I'm currently running a r9 290 SC in my homemade test bench rig (still haven't sent a picture to Luke's Twitter like he asked in his video) and I would love the upgrade because right now this card was abused at its old home and while I have cleaned out the dust and smoke particles from it, it still doesn't seem to run as well as I would like. Either way whoever wins is gonna love this card. Thank you guys so much for inspiring me to build computers and follow my dreams with computer science.