PowerColor Devil 13 Dual GPU R9 290X Review
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Prince Valiant
Impressive GPU, and a good price point comparatively, thanks for the review. I'm shocked they didn't avoid air cooling when they're having to include a jack because of the weight.
chispy
Nice review Hilbert , excellent read. Holly Jesus 😱 105.3 C. = 221.53 F. in VRM1 and the PCB cannot be good for any video card component and the components inside a case 😏, bring in the Holy water to cool that Demon 👿 , desperately needs water-cooling , seriously ! No wonder is called devil13 :bat: .........
Ven0m
Thanks for the review.
This card looks too hot and noisy. If 295 blocks don't fit it, I'd rather stay away from it.
cala86
Good morning.great review as always, this thing is huge! In your opinion, will this card works on a pcie-2 pc, without losing a noticeable amount of performance? thanks in advance!
LoccOtHaN
Whooa 😀 What a Devil :john:
Undying
Damn, this thing is a beast. Nice review HH.
BLEH!
That's one big, hungry card. Water anyone?
TheDeeGee
Damn 105C, and that's outside a Case >_<
This clearly needs one of those new Arctic Cooling Heatsinks on the back to keep the PCB out of danger. Even then i doubt it will drop under 95C.
Twiddles
This card could seriously boil eggs 😀 This even beats Fermi in the heat department. Think about what would happen if it were full of dust... :O
Fender178
Heck not even a custom Fan profile with AB would help this card. This card needs water.
Enticles
105 on air is just ludicrous. water cooling is no longer an option with a card like this, its a necessity. lets just hope some people make waterblocks for it.
the price point is lower than i was expecting, and they throw in an ouroborus to boot - about the only way i'd purchase one - but can't complain at a $100+ mouse for free!
BLEH!
Whatever happened to underclocking dual GPU cards to keep the TDP reasonable, i.e. 5970.
tsunami231
I can cook my breakfast on that! Ironically named too if the "13" seem out of place
Twiddles
Throttling is the new underclocking 😉
kakarot
Nice review, that thing is a beast. Tho I would go for the reference water cooled version if I were rich enough to go for one
Noisiv
they'll sell about 5 of these
$100 and the dinky mouse is a weird proposition next to the reference AIO 295x2
props to PowerColor for striving to be different, even when that makes no sense
NAMEk
Why the hell one needs a mouse bundled with Graphic card????? LCS is a Must for this kind of heat! You can boil some water for tea or coffee from VRMs. They should also sell card with LCS and without any cooler at all, for users to decide what they need. It's 500W of pure heat isn't there a way to use it for good? Of course no one will argue about performance of this card. Can't say that this product is good in the way it is, because of the heat. Some custom cooling solution must be applied, ant then good to go, but the price should be dropped and sold without cooler or cooling has to change.
Kaotik
Actually, they're Sea Islands (Bonaire & Hawaii + bunch of APU GPU's), there's no Volcanic Islands GPUs out yet, but the first ones will be Iceland and Tonga.
This was revealed by AMD's CodeXL, which clearly lists GPU's based on family, nearly 2 months ago:
http://www.elisanet.fi/kaotik/img-ftp/amdgpus.png
Frances
Wow another let down. This card is way too expansive. I think I'll stick to the card for regular folks. Stay classy, AMD. Getting a Nvidia next time.
Agonist
Clearly your not well educated on both sides of the gpu market. Compare nvidia offering and this is rather priced decent for the water cooled reference cards.
Nvidia is priced too damn high IMHO.
