you mean 280x? 290 at $299 sounds like rm9xx~1xxx to me

just my 2 cents, i had a asus r9 280x before, and the screen artifacts are actually caused by the vram of the card not receiving proper cooling, a few of it are not directly in contact with the copper pipes causing the high temps. the cooler and heatsink are designed for nvidia cards but not amd cards thus the flaw in cooling.

anyway, I tried undervolting it to 1.5v and downclocked it and the problem still persists but didn't occur as much. a quick alt tab solved this issue.

was able to find a buyer who was willing to take the rma process so off the card goes.

it's a shame really because i really liked the card's performance and how quiet it is, my previous sapphire hd6870 in comparison was so freaking loud

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oh and, there is actually a v2 model of this



it uses the old hd7970 cooling design and my guess is the vrams are better cooled with it.

the voltage is stock @1.5v and mem clock @ 1500mhz, probably to prevent screen artifacts as well from overvolting or over oc-ing.

but it's not widely available. (someone correct me if i'm wrong)

This post has been edited by DreamScars: Oct 9 2014, 01:31 AM

Guess i had a lemon unit really liked that card.

holy... that price.

Sarawak shoppers who wants a new 290x

Compuway offering msi r9 290x lightning @rm1299



This post has been edited by DreamScars: Nov 17 2014, 03:46 PM