Is the 290x, dare I say, /ourgpu/?

>>59915560
AyyyMD is shit, but that was a good GPU desu.

>>59915560
I still keep mine as a backup card. Prices have fallen so far that it's not even worth selling, despite the fact that it still beats the 480 and 1060 in some gaymes and matches them in most others.

Anyone know where I can buy one ? I want to crossfire but I don't want to get ripped off.

>>59915560

the 390x is better so no

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>>59916036
290x is a 390x

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>>59915560
Recommended a friend of mine the 290 a year or so ago. It works perfectly and runs very well.

Another buddy decides to grab a 970 despite knowing about the 3.5 issue. wew.

>>59915560
not the 4gb version but the 290x and 390x are still a deal if you can handle the heat
http://www.ebay.com/itm/XFX-AMD-Radeon-R9-290X-8GB-Alphacool-Waterblock-/222433786684?hash=item33ca163b3c:g:aDEAAOSwsW9YwHsm

>>59916245
>Another buddy decides to grab a 970 despite knowing about the 3.5 issue. wew.
Because they're going for 100 dollars
at that price it's a bargain considering they're somewhat equal to RX 480/1070

>>59916245
Remind him to contact nVidia for his $30 from the lawsuit.

>>59916454
dont they OC like crazy?

>>59916471
No 40Mhz at max with huge voltage increase.
390x owner here

>>59916454
They are $150+ unless you find a steal.

>>59915560
R9 390x, slaps 980 , 8gb vram, dx12 makes wonders. Best gpu from amd since the 7970 ghz.

>>59916454
He bought the 970 for a solid 400~ Euros back then.

>>59916210
290 is a 290X is a 390 is a 390X

You can BIOS mod a 290 to a 390x

>>59916502
Depends on where you look, but even at 140, it's a pretty damn good price.
I wouldn't dare suggest it to anyone buying it for over 200 though.

AYYMD HOUSEFIRES

>>59916553

that only applied to the absolute first month release 390x cards.

after a few months they locked it down, now you cant do it anymore. and the 390x is about 15-20% faster than a 290x now.

>>59915560
the one and the only reason i picked a meme gtx 970 over this card is the fact that my PSU won't handle it and i would need to spend extra for a new one. I say the 290x has an amazing fps/$$$ ratio.

>>59916629
At least for 1440p, its performance/$ was crazy for a super long time.
Doesn't utilize quite as great in 1080p, though.
Shame how standard that 1080 is. What a garbage resolution.

>>59916730
1080p is all what my budget allowed me to get. My next upgrade will be something with g/free-sync at 160hz @1440p

>Tfw R9 295X2

GTX 1060, faster and runs at a fraction of the power usage

290X users are retarded, enjoy your sauna housefires

>>59916798
>No graphs
>No charts
>No links
>No evidence whatsoever
get out

>tfw the gtx1060 is a normie gpu

>>59916614
>and the 390x is about 15-20% faster than a 290x now

Uh, no, it's not. That's complete bullshit. It's the exact same GPU. At the same frequency, they perform identically, and the 390X doesn't have any additional overclocking headroom, despite the lies about optimised power delivery and such. The ONLY scenario where a 390X will be much faster is when a 4GB 290X runs out of VRAM.

>>59916785
Hm? The 290X is good for 1440p in tons of games. You just needed a better monitor.

>>59916798
>1060
It's not faster in DX12/Vulkan.
It's not faster at high resolutions.
It didn't come out almost 4 years ago.

290 without the X owner here

I was saving up for a 980Ti when the 970 thing kicked off

Grabbed the 290 for peanuts. Still serves me like a dream and temps aren't alarming.

>>59916823
People are tricked into believing it's faster because sites are still using shitty, throttling reference 290Xs for benchmarking (those that still bother to benchmark the 290X that is). All 390Xs were custom and shipped with more aggressive overclocks out of the box, so they seem much faster in benchmark charts. It's all complete smoke and mirrors of course. The 390X is a literal rebrand of the 8GB 290X.

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Excellent gpu, got one at launch and it served me well until I got a 980ti. The reference cooler was a meme though: I got a reference card so I could put a water block on it easily, but when I sold the card and put that cooler back on it was leafblower levels loud under load even at 35% fan speed or so. Felt kinda bad for the kid I sold it to even if the card was perfectly good.

