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So I'm selling my 7970 soon and grabbing an R9 290. Any issues I should know about when it comes to the different models ?
Been reading reviews and it seems a lot of GIgabyte cards die soon afterwards & a lot of Visiontek/Powercolor cards have "blackscreen" issues.

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Artifecting, throttling, etc

You really want to get good cooling, honestly, I would grab an kraken G10 with a cooler and add some heatsinks to the VRMS.

Thanks for replying, not really what I was looking for though. I am asking about if there are any well known issues associated with specific R9 290 models so I can avoid them.

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Thanks for replying, not really what I was looking for though. I am asking about if there are any well known issues associated with specific R9 290 models so I can avoid them.

Throttling with almost all of them, as far as I know. Thats why I said you might want a water cooler if your going to buy any of them.

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Throttling with almost all of them, as far as I know. Thats why I said you might want a water cooler if your going to buy any of them.

Not going to get a reference 290 mate. Said that in the title of the thread. I'm going for a custom cooled one.

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Don't trust Amazon reviews, they are mostly biased, or are written by people who don't know what they are talking about.

Gigabyte currently have the best air cooler (windforce 3x) which is very quiet and cools very well. Don't worry about it dying early, that's what warranties are for!

To fully leverage the power of that GPU, get some kind of liquid cooling setup as @TechFan@ic said.

Have you considered switching to the green team? At the moment NVIDIA cards generally run cooler/quieter than AMD cards, but have worse price:perfomance ratios

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i never seen any peeps harping about non reference 290s, although Asus Versions have artifacts, i don't expect an other one, water cooled to have any issues, still, don't expect much of an OCing treat because bouth the 290/290X suck at OCing, Linus water cooled both compared OCing capability, and the 780Ti just blasted by them

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So I'm selling my 7970 soon and grabbing an R9 290. Any issues I should know about when it comes to the different models ?

Been reading reviews and it seems a lot of GIgabyte cards die soon afterwards & a lot of Visiontek/Powercolor cards have "blackscreen" issues.

That was mostly caused by the first few batches uses dodgy Elpida RAM chips, if you want to quarantee Hynix RAM with a reference board, get a Sappire Tri-X R9 290X, they generally overclock a dream (if that's what u want).

 

Also, if you want to get a custom cooled one, it's always better to get a reference card, and as said above, the Sapphire Tri-X is a reference board, so it will be all good for custom cooling.

 

I put a custom cooler on my 290X, a G10 with a Corsair H55. Runs at 1200/1700 at 55C at full load.

 

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Don't mind the sag, going to get some fishing line or wire to hold up the card to stop that.

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I first R9 290 which was reference had black screen issues, but that was caused by bad ram ( Which I believe they solved those issues by now). I now have a PowerColor PCS+ which runs great. It's relatively quiet and it never throttles because the temps never exceed 70c in games.

 

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I have the PCS+. PowerColor uses Hynix, which is really good. They have a triple-slot cooler, COOLER THAN EVERY OTHER. imo quieter than the Tri-X, and defs quieter than windforce. High out-of-the-box clocks too. I recommend a lot.

As @Brandonsr said, it never exceeds 70C, even on air.

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Throttling with almost all of them, as far as I know. Thats why I said you might want a water cooler if your going to buy any of them.

I cannot confirm that. I had the XFX double dissipation R9 290, which never has throttled on me and that's considered one of the worst coolers for the 290.

      

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I meant even custom cooled one's can have throttling mate.

What made you think that? I have tested a few custom R9 290's so far and I haven't seen throttling in any of them, even if I leave them in furmark or heaven 4.0 for ages, they don't get anywhere near there thermal limits

As far as the best one, most likely the powercolor PCS+ if you have enough room, much better card than the Tri-X 290 from sapphire.

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