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Gigabyte Radeon R9-290X WindForce 3X OC review
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We review the Gigabyte Radeon R9-290X WindForce 3X OC edition. A lot of you guys have been waiting on a custom cooled version of this product. Armed with the latest revision of the WindForce 3X cooler and will get that 2816 Stream processor based Hawaii chip with and 4 GB GDDR5 memory running along a 512-bit memory interface. The WindForce 3X card will be equipped with a fully custom PCB design. The card is powered through 8-Pin + 6-Pin power configuration and obviously runs at factory overclocked specifications. The card can Boost towards 1040 MHz and is clocked at reference clocks on the GDDR5 memory.
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Pill Monster
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Posted on: 02/16/2014 09:45 PM
**Btw AMD don't sell GPU's, they just design them. All sales/manufacturing is done by AIB's.
Boy you must be on crack. If you are buying from AMD/NVidia Directly they have the same one fan at the end of the card.
Does that make his statement any less true?**Btw AMD don't sell GPU's, they just design them. All sales/manufacturing is done by AIB's.
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Posted on: 02/16/2014 09:54 PM
No they don't, Nvidias coolers totally blow (no pun intended
) AMDs away, they are much quieter, and give much lower temps, AMD need to change them, only thing that lets their cards down.
I really don't understand it, they make cracking cards, but shove utter sh!te coolers on them, its like buying a top end rig, say Intel Haswell, 780Ti Quad SLi, umpteen SSDs, all watercooled, and then buying a £20 Q-Tec gold PSU to power it all, you just bloody wouldn't, but AMD won't be told, they said some guff about having to use them for OEMs so can't change, but what about Nvidias fantastic blower coolers (Titan), which i presume are also like that for OEMs just like AMDs.
No wonder when they release new cards, they ain't flying off the shelves, as everyones going nope, not with that sh!t cooler, its a non ref for me, so they all wait months for them to appear.
Id have bought a 290 on release if the cooler was decent, but no way, they've been absolutely slaughtered for that cooler in every review, and deservedly so.
No they don't, Nvidias coolers totally blow (no pun intended
) AMDs away, they are much quieter, and give much lower temps, AMD need to change them, only thing that lets their cards down.
I really don't understand it, they make cracking cards, but shove utter sh!te coolers on them, its like buying a top end rig, say Intel Haswell, 780Ti Quad SLi, umpteen SSDs, all watercooled, and then buying a £20 Q-Tec gold PSU to power it all, you just bloody wouldn't, but AMD won't be told, they said some guff about having to use them for OEMs so can't change, but what about Nvidias fantastic blower coolers (Titan), which i presume are also like that for OEMs just like AMDs.
No wonder when they release new cards, they ain't flying off the shelves, as everyones going nope, not with that sh!t cooler, its a non ref for me, so they all wait months for them to appear.
Id have bought a 290 on release if the cooler was decent, but no way, they've been absolutely slaughtered for that cooler in every review, and deservedly so.
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Boy you must be on crack. If you are buying from AMD/NVidia Directly they have the same one fan at the end of the card.