ASUS Radeon R9 290X DirectCU II Pre-Release Sample Photos
On the ROG website ASUS is showing some photo's of the upcoming Radeon R9 290X DirectCU II. Though initially everybody planned 290X custom board in December, there seems to have been some kind of delay. As such you can expect the cards in the January timeframe during the CES 2014 timeframe.
The ASUS Radeon R9 290X comes with the latest revision of the DirectCU II the cooler and will get that kick-ass 2816 Stream processor based Hawaii chip with and 4 GB GDDR5 memory running along a 512-bit memory interface. The DirectCU II card will be equipped with a fully custom PCB design featuring the Digi+ VRM with Super Alloy Power technology and high quality C-Caps and MOSFETs.
The card will be powered through 8-Pin + 6-Pin power configuration and will obviously run at factory overclocked specifications.
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Looks nice
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Damn that thing looks nice. I wonder what the price point will be.
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Looks nice, got a new case and PSU, so im all set for a custom 290 now.
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Unleash the Beast......
If the R9-290X is properly cooled, it can beat the fastest nVidia graphics card the GTX780Ti @ a lower price point.
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Let's see what this beasty is capable of with proper cooling

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And that's why people you should have waited for custom 290's.

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I think this combined with my new 1440p monitor is gonna make me dump 2gb 680 earlier than expected

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I'm still waiting for my Toxic tbh.

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Dat heatpipe.

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very nice but took too long
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Custom cards usually start showing up around 3-4 month after their reference counterparts are out. So that Jan release sounds about right.
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yeah, bs it's been ages, NVidia's are out way before now, why so apologist?
only NVidia's top line take a while, all amd have is a directCU2 pic.
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This i will gladly wait for... Wish it was coming out SOONER then the first of the year.. I might give up my asus loyalty if msi lightning comes out first...
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yeah, bs it's been ages, NVidia's are out way before now, why so apologist?
only NVidia's top line take a while, all amd have is a directCU2 pic.
The 290's are AMD's top line. There are after market cards out for everything else they've released.
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They are coming!