>>59916872
The one area where the 390X benefit is having slightly faster memory, but Hawaii was never bandwidth-limited to begin with thanks to that 512-bit bus. There are maybe a handful of games in existence which will see any gains from the extra memory bandwidth.

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>>59916864
Smart guy. I like you.
Lots of my friends got the 970 despite me warning them, and they regret it so much.

tfw shitty friends that don't trust you

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>>59915560
No, and it never was. 290 non-x was.
Today it's kinda a toss-up between 470/480/1060

>>59916614
hey pajeet

>>59916899
Last I checked, the 290X > 390X BIOS mod tightens the GDDR5 timings as well

>>59917066
Outside of the 3.5GB, what's there to regret?

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>>59917444
>outside the card completely taking a dump if something allocates over 3.5GB which makes it run slower than a 1050 or RX460, what's there to regret?

>>59917477
>R9 290 isn't even on the list
peanuts

>>59915560
still the best poorfag gpu
rx480/1060 performance from 90-100 €
but many need a 30 € cx500 as well

>>59916864
The Tri-X is decent, hot but not over 70° if you are into airflow
Considering the price and performance it is amazing

>>59917477
>1440p benchmark for a GPU with obvious ram flaws
Despite this, the card runs RE:7 beautifully at all settings maxed at 1080p
>b-but it stutters more than the other card when it hits that peak
wow no shit, if you were to buy this card for anything higher than 1080p in the first place, you're a tard.

>>59917684
and the worst part here is that despite the 3.5GB shit being a huge fucking kick in the nads and basically fraud, the person here is arguing about the concept that requiring an extra 100W is a good trade-off for a fucking 5 FPS boost at a resolution your GPU can barely handle.

Did you buy a 290x and are fine with it to this day?
good for you
Did you buy a 970 and are fine with it to this day?
good for you

>>59917750
>an extra 100W
The card came out 3 years earlier, you tard.

>>59917758
>290 came out 37 Months ago
>970 came out 31 Months ago
>6 months is 3 years earlier

GTX 1060 120W
GTX 1070 150W
GTX 1080 180W

All superior to AYYMD HOUSEFIRES in performance & feature set with real DX12 Feature Level 12_1 support while AYYMD can't ever support 12_1 on their shitty GPUs

>>59917780
Huh. There's only 6 months difference between October 2013 and September 2014?
makes u think

>>59917750
the 970 is clearly more efficient but who cares when you can trash these cards nowadays
im really wondering about the prices, 2you can get a trix 290 for around 100 €, but 780/tis cost much more, 970s still up to 200
WHO would buy a used 970 if he could get a NEW 470 which is also power efficient for the same price?

>>59917844
>WHO would buy a used 970 if he could get a NEW 470 which is also power efficient for the same price?
The Way It's Meant To Be Played fanboys.

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>>59917844
>WHO would buy a used 970 if he could get a NEW 470 which is also power efficient for the same price?
hit me up
where can I get a rx 470 for 150 usd

>>59917874
You could get them for $85 last week in the US, cuck.
Open your eyes, easy.

>>59917851
im not a fanboy... im using a gsync nvidia setup
but amd owns the budget sector
i would not buy nvidia below 300 €
>>59917874
160 € i think the cheapest here
i remember they had a msi 480 8 gb for 219 €
the good 1060s range from 300 upwards

Do you people jack off to graphics cards or something

>>59917937
>160 € i think the cheapest here
Shit, link?
I'd sell my GTX 970 asap if I could get the RX470 for that price

>>59916547
Still more worth it than a 390.

>>59917937
>im not a fanboy... im using a gsync nvidia setup
I didn't say you were. I was simply answering your question on who would pay $150 for a 970 when they could get a better RX470 for $110-$130.
Fanboys. That's it. People with no clue.

Same people who bought gsync, when it costs way more, and is proprietary, when Freesync is more common, cheaper, and open.
And Gsync looks like it'll die in a year with Freesync2 coming, and it looking to become prevalent with TVs for console support, and Nvidia having no alternative to Freesync2 lined up for the HDR10 monitors that are coming.

>>59917972
There was an HSI or whatever RX470 for 170 euro 2 weeks ago. Not sure if it's still around. Why is it so hard for most people on /g/ to search for the lowest prices?
Usually just checking a popular retailer like Amazon or Newegg, or using froogle, finds them here in the US.

