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What brand AMD R9 290 shall I get?

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March 12, 2014 4:19:36 PM

Hello everyone, I'm planning on buying a R9 290 graphics card. As you know there are lots of brands releasing it such as ASUS and Sapphire and so on. I've heard the card has some heating problems so I'd like to know what brand to get such as the Sapphire AMD R9 290 TRI-X. Basically which brand would be best for performance and cooling?

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March 12, 2014 4:24:03 PM

the best air cooled 290/290x is the toxic but the heating issues were mostly fixed with the non reference coolers. i would go with the toxic personally.
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March 12, 2014 4:25:15 PM

DonMeechy said:
Hello everyone, I'm planning on buying a R9 290 graphics card. As you know there are lots of brands releasing it such as ASUS and Sapphire and so on. I've heard the card has some heating problems so I'd like to know what brand to get such as the Sapphire AMD R9 290 TRI-X. Basically which brand would be best for performance and cooling?


Personally i would go for the Gigabyte model since i'm very happy with the Windforce cooler, great cooling and they are one of the more silent ones.
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March 12, 2014 4:25:15 PM

Bad_Kitty13 said:
the best air cooled 290/290x is the toxic but the heating issues were mostly fixed with the non reference coolers. i would go with the toxic personally.


Thank you, just want to see what more people say. And are all R9 290's now non reference?
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March 12, 2014 4:29:10 PM

Sapphire Tri-X is quite good.

There may be still some reference cards out there, but they are noisy
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March 12, 2014 4:30:20 PM

Anyone know what brand is the best overall?
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March 12, 2014 4:38:46 PM

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r9-290-and-2...
this link shows perfomance comparison and cooling on most of the after market coolers for the non reference 290x (the cooler performance should be about the same for the 290) and other performance benchmarks to use as a rule of thumb. but imo the toxic is the best
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