Fri Mar 13, 2015 5:41 pm by 223FORYOU
The R9 290 is in. This thing is a beast , I'm getting 170fps on bf4 ultra maxed out settings. Even with scaling turned up to 125 percent on ultra everything, I was still getting playable frame rates. Try this with your system and it will really tax your rig. AMD mantle is fantastic, I have not had any stability issues. I have yet to over clock the 290 but here is my 3DMark scores. Sky diver was 19500 and Firestrike was 6900. I did not even bother with running "the cloud" test as my system would have just crushed it anyway. Please excuse me for sitting on my soapbox but this thread was started in that AMD is competing with nVidia and doing well enough to warrant considering switching from nVidia to AMD. I think this 290 hits the sweet spot for price vs performance. My R9 290 was $270 with a $30 rebate making this card $240 and comes with a lifetime warranty. I can't wait to see what Andersony is going to get out of his 295x2.
AMD FX-8320 FX-Series Eight-Core Processor Edition, Black 4.0ghz
GIGABYTE GA-970A-D3 AM3+ AMD 970
Antec Kuhler H2O 620 Liquid CPU Cooler
2 - OCZ Technology 128GB Vertex 4 Series SSD
Corsair XMS3 8GB DDR3 1866 MHz
XFX Double D R9-290 4GB
EVGA Supernova G2 850w
Corsair 780T Case
Corsair SP 120 Fan(x3)
Corsair AF 140 Fan(x4)
Logisys LDXRM12C LED Lighting RGB
28"Acer4K 60hz 1ms Monitor