I may be tempted.

I like to overclock though and the core can't really be moved much (if at all) on them so I don't think they're the card for me personally. If you just want to plug in your dual GPU card, set it up and then play away then I can see them being an interesting idea.
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Exactly, had one myself and sent it back for a refund (could not justify the money for the experience)
 
If you play at 4K then makes no sense to ask it been cheaper than 970 SLI.

Is faster at 4K than 970SLI AND 980 SLI
 
Panos said:
I wouldn't expect this card to go bellow £700. For the simple reasons :
The Titan Black is still at the same price mark, and the 295X2 is twice as fast.
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The isn't really any reason to go Titan black unless you need the compute ability or the 6GB, so the 295X2 isn't really competing with it. SLI 970 is cheaper and if you go for one of the ones with high specified coolers they will be quieter at idle and no louder ta load.

Personally I wouldn't touch the 295X2 over £600, you would be mad to.


Panos said:
Is faster at 4K than 970SLI AND 980 SLI
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980 SLI is faster. 970 SLI is slightly slower at 4K but slightly faster at lower resolutions and when over clocking is brought in 970 SLI pulls ahead at all resolutions.
 
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I play at 1440p 60hz and I have one :)

As long as AMD keep up with the crossfire profiles it should last be a while.

Might upgrade to 4k in two years time or maybe when there is a Freesync 4k IPS monitor available.
 
600 quid is fair, but only a full water block will do, plus on that thread it seems to have quite a few problems dropping frame rates etc, that aren't caused by heat/ throttling back

the Devil 13 7990 ran 12 degrees cooler than a stock 7990, but the Devil 13 295x2 is a disaster, so i dont know what went wrong there.....

i guess that Dual cards wont work on air until you can improve the efficiency of the chip..i.e the GTX970 would be fine because that runs cool already.
 
Not since the GTX 970 release, the 295X2 is to power hungry in comparison to 2 x GTX 970's. Plus with the 970's you're getting full DirectX 12 support and Physx which will be nice in a few of the big upcoming games, Borderlands, Wicther 3, Batman and Project cars etc..

AMD need something new to entice me back at this point, price cuts aren't enough tbh.
 
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