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AMD R9 290 (Non-X, Pro, etc) Owners Club

Apache14 said:
A. ill run the same test on my PC tonight (FX 8350, 8 GB RAM, R9 290 **At Stock**) your saying this will come out very close to a haswell intel with the same GFX ?


B. Different brand GFX chips never have / never will share graphics processing load. its like asking a blender to toast the other slices of bread
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guys watch this space, im visiting a friend over the next week or so, he owns a company that makes bespoke metal products and his son owns a company that makes custom car parts.

Already discussed with him designing and making me a custom heatsink and fans for my 290, once we get something made i will post pics, going to look at a 3 fan based cooler but with heatpipes or similar going to each VRM, backplate and thermal padding etc.

The idea is to build something similar to an X3 but also get the VRMs covered by the same heatsink as the rest of the card.

Once we have had a chance to knock something up and refined it a bit i will post up some pics and benchies etc
 
SiDeards73 said:
guys watch this space, im visiting a friend over the next week or so, he owns a company that makes bespoke metal products and his son owns a company that makes custom car parts.

Already discussed with him designing and making me a custom heatsink and fans for my 290, once we get something made i will post pics, going to look at a 3 fan based cooler but with heatpipes or similar going to each VRM, backplate and thermal padding etc.

The idea is to build something similar to an X3 but also get the VRMs covered by the same heatsink as the rest of the card.

Once we have had a chance to knock something up and refined it a bit i will post up some pics and benchies etc
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Have him make a real VRM/RAM plate so you air coolers dont have to bother with finicky tiny heatsinks that fall of because of a small breeze.
 
Oh its going to be like a waterblock where it covers the whole card, but with copper pad for the core and heatpipes, probably heatpipes to each vrm, all into a single aluminium block milled with fins, so its like 1 giant VRM sink with copper heatpipes and 3 decent fans bolted on
 
SiDeards73 said:
Oh its going to be like a waterblock where it covers the whole card, but with copper pad for the core and heatpipes, probably heatpipes to each vrm, all into a single aluminium block milled with fins, so its like 1 giant VRM sink with copper heatpipes and 3 decent fans bolted on
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Great, sounds like its going to be better than most 3rd party coolers.
 
My experience with the AMD R9 290 summed up in one photo:

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Apache14 said:
a) the CPU does makes a difference to graphics scores (not as much as the GFX card)
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As long as you have something that gives decent performance to start with the processor really doesn't matter too much.

Here are graphics scores in Firestrike with my 290X at stock running on my i5 760 and also on a new i7 4770K.

11,263 - i5 760 Stock
11,366 - i5 760 4.0Ghz
11,429 - i7 4770K Stock
11,525 - i7 4770K 4.0Ghz

So from a stock i5 760 to an i7 4770K at 4.0Ghz results in just over 2% increase in graphics score.
 
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