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

Martini1991 many people got memory like goldfish...
Its when you link few old review then they are like:
O YE i remember now they ware tad hot :D
 
How do you OC something that goes to 95c on stock clocks?

Unless it has a safe thermal threshold of like 120c.. which I guess is pushing the limits of Silicon and other components. It's 103c for AMD right now isnt it?
 
Make said:
How do you OC something that goes to 95c on stock clocks?
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By making the fan spin really loud at 100% speed....:D
or by throwing lots of money at a water cooling setup...


Or you could just ask some GTX 480 owners how they do it ...:p
 
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I pre-ordered this thinking i would prefer to have a cooler running, less noisy, less power hungry, Titan matching/beating single GPU solution to possibly replace my 670's in SLI.

This has not gone well...

Seriously AMD, I sold my GTX 480 for 670's in SLI. I am not going back to that again unless it is offered at super cheap prices like the 480's were in that OCUK firesale.
 
Has anyone mentioned the fan speed is 43%?

My sapphire non reference cooled card at 100% load needs about 80% fan speed in demanding games and thats in a poorly vented case due to radiators

Surely something is up with it if the fan speed is only 43% and at 90c it should be way higher than that, probably about 100% speed i would have thought?

Perhaps the fan curve is not setup correctly?
 
I think it's down to the size of the fans. Hence the newer cards having oversized fans... however cases don't expect that... the PCI bracket is a certain size for a reason.

Need to be thinking about 240mm PCI brackets??

edit: but if you were going to change the PCI interface you'd do it so you could put the GPU in a separate case compartment.
 
How many of the 8,000 world wide pre-orders are going to be kept I wonder.

Kind of glad I held off now and waited, I couldnt have a card running that hot in my Lian Li V355 matx case.
 
My ref 7970 @45+% fan speed was too much for me and went the distance within a month. Even at stock clocks its going to need to go above 45 at times and there-in lies my problem with ref cards
 
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