OcUK PREPARING A 290X DEAL TO BLOW ALL OTHERS AWAY!

[Scramz]

I need to see a drop on the Tri X models so I can match up with my current one.

 

[Gerard]

This guy pretty much says what Tinytomlogan said in his review.

[youtub]MVIMGU-Szos[/youtube

 

[ALXAndy]

There's swearing in that vid I would remove it.

 

[Nelly]

There's swearing in that vid I would remove it.

Damn it was a good review, why didn't he say poo, feces or crap instead of ****, to be honest classing **** as swearing is very lame.

EDIT: Anyway to what JayzTwoCents and TinyTomLogan were saying is, these coolers on the Matrix can't keep the 290X below 90°C, the fans are loud, but the cards have all the best components, the Matrix is more for people wishing to water cool, LN2. Better options out there for air cooling such as the Tri-X / Vapor-X coolers.

 

[Nelly]

Who the hell do you believe? lol

Guru3d and Hardocp websites! in their reviews say different, reaching only 77°C and 81°C respectively and keeping the cards significantly quieter than the reference cards!

Guru3d link >> http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_radeon_r9_290x_matrix_review,12.html

Hardocp link >> http://www.hardocp.com/article/2014/09/08/asus_rog_r9_290x_matrix_platinum_video_card_review/10

 

[Yaayuh!]

Any reason not to go for a couple of Asus Radeon R9 290X DirectCU IIs?

 

[Kaapstad]

Any reason not to go for a couple of Asus Radeon R9 290X DirectCU IIs?

Case air flow is important.

 

[Yaayuh!]

Case air flow is important.

I had 2x 7970 Matrix Platinum's in this case, they were fine temperature wise.

I really wish the GTX980s weren't so expensive.

 

[Leon Axel]

YES and i wont be switching to 4K until the Panny OLED is available, if ever, because OLED 1080P is so good that you dont need 4K

i wanted a single card solution to give me better response/ less artifacts/ more stability than the 970SLI.........but believe me, my pc is exactly the same as 2 months ago.

a wise person wouldn't touch a TX for 1080p, he'd get 290X Crossfire and save himself a fortune.....or the 980TI because that wont be as expensive.............but you still need grunt at 1080p so i deffo dont recommend one smaller mid range card only, because i used to have to turn my settings down with a single 970 in Metro/FC3, the rig was deffo quicker with SLI...... but the TX is overkill.......so the perfect balance is a really good 290X crossfire, i'm not so sure about 970SLI simply because of this 3.5 RAM issue............980SLI ????????? same as TX............Overkill, this is just my thoughts though

the TX is fine, it's perfect, but i do regret spending all that money

There is no such thing as overkill...

 

[Yaayuh!]

There is no such thing as overkill...

Words that Kaap lives by.

 

[savagesam117]

There is no such thing as overkill...

I agree.

If it's worth doing, it's worth over doing!

 

[mattcrane]

Good thing about PC internals, the other half cant see what you have bought. Much harder to hide say, a new bigger monitor!

hehe my first PC was an Intel 486 DX-33 the case had led display on the front that displayed the CPU speed but it was manually set with jumpers inside the case.

By not changing the display I think I managed to upgrade the CPU all the way to a Pentium 90 before the wife figured it out that something wasn't quite right

 

[dpbadger]

Have we got an ETA on these yet?

 

[Gibbo]

Have we got an ETA on these yet?

Tuesday.

 

[FrankJH]

hehe my first PC was an Intel 486 DX-33 the case had led display on the front that displayed the CPU speed but it was manually set with jumpers inside the case.

By not changing the display I think I managed to upgrade the CPU all the way to a Pentium 90 before the wife figured it out that something wasn't quite right

Laughs - that brings back memories of my own SX-33 way back when (~93/94 ish if my memory serves) , my first cpu upgrade was to a DX-33 and it blew up in my face , literally hahaha......and Im still convinced I didn't do anything wrong 100's of upgrades /rebuilds later

 

[MatthewJRoberts]

So are these shipping out tomorrow? My order status is the same so I assume it's not happening today...

 

[Gibbo]

Our delivery has still not turned up, on a van somewhere, where is unknown as present.

 

[Gibbo]

Just got an update, truck is broken down and delivery re-scheduled for tomorrow! Insert swear words!!!!

 

[nashathedog]

he'd get 290X Crossfire and save himself a fortune.....or the 980TI because that wont be as expensive.............but you still need grunt at 1080p so i deffo dont recommend one smaller mid range card only, because i used to have to turn my settings down with a single 970 in Metro/FC3, the rig was deffo quicker with SLI...... but the TX is overkill.......so the perfect balance is a really good 290X crossfire,

Hold on, have the crossfire issues (lack of profiles or on time profiles) and the heat issues suddenly been fixed? By the time you've spent the extra for water cooling or simply bought a pair of top end cards like the Sapphires which might be able to deal with the heat more effectively you've lost the price advantage and you still have the support issues to deal with. Only an idiot would go with 290x crossfire.

 

[old gamer]

hehe my first PC was an Intel 486 DX-33 the case had led display on the front that displayed the CPU speed but it was manually set with jumpers inside the case.

By not changing the display I think I managed to upgrade the CPU all the way to a Pentium 90 before the wife figured it out that something wasn't quite right

ive done quite a few builds and upgrades without the old ball and chain knowing, but the samsung 34" ultrawide took some creative bs to explain it away