Hawaii has finally supseded tahiti (which superseded the 800GT) as the godmachine of gpus.

what gpu should i get for around $250 or less? I was thinking gtx1060/rx480 but if theres a better alternative used id like to use it.

>>59918049

There basically isn't. To go above the 480/1060 you need to be looking at the likes of monster clocked 980's (zotac make a few) or the fury.

>>59917998
the problem is, amd cannot deliver anything viable for 4k gaming
if you ever played in 4k youll know why you need sync
i dont know about the us but germans/europeans should always check geizhals and idealo

>>59917998
>now its 170 euro
I'm yurotrash and I can't find a single RX470 below 190 EUR
hell, I even found a RX480 at 200 EUR

>>59916502
I got my 980Ti for $160 from Microcenter like 2-3 months ago.

Not gonna be changing my GPU for a while.

>>59918049
>>59918072
You used to be able to get R9 Fury for $230-$250 new in the US all the way from Black Friday 2016 up until a week ago.

But they've finally been bought up as people realized that Nvidia GPUs are screwy on Ryzen.

>>59918096
https://geizhals.eu/his-radeon-rx-470-icooler-oc-hs-470r4scnr-a1523977.html?hloc=at&hloc=de&hloc=pl&hloc=uk&hloc=eu
kek
Prices keep jumping up on them cause Nvidia driver is so shit on Ryzen, I guess. There's finally a big demand and people finally realize they're better.
This was 50 euro less 2 weeks ago.

>>59918074
>the problem is, amd cannot deliver anything viable for 4k gaming
Uh the Fury X does 30fps+ in 4K for most games.

>>59918118
The Fury X is pure shit
>4 GB on a highend GPU
480 come close to a Fury but the performance isnt enough for 4K
Even a 1080Ti will only handle 40 FPS in some games

>>59918118
>rx470 costs more than a rx480
what the zug

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>>59918196
>4GB
>of HBM2
>isn't enough for 4k
guys, we got another retard.

Fury doesn't give a shit if something allocates over 50%, almost 100% more VRAM than it has. It still scales better to 4K than a 6GB 1060. Only reason it only gets 19FPS on GR Wildlands is because it's terribly optimized and Nvidia sponsored. It does 30fps+ on most other games, and this is the absolute worst example you can pretty much find.

>>59915560
Only if you don't care about the heat ouput and the massive amount of power it draws

>>59918200
This is the case in my yuroland also. 220€ for the cheapest 480 200-300€ for 470.

I'm enjoying the fuck out of people shitting on AMD. Got r9 290 with shitty DCUii cooler for 80€. Changed paste and the thing is running smooth af with 6600k.

>>59918335

>Fury doesn't give a shit if something allocates over 50%, almost 100% more VRAM than it has.

You can be sure as fuck Vega's high bandwidth cache controller is going to be an evolution of the dynamic memory alloaction AMD has been turning since hawaii (which is why fiji gives no fucks despite seemingly running out of vram) along with some interesting options not for consumer plebs (like those radeon pros with a bolt on ssd). HBCC is going to be about getting as much memory access as possible as fast as possible - even from elsewhere in the system. It isn't much use for consumers but for server deployments and other big data usage cases it is a seriously interesting piece of technology.

>>59918335
check radeon pro duo benchmarks and come back

>>59918342
"Massive" = 1x light bulb.

Heat is an actual point if the card has a bad cooler, the paste is old/too much or bad case.

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Oh oops I said HBM2 there. I meant HBM.

>>59918382
It's useful for consumers.
8GB of HBM2 with the HBCC is likely to perform better than 11GB of GDDR5X when a game wants 12GB (some are already using 8-10).

>>59918402
k I'm back

>>59917974
Both the same price? definately better.

Want to buy an AMD GPU.
Which one do you guys recommend? 480? 390X? Which one would be more cost/benefit?

>>59918439
RX580 with 8+6 pin that's reviewed well once they drop.

>>59918439

480. Performs the same as the 390x at nearly half the power draw.

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>>59918335
>Fury doesn't give a shit if something allocates over 50%, almost 100% more VRAM than it has

This is such horse shit. HBM isn't magic. The Fury cards start stuttering like crazy once you go over 4GB, the same as any other card once it runs out of VRAM and you need to start swapping data between VRAM and system RAM. It doesn't matter one bit how fast HBM is, because you're still limited to how fast the other half of the equation is (the answer being orders of magnitude slower). It doesn't drop off a cliff like the 970 (because that card's plain broken), but it's not a good experience at all.

