** AMD 290X 8GB CARDS NOW IN STOCK EXCLUSIVELY AT OcUK!! **

[Gibbo]

Hi there


I am very proud to say that OcUK is the only UK company with stock of 8GB 290X and also has the largest range of 8GB cards available compared to our competitors who mostly have zero range.




Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK WorldWide Exclusive** @ £379.99 inc VAT

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: 5500Mhz
- 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 [£389.99] Inc. VAT

Only £379.99 inc VAT.

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MSI Radeon R9 290X Gaming Edition 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card @ £379.99 inc VAT

AMD Radeon R9 290X is a new graphics card powered by the latest AMD Radeon™ R9 290X graphics-processing unit (GPU). 4GB of super-fast GDDR5 memory for the best gaming experience at the highest resolutions including 4k and incorporates AMD Eyefinity and TrueAudio technologies to enable expansive multi-display setups and more accurate environmental sounds. R9 290X also includes support for both DirectX® 11.2 and AMD's new Mantle application programming interface (API) for great handling of even the most-demanding PC games.


Specification:
- Radeon R9 290X
- Backplate included: Yes
- GPU: Hawaii XT
- Litecoin Hash Rate: 850-1000
- Stream Processors: 2816
- ROPS: 64
- Core Speed: 1040MHz
- Memory Speed: 5000Mhz
- Memory interface: 512-Bit
- Memory capacity: 8192MB GDDR5
- Cooling: MSI Twin FrozR Gaming Cooling
- PCI-Express X16 lane required
- 600W or greater PSU required
- Power Connectors: 8-pin + 6-pin required
- Display Outputs: 2x Dual Link DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
- Warranty: 3yr


Only £379.99 inc VAT.

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Powercolor Radeon R9 290X PCS+ OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK Exclusive** @ £379.99 inc VAT

PCS+ Version features Powercolor's amazing tri-fan cooler, for much lower noise levels whilst offering superior cooling. Along with a great overclock out the box, this card runs at 1050MHz core and 5400MHz memory.

AMD Radeon R9 290X is a new graphics card powered by the latest AMD Radeon™ R9 290X graphics-processing unit (GPU). 8GB of super-fast GDDR5 memory for the best gaming experience at the highest resolutions including 4k and incorporates AMD Eyefinity and TrueAudio technologies to enable expansive multi-display setups and more accurate environmental sounds. R9 290X also includes support for both DirectX® 11.2 and AMD's new Mantle application programming interface (API) for great handling of even the most-demanding PC games.


Specification:
- Radeon R9 290X
- GPU: Hawaii XT
- Litecoin Hash Rate: 850-1000
- Stream Processors: 2816
- ROPS: 64
- Core Speed: 1030MHz
- Memory Speed: 5500Mhz
- Memory interface: 512-Bit
- Memory capacity: 8192MB GDDR5
- Cooling: 2-Slot Blower Fan
- PCI-Express X16 lane required
- 750W or greater PSU required
- Power Connectors: 8-pin + 6-pin required
- Display Outputs: 2x Dual Link DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
- Comes with BF4 Voucher included in the box
- Warranty: 2yr


Only £379.99 inc VAT.

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Sapphire Radeon R9 290X 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK WorldWide Exclusive** @ £359.99 inc VAT

As requested by our customers and actioned by us here at OcUK this is the worlds ONLY reference PCB and reference blower cooler 8GB card available and only exclusively from OcUK in the world. Perfect for customers who want to run 3-way or 4-way crossfire or fit waterblocks. Once again OcUK delivers because we listen to our customers!

AMD Radeon R9 290X is a new graphics card powered by the latest AMD Radeon™ R9 290X graphics-processing unit (GPU). 8GB of super-fast GDDR5 memory for the best gaming experience at the highest resolutions including 4k and incorporates AMD Eyefinity and TrueAudio technologies to enable expansive multi-display setups and more accurate environmental sounds. R9 290X also includes support for both DirectX® 11.2 and AMD's new Mantle application programming interface (API) for great handling of even the most-demanding PC games.


Specification:-
- Radeon R9 290X
- GPU: Hawaii XT
- Stream Processors: 2816
- ROPS: 64
- Core Speed: 1000MHz
- Memory Speed: 5000Mhz
- Memory interface: 512-Bit
- Memory capacity: 8192MB GDDR5
- Cooling: 2-Slot Blower Fan
- Fan Speed: 20% - 40% (Quiet Mode) & 20%-55% (Uber Mode)
- PCI-Express X16 lane required
- 750W or greater PSU required
- Power Connectors: 8-pin + 6-pin required
- Display Outputs: 2x Dual Link DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
- Warranty: 2yr


Only £359.99 inc VAT.

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OcUK owning the market yet again!
The Sapphire Vapor-X is IN STOCK and a great deal as it comes with four games making it even better value for money.

 

[shankly1985]

Stunning

If I was running 4k I would easy buy the MSI card again.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Stunning

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

Stunning

If I was running 4k I would easy buy the MSI card again.

Just the one?

It's actually a question I'm hoping AMDMatt might be ablke to answer once he has his cards, how many cards do you need to have the grunt to need 8GB?

Given the 2.5/3 slot coolers on some of these cards you'd hope the answer is 2, but in myu experience 2 x 290s aren't gonna cut it at 4K (they'll be fine in some games, I run some at 4K on 1 card because of glitches when using crossfire @ 4K).

 

[Wizzfizz]

Does the Powercolor have glue applied to the coils like their other card? If so, that'd be my choice out of those

 

[Gibbo]

Does the Powercolor have glue applied to the coils like their other card? If so, that'd be my choice out of those

Yes.

