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[Sandvich]

what is your budget?

[Geekazoid]

hi

i am building a rig (high end) with a 4930k but instead of nvidia i may go for amd.

so is this card good and is it also good for cross fire ?

Yeah, it's not bad. But I believe AMD will be releasing the new R 300 series soon (not sure when) and so you may want to wait for those.

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[Sandvich]

but for the price get a gtx970 it runs cooler.

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so is this card good and is it also good for cross fire ?

It's a great card for the money, but in crossfire they uses a lot of power and spit out a lot of heat

[Tagiau]

The r9 290x is an amazing card. Hawaii is also power hungry. For crossfire, if you have the power to give them, they will deliver. 

[I/O]

The R9 290 cards are still highly viable and CFX using the new AMD bridgeless "DMA engine" has excellent scaling and great frametimes.

[Geekazoid]

It's a great card for the money, but in crossfire they uses a lot of power and spit out a lot of heat

They'd make great heaters for Winter then.

[DildorTheDecent]

but for the price get a gtx970 it runs cooler.

In today's market removing heat shouldn't be a problem. Nor the power requirements.

[maizenblue]

The only other GPU that's beats the 290x across the board at all resolutions in nearly all games would be the GTX 980, which costs around 250 dollars more in the US. The 780TI beats the 290x in most games at 1080p and falls slightly behind at 4k, but its limited by 3gb of VRAM for future games, costs more, draws nearly as much power, and is being discontinued. That leaves only the 970 to compete. Id put the two cards as about even in performance when you consider that most online benchmarks you see are comparing an overclocked 970 to a stock 290x with its shitty reference cooler. They both cost about the same two, although the 290x sometimes dips down and can be found cheaper if you are patient and shop around.

 

The downside of the 290x is it draws a lot of power. Heat is a non issue as long as you don't use the reference cooler and avoid a few of the low end non reference ones(which would still probably be more than adequate but can be avoided for little to no extra cost). The brands to go for are MSI, Sapphire, and Powercolor, (the PCS+ specifically, the other models aren't that great). Gigabyte and Asus will also do a decent job at cooling the 290x, but the previously mentioned companies do better.

[mc141]

It's that time of the year in the USA so 290x keeps your room warm while u play games. No need for a space heater so less electricity. Lol j.k my 290x direct cu has no affect on my room temp enless I'm running furmark for a while