ive had 3 290 cards, vtx3d, msi and now powercolor pcs+ and not had any coil whine also, but i would say the powercolor feels the most well put together card of the 3 ive had, they seemed to have put in the extra effort on quality
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** AMD 290X 8GB CARDS NOW IN STOCK EXCLUSIVELY AT OcUK!! **
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Clock yours a touch for comparison, it doesn't take much to negate stock X performance.
When your trick screams like that you need to take action to shut it up as it's bad for business.
What you yapping on about, regardless of the odd card from the shed loads that have sold which suffer from coil whine, they'll still keep selling by the truck load. Gibbo's just cashing in on all the scare mongering.
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What card are you currently using?
What you yapping on about, regardless of the odd card from the shed loads that have sold which suffer from coil whine, they'll still keep selling by the truck load. Gibbo's just cashing in on all the scare mongering.
Tell that to the unhappy owners who got them returned fault free, oCuk being the nice place they are, Gibbo stepped up to help out the unhappy owners, it's all readable in the various threads we have here and the biggest culprit for coil whine to date-FACT.
You shouldn't take a conversation down that route if you don't like the answers.
Because AMD reference design is stronk whereas 970 designs seem to be cowboy.
http://semiaccurate.com/2014/11/04/coil-whine-problem-everyone/
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Tell that to the unhappy owners who got them returned fault free, oCuk being the nice place they are, Gibbo stepped up to help out the unhappy owners, it's all readable in the various threads we have here and the biggest culprit for coil whine to date-FACT.
You shouldn't take a conversation down that route if you don't like the answers.
How many 970s had black screen issues?
Because AMD reference design is stronk
http://semiaccurate.com/2014/11/04/coil-whine-problem-everyone/
Good find sir.
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How's that relevant? We're talking about coil whine.
And why are we talking about coil whine?
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Tell that to the unhappy owners who got them returned fault free, oCuk being the nice place they are, Gibbo stepped up to help out the unhappy owners, it's all readable in the various threads we have here and the biggest culprit for coil whine to date-FACT.
You shouldn't take a conversation down that route if you don't like the answers.
It's no skin off my nose fella, regardless of how many 970's suffer from it. When you're selling as many cards as Ocuk have sold in such a short period of time and complaints are publicised on a public forum, things will always look worse than they actually are.
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It's no skin off my nose fella, regardless of how many 970's suffer from it. When you're selling as many cards as Ocuk have sold in such a short period of time and complaints are publicised on a public forum, things will always look worse than they actually are.
If it was just oCuk customers complaining you'd win an apple, since tech sites are highlighting it and the whole net is awash with it, no apple for you.
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If it was just oCuk customers complaining you'd win an apple, since tech sites are highlighting it and the whole net is awash with it, no apple for you.
Apples don't cut it for me, although I could send you a lollipop for highlighting the whole nets awash with it?
290 pcs+, nothing wrong with it at all but ive not had a haribo fix for some time, ive almost pulled the trigger on a pair of 970's but the amd fanboy inside of keeps stoping me
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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.
Running two msi 290s on a Superflower 1000w psu and zero coil whine here.
Was quick getting stock of those gibbo!!
I think it's fair to say the current 4k card of choice, a shame it wasn't available (in this capacity) shortly after launch but at least it's here and roughly half the price of the next best thing...the titan black.
Game dependant you'll need 2 or 3 290/x's to break 4gb at 4k, but you'd also likely need the same amount of cards for playable frame rates in those games also.
I think it's fair to say the current 4k card of choice, a shame it wasn't available (in this capacity) shortly after launch but at least it's here and roughly half the price of the next best thing...the titan black.
Game dependant you'll need 2 or 3 290/x's to break 4gb at 4k, but you'd also likely need the same amount of cards for playable frame rates in those games also.
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Stick with what you've got. You'd probably need 3/4 cards to feel any real benefit over the 4GB variants at 4K and if you did contemplate going down that route, that in itself could potentially open a whole new can of worms unless watercooling.