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** INCREDIBLE KILL ROY AMD 290 DEAL: XFX 290 @ £199 WITH GAMES & FREE SHIPPING!! **
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Power Supplies generally keep their prices
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ARGGGGGG; don't get paid until Friday.......need to measure my case also to make sure 290 will fit; lol got 7870 XT in there about and inche to spare before one of my hd cages...
I think you'd struggle to sell them tbh. Once you redeem the OCUK code, you then select your 3 games on an AMD website, and then you're emailed 3 further codes for each game to download (anyone know if they're Steam?). I don't think many people would take the chance.
Does anyone know if the line up of games will change?
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Man of Honour
Mine just arrived, lovely card, virtually silent until really pushed, even at max I've heard a lot worse, we'll chuffed for £199.99 inc games 
Caporegime
Mine just arrived, lovely card, virtually silent until really pushed, even at max I've heard a lot worse, we'll chuffed for £199.99 inc games
Told you it was quiet, enjoy mate.
Man of Honour
Mine has arrived. I've been sitting here for a few minutes just looking at it. It's big, but slightly smaller than I thought. It appears it will be 280mm from the rear of the case forwards. A shame I don't have time this evening to install it!
Edit: Did eventually find time to install it. The fan gets up to 3100RPM playing Sleeping Dogs and the temperature sits at 83 degrees. Hope that's normal!
Edit: Did eventually find time to install it. The fan gets up to 3100RPM playing Sleeping Dogs and the temperature sits at 83 degrees. Hope that's normal!
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Caporegime
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Great cards for the money
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What are these like in crossfire? I've currently got 2 HIS 7950 which exhaust. Motherboard is a z87x-d3h so spacing is pretty good.
Told you it was quiet, enjoy mate.
Mine just arrived, lovely card, virtually silent until really pushed, even at max I've heard a lot worse, we'll chuffed for £199.99 inc games
Wondering whether mine has a problem then, as it's getting up to 83 degrees on Sleeping Dogs with everything turned up, and its what I would call loud at 3100 RPM. Borderlands 2 and Skyrim both run at 65 degrees and 2000 RPM, which is pretty quiet. I have 4 120mm case fans (2 blowing in to the case at the front, and 2 blowing out at the back).
Caporegime
That temp is within normal parameters. Sleeping Dogs is quite demanding and works the gpu very hard. The 290 series are rated up to 94c before they start to throttle so i wouldn't worry. A few pointers below though on how you can possibly improve things.
Is your case small? Perhaps heat is getting trapped around the graphics card. High static pressure intake fans will help, as will side exhaust fans to suck the heat out. Finally if you keep a positive air pressure (more intake than exhaust fans) and remove spare pci brackets from the case then hot air will be naturally forced out these ventilation areas in and around the gpu. Can help make a difference i find.
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Soldato
The Sleeping Dogs test of doom spares no one.
Thanks, glad to hear it's normal. I will do some experimenting later. My case is a Fractal R3 - so not small, but not large. I could move the exhaust fan from the top of the case to the side panel, and leave the other exhaust fan in the back of the case where it sits at the moment.