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8 Pack looks at R290X

The value for money cant be ignored here!!!

I have been benching Nvidia a lot recently but this card is a great proposition for both gamers and benchers.
 
I would argue benching is much the same as gaming. You fiddle around for a while, stare at a screen with your breath held and get a score out of the end.

I can't understand why someone would spend ~£450 on a GPU and use it to game at 1080p.
 
You are forgetting about 1 thing.

290X in on Release drivers. And Titan and 780 been on market for many months.
Have a look what AMD managed to get out of 7970 over 1 year. Like 20% performance in games just from drivers !!!

I bet ya a tenner that in few months when drivers mature those will kick gk110 in game and benchmarks.

Not to mention when those cards get descent coolers.
 
jms198 said:
I would argue benching is much the same as gaming. You fiddle around for a while, stare at a screen with your breath held and get a score out of the end.

I can't understand why someone would spend ~£450 on a GPU and use it to game at 1080p.
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To ensure 60fps with all the bells and whistles @ 1080p? my old 7950 (clocked to 1220/1500) struggled in quite a few games to maintain 60fps with large amounts of AA and AF.
 
GPU tweak works with all ASUS cards out of the box yes. Its a bios change. Two PSU are fine yeah for four cards on Air maybe with 1.5V + more on core I will use more.
 
8 Pack said:
GPU tweak works with all ASUS cards out of the box yes. Its a bios change. Two PSU are fine yeah for four cards on Air maybe with 1.5V + more on core I will use more.
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Mine are Asus, looking forward to when they arrive, also got waterblocks and backplates on order all to go on a RIVE black edition.
 
Looking good 8 Pack, But AMD do need to turn it up a couple of notches in Heaven Valley. currently the fastest Titan there scores 3800 @ 1380Mhz. thats more than 25% faster than Gibbo managed @ 1200Mhz.

Seems AMD is currently very bad indeed for Valley.
 
jms198 said:
I would argue benching is much the same as gaming. You fiddle around for a while, stare at a screen with your breath held and get a score out of the end.

I can't understand why someone would spend ~£450 on a GPU and use it to game at 1080p.
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I run a GTX690 at 1920x1080 on a 120/144hz screen.
 
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