** UNBEATABLE DEAL: SAPPHIRE 290X 8GB WITH 5 FREE GAMES WORTH OVER £100!! **

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All our 290 series now come with the latest Sid Meier's Civilization PC Game, this is a limited run promotion which we expect to not last long so don't hang around if your planning a 290 purchase this month as we expect this promotion to end before the month is out.

Also as an extra treat you still get AMD Never Settle Gold voucher with all AMD 290 purchases as well which entitles you to pick three games from AMD including the high value a Alien Isolation and Starship Citizen Mustang Racer.

Then as an additional treat just on Sapphire 290X 8GB cards we also include a Bronze code as well. This means your getting five free games which between them total over £100 at current market prices and can easily be sold on for near £100.





Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK WorldWide Exclusive** @ £379.99 inc VAT

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OcUK has a worldwide exclusive on the only 8GB 290X in existence, but this is not any 290X it's a highly fine tuned machine being the Vapor-X edition with near silent cooling solution. Running with a 1060MHz core clock and with memory clocked at 5600MHz makes this card absolutely perfect for a 4K setup, even more so with a pair or three of these in Crossfire. That means you could play games like Skyrim with expansion packs at 4k resolution and still not run out of VRAM.

Based on the award-winning Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture from AMD with 2816 Stream Processors, the SAPPHIRE R9 290X Vapor-X is an Overclocked edition which boasts 8GB of the latest GDDR5 memory running at 1400 MHz (5.60GB/s effective) and high speed engine clocks of 1060MHz.

SAPPHIRE’s innovative Vapor-X cooling technology allows products to run not only cooler but also much quieter. A Vapor-X product means a virtually silent gaming experience and more headroom to explore performance tweaking!

Choke is an important component of the graphics card. By working with the component engineer, Sapphire’s patent pending choke is 10% cooler and offers 25% more power efficiency than a normal choke. The graphics card will be more reliable and save energy.

Improved reliability and better overclocking are possible by using only high-polymer, aluminum capacitors which posses far superior characteristics than regular aluminum capacitor for a longer product life. When operational temperatures drop by 20°C, the product life span is extended by a factor of ten, when the operational temperature increases by 20°C, the product life span only decreases by 10%.

Along the edge of the card the PCB is extended and one of the copper layers left exposed. An additional heatsink mounted directly to this copper layer allows heat absorbed into the PCB from the GPU and other components to be transferred to the heatsink and cooled by the airflow. This feature alone can reduce core temperature by 2 degree C.


Specification:-
- GPU: Hawaii XT
- Litecoin Hash Rate: 850-1000
- Stream Processors: 2816
- ROPS: 64
- Core Speed: 1030MHz
- Memory Speed: 5500Mhz
- Memory interface: 512-Bit
- Memory capacity: 8192MB GDDR5
- PCI-Express X16 lane required
- 600W or greater PSU required
- Power Connectors: 2x 8-pin required
- Display Outputs: 2x Dual Link DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
- Warranty: 2yr


Was [£389.99] Inc. VAT

Only £379.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW




This deal is incredible when you consider how good this price is and then all those free superb games included which are excellent and well worth your time. This deal is killer from OcUK and only available here at Overclockers UK no competitor can touch us on 8GB 290X, they don't even come close. :)
 
Its time that problem was addressed, surely its not that difficult to find a way for all vram in an xfire/sli setup to be recognised. Is it? :)
 
rolypolyman said:
Its time that problem was addressed, surely its not that difficult to find a way for all vram in an xfire/sli setup to be recognised. Is it? :)
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Wasn't mantel supposed to be the solution to that problem as it gets further down the road and more developed .

Would love a.solution for sli . Would make dreams come true for many
 
rolypolyman said:
Its time that problem was addressed, surely its not that difficult to find a way for all vram in an xfire/sli setup to be recognised. Is it? :)
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Well, what would you suggest? load 8GB of high res textures into the 8GB card and down sample them to fit on the 4GB card too? The results would be pretty crazy if both cards were outputting different textures to the scene.

You could try combining all the VRAM into a 12GB pool, but that would require the cards to access each others VRAM, that's called shared memory which in graphics terms is another word for rubbish.
 
TheGentry said:
In the benchmark comparison the extra VRAM doesn't seem to make a dramatic change in fps even with 4k
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They really need to be running three cards to get it up playable fps levels at those or higher settings with 4k in a fair few of the games they tested, and in doing so, they'd find that vram usage is also pushed up.

Also, Tomb raider at Ultimate preset is not 'the most demanding setting', since it uses FXAA instead of SSAA and normal shadows.
Try that with dual xfire/sli @4K and then try it with trifire/tri sli.

Crysis 3 isn't playable at all with two cards at those settings. Again, you'd need at least three cards to get playable fps at those or higher AA settings. What happens to vram usage then?

BF4? I have no idea what map they used. It could have been single player for all I know.
My own tests show that vram usage at maxed settings/1080p/200%/4xAA is very playable without breaching vram on maps like Metro/Locker, but go to Shanghai or Dawnbreaker conquest large for example and you'll find that it can breach 4GB and true 4K is a tad more demanding than 1080p with 200% scaling, I believe.

Metro LL would really benefit from trifire at 4K, but it doesn't support more than two cards. Dunno if works with tri SLI.

Granted, you can't run three Vapor X cards without waterblocks, so I can forgive them for that to a degree, though they really should mention this stuff.
However, I maintain that 8GB cards are a little wasted in 99% of scenarios unless you're running three or four of them and want to max out AA in pretty demanding titles at 4K.
Running two cards and saying it doesn't make much difference is kind of missing the point.
 
Uncle Petey said:
They really need to be running three cards to get it up playable fps levels at those or higher settings with 4k in a fair few of the games they tested, and in doing so, they'd find that vram usage is also pushed up.

Also, Tomb raider at Ultimate preset is not 'the most demanding setting', since it uses FXAA instead of SSAA and normal shadows.
Try that with dual xfire/sli @4K and then try it with trifire/tri sli.

Crysis 3 isn't playable at all with two cards at those settings. Again, you'd need at least three cards to get playable fps at those or higher AA settings. What happens to vram usage then?

BF4? I have no idea what map they used. It could have been single player for all I know.
My own tests show that vram usage at maxed settings/1080p/200%/4xAA is very playable without breaching vram on maps like Metro/Locker, but go to Shanghai or Dawnbreaker conquest large for example and you'll find that it can breach 4GB and true 4K is a tad more demanding than 1080p with 200% scaling, I believe.

Metro LL would really benefit from trifire at 4K, but it doesn't support more than two cards. Dunno if works with tri SLI.

Granted, you can't run three Vapor X cards without waterblocks, so I can forgive them for that to a degree, though they really should mention this stuff.
However, I maintain that 8GB cards are a little wasted in 99% of scenarios unless you're running three or four of them and want to max out AA in pretty demanding titles at 4K.
Running two cards and saying it doesn't make much difference is kind of missing the point.
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CF/SLI upscaling needs to be sorted before tri anything
 
how thick is this card? Currently have two Gigabyte windforce 7970's in crossfire with about 4 cm between the two cards with max temps of 72 under load. If this is similar in size I should be able to fit these in rather than go for the reference models.
 
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