dual 290 or dual 770?

[GamerDude]

DO NOT GET THE DIRECTCUII. It is very unoptimized for Hawaii, and two heat pipes aren't even used.

Not sure about the Asus R9 290, but my nephew has the Asus DCU II R9 290X and his temp after more than an hour of BF4 is ~70C. I don't know about you, but that's pretty acceptable temp for a Hawaii chip.....air cooled.

[austin541]

dual 290 much better

[Sonefiler]

Not sure about the Asus R9 290, but my nephew has the Asus DCU II R9 290X and his temp after more than an hour of BF4 is ~70C. I don't know about you, but that's pretty acceptable temp for a Hawaii chip.....air cooled.

You serious? That sucks compared to my PowerColor PCS+, and they cost about the same at the time of my purchase as well as my PCS+ having  a higher stock clock.

[TheNinjaNextDor]

CF 290s will crush SLI 770s.

[LolNope]

Definitely the 290's, as long as they're not reference, they'll run close enough in terms of cooling and noise but you'll also get the extra vram, memory bus and performance.

 

Edit: If you have a 770 already, and are gaming on 1080p, SLI 770's is a pretty good solution too, and much cheaper

[GamerDude]

You serious? That sucks compared to my PowerColor PCS+, and they cost about the same at the time of my purchase as well as my PCS+ having a higher stock clock.

You know, it is uninformed posts like yours that ticks me off. Let me ask you this, what case do you use? What is your ambient temp? If you do not know these factors, how can you say one is better than the other? I am always happy to see a fellow R9 290 series user, but c'mon, just because you have one doesn't make it the best. Try to be a little more tactful...instead of using the ever popular 'suck', why not say that it 'isn't bad'?

[Sonefiler]

You know, it is uninformed posts like yours that ticks me off. Let me ask you this, what case do you use? What is your ambient temp? If you do not know these factors, how can you say one is better than the other? I am always happy to see a fellow R9 290 series user, but c'mon, just because you have one doesn't make it the best. Try to be a little more tactful...instead of using the ever popular 'suck', why not say that it 'isn't bad'?

My ambient is around 24C. Under load (not sure about BF4, dont have it yet D:) I get temps of 62-65C. Fairly cool. I have the 450D.

[madman1876]

define r4 and there im using the MSI G45 gaming motherboard so there is a space between the two.

are you using just the stock fans cause the airflow in the r4 isn't all that good?

[ElliotGS]

are you using just the stock fans cause the airflow in the r4 isn't all that good?

Going to be buying 3 AF140's and an AF120 for the bottom so airflow should be alright,

Just my two cents here, the direct cuii cards for the 290 and 290x are awful at cooling the cards because the basically copy and pasted the coolers from the 780 and 780ti which has a bigger die. Only one of the heat pipes make full contact with the 290 die. Try for another non-reference 290 please.

What he said.

They run cool even if it is practically a copy of the cooler on the 780, so I'm not too bothered and if the two cards run too hot in crossfire I will probably just watercool them.

[Sonefiler]

So, final to OP: Everyone agrees R9 290. Get them. I got the PCS+ from Powercolor and it works great. Gigabyte, MSI, and Sapphire are also good choices. Not Asus.

[GamerDude]

My ambient is around 24C. Under load (not sure about BF4, dont have it yet D:) I get temps of 62-65C. Fairly cool. I have the 450D.

Ahh, you see, my nephew has the HAF-X and his ambient temp is ~27C, he doesn't like his room to be too cool.....by  that I mean 24C which is just fine by me. 

[ElliotGS]

So, final to OP: Everyone agrees R9 290. Get them. I got the PCS+ from Powercolor and it works great. Gigabyte, MSI, and Sapphire are also good choices. Not Asus.

What's wrong with the Asus card? Even if only one heat pipe makes full contact it still cools it sufficiently, and I will only be using the air cooler for a few months as I intend to watercool the cards asap

[Sonefiler]

What's wrong with the Asus card? Even if only one heat pipe makes full contact it still cools it sufficiently, and I will only be using the air cooler for a few months as I intend to watercool the cards asap

If you're watercooling it the Asus is fine if it's cheapest, but I'm saying that similarly priced cards can cool it more efficiently.

[Guest Haduvokone]

dual 290's

[VortexS]

DO NOT GET THE DIRECTCUII. It is very unoptimized for Hawaii, and two heat pipes aren't even used.

That's bullshit to describe it bluntly. I have the DCUII 290x and it stays cool while under 100% load, only on rare occasions it gets above 80, but normally under full load it's around 70.

Edit: 2 of these cards will heat up your PC a lot more of course, but they will be way more powerful/futureproof than dual 770's

[Nuc lover]

I am going to be getting a asus vg248qe soon and am considering which graphics cards to get, i could either get another GTX 770 and SLI them, or get dual 290's in crossfire. I personally think the dual 290s as they will give me better performance and i can leave them litecoin mining while im away, but apparently there is still some problems with crossfire.

 

What do you guys think?

If your top priority is performance regardless of the cost and power consumption and heat output .then go with 290's cuz it's the superior card and cuz it has more vram to play 4k , but you will want to have Sapphire version of the cards either the Tri-x or the Vapor-x will have the proper cooler to cool that Hawaii gpu of the 290 because other coolers are very bad for the 290 and if you went with the 770's it doesn't matter what cooler u choose because u have one and u know it's not that requiring when it comes to cooling . so sapphire 290's or nothing