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R9 290X Owners Thread

Results are done. I kept the cores both at 1160 MHz as it wouldn't be fair to pair the 1160 MHz core (stock air) 290x cards versus my 1300 MHz water Titan's.





The cards trade blows in AA titles like BF4, Skyrim and Witcher 2. My flight sim which doesn't work with SLI or Crossfire just happens to like NVIDIA a lot better. Crysis 3 and Heaven 2.0 didn't like my 290X's all that much for some reason. I purposely kept all SLI and Crossfire profiles stock that come from the most up to date drivers.

In all, the 290X's deliver superb performance for the money. These cards must be water cooled though, as the fan required at the voltage I ran to keep 1160 MHz core from throttling in all benchmarks would blow you out of the room.

Some of the original Eyefinity bugs from like five years ago are unfortunately still there. AMD also doesn't allow me to run bezel-corrected flipped portrait Eyefinity which is also a no-go. My flight sim also favors NVIDIA, which makes it that much harder to stick with the 290x's. I received one black screen crash from the 290x's during my testing.

290x's and Titans are great cards, but I've decided to go with 780Ti Classifieds as it's per-clock performance and overclockability should exceed both cards run in this test. Water blocks for the new Ti Classifieds are already on their way! :thumb:
 
Vega said:
290X's deliver superb performance for the money. These cards must be water cooled though, as the fan required at the voltage I ran to keep 1160 MHz core from throttling in all benchmarks would blow you out of the room.
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This ^^, once under water the 290X's are awesome all that raw power and cool and quiet.
 
JBod They ae better for me cause on 9.2=new whql i get Black screen crash sometimes when i.... sit on windows or play bf4 or anything.
On those unofficial ones i had 1 back screen crash over 1 whole week of benching and playing bf4

Vega very nice comparison. I always knew Titans ware better cards than 290x but for me they are not 400 pounds better :P

KaRLiToS nice and smooth gameplay. Watching You play i came to conclusions:
1. Eyefinity is not for me.. It just does not look that exciting
2. Once you go 3D gaming anything in 2d just does not cut it any more
3. Cant wait to get Oculus rift next year. Will be epic :)
 
Thanks Matt

For the one interested.

-BF4
-CPU at 4.7 Ghz
-Quad Fire R9 290x at 1120/1500
-3 Pumps
-34 Fans
-2 SSD 1 HDD

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Settled on 1140/1328 for 24/7 clocks.

Very happy with this 290X, the only issue I have had is black screen on BF4, apparently AMD are aware and working on a fix. These new single cards from 780 / 780ti - 290 / 290X are monsters ! Can only imagine how powerful 20nm GPU's will be :eek:

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