Holy freaking smokes!!!

The SAPPHIRE TOXIC R9 280X system requirement... 750 Watt PSU?!

http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/p...sn=&lid=1&leg=0

Ya, me too. The info I got is from Sapphire's website. At least 750W...

Read this...
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7406/the-sap...-toxic-review/6

"With that said while this isn’t necessarily a head-to-head article between the 280X Toxic and the Asus 280X DirectCU II TOP, it’s a logical comparison we have to make given the fact that both are factory overclocked 280X cards shooting for strong out of the box performance. For gaming workloads the 280X Toxic cleanly and clearly beats the Asus card here by a meaningful performance amount. However Asus is absolutely a spoiler here due to their aggressive pricing and their very quiet cooler. Their 280X DCUII TOP can’t match the Toxic, but it’s $40 cheaper and over 5dB quieter. Consequently if all you want is the fastest 280X on the market then Sapphire’s 280X Toxic is clearly the card to get, otherwise the Asus card is worth a consideration for its better price/performance ratio and cooling performance. As is almost always the case for factory overclocked cards there is a price to pay for the very fastest card, both in literal cost and in power and acoustics."

hmmmm... Perhaps they didn't want to be compared to the Titan in the first place? I mean, the Titan is quite a niche market. It's a very expensive card and the general public can't dump so much money into a single card anyway. Perhaps as what sai86 said, price point. Am looking forward to this.

The part I am most excited...

"He couldn't reveal the price but he did tell me we'd be ''extremely happy'' about it."

When there aren't any competition, they can actually set whatever price they want.

This post has been edited by antaras: Oct 18 2013, 11:35 PM

Those that worry bout the noise or heat... try this...

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon...rk,3659-19.html

Seriously, the Asus 280x is like and the Vapor-X 280x is like and the 290 is like

You can download pricelist from here... HWM just updated the list today.

http://www.hardwarezone.com.my/priceLists

PC Zone & Viewnet selling GIGABYTE 290 for RM1449 and SAPPHIRE 290 for RM1499.

This post has been edited by antaras: Nov 11 2013, 11:44 AM

If not mistaken, you can;t really get 280x toxic now. Really limited numbers of that card. I would say 290 is good. Since they are all the same, just get the cheapest one. I might be wrong on this though. All I know is that they are of stock reference PCB and cooler.

Why need to use Arctic cooler on your toxic? I thought the toxic cooler is ok?

I think if the temperature is not an issue for most, the noise will. Read quite a few reviews on the Arctic coolers and mostly the noise is really minimal.

This post has been edited by antaras: Nov 13 2013, 05:12 PM

BF4 now comes in Never Settle Forever Program with all R9 series card...

linky

hmmm... I just read that from HWZ site and also AMD FB page...

linky

ummm... but from their official site, it mentioned it's actually 2.2 slot.

here

and then from here as well.

"The heatsink, dubbed Tri-X, sits a little higher than the dual-slot backplane, making the cooling about 2.2-slots high. What this really means is that you'd probably need to sacrifice the next slot along."

Hope this helps.

Here's another update on the Kraken GPU cooler kit for those not aware of it.

link

Sexy beast...

This post has been edited by antaras: Nov 28 2013, 01:33 PM

Holy smokes!!! Da bomb!!!
Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X OC Edition trading blows with MSI GTX780 Lightning!

http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-...0p-ultra-hd-4k/

Review by KitGuru.