XFX 290x Custom Cooler

Scooby-DoobyDoo · 21 Dec 2013 at 08:27

http://techreport.com/news/25800/xfx-intros-custom-cooled-radeon-r9-290-r9-290x

LtMatt · 21 Dec 2013 at 08:27

Delicious looking cooler.

Nickolp1974 · 21 Dec 2013 at 08:34

Very similar to evga's ACX, do like the chrome bits.

Geeman1979 · 21 Dec 2013 at 08:35

Depends what it looks like in the flesh, but from the pic it looks slick.

~Mike~ · 21 Dec 2013 at 08:58

LtMatt said:
Delicious looking cooler.

Does look nice but I wouldn't buy an XFX myself.

alex_123_fra · 21 Dec 2013 at 09:56

Looks superb.

Defy Belief · 21 Dec 2013 at 10:04

Shame it's XFX as it would be tempting.

Orangey · 21 Dec 2013 at 10:15

Said the same myself when I saw the 280X... what a shame.

Nightglow · 21 Dec 2013 at 10:16

Very nice, I will never,never buy XFX again, after being refused a rma, despite having a valid receipt.

old gamer · 21 Dec 2013 at 15:14

Didnt like the xfx dd cards in the past i wonder if theres any improvment with these

humbug · 21 Dec 2013 at 15:18

LtMatt said:
Delicious looking cooler.

Does look nice, very clean and modernist, i like it.

snaggster · 21 Dec 2013 at 15:25

Very nice. Though i would touch XFX with a barge poll. There is a reason ocuk don't deal with them.

shankly1985 · 21 Dec 2013 at 15:47

One thing I do really like about XFX is there coolers look the best. My XFX 7950 look ace.

jonnyp1993 · 2 Jan 2014 at 23:00

shankly1985 said:
My XFX 7950 look ace.

Mine too

as for the 290x ^^ i want, me.. i do i do

Stonehouse · 2 Jan 2014 at 23:07

Looks really nice, currently deciding on which custom cooler to go for on the 290x.

Steampunk · 3 Jan 2014 at 01:02

To quote from another forum "XFX... are dead to me".

Avenged7Fold · 3 Jan 2014 at 02:02

Awesome clean looking cooler, lame it comes with virtually no RMA.

Orangey · 3 Jan 2014 at 02:14

Lads is it safe to use this (which I already have for watercooling uses):

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-021-OK

in a dual-PSU setup? I want to use 2 cheap PSUs instead of paying gouged prices and dealing with massive lead times right now. Do any of you do this with your mining rigs? Do you just turn both PSUs on at the same time or what?

Avenged7Fold · 3 Jan 2014 at 02:27

Problem you will encounter is taht the second PSU wont give enough current to the GPUs on the boot up for your motherboard to recognise them. Way around this is by splitting the PCIe cables so that the motherboard powering PSU has a PCIe cable to each of the GPUs. You can put a 6pin plug to each GPU from the PSU which powers the CPU and mobo and have the 8pin power plugs filled byt eh secondary PSU.

The way i would do it is to use one of these. This way you dont have to fiddle around with the power cables to get them to work on boot AND the second PSU will switch off with the first if you ever have any problems. They also look baller and come in a variety of colours

PaulyD · 3 Jan 2014 at 02:36

Looks brilliant.

Had a XFX 8800 GTS 320mb from memory, card ran superb and never had an issue with it but have read of many people have RMA woes with them