** AMD R290X NOW AVAILABLE & OVERCLOCKING REVIEW!! **

[rizlawoutlaw]

p.s i cant order bf4 versions as button is not there for preorder

 

[Rooster212]

p.s i cant order bf4 versions as button is not there for preorder

They are only for people who put a deposit down a couple of weeks ago (for the moment anyway)

And these cards look pretty amazing.

But... does one beat my 7950 Xfire... will wait for some more reviews to see not that I'm looking to get this anytime soon anyway. But a great looking card at a better than expected price!

 

[CivilDrone]

good move AMD, that's how its done!

 

[snips86x]

them prices are good!, and the benchmarks seem to be good too, but what is blurd out ?

because i cant see titan in the list

Titan is deffinately there! Under the 290x STD

 

[spixelspixel]

I hope you had a fire extinguisher at hand when running those in trifire

 

[rizlawoutlaw]

well he got heat 400c ,oxygen, now for a spark?

 

[Addicted]

Which memory type is the MSI, the good overclocking one?

 

[RedvGreen]

Well, it is hot and loud, but decent benchmarking results. I think many will be waiting for the aftermarket coolers to make an appearance for the best all-rounders.

 

[Bradmax57]

them prices are good!, and the benchmarks seem to be good too, but what is blurd out ?

because i cant see titan in the list

Presuming its the R290 if so that's what i'll be getting

 

[4737Joker]

I hope nvidia start a price war so we get some nice deals around Christmas

The prices as they are though are good considering the performance, looking forward to seeing bf4 benches on release.

 

[fowler002]

Well its after 9am and I haven't received the email, 5ub said second batch before 9am.

 

[Uther]

Some good prices on those cards!

 

[Bailey]

Nice prices Gibbo

Look a good card

 

[Danthus]

If you run an R290X at default it will run quietly between 85-90c, this is perfectly normal for this GPU and although hot, perfectly safe. However do be aware the GPU will throttle itself when it approaches 95c, the throttling seems very minimal, were talking less than 5%, but it does do it.

Are they the idle temperatures or load?

 

[Boomstick777]

Thank you for including a 1300mhz 780 Gibbo, that's made my decision to stay on my 780 a lot easier. The 290X does look great, the only negatives being heat and noise and limited overclocking. These cards, 290 / 290X / 780 / Titan are monsters. 20nm cards are just gonna be ridiculous tbh

 

[HeX]

Are they the idle temperatures or load?

I'd be worried if those were idle temps


Personally i'd hold off until the inevatable 3rd party cooled versions turn up. I wouldn't want to live with those temps and all that noise.

If you're planning on watercooling though then BUY BUY BUY

 

[Gibbo]

Hi there


Right guys, I got some voltage control, so I've done a benchmark run at 1200MHz core and 6400MHz memory, gives quite a substancial boost in performance over the 1060MHz core and 6000Mhz benchmarks I did this week.

Check them out here:-

Such a damn quick card, this now places it ahead of the 1310MHz GTX 780 I included in the review in all test.

 

[fowler002]

How does that relate to gaming performance @1440 res? I'll be running on a dell u2711, 4770k and 16gb ram windows 7 for now.

 

[Gibbo]

How does that relate to gaming performance @1440 res? I'll be running on a dell u2711, 4770k and 16gb ram windows 7 for now.

Faster than a 780 and on par / faster than a Titan.

For game reviews, check the reviews at review sites, I don't test games.

 

[mjallan123]

Where can I buy them? The buy button is not there!!