>Doesn't support HDMI 2.0b
>Doesn't support 4K HEVC Main10/VP9/H.264 hardware decoding
>Doesn't support Feature Level 12_1

Only retards will buy this AYYMD HOUSEFIRES garbage

>>59918439
I'd get the one which is cheaper with a proper cooler. I'd pay about 180€ for 390x and 220€ for 480 8GB maximum. Even though 480 is at times slower it's still newer.

>>59918517
I don't need any of those lol

>>59918416
200w, one lightbulb?

I'm curious what kind of lightbulbs you use

wait, so is there any reasoning why I would exchange my gtx 970 with a RX 480 if I don't run into the .5GB issue?
seemingly pretty much the same cards at the same pricetag

>>59918517

>Doesn't support Feature Level 12_1

Oh look, its another retarded that doesn't understand DX feature levels.

>>59918517
>Doesn't support Feature Level 12_1

Hah. Nvidia's meme cards don't even support tier 3 resource binding yet, something that fucking GCN 1.0 cards like the 7970 AND Intel's iGPUs both do. Come talk about DX12 readiness when they finally implement that (in Volta, so enjoy your new purchase).

>>59915560
rx480 is the better choice.

>>59918493
I am not willing to get a 580 because of my current overall set up.

>>59918529
Which manufactor do you recommend? I am between Sapphire and Powercolor.

>>59918676
isnt the 1060 faster?

>>59918509
This. Two Furies often deliver more FPS but with heavy frametime spikes which make the image looking like shutter. Even on the same GPU (480) 4 GB models often suffer microshuttering in certain titles in higher resolutions.

4 GB is OK for 1080p, not anything above, but paying 200+ € for a used Fury when AMD itself delivered a new generation is purely retarded. Just get the 8 GB 480 and you're fine.
>>59918599
Isn't DX12 what AMDfags always mention to justify their Fury purchase? I don't care about DX12 anyway as it isn't avaiable on my OS, but I know if DX12 ever gets important every current gen GPU will be outdated.
>>59918696
A few FPS, nothing that justifies its price. Also we saw how AMD cards perform over the years, if you plan to keep it go with AMD. Look at 680s vs 7970, 680 2 GB are almost unusable for modern textures.

>>59918678
>I am not willing to get a 580 because of my current overall set up.
what the hell does this mean

>>59918696
No. They're even on average. And the 1060 gets completely BTFO in DX12 and/or 1440p.

>>59918564
no
wait for next gen

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>>59919016
>No. They're even on average. And the 1060 gets completely BTFO in DX12 and/or 1440p.
>aayyymmdfaggots actualy believing this

>>59919058
>reference blower card vs overclocked triple fan one
Yeah, it's definitely time to kill yourself.

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>>59919107
You were saying?

Keep in mind the 480 barely oc's while the 1060 oc's like a champ

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>>59919152
>day1 benchmarks when performance is about 15% better now
>tons of games that have DX12 support not using DX12, except for one
really makes you think

>>59918678
I'd go with:
1. find cheap card with at least two fans
2. read about the card/cooler
3. buy Asus DCUii cards only at gunpoint/if you're going to add vram cooling (problem in almost all AMD asus cards)
4. Sapphire is solid, Powercolor rx cards shit (r9 fine though)

I have the Powercolor PCS+ R9 390 since almost one and a half years. Apart from it sounding like a starting jet under load, I am content with it.
Rate.

>>59919373

The PCS+ is the best "budget" hawaii based card.

>tfw I have a 290
I'm happy with it, but been thinking about if I could mod it to a 290x

>>59918565
>>59918599
2 uneducated retards that don't understand DX12 feature levels

Only Nvidia GPUs supports full DX12 with Feature Level 12_1

AYYMD is stuck on 12_0, no full DX12 support and will not run any future games that mandate minimum 12_1 support, enjoy throwing your shit card in the dustbin soon

Stay mad, AYYMDPOORFAGS

>>59919608
>Shitposting 2 year old memes
Fuck

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>>59919608

Its time to stop posting, you do not understand what you are talking about.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/207598-demystifying-directx-12-support-what-amd-intel-and-nvidia-do-and-dont-deliver

>>59919574

If you can cool it (and feed it juice) try and overclock it - hawaii clocks like the devil (relatively) if you can tame the thermals.

