Gigabyte 290X Windforce OC Graphics Card
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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forair Raptor K40 keyboard and M45 Mouse
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are designed to provide best-in-class features and performance for gaming
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click now to learn more welcome to my
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video This is the first R9 290x we've
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got that's a non-reference card about the Gigabyte radon R9 290x windforce it
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comes with a 1040 MHz boost clock 4 gigs
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of dddr 5 memory clocked at 5 GHz it costs $70 more than a base card so what
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do you get for your $70 well you get this card instead it's got a massive six
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heat pipe triple fan windforce cooler with their triangle cool concept which
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is like a pyramid shaped block here that redirects air flow up and then down away
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from the card it has a max cooling capacity of
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450 watts and I've seen it in action at computex it actually does it okay the
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card also has a six pin and 8 Pin PCI Express power connector it's got a a
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slightly non-reference looking PCB there have been some changes compared to my
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reference card so I'll be interested to see how that affects overclocking and
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performance and then of course you get well all the usual AMD Technologies so
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there's bridgeless Crossfire no Crossfire connector anymore goes through
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PCI Express there's easy Affinity with six displays supported out of the box
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using a DisplayPort Hub true audio open CL 2.0 powertune and their new mantle
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API which is finally here and drastically reduces CPU bottlenecks the
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usual stuff is included Inside the Box you got a couple adapters driver dis Etc
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but what we're really interested in is the overclocking capability of this card
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with AMD's latest powertune performance is directly affected by the GPU
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temperatures and we want to see how the R9 290x Compares on air cooling with an
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overclock GTX 780 Ti now that we can
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keep thermals under control and especially now that price is is very
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very similar between this between them so I'll be handing this over to Luke for
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performance numbers I hope you guys enjoy it I found when overclocking this
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windforce card that the overclocks are actually quite fan speed dependent the
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cooler is fairly strong but if you have the fan speed fairly low it's still
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going to flush up to about 95° and you don't want it up there if you hit around
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75% fan speed though you can keep the temperature down quite effectively and
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hit much higher core clocks and get some really impressive benchmarks out of this
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thing it smashed a reference 290x which was really nice to see I'm happy to see
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these aftermarket coolers and I'm happy to see them wreck the reference cards
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comment on the video down below if you're interested in reference cards and maybe post on the Forum you'll get more
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