R9 290 (X) Aftermarket cooler on newegg

[Nathantech]

As most of you know the r9 290 (X) have been out of stock and the prices have been really high because of bitcoin and litecoin miners etc.. I was looking around on newegg and saw this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125500. R9 290 Windforce edition from gigabyte. now it is $50 more than all the reference R9 290's but im sure once all the mining stuff goes down and they get more stock they will go down in price. It is much cheaper than water cooling one of these cards so I was wondering if anyone was gonna pick one up?

Thanks, Nathan.

[Missioncode]

Hello Nathan. I recently sold my 7950 for anticipation of the R9 290 with after market coolers. With the stock coolers they were going $400 and USUALLY the cards with after market cooler only go for $15-$25 more than stock coolers. But now since the price hike I have to wait till the price come way back down, but as far as I have seen gigabyte is the only aftermarket cooler out there other than Power cooler's one with a water block. Until then im running a 5770 on a 1440p monitor and it kind of sucks. 

[Nathantech]

Hello Nathan. I recently sold my 7950 for anticipation of the R9 290 with after market coolers. With the stock coolers they were going $400 and USUALLY the cards with after market cooler only go for $15-$25 more than stock coolers. But now since the price hike I have to wait till the price come way back down, but as far as I have seen gigabyte is the only aftermarket cooler out there other than Power cooler's one with a water block. Until then im running a 5770 on a 1440p monitor and it kind of sucks. 

Yeah it sucks that were going to have to wait for the prices to drop on this

[Deadrogue]

That sucks Mission, I didnt even know that the 290 spiked up to 500 dollars originally

[Hazy125]

I have a windforce card in my rig and all... But I'm going to be honest, it's pretty boring these days. Make something new gigabyte