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***Powercolor PCS+ R9 290 Mini Review***
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What Case do you have?
Physically it should fit but i would say the case is not big enough and doesn't have the necessary airflow.
Because they have an open cooler you would need a full sized case to space them far apart so they are not drawing in eachothers heat, and strong airflow to push the heat out.
I agree....... maybe in the future i'll get a new case and rebuilt, but to be honest I don't want a massive gaming tower taking up space.
While your here humbug, what everyday overclock are you running for gaming? Not really sure what this card is truly capable of.
While your here humbug, what everyday overclock are you running for gaming? Not really sure what this card is truly capable of.
Stable 24/7 overclocks vary from card to card, i run mine at 1125/1400 with +69mv (should already be at +50mv)
What overclocks have you attempted and how did it go?
Thats pretty good, keep in mind that these are factory overclocked, refrence they only run at 947/1250, it may not feel like +60/50Mhz is a lot.... its actually +153/150.
What people usually do to test overclocks is run benchmarks like Unigine and FutureMark
There isn't anything complex about overclocking, set the desired clocks and volts, if it doesn't crash or freeze its stable.
700W is more than enough, BUT, that PSU has four 18A 12v Rails, that's not ideal as with low Amperage across so many rails could lead to one getting overloaded. its also an old PSU.
Can't say for sure.
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Seems a good deal and this card should be fine for most games on standard 1920 screen?
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Cheers. I won't ever be going multimonitor (unless I move to a bigger house) so unless I get a 4k monitor down the line I don't need a really top end card to play games at high settings.
Just sent the second one back last Saturday.
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What was wrong with them?
Used mine with a modxtream OCZ 650 watt just fine.
Thanks gents. OcUK support recommending the 79.99GBP Superflower on offer now (but then you'd think of course they would), for similar reasons as humbug gave. I'm actually inclined to keep the PSU but to spend 60 quid extra and go for the Galax GTX 970 on offer, just to be on the safe side. Don't really care about red vs. green camp (maybe slight preference for green) but it's probably a good compromise for my setup.