U have not seen this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDKv-tKZq7Q

He said any DX11 card can use that feature... in Win 8.1. That show M$ DirectX have been holding up graphic potential we already have in modern graphic card since 2010. Mantle ftw!!

Mantle is not out yet and it is Dec now.It is just marketing and sweet talks by all AMD gaming Evolved Partners until real performance is shown.

Btw EA has to deal with real bugs first which they have fail miserably even CF and SLI user cannot play battlefield 4 due dam that flickering and EA is dealing with Law Suit because of laying to investor and also proving crap service to PC and console user.

This post has been edited by Desprado: Dec 17 2013, 10:38 PM

Prices has been reveled For MSI R9 290X and R9 290 gaming edition
http://videocardz.com/48493/msi-radeon-r9-...ilable-preorder

Seriously at that price is better to buy GTX 780 or GTX 780TI.Most people prefer AMD because of Price factor which has lost very much at this time and what ever the reason is.

Acid i told u so and my prediction has never gone wrong.

This post has been edited by Desprado: Dec 18 2013, 12:32 AM

Yep, he finished reviewing it edi

Read: Preorder price...
Still remember Newegg go put a preorder pricing of 729USD on a reference 290X and look at the reaction of the community...

Also, the mining craze has caused the prices of cards gone up... ...very significantly...

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Dec 18 2013, 09:07 AM

Yup, EA is trying to screw them up with BF4... Even I have low FPS in games despite of my hardware...

What is ever the reason is it is hurting gamer only.Reason can be what so ever fact is that it is now par or equal with Nvidia price lol.

The price will be same even after preorder and it can increase to.

This post has been edited by Desprado: Dec 18 2013, 09:13 AM

Ya... Hopefully this mining craze would stop ... A shortage of cards with increased pricing only hurts the consumer and stifles competition, of course...

EA is screwing everybody
you game at 1440p? mine works juz fine at 1440p. but the constant dc/error/watever is screwing the gaming experience.

this kind of high price or so it state atm will juz hurts gamer. AMD business still goes on due to miner, and there's alot of freaking miner
Mayb they'll come up with 2 rev. instead - 1 for gamer/normal and another for miner....

You're a funny man, in previous page you predicted the card will cost over USD900

And i already posted that news in in previous page too.

AMD priority is not mining and gamers are there target market so they have do something or else it will hurt alot of AMD fans and AMD it self also it can lose it costumer.

768p unfortunately...
Now currently using a cheapy Sammy monitor...
Ya, the game keep on spewing out errors... There are threads (some of them are very long) about a particular issue and yet there is little progress about the problem...

Mostly it be exchange of USD not CAD Acid.I am telling u right now that these will be around 2.7k or 2.9k.Asus and Gigabyte can be more expensive.

I think sai86 suggestion may cause them to fragment their lineup...
Thank god our local pricing still haven't affected... (syukuralhamdulilah.jpg)
If the R9 290 gets jacked up by, say, RM400-500... They are literally shooting themselves in their foot.

Acid here u go one more big price for u my friend and i hope u enjoy this
ASUS Radeon R9 290X DirectCU II W/ Battlefield 4 - £499.99 At Overclockers.Co.Uk

Read more: http://wccftech.com/asus-radeon-r9-290x-di.../#ixzz2nmuFF0no

With VAT, only £416.66 without it which translate RM2.2k. That is cheap mang.

And your point being?
I'm sure you're not selectively oblivious to the fact none of us are paying £335.99 for a Sapphire R9 290?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....rodid=GX-337-SP

If I pick up £279.99 excl VAT = This makes more sense after conversion, tallies with current local RRP (street price is lower).
So if the R9 290X Twin Frozr were to sell for £499.99, excl VAT will be about £417, then Acid's guesstimate of RM2500 sounds mighty accurate, might even go for less street price wise.

Not to mention a lot other factors are in play now: BitCoin mining causing shortage of supply, pre-order price.
No official pricing being announced in Malaysia yet so everything is just speculation for now.

Not sure why I even bother. But here we go.

yes but in Malaysia it will be around 2.7k to 2.9k u can write this on ur wall.

Holy **** wait a minute. That's with BF4 bundle somemore.
OK now that's cheap.

Who wants to buy reference R9 290X now lah. lol.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....rodid=GX-335-SP