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** SAPPHIRE R290 PRO REVIEW & 1000+ IN STOCK!! **

dwykes23 said:
Please could I ask which PSU would be best to get for utilizing this and future overclocking etc. for the price?
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A decent brand PSU, 750W minimum, maybe 850W if the rest of your PC is overclocked and high spec.

Corsair RM, Antec, BeQuiet, EVGA, Seasonic are top notch PSU's. :)
 
The heat and fan speed are hardly a surprise. The r290 cards are the last gasp for 28nm, so they're scraping out every last ounce of performance. It does make me wonder how far the 20nm cards will be backed off with their first release (maybe only 10-20% faster?).
 
Gibbo said:
A decent brand PSU, 750W minimum, maybe 850W if the rest of your PC is overclocked and high spec.

Corsair RM, Antec, BeQuiet, EVGA, Seasonic are top notch PSU's. :)
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Well that answered my question. So guessing a 500/500W Corsair modular PSU won't cut it for one of these?
 
xibinim said:
Well that answered my question. So guessing a 500/500W Corsair modular PSU won't cut it for one of these?
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You need about 400watts of actual PSU power (12v rail) with no overclocking of either cpu of gpu. A cheap 500W may only give you ~400watts and midrange ~450watts. Ideally you should budget to never run a PSU above 80% load.
 
sadbuttrue said:
The heat and fan speed are hardly a surprise. The r290 cards are the last gasp for 28nm, so they're scraping out every last ounce of performance. It does make me wonder how far the 20nm cards will be backed off with their first release (maybe only 10-20% faster?).
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Titans and 780's do have larger die with more transistors yet remain comparatively cool. Part of this will be down to the heatsink and part due to design differences, but similar performing NVidia cards do run a lot cooler. 290/290X are AMD's GTX 470/480 equivalents. They perform great but at the cost of noise and heat.

NVidia have obtained a much better balance with their top-end reference cards, but they do not (yet) compete on prices:(.
 
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Gibbo said:
A decent brand PSU, 750W minimum, maybe 850W if the rest of your PC is overclocked and high spec.
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I have an OCZ StealthXStream 2 600W I really am hoping this should be okay for a 290?

I currently pull about 300W overclocked at load with my 6870 and that includes monitor and speakers.
 
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sadbuttrue said:
You need about 400watts of actual PSU power (12v rail) with no overclocking of either cpu of gpu. A cheap 500W may only give you ~400watts and midrange ~450watts. Ideally you should budget to never run a PSU above 80% load.
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Think my Corsair is decent enough just not that high in wattage. I may get a 750 between now and my GPU upgrade. Just trying to find exact model of my Corsair in my emails and came across an OcUK order from 2006......Q-Tec Gold PSU 550W!! Who remembers their unrivalled quality :D:D!? I think mine did quite a good job until it blew up in my face (literally).

Rest of my rig; i5 3570K @ 4.4, 16GB RAM, 128GB SSD, some new GPU (280X or 290 Pro) and a couple of hard drives.
 
I just noticed that my stock EVGA 780 is getting better Firestrike numbers than a stock Titan is with a 5GHz CPU, rock on :D

Still getting pounded by the 290 OC though :P


mjones1 said:
Yes, I assume Gibbo was talking about multiple 290's.
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Not so sure, according to the Bit-tech review the R290 pulls more juice than a GTX690. Their test system was pulling 420w from the wall with no OC on the R290 and a mildly overclocked IB i5.
 
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555BUK said:
Titans and 780's do have larger die with more transistors yet remain comparatively cool. Part of this will be down to the heatsink and part due to design differences, but similar performing NVidia cards do run a lot cooler. 290/290X are AMD's GTX 470/480 equivalents. They perform great but at the cost of noise and heat.

NVidia have obtained a much better balance with their top-end reference cards, but they do not (yet) compete on prices:(.
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Long and short of it is frankly they're just better at it lol (Nvidia). However the fact this card performs on par with a Titan in multi monitor situations is a testiment to the fact the Titan has had it's day. It's time for the next generation of GPUs, and for obvious reasons I don't think either party have this yet.
 
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