R9-290X
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MSI X99A GODLIKE GAMING CARBON (LGA2011-3) Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging The X99 platform targets professionals who consistently work with complex multi-threaded workloads and require flagship processors to dramatically reduce compute times. For example, the advent of the extremely capable 5960X 8-core CPU leveraged extra performance during video editing, RAW photography and other industry-standard applications. As a result,…
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XFX Brings Back Blower Style R9 390X
When AMD first launched their R9 290 and 290X GPUs back in 2013, many had mixed feelings for the blower style cooler. While the cooler was one of the best efforts yet from AMD, it was not enough for the hot Hawaii chips, leading to high temperature, throttling and noisy…
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AMD Catalyst 15.7 WHQL Driver Adds Cross Generation Crossfire Support
Something that AMD have been falling behind on lately is the WHQL drivers, well drivers in general. Beta drivers are released every few months, but a certified WHQL driver has taken over 200 days to reach us. Let’s not dwell on the past, we have one here, we’ve tested it…
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AMD Officially Announce Details of High Bandwidth Memory
We’ve been waiting for details on the new memory architecture from AMD for a while now. Since we heard the possible specifications and performance of the new R9 390x all thanks to the new High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) that will be utilised on this graphics card. Last week, we had…
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- Graphics Cards
Sapphire R9 290X Tri-X 8GB CrossFireX Review
Introduction Here at eTeknix, we strive to give the consumer the best possible advice in every aspect of technology. Today is no different, as we have a pair of Sapphire’s amazing R9 290x 8GB Tri-x edition graphics cards to combine together for some CrossFireX action. The dedicated review for this…
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Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X OC 8GB Review
Introduction and A Closer Look The R9 290X has led AMD’s single GPU offerings for what seems like quite a long time now. Released in October 2013 the R9 290X is only a year old but it’s ageing process has been accelerated by successive faster Nvidia graphics cards; the GTX…
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Examining AMD’s Driver Progress Since Launch
Introduction AMD and Nvidia both talk fairly big when it comes to driver updates. With every driver iteration that is released we hear the usual technical (or should that be marketing?) talk about improved performance in this, that and the other. After a lot of thinking I decided I wanted to investigate…
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AMD To Update GCN Series With Iceland, Tonga and Hawaii XTX
The next-generation GPU wars based on new graphics architectures and 20/16nm process nodes is not set to begin until early 2015. In the meantime AMD and Nvidia are both having to make do with product refreshes and tweaks based on their existing 28nm GCN and Kepler designs respectively. The latest…
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Testing Mixed-Resolution AMD Eyefinity: 6400×1080
Introduction Around a month ago we announced to you that AMD was releasing version 3.0 of its Eyefinity software package. One of the key new additions to AMD’s Eyefinity 3.0 software is the ability to support mixed resolution monitors in an Eyefinity configuration through a variety of methods. This exciting addition…
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AMD R9 295X Could Be Incoming, R9 290X Hawaii XT Is Not A Fully Utilised Chip
Some interesting news emerging from the Overclockers UK forums suggests that we could have an AMD R9 290X successor coming in the near future, possibly called the AMD R9 295X. The information was revealed by professional overclocker 8 Pack who stated that the R9 290X is “not full fat” meaning that the…
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XFX Radeon R9 290X Double Dissipation 4GB GDDR5 Review
Introduction AMD’s R9 290X is back in business when it comes to competing with Nvidia’s equivalents. The custom R9 290Xs easily beat out equivalently priced or sometimes even more expensive custom GTX 780s making them a solid proposition for any gamer on a budget but wanting maximum performance. Today we…
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Powercolor Planning 8GB “Dual Core” R9 290X Devil 13 Graphics Card
Powercolor have recently made it known they are working on their own dual GPU R9 290X graphics card. From what we can see Powercolor are choosing to opt for the “Dual Core R9 290X” moniker instead of the “R9 295X2” moniker, probably because AMD have quite specific requirements of what…
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8Pack Smashes 3DMark World Record With 4 MSI R9 290X Lightnings: 1300MHz Each!
When it comes to overclocking there is no bigger name than the MSI Lightning series, time and time again it has proven itself the GPU series of choice for extreme overclockers to smash through world records and you guessed it, today it’s happened again. The professional overclocker in this case…
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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 8GB Graphics Card Review
Introduction The AMD Radeon R9 295X2 graphics card is finally upon us. I know a lot of people have been eagerly awaiting this graphics card for the last few months – I myself I have been tracking its existence since AMD phased out the HD 7990 – it was inevitable…
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AMD R9 290X CrossFire V Nvidia GTX 780 Ti SLI
Introduction When I wrote our first “4K Gaming Showdown” article, nearly 6 months ago, the article was very popular among our readers. However, one of the most common pieces of feedback I received was something to the tune of: “As 4K monitors are so expensive most people who would be…
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