AMD begins slashing the prices of its Radeon R9 290, R9 290X GPUs

Uncle Petey · 6 Oct 2014 at 13:40

In most games, yes.

shankly1985 · 6 Oct 2014 at 13:41

jwilliamson47 said:
on that note, how do the 290s perform in crossfire? pretty good?

Couldn't be any happier, they perform to my expectation is everything I play.

jwilliamson47 · 6 Oct 2014 at 13:42

nice, I'd buy a pair for around £400 for sure!

shankly1985 · 6 Oct 2014 at 13:44

Rusty0611 said:
The theory behind what he says is true but it relies on the assumption both cards aren't 99% in usage. If they are then they will be hotter of course.

Even if I was to say run Vsync at 60hz this would drop the usage down from 100% and even lower temps a lot. You would still have the top GPU much hotter than running a single card.

Its just how it is, bottom GPU pushes how air into the case top GPU feeds from it. = higher temps even if you wasn't 100% load

Its how you tackle the issue with either more fans, better case, better PCI spacing etc

Its just a fact more Cards = more heat.

Freddie1980 · 6 Oct 2014 at 13:44

A R9-290 at £220 vs a GTX970 at £260 there's only going to be one winner especially when you throw the extra value of the game codes in the the equation. At this point the 290 becomes the gamers choice (but maybe not the enthusiast?) and we will be back to were a month ago.

nomadd · 6 Oct 2014 at 13:45

JamesM said:
Happy I sold my 290s before this news came about.

Must admit i'm over the moon with my MSI 970

This^

This 970 is the first MSI card I've ever owned, and I'm very happy with the low noise levels.

Final8y · 6 Oct 2014 at 13:46

Bonjour said:
290 for £199 is an attractive proposition.

2nd hand 290s are a bargain IMO.

Even im tempted for some stopgap quadfire fun with those.

Rusty0611 · 6 Oct 2014 at 13:46

shankly1985 said:
Even if I was to say run Vsync at 60hz this would drop the usage down from 100% and even lower temps a lot. You would still have the top GPU much hotter than running a single card.

Its just how it is, bottom GPU pushes how air into the case top GPU feeds from it. = higher temps even if you wasn't 100% load

Its how you tackle the issue with either more fans, better case, better PCI spacing etc

Its just a fact more Cards = more heat.

But that wasn't the point he was making...

LtMatt · 6 Oct 2014 at 13:50

Final8y said:
Even im tempted for some stopgap quadfire fun with those.

QuadFire sure is a lot of fun. It's not for the faint hearted though, as I'm sure you're aware. :cool:

shankly1985 · 6 Oct 2014 at 13:50

Rusty0611 said:
But that wasn't the point he was making...

The point he was making is if your cards wasn't getting full usage because a CPU bottleneck.. My point even if you use Vsync @60hz with a 290's this will be Overkill so you wouldn't even get full usage out the GPU's anyways.

Doesn't stop the bottom GPU pushing out hot air does it?

Why you even trying to justify a fact? More GPUs = more Heat

Uncle Petey · 6 Oct 2014 at 13:51

Rusty0611 said:
But that wasn't the point he was making...

No. Like you say, Rusty, his point relied on assumption. The assumption that the cards are bottlenecked by the cpu.

Final8y · 6 Oct 2014 at 13:53

AMDMatt said:
QuadFire sure is a lot of fun. It's not for the faint hearted though, as I'm sure you're aware.

Well i seem to have had the best of luck with it over the years

LtMatt · 6 Oct 2014 at 13:54

Final8y said:
Welll i seem to have had the best of luck with it over the years

I think I'll be a four card Radeon user from here on in.

bru · 6 Oct 2014 at 13:58

shankly1985 said:
You be completely wrong, You will always get higher temps with Multi - GPUs

Here me running around TR for bit - Maxed out and no frame rate cap, If I was to use say Vsync I would get much lower temps in all my games because this would stop the GPU's working over time to push out more Frames.

Nice one shankly contradicting your self all in one post, way to put an argument across

shankly1985 · 6 Oct 2014 at 13:59

Let's forget about cases fans, water cooling, bigger cases. To get lower GPU temps just add another GPU.

Uncle Petey · 6 Oct 2014 at 13:59

You think a single card with uncapped fps will run hotter than two cards (or just the top one) with vsync on?

shankly1985 · 6 Oct 2014 at 14:00

bru said:
Nice one shankly contradicting your self all in one post, way to put an argument across

??? you don't get the point do you? it still wouldn't lower the temps to single GPU

jwilliamson47 · 6 Oct 2014 at 14:03

The Sapphire 290 Tri-x is a great card IMO, here's mine

Well i tried it add it but it won't work.

setter · 6 Oct 2014 at 14:03

With my non ref cards I get the following.

1 card, 65c max
2 cards, no fps limit, 79/62c max
2 cards, 100 fps limit, 72/57c max

Temps will be much lower again say if I use a lower fps limit or use vsync.

shankly1985 · 6 Oct 2014 at 14:06

setter said:
With my non ref cards I get the following.

1 card, 65c max
2 cards, no fps limit, 79/62c max
2 cards, 100 fps limit, 72/57c max

Temps will be much lower again say if I use a lower fps limit or use vsync.

Thank you!