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General => Technology & Hardware => Topic started by: CSfaith on February 02, 2014, 10:19:41 am

Title: Custom cooled 290's are nearly here ! Results are insane
Post by: CSfaith on February 02, 2014, 10:19:41 am

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_radeon_r9_290_directcuii_oc_review,29.html (http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_radeon_r9_290_directcuii_oc_review,29.html)

Asus Direct CUII 290  The king of cards has arrived. No card can compete with these 290's custom cooled with price vs performance. I will be waiting for the Sapphire edition.

Your thoughts gogo :D

Title: Re: Custom cooled 290's are nearly here ! Results are insane
Post by: RightHandOnly on February 02, 2014, 03:39:47 pm

heres quite a detailed one as well

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/radeon-r9-290-and-290x,review-32872.html (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/radeon-r9-290-and-290x,review-32872.html)

Title: Re: Custom cooled 290's are nearly here ! Results are insane
Post by: kilabee on February 02, 2014, 05:33:34 pm

Dat CUII. Awesome stuff.

Title: Re: Custom cooled 290's are nearly here ! Results are insane
Post by: Dr. Acula on February 02, 2014, 10:48:55 pm

Seriously though, fuck Asus for ditching the triple-slot DCUII coolers. I'm just gonna hang onto my 7970 DCUII for a while longer, maybe get a second one soon.

Title: Re: Custom cooled 290's are nearly here ! Results are insane
Post by: Benji77 on February 03, 2014, 07:15:41 am

What's wrong with getting rid of the triple-slot coolers? Seemed like a waste of space to me.

Title: Re: Custom cooled 290's are nearly here ! Results are insane
Post by: philo-sofa on February 03, 2014, 07:34:21 am

Yeah they arrived where I am a while ago; advised a friend to get the Sapphire Tri-X 290 and it's as amazing as Anandtech says. I have to agree with OP; there's no competition; if you can afford one, a custom cooled 290 is simply the card to get at present.

AT review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7601/sapphire-radeon-r9-290-review-our-first-custom-cooled-290 (http://www.anandtech.com/show/7601/sapphire-radeon-r9-290-review-our-first-custom-cooled-290)

Title: Re: Custom cooled 290's are nearly here ! Results are insane
Post by: Growler on February 03, 2014, 12:03:29 pm

is it worth getting 2 for CF or better of adding more ram or upping CPU?

like

(http://iforce.co.nz/i/df0faj55.rst.png) (http://www.iforce.co.nz/View.aspx?i=df0faj55.rst.png)

Title: Re: Custom cooled 290's are nearly here ! Results are insane
Post by: CSfaith on February 03, 2014, 07:04:15 pm

No need to get two grolwer, you only need one of these bad boys. Later on sure if you plan on gaming at 4k resolutions, but for now there is nothing that will stress enough to bother with two of them.

As Philo said that Sapphire toxic tri cooler = Best card money can buy atm.

On the note of upping CPU no need on that either. Pretty much CPU power is a non issue at current with how far we have come with the Sandybridge breakthrough.

More ram, not sure on this one but I have never felt I have needed more than 8gig.