So many coins.

My 7950 using Hynix AFR.

So lucky.... Mine is only an Elpida...

Mine also Epilda

bump 1400MHz will present me BSOD

For those 7950 Vapor-X owners... Did you hear any high pitched noise when doing a Render Test in GPU-Z? Mine has a pretty audible noise... (coil whine I think)

Any significant performance gain when u overclock the mem on that massive bandwidth?

Mine used to have coil whine when the FPS is over 1000, now no more. Just use MSI Afterburner to limit global frame rate to 200 if you really concern about the noise.

Sometime its the PSU though.

Got deleted by print screen already. Will try make it again and will see how far it can go

Nope, the sound is coming straight from the card...
Update: My card has coil whine... Guess I'd just use Vsync and live with it... Though some people reported that coil whine can sometimes disappear when the card is loaded for some time....

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Dec 19 2013, 10:58 AM

Use global Dynamic-Vsync, much better imo. Mine disappeared after half year.

Ya... though BF4 doesn't give me coil whine...

Run 3DMark Ice Storm.

Wasn't that one is optimized for mobiles?

oh my so sweet!!

Final Words & Conclusion

Now you just know that I can throw all kinds of superlatives at you guys, but I can be brief as well. This is the Radeon R9-290X we all expected it to be, period.

Sufficient cooling, extreme performance, silent and tweakable are the key-words here. And hey it comes factory clocked faster then reference and it is a good chunk cheaper than a GTX 780 Ti as well as you get more graphics memory (4GB). NICE ! Having that much raw unadulterated horsepower under the hood will bring options to the table. You play your games at 2560x1440 and flick on every quality setting that you can think of. Even then the cards will do a terrific job. For the few of you that already made the step towards UHD or 4K gaming at 3840 x 2160 that where these card do make sense. The ASUS Radeon R9 290X DirectCU II OC edition is often as fast or faster then a GeForce GTX 780 Ti and certainly faster then a Titan, whilst it is going to be priced a good chunk lower. So that in retrospect means (even at this price level) performance for money. Prices will sit at 499~539 EUR (incl VAT for this rather shweeeeet graphics card).



http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_..._review,29.html

This post has been edited by law1777: Dec 19 2013, 11:31 AM

499 EUR without 17.5% Tax= 411EUR

Not bad... for a R9 290X...

as long as it is A GOOD CHUNK CHEAPER than REFERENCE 780Ti

This post has been edited by law1777: Dec 19 2013, 11:36 AM

Sapphire also got R9 290 Tri-X...

sorry but the design/color is too ugly for me.. msi lightning wannabe eh? hahaha

Then wait for R9 290 Vapor-X or 290X Toxic lo...

i still cannot understand why they dun let 3rd party company do the cooling and show people what their beasts can do in the very beginning

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/...le-quad.195818/

BF 4 has reverse effect for 780ti @ Tri-SLI onwards ?
i think both is great, there's some pros n cons in the games, but the CF/SLI is mostly enough for gamer.
very detail and alot of games. but is the 290X/290 on ref cooler? (i think so for both side)