>>59919768
Huh. I might look into it, but first of all I might need to upgrade my CPU, since it's an old Phenom II X6 1100T

>>59919574
Just google how to unlock r9 290. The hardest part is to find Hawaii info. I'm stuck with a locked card. Small oc with -10% power target: happy.

>>59915560
Yes.
>It's my GPU anyway, 8GB version of OP pic.

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>>59920143

>he doesn't unleash the beast

I need to rebench now that i've got a newer cpu, but my pareticularly leaky (and high clocking) 290x is no sluch. Just bear in mind the average hawaii overclock is 1150mhz (sauce: HWbot).

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>>59920208
volts?

I'm currently on 1120/1425 +42mV
VaporX cards need more voltage due to the distance of the VRMs to the core and susceptibility to vdroop.

>>59920233

Prepare your anus for this answer but i'm putting +180mv through that card. Make note that I haven't specified what cooling I am using for good reason - i've bolted a raijintek morpheus to what used to be a tri-x (I destroyed the mounting screw holes on the tri-x heatsink so I can no longer reattach it). My gpu is fucking enormous but at stock clocks (1010mhz/1250mhz) it won't break 50c under full load which means I have theh eadroom for such clocks.

Protip: if you have a spare 80mm fan or so floating about place it on the rear of the pcb above vrm1 - you can easily knock 10c off its temperature by cooling the rear of the pins.

I expect to be using my 290x until navi desu. Would Vega be worth the upgrade?

>>59920312
There's literally zero credible information on Vega's performance yet.

>>59920143
Eh, just checked, my 290 isn't unlockable. Shame.

>>59920208
Daymnnnn! Maybe I should unleash it. My card is at the second PCI-e slot so it is straight on my 2x120mm + 140mm case fans (Cooltek w2).

>>59915560
Absolutely NOT.

The 290x/390x (they are in fact the same card) has exactly the same performance as a RX 470. (RX 480 is slightly more powerful in some benchmarks).

The 290x is a 290W TDP card.

The RX 470 is a 120W TDP card and the slightly more powerful RX 480 is a 150W TDP part.

If you live in your moms basement then this may not matter but if you pay your own electricity bill then it really does matter. There's also noise to consider; my RX 470 doesn't need fans for normal desktop / video use and even stays below the 60C limit where the fans do start when playing a lot of lighter less-demanding games.

>>59916401
>not the 4gb version but the 290x and 390x are still a deal
No, they are not a deal; they just appear to be because the initial cost of buying them is lower.

>>59916798
>>59916807
The GTX 1060 has a 120W TDP. There is absolutely no denying that it uses less than half as much power as the 290X.

>>59915560
Not supported on Hackintosh, so no.

>>59915560
My 390 doesn't have linux support, so no.

>>59918382
>HBCC is going to be about getting as much memory access as possible as fast as possible - even from elsewhere in the system. It isn't much use for consumers

You're wrong about that and here is a small example..:

go to chrome://flags in chromium or chrome and set #ignore-gpu-blacklist #disable-accelerated-2d-canvas #enable-gpu-rasterization #enable-display-list-2d-canvas and #enable-zero-copy to enable then restart it with chrome://restart and check chrome://gpu and if you did it right you should get Hardware accelerated on just about everything that browser does. Firefox is behind here but Chrome can run almost entirely off your GPU.

>>59918860
>I don't care about DX12 anyway as it isn't avaiable on my OS, but I know if DX12 ever gets important every current gen GPU will be outdated.
No, only Nvidia GPUs will be outdated.

AMD was trying to push their "Mantle" technology since the Radeon HD 7000. Mangle eventually evolved into Vulkan and DX12 uses the same concepts. This is why old cards like from 2013 like the 7850 have full support for both DX12 and Vulkan with current AMD drivers. You'll notice that MESA 17 on GNU/Linux also support Vulkan on rather old GPUs.

NVidia has more sway with game developers and they will use this to make sure DX12 is adopted as slow as possible. And Vulkan will be discouraged.

