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R9 290X Owners Thread

8GB Sapphire R9 290X Vapor-X Variant Priced in Europe

The 8 GB variant of Sapphire's Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X graphics card, which made headlines last month, reached European shores, with leading retailers taking orders. Designed for those attempting dual- or triple-display setups using Ultra HD monitors, the card features 8 GB of memory across the GPU's 512-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, double that of the standard memory amount. It also features a factory overclock, of 1060 MHz core, and 5.60 GHz memory. The card looks otherwise identical to Sapphire's R9 290X Vapor-X series graphics cards. For those on the Isles, the card is stocked up at OCUK for £599.99 (incl. VAT), and for those on the old continent, Caseking.de has it priced at 729.90€ (incl. taxes).
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http://www.techpowerup.com/200580/8gb-sapphire-r9-290x-vapor-x-variant-priced-in-europe.html

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Has anyone found any larger images of this card without the packaging that I can use elsewhere in the thread. I am looking for a pic that is about 1280 pixels or more wide and of good quality.:)
 
EK has a block on the way for the 295x. Surprising? No...


...not until you see its only a single slot block card!

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Shame the card is so insanely expensive, i could imagine an insane amount of hashing fitted onto a single extended ATX motherboard!
 
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Newbie warning......:D

Hi to all,

I've joined the red side and got myself a reference 290x (Gigabyte) and watercooled it. I've noticed Kaap and others monitoring voltage with a DMM and I was wondering where the voltage monitoring points were located so I can connect said DMM?

I know I can use GPU-z but from reading this thread ppl seem to be using DMMs quite regular and I was puzzled as to where the connections were on the card.

Thanx
 
Hey guys,

I have just started experiencing some screen tearing type issues with my pc even though VSync is on. It's a bit of a concern and I just wanted to get you to check this is right for me if you don't mind.

I got this report off Sapphire TRIXX for the two 290X's - Does it look ok to you guys?
I hadn't looked at this previously so I just wanted to clarify that each card is doing what it should. There's no overclocking being done at all as there's no need because it runs all the games I want. They are two Sapphire cards BTW.

Report generated on 05/09/14 18:31:53

Card name: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
GPU: Hawaii
Device Id: 1002-67B0 : 1002-0B00
Die Size: 438 mm²
Bus Interface: PCI-E 3.0 x16 @ x1 1.1
Memory Size: 4096 MB
Memory Type: GDDR5
Memory Bus Width: 512 bit
ROPs: 64
Shaders: 2816 Unified / DirectX 11.2
Driver Version: 14.100.0.0 Catalyst 14.4
BIOS Version: 015.039.000.007.003525
BIOS Part Number: 113-C6710100-102
Clocks: 1000 / 1250 MHz

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Report generated on 05/09/14 18:32:20

Card name: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
GPU: Hawaii
Device Id: 1002-67B0 : 1002-0B00
Die Size: 438 mm²
Bus Interface: PCI-E 3.0 x16 @ x8 3.0
Memory Size: 4096 MB
Memory Type: GDDR5
Memory Bus Width: 32 bit
ROPs: 64
Shaders: 2816 Unified / DirectX 11.2
Driver Version: 14.100.0.0 Catalyst 14.4
BIOS Version: 015.039.000.007.003525
BIOS Part Number: 113-C6710100-102
Clocks: 1000 / 1250 MHz

This is running on a Gigabyte Z87X OC.

Thanks for looking.
 
Papablu said:
Yeah Matt, that's what got me worried. It's happening in The Witcher 2, Bound By Flame, Crysis and theHunter so far. These are the games I've checked.
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Vsync works in Crysis as im playing it at the moment. You could try forcing it through CCC, though i just use the ingame option and it works fine. This is on 290 crossfire 14.4 WHQL.
 
Yeah stock which is what worries me, if I was overclocking then I'd expect some issues to pop up. I just tried the witcher 2 again and it seems to be getting worse now.

Again the game ran ok for 30-50 seconds and then the tearing kicked in. Almost like the cards are struggling and overheating but they are only getting to around 47-50 degrees.
 
Hey Petey, yeah the FPS counter was steady at 60 so the VSync was working. I am hoping it is fixed now, I've reinstalled the driver like Matt suggested and tested it for a little while, not long enough to be fully convinced yet, but I'm about to do some stress testing so I'll report back later, so far so good though.
 
Papablu said:
Hey Petey, yeah the FPS counter was steady at 60 so the VSync was working. I am hoping it is fixed now, I've reinstalled the driver like Matt suggested and tested it for a little while, not long enough to be fully convinced yet, but I'm about to do some stress testing so I'll report back later, so far so good though.
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