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video This is the first R9 290x we've
got that's a non-reference card about the Gigabyte radon R9 290x windforce it
comes with a 1040 MHz boost clock 4 gigs
of dddr 5 memory clocked at 5 GHz it costs $70 more than a base card so what
do you get for your $70 well you get this card instead it's got a massive six
heat pipe triple fan windforce cooler with their triangle cool concept which
is like a pyramid shaped block here that redirects air flow up and then down away
from the card it has a max cooling capacity of
450 watts and I've seen it in action at computex it actually does it okay the
card also has a six pin and 8 Pin PCI Express power connector it's got a a
slightly non-reference looking PCB there have been some changes compared to my
reference card so I'll be interested to see how that affects overclocking and
performance and then of course you get well all the usual AMD Technologies so
there's bridgeless Crossfire no Crossfire connector anymore goes through
PCI Express there's easy Affinity with six displays supported out of the box
using a DisplayPort Hub true audio open CL 2.0 powertune and their new mantle
API which is finally here and drastically reduces CPU bottlenecks the
usual stuff is included Inside the Box you got a couple adapters driver dis Etc
but what we're really interested in is the overclocking capability of this card
with AMD's latest powertune performance is directly affected by the GPU
temperatures and we want to see how the R9 290x Compares on air cooling with an
overclock GTX 780 Ti now that we can
keep thermals under control and especially now that price is is very
very similar between this between them so I'll be handing this over to Luke for
performance numbers I hope you guys enjoy it I found when overclocking this
windforce card that the overclocks are actually quite fan speed dependent the
cooler is fairly strong but if you have the fan speed fairly low it's still
going to flush up to about 95° and you don't want it up there if you hit around
75% fan speed though you can keep the temperature down quite effectively and
hit much higher core clocks and get some really impressive benchmarks out of this
thing it smashed a reference 290x which was really nice to see I'm happy to see
these aftermarket coolers and I'm happy to see them wreck the reference cards
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