R9 290
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Is this GPU good enough for 900p Maxed out?
>>51948588
yes, and even for 1440p, if you plan to buy a better display.
no--i'm afraid you won't be able to play video games with that.
Is this a joke
It's good for 1440p one step below maxed out
It's a 1080p maxed out card
>MSI
Have fire extinguishers ready
>>51948613
is this a meme? did I get rekt for 190USD
I have it. Almost every game I play gets 60+ fps on max w/1080. More intense games are maybe 30 at max.
>>51948613
wut
>>51948588
I play on ultra at over 100 fps with a 5930K and a R9 290, you'll be fine
>>51948613
All 290 are hot. Only way to resolve it is water block solution and possibly passive coolers for VRM.
>>51948775
My 290x with an Arctic accelero xtreme III gets 65c maxed out
its bretty good senpai.
>>51948632
You got a steal.
Congratulations on your great purchase anon
Just ordered a Sapphire r9 290 for the same price as an 380x in my country ($320).
Did I do good?
>>51948775
My Vapor-X disagrees.
>>51950566
decent as long as it's not reference cooled
>>51949444
290 runs a lot hotter than 290x, it's one of the reasons why the fire extinguisher meme exists. There used to be a graph floating around /g/ where a 290 reached 100°C+ under load while the 290x was around ~80°C, if I remember correctly.
>>51953157
Yeah if you're fucking mining it might reach those temps.
>>51953157
I wonder what the noise levels/fan speeds of those cards were...
>>51950566
I bought a reference 290 for $125 brand new
>>51953197
The fact that a false advertised meme card is at number 1 just goes to show how the market is saturated by retarded PC gamer dudes who don't know shit about the parts they're buying.
>>51953240
>He AMD.
>>51953216
buying it off your best friend doesn't count.
>>51953157
I found a pic with recent gpus
>>51953199
Mine never goes over 84C under full load with 45 fan speed, which I can't hear in the slightest, probably because its one of half a dozen fans in my case, retards and shills just like to over exaggerate over products they don't even own.
>>51953281
B T F O
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>>51948588
>muh games
>>>/v/
>>51953281
>290 hotter than 290X
nice meme chart
filtered
>>51953254
Got it during a sale, 25% off.
Your country's currency must be in the shitter
>>51953312
>implying people care
Filtered
>>51953297
Well I don't know what you're trying to say. But yeah the 290 is pretty much btfo by literally any other card in existence. And the only viable option is a 290x or a 390/390x, or a 970/980.
>>51953347
>or a 970
Your opinion has lost any shred of value or seriousness it even had in the first place.
>>51953345
I'm sorry bruh, but the newfag is showing.
>900p
huh?
>>51953375
>tripfag calling anyone else a newfag, or any word
Filtered, degenerate.
>>51953281
I'm assuming that's a reference card. If you're buying a reference 290(X), you're making a big mistake.
>>51953372
I knew the risks of recommending the 970. I'm sorry I disappointed you anon.
>>51953392
Well, seeing how the reference 290x runs cooler than the reference 290 and the reference 980, 980ti and 780ti, it's not that big of a mistake. A reference 290 is literally housefire though.
>>51953402
Is everyone on /g/ this upset about the 3.5 meme?
>>51953402
You've already disappointed your parents by being such a faggot on anonymous imageboard, you thirsty attention-driven retard
>>51953429
The difference between the reference 290 and 290X is literally the fan profile. The 290 is a lot quieter, but it does run hotter.
Still, any aftermarket cooler solves this problem.
>>51953313
Canada, pal. 290 normally cost around $400, same as the 390.
>>51953460
>It runs quieter
Well to keep it cool it would need to run at 100%, so that's probably not going to be very quiet.
>>51953497
Got mine in Canada too, so I was right about the currency being shit.
Find a better deal, because that one is terrible.
>>51953504
>I'm clearly talking out of my ass about a product I've never owned
Fuck off, tripfag shill.
>>51953430
I don't really care, but I know a lot of people either do or they are just retards who want to fit in, those who call out tripfags are of the latter category, and should kill themselves as no-one would care.
>>51953557
I'm not even shilling anything. I'm just pointing out known facts about a shitty gpu.
