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** SAPPHIRE CUSTOM 290's ARE ON THE WAY!! **

Gibbo

Gibbo

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Hi there


OcUK has secured the first waves of the Sapphire custom cooled 290's, seem they are using their Toxic cooler, so performance, low temperatures and low noise pretty much guaranteed, check these bad boys out.

All confirmed as including BF4 as well, ETA middle of January. :)



Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Tri-X "BF4 Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card @ £379.99 inc VAT

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AMD Radeon R9 290 is a new graphics card powered by the latest AMD Radeon™ R9 290 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 290 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 290
- GPU: Hawaii Pro
- Stream Processors: 2560
- Core Speed: 1000MHz
- Memory Speed: 5200Mhz
- Memory interface: 512-Bit
- Memory capacity: 4096MB GDDR5
- 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: 2yr


Only £379.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW














Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Tri-X "BF4 Edition" 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card @ £489.95 inc VAT

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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
- GPU: Hawaii XT
- Stream Processors: 2816
- ROPS: 64
- Core Speed: 1040MHz
- Memory Speed: 5200Mhz
- Memory interface: 512-Bit
- Memory capacity: 4096MB GDDR5
- 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
- Comes with BF4 Voucher included in the box
- Warranty: 2yr


Only £489.95 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW










OcUK is King at bringing you custom 290's before any other Etailor in the UK and we have secured the first waves of stock from most board partners. :)
 
With the Chinese and bitcoins carry on, I can see healthy price drops with all the 290/X's. I hope this is thecase anyway :p
 
I am looking at the graph on btc-e.com and bitcoin is rallying hard. It only went down to 500 or so from the recent high of 965. Currently 640. People are determined to make Bitcoin work, it's a cause, so no cheap AMD cards just yet. ;)

What's the Toxic cooler like compared to DCU II / Twin Frozr / Windforce?
 
Orangey said:
I am looking at the graph on btc-e.com and bitcoin is rallying hard. It only went down to 500 or so from the recent high of 965. Currently 640. People are determined to make Bitcoin work, it's a cause, so no cheap AMD cards just yet. ;)

What's the Toxic cooler like compared to DCU II / Twin Frozr / Windforce?
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Lots of money to be made trading with this up and down carry on ;)

Any way, nice card, good price.
 
Is a 290x with the Tri-X cooler the top of the line Sapphire variant? Or is there likely to be another version 'Toxic' or otherwise? Similar to where MSI have the Gaming and then the Lightning for example. I have a pre-order on the MSI Gaming at the moment but I'm not sure whether to stick or not... The Asus DCU II looks good and the 280X Toxic is considered the best of those... Admittedly, choice is a good problem to have :)
 
Daftbrown said:
Is a 290x with the Tri-X cooler the top of the line Sapphire variant? Or is there likely to be another version 'Toxic' or otherwise? Similar to where MSI have the Gaming and then the Lightning for example. I have a pre-order on the MSI Gaming at the moment but I'm not sure whether to stick or not... The Asus DCU II looks good and the 280X Toxic is considered the best of those... Admittedly, choice is a good problem to have :)
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At the moment the Toxic is Sapphires top modle, personally i would go for the Toxic and Asus DCU II over the Gaming.
 
humbug said:
At the moment the Toxic is Sapphires top modle, personally i would go for the Toxic and Asus DCU II over the Gaming.
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Thanks.

While I understand that this uses the same Tri-X cooler as the Toxic I'm not clear on if this is therefore 'The 290x Toxic' or whether a Toxic (or other) will follow from Sapphire - ie: Another version with upgraded PCB and other 'ahem' knick-knacks.
 
Daftbrown said:
Thanks.

While I understand that this uses the same Tri-X cooler as the Toxic I'm not clear on if this is therefore 'The 290x Toxic' or whether a Toxic (or other) will follow from Sapphire - ie: Another version with upgraded PCB and other 'ahem' knick-knacks.
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Who knows. They could come up with a better one at a later date, a GTI-S version. For now this is the one.

Jaikon said:
Is the 290x going to worth the extra £110?
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No.


WalderX said:
Looks top notch! Good things come to those who wait eh? Shame I was not one of those people and am stuck with a noisy beast!
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VGA Cooler Rev. 2 ICY VISION

Accelero Xtreme III
 
This isn't the Toxic. They would be making a far bigger hooplah over it if it was.

IIRC Gibbo said they ship GPUs in 3 forms: total package, PCB and chip only. AMD must have very recently started releasing PCBs with no cooler, but the Toxic will require the 3rd and final supply line from AMD, bare chips.
 
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Daftbrown said:
Thanks.

While I understand that this uses the same Tri-X cooler as the Toxic I'm not clear on if this is therefore 'The 290x Toxic' or whether a Toxic (or other) will follow from Sapphire - ie: Another version with upgraded PCB and other 'ahem' knick-knacks.
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Orangey said:
This isn't the Toxic. They would be making a far bigger hooplah over it if it was.
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ah... well spotted that man, i didn't read it. the darn cooler is identical, almost.
 
Orangey said:
This isn't the Toxic. They would be making a far bigger hooplah over it if it was.

IIRC Gibbo said they ship GPUs in 3 forms: total package, PCB and chip only. AMD must have very recently started releasing PCBs with no cooler, but the Toxic will require the 3rd and final supply line from AMD, bare chips.
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Just a very similar cooler.

The Toxic edition will probably share the same cooler, but have an uprated PCB and more impressive out of the box clock speeds and will cost quite a bit more too.
 
Im sure it goes a little something like this..

Dual X > Vapor X > Toxic (7xxx Series)

Tri X > Vapor X > Toxic (for the 290's at least)

:)

I think the Toxic uses the Vapor X chamber with higher clocks and a better PCB
 
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