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AMD R9 280X Need some feedback

David Bisset said:
Depends on the performance, I'd guess around a GTX 780.
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The 290X is slightly faster than the Titan, the difference between the 290 and 290X is the same as the difference between the 7950 and 7970, so about ~ %7, which would put it between the 780 and Titan, apparently AMD are also coming up with new Drivers thats going to push the performance up, perhaps 5 to 10%, and very soon. possibly tomorrow.
 
I've been dilly dallying about what card to buy next trying hard to stay with Nvidia but if the 290 non X is better than a 780 and is around this 330-350 mark i can't think of any reason not to buy one when you consider the price of the 780 series and the performance jump between 770 and 780. This 290 sounds like a freaking steal ... whats the catch?
 
Well the problem with 290 is that when you play it will reach 94C and it will be very loud also. So you are gonna need some cooling on that gpu. There is ofc a setting in the catalyst center to manually configure the max temp that the gpu can reach. You can set it to 80C but that will cause loss of performance.
 
Get a 290. Not as loud as people making it out to be, due to fan speed not set to go above 47%. Sure if you set the speed at 100% it is loud, but at that point you are going out of your way to find an excuse to hate this brilliant value for money card.

It may run hot at lower fan settings but the card is designed to operate at that temperature. If you are really bothered by the sound and heat, the MK26 is a good value for money after market cooler if you have the space for it.
 
Alexcy said:
Well the problem with 290 is that when you play it will reach 94C and it will be very loud also. So you are gonna need some cooling on that gpu. There is ofc a setting in the catalyst center to manually configure the max temp that the gpu can reach. You can set it to 80C but that will cause loss of performance.
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The max temp is 94c - it will throttle itself slower to keep under that. The cooler your case is (good cool inwards air from below) then you won't get hot and it won't throttle.

The sound of the 290X is fine for normal/10% overclocking at its 40% fan profile - the 290 should be similar but slightly noisier but nothing that cannot be fixed with a custom fan profile.

Don't let those who don't have one and havent seen one tell you anything different.

p.s. your sig is illegal - 4 lines of text only - and fit into 400 x 75 pixels.
 
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MDPlatts said:
Don't let those who don't have one and havent seen one tell you anything different.
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^This


As for the temperature results...

rjkoneill said:
currently running one in heaven using some random fans we found in the office.

the temps arent going above 55'C

same scenario on stock cooler was 30'c worse
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Slapping some silent hardcore fans on these will probably result in cooling not all that far off custom cooling, shame it is giant.
 
650W is a good question.

The card needs without overclock ~420W. Add CPU etc, and you are going to get tight if you have any BR player, or need overclocking.
 
I dont have BR player, and i am not going to overclock it. Got an ssd vertex 4, a seagate baraccuda 1TB HDD. i7 3770. Asrock Extreme 4 mobo. kingston hyperx 8gb 1600mhz, 3 1200rpm fans and an artic cooling freezer rev 2 cpu cooler
 
Panos said:
650W is a good question.

The card needs without overclock ~420W. Add CPU etc, and you are going to get tight if you have any BR player, or need overclocking.
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420W would be enough for the full system, not just the graphics card. The bit-tech 290 review that I guess you got the 420W figure from was using a mildly overclocked i5 (3570k @ 4.2GHz) and at load was pulling 418W from the wall, not from the PSU so system consumption was lower yet.

Edit: Source
 
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Panos said:
650W is a good question.

The card needs without overclock ~420W. Add CPU etc, and you are going to get tight if you have any BR player, or need overclocking.
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Source?

If this is true, where is it drawing all this power through? because my 290x only has a 6 pin and an 8 pin.
 
If that mk-26 can run BF4 at 55C i will definitely gonna buy that card. I hope my psu can power it.

Edit-- So many reviews and so many different benchmarks :s
 
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I dont know. The same PSU is provided by a company named AZZA.

Edit: So my psu will run the 290? Got no idea about psu and power requirements :p
 
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