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Digital so we're at the sapphire suite and while they didn't have anything necessarily new for me they showed me
the R9 290 with its Trix cooler on there
that was released a little bit before Christmas and now I haven't seen this in
real life yet and it's actually really exciting compared to a reference card
it's got a beastly cooler with five really big copper heat pipes running
through it Three in One Direction two in the other direction which should help cool it a lot and it does underload this
card floats at around 70 something degrees in comparison to a stock card
that floats at 95 this will allow you to do a lot more with it and it kind of
removes that scary feeling that your card's sitting at almost 100° which is
just kind of unsettling and I notic a lot of people don't like that I've even
seen some people not overclocking their 290s at all just because of how hot they
go you don't have to worry about that with the Trix card another reason why I
wanted to come to Sapphire was just to talk about their trick software we did a
water cooling update for 290 not that long ago where I couldn't really
overclock it that much because I didn't have any power to play with now with
their offsetting controls in tricks which they updated fairly recently you
can actually control offsets and overclock much more so I'm excited to
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