Also, are you sure the Sapphire cards are guaranteed Hynix memory? As far as I know, the Sapphire card is just the standard reference PCB with a non-ref cooler slapped on it. On the reference cards, if I recall, it was a luck of the draw on the memory chips you got.
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MSI 290/290X Gaming Edition Thread
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I would think it wouldn't matter, if you're not planning to push it. But according to one user review of this card, there's some noticeable throttling.
Caporegime
No vrm sensors does not mean anything. None of my Ice-Q's had vrm sensors and all of them overclocked superbly. However the Sapphire card still looks to be the pick of the 290 litter at the moment.
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There is no guarantee, my Asus card which were all supposedly Hynix has Elpedia memory, but saying that it can clock upto 6600MHz on the memory.
Caporegime
Both of my peasantry VTX 290 Pro's at £280 a pop have no trouble reaching 1625 on the memory and mine both use Elpida. Its not the end of the world.
Hi, looking to replace my gigabyte wf3 7950 with a R290 custom cooled, cant seem to find review on this, also the is the Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC any good its out of the box at Core Speed: 1040MHz and Memory Speed: 5400Mhz
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There aren't any reviews to my understanding. I've crawled Google and brought nothing back
Caporegime
I expect a review will pop up soon somewhere, you'd think.
Both of my peasantry VTX 290 Pro's at £280 a pop have no trouble reaching 1625 on the memory and mine both use Elpida. Its not the end of the world.
Excellent! I assume you've replaced the reference cooler?
Caporegime
No still using reference. Those clocks there are my firestrike benchmarking clocks. For gaming i use stock 975/1250 or if i want to overclock while gaming 1100/1400.
Both of my peasantry VTX 290 Pro's at £280 a pop have no trouble reaching 1625 on the memory and mine both use Elpida. Its not the end of the world.
Yep seems true.
Though Hynix generally is a little better, but at the same time good Elpedia will clock better than poor Hynix etc.
The MSI Lightning card I tested had Hynix, it did 7000MHz just on the memory OC, 6800Mhz was rock stable, so their dedicated power phase for memory definitely helps.
yes, i would like to know that too..does it just mean we wont be able to overclock mental on the card but small overclock will be fine? and what temp will it start throttling? and whats a safe max temp 95c ?
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Mines on its way.(not ocuk) Had a text saying 12.17 - 1 .17 delivered to the missus's place of work!
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I wouldn't. Who wants a Sapphire one, just a reference with a big cooler on it and a years less warranty. The MSI looks better built to me, with better components and a nice backplate.