AMD Radeon R9 290X with Hawaii GPU pictured, has 512-bit 4GB Memory

Silent_Scone · 14 Oct 2013 at 12:58

Well if it turns out they're not worth the hassle I'll just cancel my pre order. So that's a waste of time lol.

MooMoo444 · 14 Oct 2013 at 12:58

I've been debating on SLI 770 or trying the red team. I'm patient though, so it's all good

jkb · 14 Oct 2013 at 13:00

DeathofRats said:
We should start a club

I'm in

straxusii · 14 Oct 2013 at 13:04

You'd have to be crackers to buy a 780 now, the absolute worst time with an AMD card around the corner that potentially beats it soundly and/or a price cut from Nvidia to counter said card

benjii · 14 Oct 2013 at 13:07

straxusii said:
You'd have to be crackers to buy a 780 now, the absolute worst time with an AMD card around the corner that potentially beats it soundly and/or a price cut from Nvidia to counter said card

I agree. Some people are just really impatient though.

flopper · 14 Oct 2013 at 13:09

straxusii said:
You'd have to be crackers to buy a 780 now, the absolute worst time with an AMD card around the corner that potentially beats it soundly and/or a price cut from Nvidia to counter said card

The red tide is strong.
the winds blowing behind us the sun in our face agh thats the Bf3 one, and yes I would wait for cards out, reviews and some guys here buying them running games, and we need a shrine built to the 290 series the new 9700.

just hope reviews are out soonish.
the force is strong with the 290.

Rezident · 14 Oct 2013 at 13:12

The tension mounts...

VincentHanna · 14 Oct 2013 at 13:19

Said the man to his fat girlfriend....

Edit - That's a random joke, not an insult by the way!

BS Dave · 14 Oct 2013 at 13:25

Orangey said:
I hate Powercolor, if AMD are skimping here and choosing the same kind of components a 3rd rate AIB uses I will be very disappointed.

I've had 2 Powercolor cards and they've been fine. My 7970 over clocks to 1200 on the reference cooler at 1.81volts. Memory does 1700 and any cool whine is well under the noise any fans make. My 1800xt was decent as well.

Gerard · 14 Oct 2013 at 13:37

MjFrosty said:
Absolute abysmal state to send a review card in.

Gregster · 14 Oct 2013 at 13:41

Gerard said:

Check out all the thermal grease over the GPU pcb area.

Frenzy · 14 Oct 2013 at 13:42

It's like someone got excited or something...

Gerard · 14 Oct 2013 at 13:45

Gregster said:
Check out all the thermal grease over the GPU pcb area.

Seen that kind of thing on plenty of cards, even if its a review sample its hardly anything new.

Silent_Scone · 14 Oct 2013 at 13:55

That doesn't make it ok does it?

There's "could have been better applied", and then there's

benjii · 14 Oct 2013 at 14:00

MjFrosty said:
That doesn't make it ok does it?

There's "could have been better applied", and then there's

I'd be happy to reapply the paste if they let me join in.

Steampunk · 14 Oct 2013 at 14:01

littlepuppy said:
As others have said, is it AMD "faffing around" or keyboard jockeys making it up as they go along, with people who hang on their every word then getting disappointed when their predictions - and that is what they seem to be, are incorrect. Where / when have AMD ever announced a release date?

That's the problem. In view of all the rumours, AMD should have come out and announced the release date, and stuck to it.

Instead, they let other people post "official" release and review dates, let those rumours fly about the internet and get amplified, and did nothing to prevent that. These are after all the same websites that AMD use to get their own messages out to the buying public when it suits them. All it would have needed was a simple announcement from AMD, and all that wrong info and rumours would have gone away.

Instead they let all their potential customers wind themselves up, only to have a big let-down. It's mis-management to let those rumours keep growing, just like the tech-day was mismanaged and made AMD look like asses right up until they announced Mantle. And even that was mismanaged, because a lot of their online customers bailed out before the end of the tech day, as it was so badly done.

Sometimes I swear the phrase "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" was inventing just for AMD.

jonneymendoza · 14 Oct 2013 at 14:05

a warning for my sig and cant respond to mods PM's grrr. sig i used was within rules? small sig image i used and did not contain any unappropriate text. Infact there was no text in the sig.

Uncle Petey · 14 Oct 2013 at 14:06

OTT thermal paste application is standard procedure in my experience.

Speaking of nothing new...

R9-290X ref cooler:

7970 Ref cooler (mine in fact):

Hope you've got waterblocks on pre-order too

Gregster · 14 Oct 2013 at 14:10

jonneymendoza said:
a warning for my sig and cant respond to mods PM's grrr. sig i used was within rules? small sig image i used and did not contain any unappropriate text. Infact there was no text in the sig.

Was it over 20k and bigger than 400x75?

littlepuppy · 14 Oct 2013 at 14:17

MjFrosty said:
Because distributors systems have dates given by manufacturers when more information is available, in this case it was Tuesday. However they've been given updated information over the weekend to let them know it's going to be longer.

It's not rocket science.

And because of the internet, information like this leaks out more easily and then gets moaned at by x y and z... Maybe AMD should have an "official" release date, and then stick to it, as they don't, I find it hard to moan at them because they are not releasing cards on a date they did not announce they would be. I think a lot of people are so impatient to get hold of these they stop being rational, its a 2 week delay, they will be here soon enough (if the latest rumour is true that is

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