>>51953578
>known facts
Except these days, reference 290s are nearly impossible to come by and most 3rd-party coolers will keep it under 80° without a problem.
>>51953578
>I'm just exaggerating a problem that doesn't even exist because I'm too poor to have one
>>51953603
A card that is housefire at stock isn't going to be that much better with an aftermarket cooler. The chip itself is just designed like shit. The 290x is colder and performs better.
>>51953603
>78C under full load with the fan at 40
Yeah, your opinion is worth less than the scum on the bottom of my shoe.
>>51953652
>I don't know how a heatsink and fans work
>I'll continue to talk out of my ass about I product I don't own and apparently have now proved to everyone I don't even understand how is cooled
Holy shit tripfags are dense
>>51953652
>The chip itself is just designed like shit. The 290x is colder and performs better.
They're literally the same chip, the 290 just has a few units disabled. Do you even know how these things work?
>>51953619
>tmw I-I-I own a 9-9-970.
I picked it up before hearing about 3,5/4. I found out after 4 months as I didn't bother to research until then.
>>51953652
How much are they paying you Rajeesh, $0.01 per 10 posts?
Good job
>>51953708
My name isn't Rajeesh, I get paid 0,3,5/4 internet points per post.
>>51953688
You think amd just used a shittier cooler on the 290? Are you literally this delusional?
>>51953533
>r9 290 for $125 CAD
Nice try, not falling for your tricks.
>>51953752
You think the 290 has significant differences from the 290X besides active GCN cores and fan curve? The reference 290X runs equally hot unless you peg the fan at 100%.
>>51953780
But it clearly doesn't as witnessed by many people. Do you really think companies produce high-end chips and then inspect every one of them to find ones that have exactly x amount of defects to use those in lower-tier components?
I just got a reference r9 290.
Would removing the plastic casing and replacing the stock fan with a 120mm PWM case fan help at all?
>>51953900
>Sell housefire.
>Get 290x/390.
>???
>Profit
>>51953872
They actually do something along those lines. Not just with GPUs, but also CPUs. Not every chip they manufacture is going to be perfect, so if something has too many defects to be a full-fledged 290X, they cut off a few units and brand it as a 290 instead.
Hell, there have been CPUs on which you could literally unlock extra cores that were found to be unstable during the manufacturing process (or they were switched off in software because there was a higher demand for the quad-cores than the hexa-cores).
>>51953957
Well, they could theoretically recycle partly defective high-end chips. But they're not going to rely on their machines to produce enough defective high-grade chips to be able to produce enough lower-end gpus/cpus, there is a design for all gpus/cpus, not all gpu/cpus are just recycled from higher-tier ones.
>>51954067
The point is that the 290 and 290X use the exact same chip, the 290 just has a few units disabled. That alone is not going to make it run hotter.
>>51954108
Well my point is that such a practice would just be retarded. First of all the amount of produced 290s wouldn't be known beforehand. Secondly they'd be wasting resources.
>>51954215
Why? If there's a high market demand for 290s and the number of "defective" chips is too low, just lock a few compute units down and sell it as a 290. It's an effective way to keep sales up.
>>51954273
That's poo in loo retarded. What if someone found a way to unlock them? As soon as people found out the higher ones wouldn't sell.
>>51954330
Funny, because people did. Early 290s could sometimes be unlocked to full-fledged 290Xs.
>>51954330
Hello dumb fucking nigger, can I inform you that you are a poor person who owns a gtx 970
Fucking KILL oneself now
>>51954330
You mean like 3-core AMD processors?
>>51954359
970 isn't cheaper than 290 retard.
>>51954342
Well, then I have to congragulate amd for being this dumb.
>>51954441
Quite the opposite. It made them sell a lot more 290s since now there was a chance of getting a 290X for sheaper.
>>51948588
I have it with a 1440 screen, hardest I've thrown at it was the witcher 3 maxed out (turning off nvidia hairworks bs of course), which made it heat up like crazy in the australian summer.
>>51954473
Yeah, but it surely did slow down the 290x sales.
>>51955142
Probably, but flagship cards aren't meant to be the main sellers. Most likely they stole some NVidia customers, as they could get the 290 for pretty much 780 money, and then have a chance to unlock it to Titan killer performance levels.
>>51955234
Yes but selling flagship cards is more profitable.