 

[tommybhoy]

It's actually a question I'm hoping AMDMatt might be ablke to answer once he has his cards, how many cards do you need to have the grunt to need 8GB?

Given the 2.5/3 slot coolers on some of these cards you'd hope the answer is 2, but in myu experience 2 x 290s aren't gonna cut it at 4K (they'll be fine in some games, I run some at 4K on 1 card because of glitches when using crossfire @ 4K).

You don't need matt, as you already know, it's going to be 3 or more to play on settings that use 4 GB or more@4K-but will they have working CrossFire/SLi support?

 

[LtMatt]

Interesting fact, I've owned 9 290X cards and three 290P cards and not one of them has had coil whine.

You don't need matt, as you already know, it's going to be 3 or more to play on settings that use 4 GB or more@4K-but will they have working CrossFire/SLi support?

Two cards could use more than 4GB currently under Mantle in BF4 and Thief at max settings and keep playable fps. Other games which will use more than 4gb and keep playable fps (maybe not maximum settings though) at 4K are under DX11 in Watchdogs and Shadow Of Mordor.

 

[Wizzfizz]

I've owned 4 MSI 290x (at different times), running on a 1000W Superflower PSU, each one had coil whine

It's nice that Powercolor have gone that extra mile and applied glue to their coils, must have been a reason why they did this.

 

[arc@css]

Great prices.

 

[Geeman1979]

Interesting fact, I've owned 9 290X cards and three 290P cards and not one of them has had coil whine.



Two cards could use more than 4GB currently under Mantle in BF4 and Thief at max settings and keep playable fps. Other games which will use more than 4gb and keep playable fps (maybe not maximum settings though) at 4K are under DX11 in Watchdogs and Shadow Of Mordor.

I'll test Watchdogs at 4K with a pair of Titans and see how much Vram it uses.

Interesting fact, I've owned only one 290X and it whined like a *****

 

[tommybhoy]

@Matt, cool, never took Mantle vram usage into consideration-can always fall back to that other api.

Interesting fact, I've owned only one 290X and a whined like a *****

Interesting fact no 2. gibbo got special custom coil whine free 970's built to order due to 9 series coil whine-it's the undisputed coil whine heavyweight champion of the world.

 

[Asa]

Vendors take requests from OCUK?

Any chance of requesting an HDMI 2.0 variant, or is that impossible on the 290 series?

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

You don't need matt, as you already know, it's going to be 3 or more to play on settings that use 4 GB or more@4K-but will they have working CrossFire/SLi support?

But I'm using 290s not 290Xs. Not a big difference, but maybe enough?

Interesting fact, I've owned 9 290X cards and three 290P cards and not one of them has had coil whine.



Two cards could use more than 4GB currently under Mantle in BF4 and Thief at max settings and keep playable fps. Other games which will use more than 4gb and keep playable fps (maybe not maximum settings though) at 4K are under DX11 in Watchdogs and Shadow Of Mordor.

I didn't think BF4 was quite playable @ 4K with x 290s. It was close but kept dropping below 60fps, in some cases quite a lot below (for a second or 2). If a game doesn't hold 55-60fps then I notice it enough to make a game unplayable. Maybe that's from getting used to 120Hz monitors.

But it would be interesting to see which games than need more than 4GB can be run on 2 or 3 cards (I think we can probably discount 1 card configs) and hold a (close to) 60fps average.


EDIT:
As far as coil whine goes, I've not noticed any with my 290s. Mind you next door have been tearing out and installing a new kitchen and I can't hear that over the 290 fans either! (Reference coolers)

 

[Geeman1979]

@Matt, cool, never took Mantle vram usage into consideration-can always fall back to that other api.



Interesting fact no 2. gibbo got special custom coil whine free 970's built to order due to 9 series coil whine-it's the undisputed coil whine heavyweight champion of the world.

Interesting fact no 3. Gibbo don't miss a trick.

The only trick he did miss out on though, was supplying a decent Psu bundle for those who suffer from it due to their **** 10 year old Psu's

 

[nails666]

would any of the custom cooler versions here be suitable for 2 card xfire or is the ref cooler the best bet for temps/noise/stopping throttling?

 

[tommybhoy]

But I'm using 290s not 290Xs. Not a big difference, but maybe enough?

Clock yours a touch for comparison, it doesn't take much to negate stock X performance.

Interesting fact no 3. Gibbo don't miss a trick.

When your trick screams like that you need to take action to shut it up as it's bad for business.

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

would any of the custom cooler versions here be suitable for 2 card xfire or is the ref cooler the best bet for temps/noise/stopping throttling?

The MSI is probably the best best for crossfire due to the 2-slot cooler. Although you'd still probably need good air flow in your case.

I think MJFrosty (Silicone_Scone? or whatever he's called now) had 2 of the Vapor-X card in a Rampage IV Extreme board, which has about the best spacing you're likely to get and still found that the heat could be a problem. I'd guess the PCS+ would be similar.

 

[sprite1275]

Interesting fact, I've owned 9 290X cards and three 290P cards and not one of them has had coil whine.



Two cards could use more than 4GB currently under Mantle in BF4 and Thief at max settings and keep playable fps. Other games which will use more than 4gb and keep playable fps (maybe not maximum settings though) at 4K are under DX11 in Watchdogs and Shadow Of Mordor.

which would you say was the best 290x youve owned? performane, cool, quietness wise?

 

[LtMatt]

which would you say was the best 290x youve owned? performane, cool, quietness wise?

MSI 290X Lightning, Vapour-X, Tri-X. Powercolor PCS would have been right up there but it uses Elpida mems. Everything else about it is top notch though. All cool and quiet cards.