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MSI 290X LE quick review and thoughts

It is situational what leads you use I believe. I have used two leads one could only work to 85hz and this one (startech brand) to 120hz. Also had a DP adapter and there was no joys with that either.
 
Did you not fancy the lightning edition? Its not the LE edition either like the one I got, looks like OCUK got the binned OC editions? Might be wrong.

Or did u just opt for the cheapest one?
 
Gregster said:
Hopefully a different lead will sort it but seems strange that the same lead worked fine @ 144hz and 1440P on the Titans.
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Not really as there is a difference in drive strength between hardware, i could use a longer HDMI lead with my AMD card too the KURO than i could with my PS3, i would get sparkles with the longer lead with the PS3.
 
Rusty0611 said:
Mantle smoother than Titans @ DX or just the same? For me, it was the same. No problems with it but I didn't have probs with DX on the 780.
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I can't really answer that fairly, as the 290X is being compared to 3 Titans and G-Sync and the 290X is limited to 60Hz at present. It played nice and smooth though and felt quite responsive on the 290X.
 
A while back the difference was quite pronounced between mantle/DX in bf4. But as a result of some driver tweaking by NVIDIA its much better now, cant recall what thread it was in but Rroff referred to it a while back. Currently on DX its running very well, though I haven't tried a single card lately. Aka I remember to enable sli now after a new driver install.:D
 
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Hat's off to AMDGreg:eek::D:cool::p:)

Nice review and glad to hear it went well.

You could try CRU and force 143Hz(Step 5), could be worth a shot, pretty simple:

tommybhoy said:
Downsampling The Easy Way With Custom Resolution Utility (CRU)-Running On AMD

CRU-the program you need:

http://www.monitortests.com/cru-1.1.1.zip

Before you do anything, create a System Restore point, it's a handy fallback to use in Safe Mode should your monitor go out of range.

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Run CRU as administrator, allow it through smart screen if need be(W8).


1. Untick 'Include extension block'

2. Click 'Add'

3. Input Horizontal

4. Input Vertical

5. Optional if you have a 120Hz/+ panel, Input Refresh rate.

6. Press OK, and restart PC.

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Notes:

I had to unplug my second display as it wouldn't work with both plugged in-your mileage may vary though.

I would advise leaving your native resolution on the desktop and using in game settings to change individual game resolutions as the screen goes blurry when running out with your native res.
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Enjoy your visit to the dark side.:)
 
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That's always been the problem for me with ATI they just can't get the basics right, refresh rates, black screens, shockingly bad control panel.

They have been in this industry for over a decade and they still have no clue.

When i had my 5830 in COH each driver would screw up the game in a different way usually the fire fx in the map, some drivers would just crawl the fps. I gave up. Had to make custom resolution or refresh rate profiles for basic setups. ..

I am not surprised to sre nothing had changed.

144 gaming has been out a while, why would you need to wait till Monday to hope it's been fixed?
 
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