Sapphire R9 290 and Trixx (Not a new card, just an overview) - CES 2014
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for
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great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western
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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
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the R9 290 with its Trix cooler on there
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that was released a little bit before Christmas and now I haven't seen this in
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real life yet and it's actually really exciting compared to a reference card
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it's got a beastly cooler with five really big copper heat pipes running
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through it Three in One Direction two in the other direction which should help cool it a lot and it does underload this
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card floats at around 70 something degrees in comparison to a stock card
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that floats at 95 this will allow you to do a lot more with it and it kind of
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removes that scary feeling that your card's sitting at almost 100° which is
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just kind of unsettling and I notic a lot of people don't like that I've even
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seen some people not overclocking their 290s at all just because of how hot they
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go you don't have to worry about that with the Trix card another reason why I
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wanted to come to Sapphire was just to talk about their trick software we did a
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water cooling update for 290 not that long ago where I couldn't really
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overclock it that much because I didn't have any power to play with now with
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their offsetting controls in tricks which they updated fairly recently you
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can actually control offsets and overclock much more so I'm excited to
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test that in the future thank you for watching our Sapphire content no matter
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