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MSI R9 290X Lightning - The Fastest Yet!

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Yes thanks you for the msi love just bought my msi 770 3 days ago.

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$150 more!!!?? Looks awesome but that price.

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MSI = no for me ....

I don't trust you.

Also no physX for me is another knock and then the extra cost is yet another knock.

Too many ****ing games!  Back log 4 life! :S

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What's that red MSI Twin Frozr card on the background shelf?

 

280X gaming iirc.

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But the RAM on it is either Hynix or Samsung memory which makes it awesome O: 

You must "Quote" to get my attention​.

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SHUTUP AND TAKE MY MONEY!! Wait I got no money

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Not a big fan of leds, but i really like the idea of load and phase indicators. Also that card looks amazing.

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linus whats with the tint on the video?

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Great card, love MSi cards, but not sure if it's worth the extra cash imo

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Ridiculously overpriced. It's trying to compete with non-reference GTX 780 ti that beat it in every aspect except for litecoin/dogecoin mining.

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despite steps taken by MSI, that card screams gpu sag. 

 

The one thing I don't understand about this card and the ASUS matrix series is why make a card with such a beefy air cooler if you are intending to sell it too extreme overclockers in particular guys who use subzero cooling? 

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despite steps taken by MSI, that card screams gpu sag. 

 

The one thing I don't understand about this card and the ASUS matrix series is why make a card with such a beefy air cooler if you are intending to sell it too extreme overclockers in particular guys who use subzero cooling? 

maaaan i have had my 680 for a year and bit and no sag at all

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maaaan i have had my 680 for a year and bit and no sag at all

Your tri slot 680? Lightning just looks bigger

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Your tri slot 680? Lightning just looks bigger

yea its 3 slot they probably weight the same

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yea its 3 slot they probably weight the same

they are the same length, but there has to be more weight on the lightning. 

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for 700$ i am better off getting 780 ti

Real programmers don't document, if it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

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for 700$ i am better off getting 780 ti

 

Not to be rude, but is it just me or are 90% of your posts just posts to crap on AMD?

 

This card is expensive, but look @ the amount of ridiculous overbuild quality is has to it. It would be a joy to overclock in a custom loop, I don't really like the ridiculousness that is the aircooler on this, but it's gotta keep a TDP monster like that tame somehow.

 

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Not to be rude, but is it just me or are 90% of your posts just posts to crap on AMD?

 

This card is expensive, but look @ the amount of ridiculous overbuild quality is has to it. It would be a joy to overclock in a custom loop, I don't really like the ridiculousness that is the aircooler on this, but it's gotta keep a TDP monster like that tame somehow.

 

@Tea1337 hi

well so much for performance/price ratio then

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well so much for performance/price ratio then

 

At these kinds of price ranges, performance/price ratio doesn't mean much to the people buying these types of cards.

They buy whatever costs the most and appeals to them the most xD

 

(I did this with a titan before 780's came out, then instantly sold it for 2 780s when they came out)   I learned my lesson the hard way after wasting all that money on the titan just because I wanted "the best" :(

 

Now that I'm into heavy overclocking and have a custom loop, I wish I would of waited awhile for 780 classifieds or lightnings to be released and got 2 of those :( My cards even with modded bios are still horrible overclockers.   :(

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