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** SAPPHIRE 290X 8GB IS BACK AND LOW LOW PRICE!! **

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Hi there


Sapphire have agreed to manufacturer more 290X 8GB for us and even better at the new AMD pricing levels, which now means you can have one of the best 290X, but with 8GB of RAM and for less than £400.

A pair of these in Crossfire or even three is the ultimate 4k solution:-



Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK WorldWide Exclusive** @ £389.99 inc VAT

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OcUK has a worldwide exclusive on the only 8GB 290X in existence, but this is not any 290X it's a highly fine tuned machine being the Vapor-X edition with near silent cooling solution. Running with a 1060MHz core clock and with memory clocked at 5600MHz makes this card absolutely perfect for a 4K setup, even more so with a pair or three of these in Crossfire. That means you could play games like Skyrim with expansion packs at 4k resolution and still not run out of VRAM.

Based on the award-winning Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture from AMD with 2816 Stream Processors, the SAPPHIRE R9 290X Vapor-X is an Overclocked edition which boasts 8GB of the latest GDDR5 memory running at 1400 MHz (5.60GB/s effective) and high speed engine clocks of 1060MHz.

SAPPHIRE’s innovative Vapor-X cooling technology allows products to run not only cooler but also much quieter. A Vapor-X product means a virtually silent gaming experience and more headroom to explore performance tweaking!

Choke is an important component of the graphics card. By working with the component engineer, Sapphire’s patent pending choke is 10% cooler and offers 25% more power efficiency than a normal choke. The graphics card will be more reliable and save energy.

Improved reliability and better overclocking are possible by using only high-polymer, aluminum capacitors which posses far superior characteristics than regular aluminum capacitor for a longer product life. When operational temperatures drop by 20°C, the product life span is extended by a factor of ten, when the operational temperature increases by 20°C, the product life span only decreases by 10%.

Along the edge of the card the PCB is extended and one of the copper layers left exposed. An additional heatsink mounted directly to this copper layer allows heat absorbed into the PCB from the GPU and other components to be transferred to the heatsink and cooled by the airflow. This feature alone can reduce core temperature by 2 degree C.

Specification:-
- GPU: Hawaii XT
- Litecoin Hash Rate: 850-1000
- Stream Processors: 2816
- ROPS: 64
- Core Speed: 1030MHz
- Memory Speed: 5120Mhz
- Memory interface: 512-Bit
- Memory capacity: 8192MB GDDR5
- PCI-Express X16 lane required
- 600W or greater PSU required
- Power Connectors: 2x 8-pin required
- Display Outputs: 2x Dual Link DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
- Warranty: 2yr


Was [£419.99] Inc. VAT

Only £389.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW
 
Awesome, nothing will compete with these at 4k. :cool:

Gibbo will you be able to source any reference versions? I'd like four please. :)
 
Awesome, nothing will compete with these at 4k. :cool:

Gibbo will you be able to source any reference versions? I'd like four please. :)

Only Sapphire have ever made an 8GB card!

Other partners will no doubt follow suite but I doubt any of them will do a blower version but I shall make a request.
 
Only Sapphire have ever made an 8GB card!

Other partners will no doubt follow suite but I doubt any of them will do a blower version but I shall make a request.

Thank you sir, otherwise there's no way i can have four on air in a case together. If they make reference, they will sell! :cool:

Gibbo one thing to plug, there are no waterblocks for these specific Sapphire cards, that's why we need reference versions. :)
 
Thank you sir, otherwise there's no way i can have four on air in a case together. If they make reference, they will sell! :cool:

Gibbo one thing to plug, there are no waterblocks for these specific Sapphire cards, that's why we need reference versions. :)

Wrong.

EK have been making blocks to suit both 4 & 8gb versions for some time now.
 
When is stock expected for these? I was deliberating over the Titan Z yesterday, but would rather take two of these for the larger Vram buffer and overclocking.

Cheers
 
Gibbo is there any chance of talking with Sapphire to get the price cheaper on these 8gb 290's or to get Sapphire onboard with 4gb Tonga 285's including their itx version..
 
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