discussion XFX R9 290 Double Dissipation Review (Comment Thread)

[SKYMTL]

XFX's R9 290 Double Dissipation may not be the fastest R9 290 on the block but it's certainly one of the best looking.

Read more here: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...741-xfx-r9-290-double-dissipation-review.html

 

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with a price of $520 ($550 in Canada)

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I too love the look of the XFX coolers. Reminds me of an Mi6 James Bond briefcase or something. Perfect for playing Absolution. Heh. Thanks for taking a look at this card Sky. The more the better.

 

[sf101]

most people rag on xfx coolers.. honestly with these 290/x's im really starting to think its all lucky binning that gets you good overclocks.

My 290x is waterblocked never reaches over 40*C gup/mems or vrms and black screens if i touch voltages even 1mv .. so it only oc's to 1050-1075 ish or i get black screens. other cards like this are getting over 1200 easy.. doesnt make alot of sense to me.

 

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Yup. Luck of the draw. I think it best to spend a little extra on ones that are already binned. Slim pickens with all the coin mining that has been going on I think.

 

[cennis]

In general hawaii does not overclock much, water or not, even at high volts

 

[SKYMTL]

I've actually found that oddly enough, system specs affect overclocking on these cards as well. For example, on my Z87 system this card hits a maximum of 1201MHz.

 

[sherwind2010]

I had the XFX's R9 290 Double Dissipation card. it was about 15% faster than one of my Asus R9 280X's.