right now I think I am good maybe when the year turns I will pick up the new offerings but for now I am getting the same as with the brand new so I mean honestly you should of kept your card longerI didn't do too bad selling mine, I got £225/$364 for it, but that was just before the 280X was released so I got lucky.
I am getting bored of playing the waiting game now, I just finished waiting for weeks for the 290X and now it will be a few more weeks of waiting for the 780ti.
I disagree, if I had kept my card for even 1 week longer I would have lost another £50/$80+. I can live with the Integrated graphics a while longer knowing that I have more towards my new card.
I am not talking about the money stand point I am talking performance wise our cards perform like a 280x
not much bang has come from the 290x which is the same as my 2x in x-fire
now as it seems the 780ti is mad attractive I can see myself hanging on a bit longer as I am not loosing anything at best they get 20 % increase which is good but I can't tell atm unless I was really struggling know what I mean ?
I can say the guy on OCN was right about the design AMD need to make it a better design for cooling I mean I don't know why they keep doing this they need to say lets make a mandatory 2 fan reference design or something
most of my cards are reference except one and they all look the same
This would do the job, but sadly I don't have a custom water loop lol
OcUK Tech Lab H2O Custom R9 290X 4096MB GDDR5 Watercooled Graphics Card [WC-054-TL]
Paul, I never read them nor paid a whole lot of attention, for obvious reasons, but there are several guides about turning the AIO coolers into GPU coolers. I believe there is one someplace on OCN. I seem to recall one even adding a CPU block to the GPU cooler. Also, the Swiftech H2O was made so you can do that or that and add another rad to it.
http://rog.asus.com/268622013/overcl...0x-crossfirex/With a new Rampage IV Black Edition pushing the Intel Core i7 4970X to 6GHz and DDR3 to 2,666MHz, while packing four new R9 290X graphics cards in CrossFireX at 1,435MHz core, 1650MHz (6,600MHz effective) memory, Russian overclocker Smoke, smashed the 3DMark 11 Performance record by nearly 2,000 points to 41,531
Smoke`s 3DMark11 - Performance score: 41531 marks with a Radeon R9 290X
Nice Ryan!
I sent this link to Steve earlier, I am not sure what to make of it really. I was also reading some of the user comments on OCN, one guy bought a 290X, hated it at first, but after using it for the weekend is very happy with it, he also owns a GTX 780 and given the choice he says he would recommend the 290X to friends over the 780.
Is the AMD Radeon R9 290X too hot? | bit-tech.net
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