R9 290x Crossfire

[Horrorfull]

Should I do it? Or nah. I own a reference board which would be good for crossfire cause it's a blower instead of the heat going on top of each other. 

 

Try to talk me into this or out of.

[Luke]

Do you need more performance is the question.

[rambi36]

I would upgarde your PSU to 850w if you were to go crossfire with those cards

[Horrorfull]

I would upgarde your PSU to 850w if you were to go crossfire with those cards

Getting a modular with custom cables for a water cooling build. Silver stone strider most likely.

[Horrorfull]

Do you need more performance is the question.

Nope but higher benchmark scores=girls.

[rambi36]

Getting a modular with custom cables for a water cooling build. Silver stone strider most likely.

cool and I'm also wondering what resolution do you play at because if you are playing on one 1080p monitor 2 of them is massively overkill. I would only really suggest to xfire if you are playing on a 1440p monitor or 3 1080p monitors

[Horrorfull]

cool and I'm also wondering what resolution do you play at because if you are playing on one 1080p monitor 2 of them is massively overkill. I would only really suggest to xfire if you are playing on a 1440p monitor or 3 1080p monitors

I have a 5760x1080 set up currently but I never use it except for games like CIV 5 or MMO games.

[rambi36]

I have a 5760x1080 set up currently but I never use it except for games like CIV 5 or MMO games.

Then you shouldn't really get another 290x IMO because most MMOs are extremely easy to run even on 3 monitors

[Vitalius]

Should I do it? Or nah. I own a reference board which would be good for crossfire cause it's a blower instead of the heat going on top of each other. 

 

Try to talk me into this or out of.

As the proud owner of two 290X reference cards which will be watercooled in the future, I say do it.

Before you water cool, put them both in Uber mode and play something very intensive (Skyrim with tons of mods at ultra). Nothing is cooler than having a PC that sounds like a Jet taking off. Literally.

[the9quad]

As the proud owner of two 290X reference cards which will be watercooled in the future, I say do it.

Before you water cool, put them both in Uber mode and play something very intensive (Skyrim with tons of mods at ultra). Nothing is cooler than having a PC that sounds like a Jet taking off. Literally.

 

 

I have 3 reference cards, and I live this every day. It's relaxing once you get used to it everyday. Plus when the wife wants something I can always pretend like I don't hear her.

Seriously though, it is doable, but it is loud. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they were eventually going to water cool them though.

[Horrorfull]

I have my room fan always on so my single R9 290x gets drowned out. I'm not getting the xfire R9 290x for performance. I'm getting it for bragging rights and higher bench scores for my sig.

 

@Vitalius and @CreepersCrawlers

[the9quad]

I have my room fan always on so my single R9 290x gets drowned out. I'm not getting the xfire R9 290x for performance. I'm getting it for bragging rights and higher bench scores for my sig.

 

@Vitalius and @CreepersCrawlers

 

 

They bench pretty decent, on stock coolers I got 14060 on Firestrike Extreme. Good enough for the Hall of Fame 3 card #34 spot.

 

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