Wow... good to hear that!     

If you able to get a cheap 290X lightning, will u choose it?

Arctic.
Where it's cold.

I think it's gonna be cooler and energy efficient..
Bro,even a good quality 600-650W PSU is enough for it.
Their low end series are crap.

Well,even if you go for the 8GB 290X,i'm sure it'll run out of processing power before hitting 8GB vRAM IINM.

Wait what?The HD7970 actually have more than 2GB of vRAM?

Bro,the AMD Radeon HD7970 have 3GB GDDR5 vRAM.

RM1260 discounted price

Quite an interesting pricing, beside that lightning priced at 1299, sapphire triX also priced 1249 and 1359 for non OC and OC version respectively

same for me, just my pocket telling me other wise, i can afford both, but my conscience telling me to save money XD!!!     

There are so many 4GB cards on the market, I would think that's the target for game developers for years to come.

The ceiling for game developer's VRAM requirement when designing a game now would be 2GB, 3GB and 4GB. On rare cases 6GB or 8GB.

GPU usage and VRAM usage doesn't really correlate with each other

No, what happened was that the game already start using much slower system RAM thus creating a bottleneck, that's why the GPU usage is low.

Where you got this?

Another hit to nVidia....

http://wccftech.com/amd-teases-fix3r-video...-r9-300-series/

Roy@AMD?

ASUS HD7950-DC2T-3GD5-V2 graphic card is equivalent to current model which model ?

cut price again  now r9 290x  = rm 1086.12  

http://www.techpowerup.com/209412/amd-cash...290x-price.html

even with the price now, which are (1299 for 4GB and 1699 for 8GB) making me care really less for its 'old' age)   

If can get this price, i really want to get two of them n CF kaw kaw~~   

Frankly now only a very few case that 4GB will be bottlenecked.

For CF, the effective VRAM will not be increased as both cards will be provided with identical info, mean if a game that will use 3.5GB in single card, it will use up 7GB in total or 3.5GB per card if u go for CF.

Source? 

But I would like to see better games...  I think games these days are prioritizing too much on graphics, instead of gameplay and technical issues.

I play BF4 @4K res @ultra & no AA with 290's CFX, the 4GB vram enough for me. It did run at below 3GB vram. The only time it does maxed out the 4GB vram is when there is memory leak issue in BF4 before. The 8GB may useful if there is memory leak but it only delay the inevitable.

For future proof, depends on whether you want to get the 3xx version later when they come out. If you want to settle with 290X for a while & Crossfire them in the future & probably running higher resolution + multi-monitor setup, then the 8GB card is a good choice. Usually once new 3xx gpus are out, current gpus will be out of stock, including the online store. The only way to get 290/290X gpus anymore that time is by go to lowyat. Also 8GB is considered rare unless more manufactures make 8GB cards too before new gpus come out. Take this into consideration before buying 8GB card. In my opinion, two cards or don't. It just my opinion anyway.