AMD Radeon R9 Nano coming next week

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

SFF and 600W PSU? who is this aimed at again?

http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-titan/specifications

Recommended minimum PSU is 600W. Yet,Valve were running them off 450W SFF PSUs perfectly fine in the prototype Steam Boxes.

Plenty of people running them in Shuttles too which have at most have 500W flexATX PSUs too.

Ran dual 6 pin PCI-E cards like the 8800GTS 512MB and HD5850 1GB off SFF Shuttle 400W/450W PSUs fine,and both were overclocked.

Both "needed" at least 500W PSUs supposedly.

SFF PSUs are usually worse than their full ATX competitors too.

Its all ******** - I had nothing but SFF PCs as my main ones from 2005,and those PSU requirements parroted by AMD and Nvidia are for noobs!

 

[Gerard]

ed: bleh

 

[ALXAndy]

Turns out you CAN xfire it

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/47447/amds-super-small-radeon-r9-nano-used-crossfire-fury/index.html

Good excrement.

Won't be paying £550 for it though. I'll wait until they're £450 before taking the plunge.

So that means availability will need to be quite high as well as stock levels, so I'll see you about the same time next year

 

[Boomstick777]

Any news as to when pre-orders go live on Overclockers UK? Or will it be available for purchase on launch day?

Not sure if AMD have a launch day as such. A paper launch day sure.. When hardware will arrive only Gibbo etc will know.

 

[LE-FISH]

I'll be getting two of them! To replace my two R9 290s. Thanks for the info, Boomstick777

BTW, who is Gibbo? xD

 

[snips86x]

I'll be getting two of them! To replace my two R9 290s. Thanks for the info, Boomstick777

BTW, who is Gibbo? xD

OcUK MD

 

[Marine-RX179]

BTW, who is Gibbo? xD

The man that bring us happiness and joy (aka geek toys) for the right price

 

[chroniclard]

Good excrement.

Won't be paying £550 for it though. I'll wait until they're £450 before taking the plunge.

So that means availability will need to be quite high as well as stock levels, so I'll see you about the same time next year

Why wouldnt you just get another Fury X?

 

[varkanoid]

http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-titan/specifications

Recommended minimum PSU is 600W. Yet,Valve were running them off 450W SFF PSUs perfectly fine in the prototype Steam Boxes.

Plenty of people running them in Shuttles too which have at most have 500W flexATX PSUs too.

Is this where all the review copies went ?

 

[ALXAndy]

Why wouldnt you just get another Fury X?

Because they have radiators on and I can't fit another maybe?

I did consider a Fury but the after market coolers don't match the Fury X at all. At least the Nano looks similar.

Mostly though? well, when the X2 hits (if it ever hits) I would bet that it will have either the same, or, lower clocks than the Nano.

So either way it will be a massive performance boost, even if I have to run the X at lower clocks.

It would take me about ten seconds to fit a Nano. It would take me about ten hours to completely strip my case down to add rad mounts that probably wouldn't fit any way.

 

[~Mike~]

OcUK MD

There was me thinking he was a purchasing manager.

 

[UTmaniac]

I'll be getting two of them! To replace my two R9 290s. Thanks for the info, Boomstick777

BTW, who is Gibbo? xD

Are you sure two are going to be available to buy?

 

[muziqaz]

The man that bring us happiness and joy (aka geek toys) for the right price

right, price yeah, right... price

 

[Sencha]

They're only producing two total so good luck getting both of them.

 

[nashathedog]

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/47447/amds-super-small-radeon-r9-nano-used-crossfire-fury/index.html

Is this another site reviewing the card out of a case?

 

[muziqaz]

Is this another site reviewing the card out of a case?

they done the same with 980ti:
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7317/msi-geforce-gtx-980-ti-lightning-video-card-review/index4.html

 

[nashathedog]

they done the same with 980ti:
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7317/msi-geforce-gtx-980-ti-lightning-video-card-review/index4.html

That doesn't change the fact that they'll give questionable results when compared to what people see in there PC builds. A card designed with a heat limitation on performance that's designed for mini itx builds needs to be tested in a case to give real world results, Testing it on an open bench is not doing that.

Gurur3d got the card as well and there testing on an open bench, To me there seems to be a pattern and that's going to skew results.

 

[muziqaz]

That doesn't change the fact that they'll give questionable results when compared to what people see in there PC builds. A card designed with a heat limitation on performance that's designed for mini itx builds needs to be tested in a case to give real world results, Testing it on an open bench is not doing that.

Gurur3d got the card as well and there testing on an open bench, To me there seems to be a pattern and that's going to skew results.

that pattern is broken with their review of 980ti No conspiracy. I do agree that it would be best to test it inside of the closed small case, and i have no clue why they are doing it like that

 

[Gibbo]

There was me thinking he was a purchasing manager.

This is the title I like to go as.

But I play a big part in OcUK/Caseking group, I think my job could only be better if I had Chris Harris or Clarkson's job.

 

[mmj_uk]

they done the same with 980ti:
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7317/msi-geforce-gtx-980-ti-lightning-video-card-review/index4.html

980Ti is expected to be run in a case with lots of airflow and not only that it has a guaranteed base clock anyway, Fury Nano is expected to be run in tiny cases with little air circulation and it has no base clock at all... the difference between a Nano on a test bench and inside an actual ITX system could be quite significant once heat build-up takes effect.