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

Marine-RX179 said:
£400 for the 290x seem unlikely...£350 for the 290 (with 95% of 290x's performance) is where the hope lies...
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Yeh if the price of a basic 290x exceeds £420 I am going to wait another week for the 290. I wish they launched at the same time, I bet they are staggering the release so that the desperate ones go straight for the flagship card and aren't tempted by the price/perf of the 290
 
All this reference design (cooler) talk got me thinking.
Do you think there would be a market if companies like MSI, gigabyte, etc. sold their Twin Frozr and WindForce coolers as after market coolers?
They already make them for most cards so it wouldn't really be much of a problem for them would it?
Sure it'd only work with the coolers designed to work with reference PCB, but I believe the Twin Frozr, WindForce, IceQ type cooler usually are for reference aren't they?

Sure you'd have to buy one for your exact model of card (pretty much) but personally I'd prefer it to the generic ones where you have to stick heatsinks on all the RAM chips and VRMs.

There'd have to be a bit of a cost to them, not point making so you can buy a reference card and a WindForce 3X cooler cheaper than the Gigabyte model with the WindForce 3X cooler. Still for times like now people that just have to have a 290X could buy a reference and then at a later date (probably a little while after the WindForce 3X edition was released) they could buy one (or more) WindForce 3X cooler to 'upgrade' they card.

Also good for people that went with a waterblock but have decided (or been forced) to go back to air but don't want the noise of the stock cooler they knew they'd be removing when they bought the card.

Do you think there'd be enough demand to make that a worthwhile venture by any of the companies?
Has anyone already tried it and failed?
 
dom99 said:
Yeh if the price of a basic 290x exceeds £420 I am going to wait another week for the 290. I wish they launched at the same time, I bet they are staggering the release so that the desperate ones go straight for the flagship card and aren't tempted by the price/perf of the 290
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yeah.....bit funny that no reviews are going to be popping up either until all the pre-orders are already on their way to their obsessive compulsive addiction personality suffering new owners.

As hinted at in that 'leaked' Chinese review, I think the running temps for this card are gonna be through the roof.
 
Gregster said:
I hope you are right Matt and it would be cool if Gibbo could let us know what is what.
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Its not those guys you need to watch, from past experience it was Asus and their voltage locked 7970s....

And just a word of warning, i doubt these are gonna clock well on air, they gonna be too hot, so don't get too excited about the voltage control unless you are on water preferably with a chiller.
 
Jono8 said:
Well there goes the idea of getting a single card that would run cooler than my sli 670's. 95 degrees under load is more than my 480 gtx which i got rid of because of noise/heat. :(
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If the price is right I'm gonna use the excuse I like the extra heating during the winter months. I thought I read it was 95 degrees with 20% fan speed, which is lower than I ever seem to have mine set anyway. A faster fan speed should fix those temps a bit.

Edit, ignore me. I saw the link above was 40% fan speed.
 
157.7% scaling for CF, they're gonna need to get a driver ready to address that
hitman abs seems to be the bad one for CF lowering the %
 
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Jono8 said:
Well there goes the idea of getting a single card that would run cooler than my sli 670's. 95 degrees under load is more than my 480 gtx which i got rid of because of noise/heat. :(
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BodgeITandRun said:
If the price is right I'm gonna use the excuse I like the extra heating during the winter months. I thought I read it was 95 degrees with 20% fan speed, which is lower than I ever seem to have mine set anyway. A faster fan speed should fix those temps a bit.

Edit, ignore me. I saw the link above was 40% fan speed.
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GoogalyMoogaly said:
What are they running that seems to push the Core to high speeds but leave the VRAM in 2D mode (I presume based on the speed) while causing 100% activity?
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Something very weird is going on with those screenshots.. Either GPU-z is reporting something wrong or if you look close enough you see core being maxed out, Memory spiking from 0 to 100% all over the place, fan speed no higher than 25-30% and its not even matching the curve for RPM.. That is not normal!!!

I do not believe the card will be see 95 degrees on normal gaming use, not even my old cooker 4870x2 got that high and it was bad enough.
 
Jono8 said:
Well there goes the idea of getting a single card that would run cooler than my sli 670's. 95 degrees under load is more than my 480 gtx which i got rid of because of noise/heat. :(
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Unacceptable for a new GFX card :rolleyes: looks like no effort was put into the cooler.

BodgeITandRun said:
If the price is right I'm gonna use the excuse I like the extra heating during the winter months. I thought I read it was 95 degrees with 20% fan speed, which is lower than I ever seem to have mine set anyway. A faster fan speed should fix those temps a bit.

Edit, ignore me. I saw the link above was 40% fan speed.
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Suspect because most reviews are not very technically savvy they will make more fuss over noise than temps :D
 
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