Bloodkil933

I think what he's trying to say is your fans aren't optimised, so you want the front as intake and the top and rear as exhaust.
 
On the subject of coolers, something like the Noctua NH-D15 would be good, very good cooler if you don't mind its size and well within your $120 budget.

Benchmark: Fire Strike
CPU: i7 4790K @ 4.8GHz GPU: R9 290 + R9 290X Xfire GPU Core: 1,140 MHz GPU Memory: 1,500 MHz Score: 17849 3DMark Link: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/2714709
 
I could push 1200 with both these cards, but my RM850 might cry

I run my 2 x 4GB 290X's just fine at 4K 60fps in 80% of games, please show some evidence before make stupid claims that 4GB is an 'epic fail'. But yet you don't seem to fathom that Nvidia are charging almost £1000 for a card that isn't exactly a game changer and doesn't use HBM.

That's VAT. The Americans instead get to cry when they pay for health care or education.

Reason 1.It's not  2.U will buy it because its Nvidia 

wow thats semi-hurtful

I know right! I flashed 5.0.2 onto my Z2 last month and I can honestly vouch that Project Butter has come a long way. I was looking into CM Sirius since January, since I had no faith that the Sony devs would be able to meet their quoted Q1 Lollipop release; the only thing that held me back was the lack of bluetooth and camera functionality. Come Feb when the nightlys fixed that, and I jumped ASAP. Only grips thus far are the loss of Sony's Camera and Walkman apps; one of few OEM features I really liked

I might be the only person to say this but I really like Lollipop and I don't like mobile phones. It has improved my battery life by at least 50% and it is easier for me who mainly uses Linux and W7 to navigate. The new update should be really nice if it gets to me in a shorter time span ethen the last update did because that took about 5 months I think.

xperia z, z1, z1 compact, z2, z3, z3 compact, m4 aqua

Benchmark: Fire Strike
CPU: i7 4790K @ 4.8GHz GPU: R9 290 + R9 290X Xfire GPU Core: 1,140 MHz GPU Memory: 1,500 MHz Score: 17849 3DMark Link: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/2714709
 
I could push 1200 with both these cards, but my RM850 might cry

1) We do not charge licensing, royalties, or any other sort of cost for FreeSync. That's free.
 
2) For a monitor manufacturer that already has the appropriate panel and scaler in their supply chain, FreeSync is a firmware choice. The firmware is free from the scaler supplier. 
 
3) DisplayPort Adaptive-Sync is free. In fact, all of DisplayPort is free to license.
 
4) Validating an LCD with dynamic refresh costs more in man hours than a fixed refresh display. This is not free. But this is something every dynamic refresh technology must go through, so the point is moot. This cost could be passed on to the consumer, or it could be absorbed by the display vendor as a margin hit. This is not AMD's choice to make.
 
5) Monitors are not free. If they were, well, I'd have more than my desk could reasonably accommodate. 
 
6) Most of our current-gen GPUs support it. Alas, some do not have the relevant IP in their display controllers to enable highly variable refresh rates. Yes, those people will have to upgrade. Yes, that is not free.
 
Aside from monitor companies just giving displays away, FreeSync is in every possible way free as a technology. No licensing, no incremental material costs, no royalties. Nothing.
 
I don't know how much more clear I can make it.

This just seems something an immature fanboy would do.
 
'Let's dig up dirt because I'm upset that Nvidia got made to look bad'

This ^
 
290X is the better choice for higher resolutions because of it's much larger memory bus, and can also be picked up very cheap

Apple doing what it does best, being a dick.

Lizard Squad and all of these other hacking/DDoSing/other stupid shit groups need to fall in a volcano.

This is just dumb. Xbox demos are being run off of PCs, and nobody cares

You clearly have your opinions on the matter and are entitled to them. I've explained the facts as they are. What you do with those facts is your discretion.

What? This article is from March June last year. I remember this repost. What are you doing Faa?

Welcome to the world of marketing.    "Our competition did something really shitty! come buy one of our cards! we didnt do that one thing that they just did!"   I love that when nvidia does shady as shit marketing its "just marketing, settle down" but when AMD plays off a nvidia marketing failure in the name of marketing the forum cries "childish!"

There are 9x 6+2 Connectors.

Consumers that are well within their right choose to return a product on the merit that the company wasn't completely honest about the product. And you call that sheep? Are you purposefully stupid or did you never learn what those fandangled internet words actually mean?

If you dont like what happened i support the right to return your card.
 
If my 270x had only 1.5 GB of fast VRAM i would return it.

I have a 4k monitor and my 290X's have yet to crap out or stutter in a game...

Firstly, I'd love if you would drop that AMD / nVidia mentality. This has absolutely nothing to do with it. This is consumer vs manufacturer, not "this is justified because vendor X used to do this". With R9 290X bitcoin mining, AFAIK it was vendors jacking up the price anyway and well, they just couldn't produce enough cards to meet the demand. Similar stuff did happen with the 5800-series.
 
If you pair two of the cards together, suddenly that 4GB becomes a lot more sound for the cards. For a single card, maybe not, but it's great that it is there. And for rendering use, even 512MB is plenty since it means that you can add ~12% more stuff without sacrificing speed.
 
My point is pretty simple. The product was falsely advertised, the consumer was misinformed during the time of the purchase, and subsequently that misinformation would make you eligible for a refund as you bought a product in good faith due to the manufacturer giving the public false information.
 
Everyone was informed of the 290X being a jet engine. Every reviewer noted that. Most reviewers recommended you to wait a custom cooler version or to put the thing under water. Everyone noted that the cards did perform, but were both hot and loud. The consumer will know that he will buy a card that is hot and loud, the reviewers were not sent some extra special binned versions with tweaked coolers.
 
780 3GB was advertised as 3GB, so that has nothing do with it once again. 780 6GB was advertised as 6GB, the consumer is making an informed decision when buying those cards. With the GTX 970, not necessarily. I mean, the spec sheet flat-out lied about certain properties, and conveniently left out some details. The error wasn't corrected in a timely manner.
 
The difference here is that the customer was never lied to when he was purchasing a 290X with a markup or a hot & loud card. You could say the same thing about GTX 480 that you said about R9 290X, but the consumers did very well know that the 480 could hardly handle itself at stock settings. There was no problem back then, either, since the reviewers got their samples and had a chance to inform consumers so that consumers could make informed decisions.
 
Is it huge, does it affect benchmarks? Probably not impactful for most users, and it won't affect the benchmarks. But there are uses for the cards that are not directly benchmarked, especially that VRAM since VRAM is pretty binary (and struttering doesn't even always show up in benchmarks) since you either have enough or you don't. The issue would've never come up if people hadn't noticed this, so obviously it does have an impact on something. Like the PC Perspective guy said, nVidia could have called it "n-Cache" memory and call it a day. It has happened to them before, too, but those cases weren't quite as relevant as this one.
 
Consumer laws around in the EU at least are pretty tight on stuff like this. U.S might have some class action lawsuit over this if it gets enough traction, like that intel thing. For most people it's more about principle. What if the VRAM treated like this was half of it? 1/8 of the available memory pool is quite something already, but where would you draw the line where it would be unacceptable?

I was talking about Faa, not you mate