My New R9 280X

[N00berG00ber]

if they lowered the price to $450, the 290x will be awesome! but yea I think its very expansive....

Not to want to disagree with you, but I thought the 290X was priced great, so great it made Nvidia drop the prices of the 780, I can't deny both cards are now absolute power houses for the money, they are very close in performance, apart from benchmarking you would not no any different, gaming I expect them to trade blows. The heat and noise from the 290X is unacceptable however, and as I said before, maybe with a non ref design they will bring the temps down and no doubt noise too and then it will be a fantastic card. But for me right now if I was to recommend a card to anyone I know then it would have to be the 780. It's the smart move.

yea....agreed. however 80% of us cant afford a 780! lol my card was WAY more than I wanted to spend.... and that was $310

I think AMD took a step back with these beta 8 drivers...... im getting a lot of stuttering and random frame dips.... when I get my new card, im going back to beta 7 until release of WHQ ones

 

[paulpicks21]

I was in the 80% until last week, but I got good money for my old 7970 and also sold an old motherboard so thankfully didn't have to chuck in too much for the upgrade.

Drivers are tricky things ain't they, some work well and other are crap. All depends on your system but I thought they would not have had to do too much driver work with the 280X seeing as it was essentially a 7970, It should have just been a few tweaks but I guess AMD managed to feck that up.

 

[N00berG00ber]

I was in the 80% until last week, but I got good money for my old 7970 and also sold an old motherboard so thankfully didn't have to chuck in too much for the upgrade.

Drivers are tricky things ain't they, some work well and other are crap. All depends on your system but I thought they would not have had to do too much driver work with the 280X seeing as it was essentially a 7970, It should have just been a few tweaks but I guess AMD managed to feck that up.

since betea 5 or so, drivers have gotten beter and better and more FPS.. but these beta 8's just took a step back because they added support for the 290x I guessss.....

 

[N00berG00ber]

gpu is coming tomorrow. where can I download the beta 7 drivers from?

 

[paulpicks21]

gpu is coming tomorrow. where can I download the beta 7 drivers from?

There is a download link to beta7 here - AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta7 Driver Released, Ups CrossFire Scaling in Battlefield 4 | techPowerUp

 

[N00berG00ber]

gpu is coming tomorrow. where can I download the beta 7 drivers from?

There is a download link to beta7 here - AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta7 Driver Released, Ups CrossFire Scaling in Battlefield 4 | techPowerUp

thanks man!

 

[N00berG00ber]

crap this asus card is big! now I cant put on my side cover with the fan..... so im going to have to either mod the fan a lot or buy a new one. since I have no money, my choice is obvious.

but it JUST fit into my case i need that fan!

 

[paulpicks21]

crap this asus card is big! now I cant put on my side cover with the fan..... so im going to have to either mod the fan a lot or buy a new one. since I have no money, my choice is obvious.

but it JUST fit into my case i need that fan!

Get a new case lol.

So you got the new card then, time for some benchmarks right

 

[M1GU31]

Nice cards, if you happen to get bf4 can you post about? Since it's suppose to take advantage of these new amd cards.

 

[N00berG00ber]

Get a new case lol.

So you got the new card then, time for some benchmarks right

yea ill get them up probs tonight!

Nice cards, if you happen to get bf4 can you post about? Since it's suppose to take advantage of these new amd cards.

im not planning on getting BF4 for a while. however, BF4 does take advantage of 6 cores now and soon it will take advantage of Mantel. but that's soon to come.

 

[Solarstarshines]

crap this asus card is big! now I cant put on my side cover with the fan..... so im going to have to either mod the fan a lot or buy a new one. since I have no money, my choice is obvious.

but it JUST fit into my case i need that fan!

lmao don't ASUS cards take 3 slots

 

[paulpicks21]

crap this asus card is big! now I cant put on my side cover with the fan..... so im going to have to either mod the fan a lot or buy a new one. since I have no money, my choice is obvious.

but it JUST fit into my case i need that fan!

lmao don't ASUS cards take 3 slots

Only certain ones like the Matrix Platinum.

 

[AddRAM]

Man, Goober you are having problem after problem with your build

It sure looks like a 3 slot card but it`s only 2, right Goob and it`s 11.2" long.

But the Direct CUII is 3 slots.

 

[N00berG00ber]

ya I know. but I think it is finally finished. I managed to fit the fan on the side, so it should be all good to go. mine is the one on the left. it is a dual slot. its just long and wide because of the 10mm heat pipe coming out the side. its not a perfect fit, but it will manage and cool mostly everything. the most important thing I cared about was the NB on the mobo. that thing gets hot!

 

[paulpicks21]

ya I know. but I think it is finally finished. I managed to fit the fan on the side, so it should be all good to go. mine is the one on the left. it is a dual slot. its just long and wide because of the 10mm heat pipe coming out the side. its not a perfect fit, but it will manage and cool mostly everything. the most important thing I cared about was the NB on the mobo. that thing gets hot!

Great, you have so many benchmarks on here now you will busy for a day or 2 lol, we have -

Heaven
Valley
Tropics
Sanctuary
3D Mark 11
3D mark Vantage
Passmark

There maybe some more but my mind has gone blank lol.

 

[N00berG00ber]

ya I know. but I think it is finally finished. I managed to fit the fan on the side, so it should be all good to go. mine is the one on the left. it is a dual slot. its just long and wide because of the 10mm heat pipe coming out the side. its not a perfect fit, but it will manage and cool mostly everything. the most important thing I cared about was the NB on the mobo. that thing gets hot!

Great, you have so many benchmarks on here now you will busy for a day or 2 lol, we have -

Heaven
Valley
Tropics
Sanctuary
3D Mark 11
3D mark Vantage
Passmark

There maybe some more but my mind has gone blank lol.

lol I just tried heaven and posted the results. I got slightly higher score. but I have the beta 7 drivers. on beta 8 drivers I got a bit more FPS in games but there was an annoying stutter so I switch back.

 

[paulpicks21]

ya I know. but I think it is finally finished. I managed to fit the fan on the side, so it should be all good to go. mine is the one on the left. it is a dual slot. its just long and wide because of the 10mm heat pipe coming out the side. its not a perfect fit, but it will manage and cool mostly everything. the most important thing I cared about was the NB on the mobo. that thing gets hot!

Great, you have so many benchmarks on here now you will busy for a day or 2 lol, we have -

Heaven
Valley
Tropics
Sanctuary
3D Mark 11
3D mark Vantage
Passmark

There maybe some more but my mind has gone blank lol.

lol I just tried heaven and posted the results. I got slightly higher score. but I have the beta 7 drivers. on beta 8 drivers I got a bit more FPS in games but there was an annoying stutter so I switch back.

I suppose the most important thing with the new card is if it doesn't have the squeal you had with the old one. That was the only reason you had to change right.

 

[N00berG00ber]

Great, you have so many benchmarks on here now you will busy for a day or 2 lol, we have -

Heaven
Valley
Tropics
Sanctuary
3D Mark 11
3D mark Vantage
Passmark

There maybe some more but my mind has gone blank lol.

lol I just tried heaven and posted the results. I got slightly higher score. but I have the beta 7 drivers. on beta 8 drivers I got a bit more FPS in games but there was an annoying stutter so I switch back.

I suppose the most important thing with the new card is if it doesn't have the squeal you had with the old one. That was the only reason you had to change right.

yea definitely. its completely silent. MSI made a grate card with a great cooler, but the squeal was really annoying, and really loud. this asus card I feel runs a tad warmer. but that could be a factor of how the cooling in my case has changed.