SieB
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Sad day
Happy days dude
Price cuts are good, a cheaper 780 is a good thing. Also, if Nvidia cut the price of the 780 then hopefully AMD will drop the price of the 290x as well.
AMD R9 290X Review
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Happy days dude
Price cuts are good, a cheaper 780 is a good thing. Also, if Nvidia cut the price of the 780 then hopefully AMD will drop the price of the 290x as well.
schietdammer
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the question is do you game on 3x 1920x1080 , cause google : guru3d crysis 3 vram - beacuse i think it is not allowed to give a direct url but maybe i am wrong about that , there you see that crysis 3 - on highest settings ofcourse - uses 2,2gb vram on just 1 1920x1200 , and 3 times 1920x1200 is higher than 3x 1920x1080 so you will have to subtract some vram , but i think crysis 3 uses 4gb vram (i noticed that 3x 1920x1080 uses not 3 times the vram that is needed for 1x 1920x1080 but only 2 times , so 2,2 x 2 is 4,4 minus 10% from 1200 > to 1080 is 4gb) so even a 290x is barely enough , i am glad i took the 6gb 7970 instead of the 3gb standard version
don't know about call of duty ghosts but minimal requirements for hard disk is 40gb , and the rumours are that it uses so much space so you can get lots of goodies on your screen , i think that game may also be a vram hog
i just think my point F is something people should know and maybe look at when they are looking for a gpu upgrade
Zoot
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Competition is always good, since we (the consumer) are always the winner. I definitely wouldn't say no to a GTX 780 if it came down in price by like 20% or so.Happy days dude
Price cuts are good, a cheaper 780 is a good thing. Also, if Nvidia cut the price of the 780 then hopefully AMD will drop the price of the 290x as well.
You're already seeing a lack of it in the high end CPU side of things, ie. Intel pretty much planning to coast on Haswell for at least 2 years, maybe even more.
Great review Tom, I completely agree with you on this, the fact that a gigabyte GTX 780 WF oc is £479.99 I honestly can't see why you would buy the 290x. Unless of course you're going to water cool it.
I had high hopes for the 290x, performance is good but the cooling is naff. Hopefully third party vendors will release the card with their coolers.
The best value/performance card out there is this imo:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-225-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1842
http://www.dabs.com/products/gigaby...xpress-3-0-hdmi-oc-8Y96.html?q=GTX 780&src=16
Edit: £399.95 for a 7990?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-327-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1515
£371
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/6gb-...ffers344&utm_source=scanshot&utm_medium=email
If you don't mind a dual gpu then that's one hell of a deal.
I had high hopes for the 290x, performance is good but the cooling is naff. Hopefully third party vendors will release the card with their coolers.
The best value/performance card out there is this imo:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-225-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1842
http://www.dabs.com/products/gigaby...xpress-3-0-hdmi-oc-8Y96.html?q=GTX 780&src=16
Edit: £399.95 for a 7990?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-327-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1515
£371
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/6gb-...ffers344&utm_source=scanshot&utm_medium=email
If you don't mind a dual gpu then that's one hell of a deal.
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GoogalyMoogaly
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I hadn't seen the Scan one (without the PSU)!
I will say though that OcUK will deal with the warranty for the full 3 years on the Asus card though (and you get what is basically a 14 day DSR period).
It's also possible to get an MSI (I think) 290X on dabs.com for around £390 with a voucher code (from www.hukd.com).
SieB
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That deal is over
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/msi-r9-290x-388-28-dabs-1689718
You can't ignore the 290x at that price though, £90 cheaper than a 780
Tripp
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That deal is over
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/msi-r9-290x-388-28-dabs-1689718
You can't ignore the 290x at that price though, £90 cheaper than a 780
jesus that is a good deal
PopcornMachine
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Interesting, yet disturbing, to see so much group think in action.
People here need to check other reviews.
People here need to check other reviews.
Rastalovich
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Don't understand the 'TTL=nVidia fanboi' business around the 'net. They need to spend more time on OC3D. If he were Vulcan, he'd still bleed red when cut 
People looking at this card wrong, imo (looking at it from an enthusiast pov). It has the performance, doesn't have the looks ? (like I'd personally care about that), price at launch is ok for a higher end card.
If you particularly want one - so it get's hot..... be prepared to do something about it then!
My cpu get's hot when I clock the sheet out of it!
Look forward to seening the pro-overclockers getting there hands on them and churning out stats to compare with the 780/Titan. Like to see where the world records come from myself.
People looking at this card wrong, imo (looking at it from an enthusiast pov). It has the performance, doesn't have the looks ? (like I'd personally care about that), price at launch is ok for a higher end card.
If you particularly want one - so it get's hot..... be prepared to do something about it then!
My cpu get's hot when I clock the sheet out of it!
Look forward to seening the pro-overclockers getting there hands on them and churning out stats to compare with the 780/Titan. Like to see where the world records come from myself.
SieB
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To be fair it did look pretty bad in the review video when instead of reviewing the 290x most of the time was spent showing Nvidia cards and during the whole of the conclusion having 2x 780 boxes and a Titan box clearly on display as if he was advertising them.
I know Tom isn't a fanboy, but you can't deny that doing the vid in that way makes it look like he is. The review and points brought up could have been done without including the Nvidia cards and the points about the cooler could still have been made.
I know Tom isn't a fanboy, but you can't deny that doing the vid in that way makes it look like he is. The review and points brought up could have been done without including the Nvidia cards and the points about the cooler could still have been made.
SieB
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Whether the Nvidia cooler is better or not, the review is for a 290x. The cooler could have been discussed and opinions given on it without throwing three Nvidia cards in there. And there was certainly no reason to have the Nvidia boxes displayed the way they were in the conclusion. Fair enough discuss the differences between the cards and coolers in the conclusion but as for the review itself, it should have been based on how the card and cooler performs without comparisons to Nvidia cards. There is a difference between a review and a comparison.
How do you expect people to respond to something like that?
As I said, I know Tom isn't a fanboy but for other people watching the vid how do you expect them to react to a review about a AMD card with more screen time and talk about Nvidia cards than the actual AMD card itself?
grassman
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You have a direct cu2.. anyone who has experienced the vacuum will completly understand where hes coming from. AMD deserved to get there asses kicked for it the thing is appalingly bad. Everyone gave them the ok maybe next time approach with the 7xxx series. They failed to do so for 3 generations now. Time for some whipping I think.
grassman
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With this cooler it does not. Think he was pretty clear. An hour worth of being clear.
looz
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Well that's obvious.
they tried to be nvidia and this is the result. it really is a shame because now they will still be behind nvidia till 2014, that's already 3/4 of a year behind.
