It's the first gen.
Upgrade Advice
- Thread starter Sheza
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It's the first gen.
magicc8ball
New member
cool, I would love to see how you MOD it if you choose to.
Davva2004
Active member
I wouldn't rule out the second hand market for an upgrade route if you need maximum bang for minimum bucks... there are some R9 290X cards on eBay starting around the £200 mark.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Computers-Tablets-Networking-/58058/i.html?_sop=15&LH_BIN=1&_from=R40&_nkw=r9%20290X&LH_PrefLoc=1&rt=nc&_mPrRngCbx=1&_udlo=200&_udhi
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Computers-Tablets-Networking-/58058/i.html?_sop=15&LH_BIN=1&_from=R40&_nkw=r9%20290X&LH_PrefLoc=1&rt=nc&_mPrRngCbx=1&_udlo=200&_udhi
Hi,
I have now bought the ASUS R9 290X (Was £210 at OCUK and free delivery). I wish I had held out for a few days and bought the 290X Vapor-X from Aria at £215 but whatever.
Either of the cards required a mod to the case. All we did was remove the HDD cage using a hammer and dremel. Then we mounted the SSD and HDD in the 5.25 inch bays.
We mounted the graphics card in the second PCIE X16 slot because otherwise we would have had to cut the floor of the 5.25 bays as well. The removal of the HDD cage creates good airflow for one of the fans on the ASUS, which should reduce some of the airflow lost my placing the card lower down.
And all this without removing the motherboard or Noctua NH-D14 when modding the case.
Well sadly I didn't, because I had already received the ASUS when I saw the Aria deal.
But I'm not *too* bummed, I'm only really going to be able to use the card for the 3-4 months of summer holiday anyway.
Nout I can do about it now!
You could always return it as OCUK have a 14 day return policy
The Vapor-X deal has ended. And I've already put the card in!
Trust me it was tempting but money & the fact that this is temporary... I would have had to pay postage on the Aria deal and paid to send the card back to OCUK.
To answer your earlier question, I get around 75 degrees in Battlefield 3 on Ultra at 1440p. The fans were less than 50% as well. I know the thermal performance isn't that great but then neither was my HAWK. It sounded like it was taking off if I played anything more demanding than CS:GO.
