Pissing contest aside, the first review of non-ref 290X

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_...c_review,1.html

Load temps at 77C and silent to boot, woohoo!

Just looked at TechArm's FB page. RM1699 with RM50 cash voucher is a good price considering factory OC and custom cooler and still faster than a 780.
TA has also put up the Gigabyte Windforce 290 for RM1649.

The only thing I'm worried about is stocks. These GPUs are hotcakes. Newegg has already run out of TriXX model.

This post has been edited by MatchesMalone: Dec 28 2013, 06:27 PM

Try connecting the DVI to another monitor. If you get a display on that, play around with the HDMI flat-panel settings in CCC with HDMI connected to your new monitor. Maybe the default settings don't cut it.

There was nothing wrong with the default PCB, AMD just effed up the cooler

Some additional reviews:

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/639...n-r9-290-tri-x/
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7601/sapphir...stom-cooled-290

Looks like green team is still stubborn for another price cut despite the release of non-ref 290s.

This post has been edited by MatchesMalone: Dec 30 2013, 04:37 PM

The non-reference invasion has begun. Here's one from Powercolor.

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/powercolo...an_cooling.html

The upcoming Thief reboot in Feb will be using Mantle too and Chris Robert's Star Citizen.

Already ordered the Sapphy Tri-X, apparently Kangaroo delivery seems to take its sweet time when its come to new year.