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

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

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

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

that Dracula is sooooooooooooo sexy but too bad i wont want a reference card =(

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/msi_r9_29...4g_are_out.html

The long expected MSI R9 290 GAMING 4G and R9 290X GAMING 4G are now available. Packed with all of the power and features to drive UltraHD gaming resolutions the MSI Twin Frozr IV Advanced now ensures your card runs cool so you can enjoy maximum performance because AMD's PowerTune technology enables the R9 290 GAMING 4G and R9 290X GAMING 4G to run at their highest clock speeds. With support for the latest industry standards and exciting new technology such as Mantle support in Battlefield 4.

according to linustechtips.. watercooled r9 290 perform 2% lower than watercooled gtx780

what i wanna say here is.. for those who havent buy r9 its better to wait for custom versions!!

This post has been edited by law1777: Dec 26 2013, 11:25 AM

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7601/sapphir...om-cooled-290/5

wow!! once sapphire 290 tri-x is being oced its only par with 780Ti

oops my bad.. did he mentioned that he overvolted the 780?

can see he is very very bias this time gtx700 vs amd Rs

Dayummmmm all these custom coolers are coming out!!! definitely getting a 290 since it easily wins the 780Ti reference

seems like 290 is really 499usd now

yeah! okay no rush. i want the sapphire tri-x 290 so much. damn good value + beat reference 780Ti

+ a whooping rm1k difference in price!!!

This post has been edited by law1777: Dec 27 2013, 12:48 PM

make sure your PC 290x OC is faster than 780Ti and same price as Tri-X 290 or else no one wants.. hahaha

i dont care all that.. the only thing i know is that Tri-X 290 OCed surpassed the RM1k premium 780Ti

addon: AMD is finalizing Mantle now

This post has been edited by law1777: Dec 28 2013, 01:39 PM

whats the rm50 voucher for.. i only want the card i dont wan buy other thing.. hahaha

RM3k why not?

https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...32&hl=lingloong

lingloong updated with the tri-x 290x/290!!!

but tri-x version sapphire didn't custom the pcb right? they use the reference pcb and put on their own tri-x cooler

nope.. if u read thoroughly the pcb is the reference pcb