Should be but id go with 650 version.
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MSI 290/290X Gaming Edition Thread
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Should be but id go with 650 version.
Soldato
I'm blown away with the silence of mine, at first I was hmmmmm, put my finger on the gpu fans and slowed them to a stop, and there wasn't a huge difference, turns out the majority of the noise was from my cpu cooler fan................... which makes me think my reference msi with a custom profile wouldn't have been so bad after all lol
Soldato
I'm still amazed to this day that people scrimp on psu's but are happy to spend several hundred of pounds on a gpu
these cards can be easily obtained now and i'm shocked there is still only one review on the WWW
Not too keen on some of Hilberts review methods!
Ties in with what i've found so far temp wise though absolute tops at 72*c with less than 50% fan.
Love the spacing on the backplate of the card to stop heatsoak, and every memory chip is covered in a thermal pad unlike the Asus DCII.
Best 290 aftermarket by a mile.
ps. i've switched my bios selector towards the back of the case and the card is now running with a slower spinning fan with no performance hit thus far (frames are super high in everything) thought the bios switch didnt do much on these.
The card in the box says legacy or UEFI bios switch.
The card in the box says legacy or UEFI bios switch.
Caporegime
Interesting keep testing dude. Could this be the fix?
no its still throttling LOL
Just even quieter for what appears to be no fps loss thus far
Soldato
Looking at the MSI product page it seems to have 3 modes?
1007MHz Core(OC mode)
977MHz Core(Gaming mode)
947MHz Core(Silent mode)
1007MHz Core(OC mode)
977MHz Core(Gaming mode)
947MHz Core(Silent mode)
Soldato
Yeah it does, you need to install MSIGamingApp software either from the driver CD or downloaded from their website.
Soldato
Cheers for the heads up!
Soldato
How do I unlock the voltage in Afterburner for my MSI 290x?
Caporegime
Afterburner Beta 18 > Settings > Unlock voltage control and monitoring.
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Total fail moment last night. Playing assassin's creed 3 thinking "excellent holding a steady 60. Strange though 2nd card isn't being used." forgot to re enable crossfire in all games. Doh!
Quiet cards so far though.
Quiet cards so far though.
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Soldato
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How are you getting on with these cards in crossfire? Are the temps reasonable? and do you have the 290's or the 290x's?
Cheers.
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290's. So far I've had very little gaming time and as you can see the little time I did have I only had 1 running however it was only about 60°. I do also have 2 side fans blowing air right onto them. I won't really know how they fair until the weekend when I can get a good few hours in.
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Keep us posted with how you get on with them mate, they are lovely cards and i'm sure you will enjoy all that performance. 
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Will do. Going to be trying out a few things looking forward to finally trying Crysis 3 for the first time and at 1440p. See how these cards handle that.