R9 290X Owners Thread

Divine Pain · 31 Jan 2015 at 10:59

What resolution you playing at trip?

eyetrip · 31 Jan 2015 at 11:15

Divine Pain said:
What resolution you playing at trip?

3840x2160

ChrisD. · 31 Jan 2015 at 11:24

eyetrip said:
Yeah

Good stuff. Contrary to popular belief on this forum, the 290X's are stonking cards, especially when you start upping the resolution.

flopper · 31 Jan 2015 at 13:05

S2KIP said:
Good stuff. Contrary to popular belief on this forum, the 290X's are stonking cards, especially when you start upping the resolution.

Nvidia has nothing vs the 290 series once you up the game resolution.

LtMatt · 31 Jan 2015 at 13:58

eyetrip said:
Just gave it a go.

Last time I had 290's and tried mantle, I was not impressed.

It seems to have come along very nicely since then.

It was running superbly!

S2KIP said:
Good stuff. Contrary to popular belief on this forum, the 290X's are stonking cards, especially when you start upping the resolution.

4K separates the men from the boys when it comes to video memory and memory bus.

Kaapstad · 31 Jan 2015 at 14:09

AMDMatt said:
4K separates the men from the boys when it comes to video memory and memory bus.

The way Arnie is stood there makes him look like he is missing his handbag.

LtMatt · 31 Jan 2015 at 14:10

Kaapstad said:
The way Arnie is stood there makes him look like he is missing his handbag.

Credit to Uncle Pete for inspiring that (arnie) picture. I took it and made it go viral, at least on twitter anyway.

Uncle Petey · 31 Jan 2015 at 14:19

Ze original beeefcaaake! :cool:

LtMatt · 31 Jan 2015 at 14:23

Uncle Petey said:
Ze original beeefcaaake!

Good memories. :cool:

Uncle Petey · 31 Jan 2015 at 14:29

The days of proper fiddlin'!

Hawaii might have ze beef, but it's proper boring compared to Tahiti for mucking around.

Kaapstad · 31 Jan 2015 at 14:32

AMDMatt said:
Credit to Uncle Pete for inspiring that (arnie) picture. I took it and made it go viral, at least on twitter anyway.

Fixed.

LtMatt · 31 Jan 2015 at 14:33

Uncle Petey said:
The days of proper fiddlin'!

Hawaii might have ze beef, but it's proper boring compared to Tahiti for mucking around.

This is true. I had a lot of fun taking my 7970 + accelero apart every weekend trying to lower those vrm temps.

Kaapstad said:
Fixed.

Those under shorts ruin it for me.

Kaapstad · 31 Jan 2015 at 14:37

AMDMatt said:
This is true. I had a lot of fun taking my 7970 + accelero apart every weekend trying to lower those vrm temps.

Those under shorts ruin it for me.

There are plenty of pics where she is not wearing any but I don't think I could use them here.

LtMatt · 31 Jan 2015 at 14:38

Kaapstad said:
There are plenty of pics where she is not wearing any but I don't think I could use them here.

I'll be expecting trust messages.

Uncle Petey · 31 Jan 2015 at 14:39

CC pls.

Kaapstad · 31 Jan 2015 at 14:46

AMDMatt said:
I'll be expecting trust messages.

Just sent and on a bright red back ground too.

LtMatt · 31 Jan 2015 at 14:50

Kaapstad said:
Just sent and on a bright red back ground too.

Stuen4y · 31 Jan 2015 at 20:51

Just to update the community. I bought the MSi R9 290X Lightning LE. As of today, it runs on 1160/1650 at +113mV/+0mV. The fans are quite noisy at those settings though and the temperatures get up to 80-81 degrees on the core at 70% fans. I will probably have to take it apart and change the thermal paste. Has any one of the owners tried this and does any of the owners have problems with temperatures and noise. My ASIC is relatively high (79.7) so I should be able to get it stable at higher clock speeds if I manage to keep it cooler ans quieter at the same time. Surprisingly, the good old Corsair HX520 still does not skip a beat and even does not spin its fan fast at load with overclock.

sprite1275 · 31 Jan 2015 at 21:04

Stuen4y said:
Just to update the community. I bought the MSi R9 290X Lightning LE. As of today, it runs on 1160/1650 at +113mV/+0mV. The fans are quite noisy at those settings though and the temperatures get up to 80-81 degrees on the core at 70% fans. I will probably have to take it apart and change the thermal paste. Has any one of the owners tried this and does any of the owners have problems with temperatures and noise. My ASIC is relatively high (79.7) so I should be able to get it stable at higher clock speeds if I manage to keep it cooler ans quieter at the same time. Surprisingly, the good old Corsair HX520 still does not skip a beat and even does not spin its fan fast at load with overclock.

Disappointing. I've just ordered one of these. How is the fan noise and heat at stock?

bloodkil · 31 Jan 2015 at 21:07

Stuen4y said:
Just to update the community. I bought the MSi R9 290X Lightning LE. As of today, it runs on 1160/1650 at +113mV/+0mV. The fans are quite noisy at those settings though and the temperatures get up to 80-81 degrees on the core at 70% fans. I will probably have to take it apart and change the thermal paste. Has any one of the owners tried this and does any of the owners have problems with temperatures and noise. My ASIC is relatively high (79.7) so I should be able to get it stable at higher clock speeds if I manage to keep it cooler ans quieter at the same time. Surprisingly, the good old Corsair HX520 still does not skip a beat and even does not spin its fan fast at load with overclock.

I'd be interested to see what one of those cards could do under water