even for ex mining card, l must say the price is very interesting, l mean rm799 for a 280x which looks as new and 0 dust even within the heatsink, still not good enough? downside are warranty 1 years only, guess l will sell and replace another card within a year

That is not an issue, jusr curious where they got the stock from. Anyway my 2nd Sapphire Tri-X OC R9 290 also an ex-mining card, RM1.2K, used for 2 mths only

ex-mining cards, customer ffk stock, power color defected unit? well we duno, your 290 was a good bargain, how many can get price like that

That is true, those miners already earned their revenue with their mining machine therefore willing to let it go with very low price.

l'm getting 75c full load on heaven 4.0 oc 1200mhz 80c, if ex mining card, they don thermal re paste? as for score, it's underwhelm, wondering what's the issue
even for rm799 l don think its a steal for everyone, when l go collect my card on the fourth day after l purchased, l still saw 4 on the block

I don't think they will re-paste, AMD card usually need custom set for fan setting in order to proper cool down the card. Mine around 70degree when gaming/full load.

Maybe for some gamers 280x no more attractive to them, furthermore they are not widely advertise it, only those FB fans get know. Like the GS skill 16Gb 1600mhz DDR3 ram only RM399, i guess many still do not know.

If "they" are selling in bulk..im guessing they are..

Anyway..do tell..16gb gskill RAM for RM399..

This post has been edited by Yagami5159: Jun 5 2014, 10:08 PM

Stock very limited

Oh come on..stop teasing me and tell me the details~

l'm using afterburner auto fan curve, this fan is not strong l can say, and the heatsink design is flawed, the cooper pipe absorb the heat good, but it did not transfer the heat to the aluminium fast enough to dispense heat, really different from dcu2 and trifrozr cooler

I'm sorry i just check, they are gone on next day after advertised

i suggest u adjust the fan setting manually instead of auto, let the fan spin faster when high temp

l use fan curve like this, it worked good on my lightning, maybe 280x would need more aggressive fan curve idle temp is 40, which is really high for me

Your setting almost similar to me, maybe mine is tri fan, hence heat dissipated more effectively

sapphire did a good job on the tri-x fan, looks promising, 6 months later sell this 280x, get the gigabyte 290 windforce superb cooling

Lol, sold out edi mang.

Cooling? Yes..noise? No..the rattles still plague the tri-x coolers..unfortunately, getting a rattless tri-x gpu is like very uncommon now..is all bout luck.

Lel..got good deal bo jio

I tak beli also. Sub the recommendation thread next time. Hahaha.

What recommendation thread? Gib link pls~
Edit: This one isit? https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3223191/+880

Don't you think the Windforce R9 290 is too...revealing?

This post has been edited by Yagami5159: Jun 6 2014, 12:07 PM

Yeap, plus the AMD thread was buzzing from the feiton sale too. Lol