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Why no one talks about the 295x2 being an option?

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Bonjour folks, I just have a small question. How come people don't consider 295x2 in ''best bang for the buck builds''? It's almost on par performance with the big boy titan x and is 300 dollars less? I'm trying to see what is the problem?  

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Because it's not a "good bang for the buck" 

 

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Requires a rad mount

 

lots of power

 

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Also cross fire support can be flakey, not everyone has the space either or the power supply to back it up. 

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They do. But when people have the budget for a more expensive, newer card that will have a less chance of a failure, we will recommend it over an old card.

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Its very powerful, but its basically a space heater

Please go away with statements like these, Enough with the heat jokes. 295x from what I heard is pretty cool actually.

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Because it's not a "good bang for the buck" 

I used the wrong term 

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Because it's not a "good bang for the buck" 

I used the wrong term 

 

They do. But when people have the budget for a more expensive, newer card that will have a less chance of a failure, we will recommend it over an old card.

When you say failure, you mean like DOA and such or simply setting it up?

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The 295x2 is a fantastic option, especially at it's current price point. If you have $600+, do not hesitate to buy one.

 

But to be fair, you better be bringing a good PSU. ;)

 

As stated above, you may encounter some games that do not fair well in a CrossFire configuration, but other than that, the 295x2 is an absolute monster.

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It's cooler than a 780 Ti? And by a nice margin too...I don't hear any "780, nVIDIA" heat jokes

 

 

Please go away with statements like these, Enough with the heat jokes. 295x from what I heard is pretty cool actually.

I don;t have it, its just what I have heard, I guess I was wrong :D

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Please go away with statements like these, Enough with the heat jokes. 295x from what I heard is pretty cool actually.

 

The GPU itself stays cool because of the liquid cooling. it still pumps out an ungodly amount of heat into your room as a direct consequence of consuming up to 500 watts of power. Same goes for most SLI / Crossfire configurations. More power consumption = more heat generated, which is independent of how well the cores themselves are being cooled.

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It's cooler than a 780 Ti? And by a nice margin too...I don't hear any "780, nVIDIA" heat jokes

 

 

Please go away with statements like these, Enough with the heat jokes. 295x from what I heard is pretty cool actually.

I don;t have it, its just what I have heard, I guess I was wrong :D

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Nobody talks about the R9 295X2 because it's expensive relative to its performance. Depending on Crossfire isn't great since not every game works well with it, if at all. Not to mention that the R9 295X2 costs more than just getting 2x R9 290/290Xs or 2x GTX 970s, and the latter of those options would consume 150-200 watts less power.

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Please go away with statements like these, Enough with the heat jokes. 295x from what I heard is pretty cool actually.

That's partially because it is watercooled, right?

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Please go away with statements like these, Enough with the heat jokes. 295x from what I heard is pretty cool actually.

Same.

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When you say failure, you mean like DOA and such or simply setting it up?

 

Failure as in "the card dies"

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It's cooler than a 780 Ti? And by a nice margin too...I don't hear any "780, nVIDIA" heat jokes

Further proving that it's an Nvidia biased forum, even the 3,5 GB fiasco was defended to the death by some sad sacks

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That's partially because it is watercooled, right?

Yep, but still cool.

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The GPU itself stays cool because of the liquid cooling. it still pumps out an ungodly amount of heat into your room as a direct consequence of consuming up to 500 watts of power. Same goes for most SLI / Crossfire configurations. More power consumption = more heat generated, which is independent of how well the cores themselves are being cooled.

So? Its a dual gpu card, pretty much expected

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The 295x2 is a fantastic option, especially at it's current price point. If you have $600+, do not hesitate to buy one.

 

But to be fair, you better be bringing a good PSU. ;)

Yeah, true. Even though most people go overkill on the PSU anyway

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Please go away with statements like these, Enough with the heat jokes. 295x from what I heard is pretty cool actually.

Still puts out a ton of heat, my room gets incredibly hot with just a single 290 after about an hour of gaming.

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I used the wrong term 

 

When you say failure, you mean like DOA and such or simply setting it up?

 

Naw I mean with the AIO on the 295x2. It's more prone to failure than an air-cooled card.

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Further proving that it's an Nvidia biased forum, even the 3,5 GB fiasco was defended to the death by some sad sacks

Yeah, I like NVidia GPUs and develop in CUDA, but goddamn that is frustrating. You can't run compute that goes over 3.5GB or it's pointless it just slows down to a crawl.

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Radeon is so overlooked. Yet in each price bracket, mostly, there is a Radeon card that beats a Nvidia card for around the same, or less, cash.

 

270x>750ti

280x>960

290x>970

295x2>980

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