>>59922038
Just saying things doesn't make them facts
390x owner @ 50-55c/0% fan streaming 1440p, benches better than my friends gtr 480 both stock and oc.
if you pay your own electricity bill then it really does matter
matters fuckall, card is idle most of the time unless you game from rise to sleep
if you ran at max load 8 hours a day 7 days a week the 290x would cost $8.30/mo to run at the national average of .12/kwh the 1060 $3.50.
>must suck being so poor a theoretical $5 a month could make or break a decision.

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>>59923752

While i'm not expressing an opinion one way or another my 290x I leave boincing when i'm asleep or at work so its under a good load for best part of 16hrs a day. Funnily enough because of some fairly hefty custom cooling the gpu and vrms don't go over 50c which means power draw is surprisingly low (well, as far as the likes of gpu-z and HWinfo report).

Overclocked though? Power draw is insane (nearly 400w!).

>>59915560
as a crtfag the lack of dvi-i is a no-no to me.

I have a r9 290(non x) sapphire vapor-x, is there a way to turn it into r9 390x? If so could you elaborate further?

>>59924161

Man I bet you can't wait to get your hands o nthe voodoo 2 - its going to blow everyone's mind.

>>59924191

Other anon is basically referring to overclocking - bios modding does nothing as it really is the exact same silicon.

>>59915560

>400w tdp
>requires >1.35v to get any decent oc
>struggles to beat gtx980 without said unsafe oc

it was a shit gpu.

>>59915620
>>59915568
>>59915614
I don't know

>>59915560
>Never stop evolving

FineWine™

>>59924161
Get a 980ti. Most powerful card with dvi-i.

The difference between a 4gb and 8gb 480 is around 50 bucks in the US; in what insistence would the extra VRAM be worth the 25% price increase?

>>59925938

From a pure price vs performance perspective it is NEVER worth it. The only time the 8gb 480 shines is when you want a top clocked model but can't justify going up a price bracket.

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>>59916798
really gets the old pic related

>>59916491
t. liar

ive gotten a 290x to 1250mhz on only a .1 volt bump

I still have the 280x, but i still don't know if i should upgrade or not.

>>59926263

I call bullshit on this - that is 1.3v for 1250mhz core clocks - either you have THE golden chip or (more likely) you are full of shit. Realistically the only hawaii chips hitting over 1200mhz where those on the lightning board and even then you aren't doing it on air. 1.3v just isn't happening.

>>59917963
>a born post-9/11 faggot tripfagging on a Sudanese Stop-motion board

commit sudoku my dude

>>59916455
Just got my $30 check in the mail yesterday for the 970 lawsuit feelsgoodman

I have a sapphire 290 tri-x, should i upgrade this year or wait til next, mainly gayming rig

I got a reference r9 290 a while back for 180 bucks. Slapped an aftermarket cooler on there and it gets to 70c maximum, down from 92 on reference. That's overclocked too. It's pulling it's weight at 1080p for me since I can't get a better monitor.

>>59927502

Overclocked to what?

>>59927548
Right to the point under graphical errors on load or during stress tests, 1072 on gpu core and 1353 memory. It's not a whole lot when I look at it, but it makes a difference for sure. Weird how that is.

>>59927632

>1072
>hawaii

You lost the lottery.

>>59916899
GTA V is much smoother when OC'ing my 390X memory from 1500Mhz to 1600Mhz, and I can see slight gains on The Witcher 3 too. I believe the gap is larger considering almost no 290x can get to 1600Mhz memory

Sapphire really needs to bring back Vapor-X

>>59927798
I don't really consider the 75 MHz as necesary as making it above the initial 10-15% OC in my opinion.

My fucking GTX 1060 keeps freezing up/black screening on me anyone else getting this? Do I need to fully reinstall the drivers or something?

>>59928739
The Radeon™ RX 480 Graphics Card does not have this problem.

>>59928739
Overclocked to > 2150?
Literally be the problem. They're not allowed to preform to their full potential.
8000Mhz on ln2.

>>59927798
>reference r9 290
>1075
>losing the lottery
Are you thinking aboutthe x or something? That overclock for the reference version is perfectly in line with what I expect.

290X owner here.
I'm probably going to hold onto it until I upgrade to a 1440p or 4k resolution monitor (2-3 years from now).
When are the rest of you guys planning to upgrade?

I would say given how long it's stayed viable as a 1080p gaming card, the 7970 is probably the best gpu ever. I tend to prefer nvidia tho cuz I'm a "muh thermals" fag.