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*** AMD Radeon R9 290X Reviews Thread ***

Suarez7 said:
Well by the time the custom ones are out the 780ti will be here anyway.
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And unless it's priced at sub £500, even if it is 3-5% faster, it would still be for glory sake than practicality.

AMD's still got plenty of room for performance improvement on drivers sides of things, but GK110 already has matured drivers.
 
I don't want anything that hot in any of my pc's.
I'm going to save my money for 20nm cards, first time I've skipped a gen since I built my first pc for Doom in 1993.

All these cards should be sub £400 NV's offerings included, paying crazy money for 28nm house heaters is just plain stupid.

If I needed a card now, I'd wait and see how much the 780gtx drops in the next few weeks.

Roll on 20nm!
 
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Legion said:
I don't want anything that hot in any of my pc's.
I'm going to save my money for 20nm cards, first time I've skipped a gen since I built my first pc for Doom in 1993.

All these cards should be sub £400 NV's offerings included, paying crazy money for 28nm house heaters is just plain stupid.

If I needed a card now, I'd wait and see how much the 780gtx drops in the next few weeks.

Roll on 20nm!
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Before I w/c my 7990, it was running at 90 degrees and after a few hours my NZXT switch 810 case was burning. Even with full fans venting it rose the room temperature by 10 degres to 28 degrees in 24 hours. :eek:
 
Legion said:
I don't want anything that hot in any of my pc's.
I'm going to save my money for 20nm cards, first time I've skipped a gen since I built my first pc for Doom in 1993.

All these cards should be sub £400 NV's offerings included, paying crazy money for 28nm house heaters is just plain stupid.

If I needed a card now, I'd wait and see how much the 780gtx drops in the next few weeks.

Roll on 20nm!
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To be honest your current/previous cards might have been just as hot, depending on their TDP.. they just exchaust the heat faster so it never peaks at 95 :P

That's what I got told in the other thread. Then again, this one has a very high TDP so even if the temp gets exhausted it's gonna raise your ambient temp quickly.. I used to have my old old athlon PC warm up my room proper.. but seems we're going back to that stage :D
 
It looks like a great card if performance/price is all that matters to you.

AMD seem to be breaking all of the records set by Fermi though when it comes to heat/noise etc and I'm not sure I'd want that amount of heat being dumped into the case when non-reference cards arrive.
 
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Locky said:
I don't know why people bother with TTL video reviews, ok his case reviews are good but anything with hardware - hes useless, and his Hitler style moderating on his forums with his shandy drinking following.
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LtMatt said:
Yeah i saw him and his cronies be pretty obnoxious to Kaap on their forums. Made me want to sign up and lay some verbals on them. I decided not to though.
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I couldn't agree more. I have seen this happen so many times, it is quite embarrassing. I read Kaap's posts on his site also and I should also have signed up to put TTL straight but that would have just resulted in deleted posts. He didn't have a clue what he was on about and the idiots who backed him up was laughable.

Watch TTL if you want a review that is, in most times, complete garbage.

TaKeN said:
LOL @ TTL Video, clearly an Nvidia fan. Comparing the looks of the ATi card to the Nvidia card. They both look equally as ****. But I don't care!!
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The sad part is he isn't. He does those sort of reviews for Nvidia as well. I think he does it for reaction and probably suffering from the small man syndrome.
 
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Catanonia said:
Before I w/c my 7990, it was running at 90 degrees and after a few hours my NZXT switch 810 case was burning. Even with full fans venting it rose the room temperature by 10 degres to 28 degrees in 24 hours. :eek:
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Well even after watercooling, the card is still generating that heat, you are just doing a much better job getting it away from the card. The net effect on room temp should be the same....
 
krooton said:
Well even after watercooling, the card is still generating that heat, you are just doing a much better job getting it away from the card. The net effect on room temp should be the same....
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Correct and noise levels are much reduced as well as case temperature affecting CPU temps as well. From personal experience, dumping that much heat into a case is bad news and why in it's current guise (along with throttling) I would not get a 290x yet.
 
Gregster said:
I couldn't agree more. I have seen this happen so many times, it is quite embarrassing. I read Kaap's posts on his site also and I should also have signed up to put TTL straight but that would have just resulted in deleted posts. He didn't have a clue what he was on about and the idiots who backed him up was laughable.

Watch TTL if you want a review that is, in most times, complete garbage.



The sad part is he isn't. He does those sort of reviews for Nvidia as well. I think he does it for reaction and probably suffering from the small man syndrome.
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He has megalomania and chronic narcissism.

A few months back a user on there asked how to remove anodizing from alu. I replied "With caustic soda".

I then have half of my post deleted by TTL. I reply again, same thing, only, use oven cleaner. I also posted a video of Ryan at West Coast Customs doing just that.

I got banned and TTL changed my username to something bad and trashed my account completely. It must have taken him hours to do.

He has serious issues. Like serious, serious issues with control. I stopped paying any attention to his reviews years ago when he reviewed some really tragic Kingston ram and was vocal about how bad it was, only to buckle and remove the review.

Any level of spine he pretends to have was completely washed away.
 
mmj_uk said:
It looks like a great card if performance/price is all that matters to you.

AMD seem to be breaking all of the records set by Fermi though when it comes to heat/noise etc and I'm not sure I'd want that amount of heat being dumped into the case when non-reference cards arrive.
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But that's still nothing compare to the amount of heat of pair of cards in CF or SLI.

Most sensible people would have fan(s) on the side-panel of the case for removing the heat from the lower half of the case anyway (this is one reason despite lots of Corsair windowed cases look very good, they are not great for GPU cooling).
 
Catanonia said:
Correct and noise levels are much reduced as well as case temperature affecting CPU temps as well. From personal experience, dumping that much heat into a case is bad news and why in it's current guise (along with throttling) I would not get a 290x yet.
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But the stock coolers dont dump the heat in the case, they throw it out the back of the card?

Either way, when I can get an MSI (if it's the SK memory), and a waterblock, I'll be going for it.
 
Addicted said:
But the stock coolers dont dump the heat in the case, they throw it out the back of the card?

Either way, when I can get an MSI (if it's the SK memory), and a waterblock, I'll be going for it.
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:D:D The 7990 dumps it horizontally to the side of the case in my scenerio I was talking about :)

LOL :) lets not fight, either way heat in a case is bad (if it happens) and the 290x needs a waterblock for anything serious unless you like a toasty case and components and / or damaged hearing :)
 
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