Caporegime
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AMD R9 290 (Non-X, Pro, etc) Owners Club
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Soldato
Always be wary if Matt gives you a sendspace link, never know what you'll get.
I thought that was a box of chocolates?
Man of Honour
Because it can make a significant difference
Compare an ordinary 290X to the MSI Lightning at the same clockspeeds and you get a noticable difference in performance.
The same goes for comparing an EVGA 780ti Classified against a Kingpin edition.
no **** bro.
Never, ever in this conversations did we compare 2 cards, one of which that are made specifically for benching. All i said was that faster RAM will give you a performance increase, but for some reason Tonester likes to be annoying.
You cant compare a lightnings RAM to my ref cards RAM because latency is lower. Comparing even ASUS ref to Sapphire ref RAM cant be done because the timings are different (But you could just flash so i guess it doesnt matter).
Now comparing a card to itself with higher and lower RAM works, and higher WILL give you performance increase unless you run into corrections which was the point all along.
Tonester said:
then you appeared and said "its not that simple you've got timings and correction".
1. Correction isnt something you can do anything about other than to feed more volts or clock less.
2. Timings will change based on the bios, which can be flashed on various cards except for stupid cards like the Matrix and Lightning (Lightning has tight latencies which is why its better.) More MHz = More Bandwidth = More performance.
RAM Clocks DIRECTLY affect performance for the better unless its unstable, and this is against everything Tonester has said in the quote above.
Jesus christ can we change topic now? Or you pulling my leg as well?
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so VRAM speed directly affects performance for the better, but only if not stable
right I'm now confused too
Oh brainfart. Thanks for pointing it out.
sorry
was only meant in light hearted manner still liking my 290 - performance is pretty epic really
slightly bit of coil whine at idle (all the time - might even be one of the fans) - but its barely audible
overall a very impressive card
would have preferred to stay Nvidia for this round but the 290s - especially overclocked are very hard to ignore performance for the money
sorry
still liking my 290 - performance is pretty epic really
slightly bit of coil whine at idle (all the time - might even be one of the fans) - but its barely audible
overall a very impressive card
would have preferred to stay Nvidia for this round but the 290s - especially overclocked are very hard to ignore performance for the money
Both brands are good.
Caporegime
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Soldato
Nice
Soldato
Just tried both my cards separately. Neither of them can get over 1.2Ghz on the core, they artifact. One has slightly better memory though.
Soldato
You have a reference card?
Caporegime
I think 1200Mhz is probably pretty good, 1225 is the limit for mine and you know it has good VRM cooling. i don't know how Rangerjr1 managed to get all? his to 1300Mhz, but i'm going to hazard a guess that it wasn't with +200mv
seems like Fire Strike is the real key one to get stable - far harder than Valley
currently this card likes
150mv - 1200/6000 - nice - although VRMs a bit hot
or 50mV - 1140/5800
So welcome to the 1200Mhz 290 club.
Soldato
Mine has good VRM cooling too 
At 100% fan speed
At 100% fan speed
Looks like i was able to help you out
Caporegime
Looks like i was able to help you out
You did, and thanks
it actually runs well @ 1200Mhz with +200mv, in BF4 it gets past 80c 55% fan, but it doesn't seem to mind.I'm not going to run it at that, it has uddles of grunt @ 1110Mhz and its nice and cool.
Soldato
Had a play last night with my Sapphire 290 OC....just on stock volts I was seeing how far I could get on Valley. I've settled on 1080 core and 1337 mem, HD and 1337
Soldato
Nice clocks Humbug 