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r9 290x Lighting Release date or information?

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+63mv? Why not use the allocated amount of +200mv? Adding more core voltage makes the memory overclock further. I could do a better job at overclocking Hawaii than most of these reviewers. Fail. :D
 
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Their overclocking comments.

One of the easiest overclockers we've come across. Keeping the switch firmly on the standard mode, rather than LN2 mode, the card only required a gentle nudge to the voltages to bring the GPU up to 1150MHz. The Memory is where the card really shines though, up from 1250MHz at stock to 1650MHz. A massive overclock and one we are very happy with, maybe with a few software changes we may be able to squeeze more out but we are very happy with what we managed to achieve in such a short time with the card and should be a good indicator to what the average Joe can expect when experimenting at home.
So they haven't even tried but are very happy with it.

And then in their conclusion.

With any graphics card the partner, in this case MSI, are heavily reliant upon the quality of the GPU supplied by the manufacturer, and only have control over side issues. So AMD are supplying the steak, MSI can do the salad and fries. Whilst the GPU within our review sample wasn't the most willing overclocker we've ever come across
What a bunch of idiots. :p

Next..... :rolleyes:
 
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Does anyone else find that with a lot of these reviews when they touch on overclocking, they never spend enough time on it?

the card only required a gentle nudge to the voltages to bring the GPU up to 1150MHz.

Right, gentle nudge? How much? So you didn't try to hit any walls then?

You're paying the top dollar for something that should do the numbers, nobody wants to read that half arsed dribble. You could ask your mate Dave one evening what he got out of it, and get more useful info.
 
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Horrible job with that review really.Most of us can stomp that OC with our ref cards.Lets do a Poll and force Kaap to buy 4 of those.
 
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I'll wait for better reviews as I do not feel the one linked above does the card justice,
*insert crappy overclock review nudge it does a bit, its fine*

hopefully see a few reviews from Tom's and Hexus and others :D cant wait for someone to disassemble it thou.
 
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It is looking a cracking card and clearly the big winner out of all the other 290X's. Good work MSI :)

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One thing I struggle to find is how well the gcards scale with frequency vs the actual gains in fps. If at 1300mhz core for example if this msi card could maintain that clock speed comfortably then what actual fps throughput is there between that and a considerably cheaper 290x/290 that manages say 1150 mhz.
 
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One thing I struggle to find is how well the gcards scale with frequency vs the actual gains in fps. If at 1300mhz core for example if this msi card could maintain that clock speed comfortably then what actual fps throughput is there between that and a considerably cheaper 290x/290 that manages say 1150 mhz.

Thats impossible to pin down, generally 10% core overclock gets you 5% performance and 10% Memory gets you another 5%.

Mostly thats roughly true, but it can also be 10% Core OC = 8% performance and Mem 10% = 2%.

However. The 290/X has 64 ROP's so its not hampered by a lack of memory bandwidth, not as much as the 79## and certainly 78## series was, so OC the Memory has less effect on them, they respond more to core overclocking, but its never linear. 8 to 10 at best i would think.
 
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in the OC3D video at about 11 mins - he said earlier card doesn't sag -but is it me or does the card installed in the case look at quite an angle ?

or is it just the angle of the camera ?
 
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