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Powercolor R9 290X PCS+ 4GB Graphics Card Review
Introduction The rationale for owning a graphics card like the R9 290X is that it is an absolute price to performance champion for driving high resolution and multi-monitor gaming: it offers smooth gameplay experiences on Eyefinity set ups, 4K panels, or 1440/1600p panels. Yet there are a few caveats to…
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AMD Radeon R9 Graphics Cards Facing Supply, not Demand, Issues
AMD’s graphics cards have been in short supply for the past 3 months or so. The market has hoovered up the old stock from the HD 7000 series at knock-down prices and most of the stock from the high end R9 series including pretty much every R9 290X, R9 290…
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Gigabyte R9 290X WindForce OC 4GB Graphics Card Review
Introduction When AMD released their R9 290X it was the new fastest consumer gaming graphics card (with a single GPU) on the planet for a short period of time. Since its release it has been surpassed by Nvidia’s GTX 780 Ti but the R9 290X is still an immensely attractive option…
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Pics And Insights About GIGABYTE’s Radeon R9 290X And R9 290 WindForce 3X Released
Gigabyte apparently has two custom Radeon R9 290 series cards with WindForce 3X 450W cooling system in the works, according to VideoCardz. The new Radeon R9 290 and 290X graphic cards will be clocked at 1040 MHz, a 40 MHz gain for the 290X and a 93 MHz for the…
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MSI Reveals Radeon R9 290X Lightning PCB
When it comes to Lightning, you know it’s all about performance, and MSI’s Lightning series just got a new addition to the family. They have just revealed the R9 290X Lightning PCB and rumor has it that we can also expect to see the MSI R9 290X Graphic Cards on…
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Battlefield 4 Graphics Performance Overview With Current Generation GPUs
Introduction Battlefield 4 has been one of the biggest game releases so far this year for gamers on all gaming platforms. The FPS title from EA and DICE has got off to a relatively shaky start with numerous audio, graphical and gameplay problems across the various platforms it was released…
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Emperor Chair 1510 – The Biggest And Meanest Workstation Or Gaming Gear Ever Made?
Now this is an interesting contraption indeed, the “Infinity Emperor”, the ultimate in modern computing. Offering the future of workstations and the pinnacle of high-end computing, here and now. Featuring three 24″ Asus 144Hz Gaming monitors, support for a full audio system, Radeon R9-290X Crossfire, LED lighting and a full…
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AMD Releases Catalyst 13.11 Beta8, Fixes Battlefield 4 Crash
AMD has kept its word and delivered a driver which should fix game crashing in Battlefield 4. A number of users have been complaining about crashes with Battlefield 4, particularly on systems with AMD graphics cards and Windows 8. AMD had promised that it would fix the crashing, and as…
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Non-Reference R9 290X Graphics Card Coming Late November
At the moment AMD have released the reference variant of the R9 290X and AMD partners are only allowed to sell those reference models – nothing customised in any way. If you’re looking for a custom cooled R9 290X you need to buy a reference version and modify it with…
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AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB Graphics Card Review
Introduction After months of rumours and media hype, AMD’s new flagship graphics card is here. We have a launch-day review for you guys to read and we’re putting this brand new GPU through its paces on the eTeknix graphics card test system. We’re very excited to bring you this review…
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AMD R9 290X & R9 280X Vs Nvidia GTX Titan & GTX 780
Introduction ***Please see our latest 4K Gaming article here which adds GTX 780 Ti, GTX 780 Ti SLI and R9 290X CFX to the mix*** With GPUs getting more and more powerful and 4K monitors becoming available for consumer purchase we thought we’d use AMD’s R9 290X launch as a spring-board to…
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Rumour: Nvidia’s GTX 780 Ti Will Cost $649 To Rival AMD’s R9 290X
According to Sweclockers the GTX 780 Ti will be priced at the same level as the GTX 780 currently is in order to compete more effectively with the AMD R9 290X. Apparently the GTX 780 Ti will cost $649 to compete with the AMD R9 290X which is expected to…
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Radeon R9 290 And R9 290X Launch Dates Revealed
VideoCardz.com claims to have scored the embargo lift dates of the AMD Radeon R9 290 and R9 290X graphics cards. According to a forum post, which they sourced from Cardpu, AMD employee “Chris Li” has stated the NDA lift dates are as pictured above. If these rumoured dates are accurate we…
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AMD R9 290X 4K Teaser On Bioshock Infinite
In the run up to the launch of AMD’s R9 290X, which is happening “soon” – that’s all we can say, AMD have given us the go ahead to release a little snippet of our data. AMD have stated we can reveal the performance of the R9 290X GPU in…
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AMD Radeon R9 290X Gets Priced At $729.99 On Newegg
TechPowerUp has been doing some digging on Newegg and discovered the price of the AMD R9 290X reference style GPU. Pictured above, the reference MSI branded AMD Radeon R9 290X is selling for $729.99 and for a limited period includes Battlefield 4. The inclusion of Battlefield 4 with the card suggests…
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