overclocking means shortening the lifespan of the graphic cards right? do correct me if I'm wrong. So you guys prefer to trade the life span for more power?

overclocking means shortening the lifespan of the graphic cards right? do correct me if I'm wrong. So you guys prefer to trade the life span for more power?

ThAts in cnd right.. so if in usd would be usd579...
i hope the price here will reduce significantly

LOL just noticed that the newegg is Canada branch.
Unsure about that but you might be right that the currency is in CND

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?...N82E16814121819



$600 USD only for BF4 bundle.

So, I think $550 for the card alone as rumored earlier seemed legit.

Review is out on Techpowerup! , wow , it costs 550$ lol.

that is superbly cheap  now custom will be 600-700?

in before it's not all about raw performance/fps.

How come NDA lifted but no videos about it?

XDMA CrossFire Frame Pacing - It Works!!!

As you might be able to tell: we didn't get this second AMD Radeon R9 290X card from AMD. They preferred us to wait a bit for our CrossFire testing and, in particular, our 4K CrossFire testing. But sometimes hardware finds its way to our office; when it does, we test!

And to be honest, I am not sure why AMD wouldn't have wanted this story out.  When I published an article in September that looked at the severe problems that plagued the Radeon HD 7000 series in Eyefinity configurations (and thus tiled 4K ones, by association) that also used CrossFire, we wanted to push the company forward to release a fix sooner rather than later.  Today's release of the Radeon R9 290X, based on a new architecture with a completely new CrossFire implementation, proves that the GCN design can be improved!  Our testing with the 4K ASUS PQ321Q monitor with a pair of R9 290X cards clearly shows that to be the case.



The results are not perfect though. Notice I said the issues have been "improved" and not "fixed."  There are clearly some games and situations that need more work to get to a point where game stutter is no longer noticeable.  Metro: Last Light, for example, no longer drops frames when in an Eyefinity/4K configuration but it clearly has a need for tighter frame variances to improve the gaming experience.

And of course, this fix, that comes with a combination of a new driver and a completely new hardware level implementation of CrossFire, doesn't help users of the R9 280X, 270X or even the Radeon HD 7000 series cards that are already out in the wild.  We are still waiting on the promised answer from AMD for those consumers that bought into the idea of CrossFire as well as multi-display gaming.

That is all we have for now - I had only a single day with the second R9 290X and thus testing was short and sweet.  You can expect some more detailed analysis, video comparisons and benchmarks of Eyefinity in the days to come.

Sauce: Frame Rating: AMD Radeon R9 290X CrossFire and 4K Preview Testing

the price is juz get us all surprised. now, they should back to focus on improving their driver 
the CF scaling in benchie is very good. n the 290 performance is great as well. this should be more exciting since the 290x price is such low ady.

I need to start saving for a 290 and snatch one when the price reach RM1.5k