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** GIBBO's GUIDE TO WHICH 290 SERIES CARD TO BUY!! **

Gibbo said:
Each card should at least have a small space between them, about an inch, otherwise they could get too hot.
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Thank you, I think i'll be limited to 2 of these for a case build then.

What PSU in stock would be best suited to powering 2 of these overclocked mining 24/7 do you think?

Thanks again :)
 
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Empathic said:
Excellent service as always Gibbo, thank you.

Wpuld the NZXT gold 1000w run 3 if/when I decide to add a 3rd later?
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Probably pushing your luck to be honest. A superflower would, but no stock. :(

In that case I'd recommend the Seasonic 1250W we've just got in, on special offer, great PSU and will do it easily. :)
 
Rezident said:
Good overview, very useful.
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My Asus 290X DC2 is here, let thrashing commence, sorry testing. :D

Initial thoughts:-
Elpida RAM. :(
Cooler, OMG its huge and bloody epic at cooling and quiet, on parr with Tri-X cooler for sure, but quieter, very impressive.

Shall come back later with testing or in a few days as going to put it head to head against my own personal 290X Asus reference card with Elpida. :)
 
Hi there

Sapphire 290 Tri-X's have arrived, I shall hold the pre-order price until tomorrow and then place them also on THIS WEEK ONLY on Wednesday at a slightly higher price, so if you want one grab one in next 24hrs for best deal.

These cards OWN at gaming, mining and benchmarking, pretty much the best 290 you can buy with the MSI a close second. :)
 
Gibbo said:
My Asus 290X DC2 is here, let thrashing commence, sorry testing. :D

Initial thoughts:-
Elpida RAM. :(
Cooler, OMG its huge and bloody epic at cooling and quiet, on parr with Tri-X cooler for sure, but quieter, very impressive.

Shall come back later with testing or in a few days as going to put it head to head against my own personal 290X Asus reference card with Elpida. :)
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A further update, I take back what I said, this card has Elpida memory but it is nearly matching Hynix for the overclock, so either the Asus mosfet memory controller is indeed better or Asus secretly bumped up the memory voltage compared to normal and maybe Elpida responds well to voltage.

Thankfully with time we can test this as this Asus card has hotwire function, so we can try adjusting memory voltage in hardware. ;)
 
Could some one give me some advice please. I'm itching to order the Sapphire R9 290 tri-x, but not sure if my PSU is up to it. I've got an OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent in my rig at the moment. Now the Overclockers product page says 600w or more is sufficient, but the Sapphire page is saying 750w? Please tell me my current PSU is good enough, that would make me very happy! :)
 
bobal said:
Could some one give me some advice please. I'm itching to order the Sapphire R9 290 tri-x, but not sure if my PSU is up to it. I've got an OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent in my rig at the moment. Now the Overclockers product page says 600w or more is sufficient, but the Sapphire page is saying 750w? Please tell me my current PSU is good enough, that would make me very happy! :)
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I am running an r9 290x with i7 4770k and my power supply is an OCZ StealthXStream 2 600w.

No problems at all :)

Load is something like 350W-400W whilst benching/gaming.
 
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