AMD Explains Performance Variance Among Retail and Press Sample Radeon R9 290X Cards (Somewhat Copy/Paste)

[ajoy39]

r9 290X has the worst thermalpast in the world

not only that ut the gpu stock cooler surface is scratched and beat up

from tomshardware:

Removing the paste revealed the heat sink’s

scratched and uneven contact surface, which did

not exactly match the quality you would expect

from a brand new and professionally mounted

cooler

source: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r9-290x-thermal-paste-efficiency,3678.html

still i will buy an amd card but a 3rd party one

no mattre how amd tries and beat up nvidia, they just cant match the quality of nvidia's products

You realize reference cards are still made by individual manufacturers right? AMD delivers the GPU chip and a spec, the manufacturers still make the card and cooler.