Caporegime
In my opinion, yes.
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AMD R9 290 (Non-X, Pro, etc) Owners Club
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In my opinion, yes.
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I can't see it personally, especially when the GTX780 is still going for £350+ used.
Caporegime
Are we talking about 290's still? They are less price used than a 280X?
Thanks
Sorry i misunderstood. I'd say a used 290 is worth more a than a 280X in my opinion. Are you going off sales in the MM? 290's are cheap so their resale value is always going to be lower.
Caporegime
Reference ones seem to go for about £220> AIB for about £250>
Its about right, i paid £300 for mine new.
Yes but the 780 costs £380+ new
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Caporegime
2 x MSI 290s OC versions
Love these cards. Need to modify my 540 to have a fan on the side
Nice one. Looks like you would benefit from a nice big side exhaust fan.
Mantles great innit? Bet its made you an even better player because of the responsiveness and smoothness.
Just seen £195 offered for one. I assume that includes delivery as well. Hence my wondering about their true value, surely that offer is a **** take?
And performs about the same - hence my confusion.
Caporegime
I have seen 780's and 290's go for £250.
People generally don't like the Reference 290 nearly as much as the AIB ones which tend to hold their value much more.
I really like it. TBH I never even went DX, straight to Mantle
Yes, definitely need a large side exhaust fan - these cards run hot when playing BF4
Soldato
Mr BaD, what are your temps like with the 2 MSI cards? I have the 540 and MSI 290 Gaming and plan on buying a second.
Not brilliant, to be honest. I have a 360 rad on the front as intake with push pull. I have a 240 on the top with exhaust. And a 120 fan on the back. The watercooling is only for the CPU for now, with the plan to change to proper pump and res + GPUs.
Back to your question - 85ish on the top and 70ish on the bottom, under full load. But that's with all fans at 1900rpm/110cfm full load with fan controller.
A side fan would be idea but the side panel is plastic. I may just rig something up
I would recommend you getting another though. They are amazing
Soldato
Cheers. I fully intend to once finances allow and I fully intend to watercool them eventually.
Yep, I'll need to WC these. I don't want them running 80+ for long
Soldato
Booted up my PC and my clocks are stuck in 3D mode again 
Guess I'll reinstall the drivers.
Guess I'll reinstall the drivers.
Caporegime
Booted up my PC and my clocks are stuck in 3D mode again
Guess I'll reinstall the drivers.
Did you try 14.4 WHQL yet?
Apologies if you said you did earlier.
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Looking to do a similar build myself, first on air then go to water.
Sorry if its been asked before (28 pages is a lot), but do you notice any slow down and throttling when the cards get nice and toasty? Oh, and the noise, whats it like?
Sorry if its been asked before (28 pages is a lot), but do you notice any slow down and throttling when the cards get nice and toasty? Oh, and the noise, whats it like?
Soldato
Did you try 14.4 WHQL yet?
Apologies if you said you did earlier.
Not yet, not been home long.I'll give them a go now.
They fixed the problem with my idle clocks
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Caporegime
Not yet, not been home long.I'll give them a go now.
They fixed the problem with my idle clocks
Soldato
20 minutes in to the new drivers and I got a black screen crash 
So it's obviously not the drivers. It's either the game or the card not being able to run the factory OC.
So it's obviously not the drivers. It's either the game or the card not being able to run the factory OC.