290 vs 290x for single-gpu OC

[cmdrdredd]

I honestly don't understand how a thread started by the OP about a buying decision between R290 vs R290X turn into this crapfest.

As it was said in the first few threads, there is no gaming reason to ever get the X variant due to the marginal performance difference at the same clocks, and since both are capable of reaching similar clocks, its a moot point to pay $150 extra for the R290X.

Again, 780 comparability only comes into play when all the R290 you have access to are from Gouge-egg, if you take some time to shop around or visit real life shops (the horror!), its a different scenario. Telling people to pay more for a 780 when it HAS to be OC heavily to match a stock R290 is idiotic.

Every real life shop I have around me is the same price as new egg so I dunno if it will make much difference. I dont have a lot of local options though so who knows.

Also nobody has provided a link to one of those magical etailers with a+++ feedback rivaling amazon and newegg ratings who is not overpricing the 290.

 

[blackened23]

Every real life shop I have around me is the same price as new egg so I dunno if it will make much difference.

Yeah that statement was pretty funny. Cuz I could walk into a compusa (now known as tigerdirect) store right now only to be greeted with 100-150$ over MSRP 280x and 290x cards. Different than newegg? Nope. Microcenter? I could make the drive. Sure. Same thing. So much for the "real life shop".

Fry's? I don't know. I've heard that's a real life store. Rumor has it they're gouging as well. Maybe someone should do some fact finding there. Or we could just pretend that 290 cards are ever so easy to get at MSRP again, we could just go down that road again.

Oh hey speaking of that real world Fry's electronics shop. 280X at 120$ over MSRP? check. In fact, most GPUs are only offered in store, and they are gouging like everyone else.

 

[Silverforce11]

Certainly if you cannot find R290 at near MSRP then consider other options. Thought that was made abundantly clear.

"Its going to depend a lot on where you are due to price hikes in USA etailers."

 

[blackened23]

Certainly if you cannot find R290 at near MSRP then consider other options. Thought that was made abundantly clear.

"Its going to depend a lot on where you are due to price hikes in USA etailers."

I thought you said real world shops. Not etailers. The real world shop horror, right? The narrative with etailer prices is pretty clear with everyone gouging. Unless you get exceptionally lucky. Which real world shop has MSRP 290 cards? Certainly fry's, MC, and TD don't. Those are shops I can walk in. Best Buy stopped selling high end GPUs a long time ago, outside of just a few stores, and as luck would have it....they're higher than MSRP. Just asking out of curiosity. I could use a mining rig in my closet. If I could find an MSRP 290 aftermarket card, I would love to do so. Help me out here.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I am just saying it would benefit the OP for people to provide links or at least name the retailer. Telling us "if you bother to look" is not helpful when the one site found and mentioned previously doesn't have a very friendly return policy for open items and is not "stock in hand"

 

[Silverforce11]

I thought you said real world shops. Not etailers. The real world shop horror, right? The narrative with etailer prices is pretty clear with everyone gouging. Unless you get exceptionally lucky. Which real world shop has MSRP 290 cards? Certainly fry's, MC, and TD don't. Those are shops I can walk in. Best Buy stopped selling high end GPUs a long time ago, outside of just a few stores, and as luck would have it....they're higher than MSRP. Just asking out of curiosity. I could use a mining rig in my closet. If I could find an MSRP 290 aftermarket card, I would love to do so. Help me out here.

Ask your partner to help you go shopping around. If you're lazy and can't be bothered, others in this very thread have already said they got cards recently at or near MSRP.

 

[blackened23]

Ask your partner to help you go shopping around. If you're lazy and can't be bothered, others in this very thread have already said they got cards recently at or near MSRP.

Oh. Okay. That's funny coming from you with your background. Anyway, the entire point is what you're saying is a false statement. You can't get MSRP 290 cards from walk in shops. Apparently you had a hard time discerning that while telling all of us that we could walk into a "real world shop" and get a 290 at MSRP. Unless there's a major PC electronics chain that i'm not aware of.

Clearly you know more about US B+M stores than I do. Please tell us more. Instead of making vague statements about how easy it is to get a 290 at MSRP at a real world shop, the horror. I know I visit the TD here all the time. And I know what they charge for AMD cards. And it aint MSRP.

I guess i'll just have to debunk your false statements one by one until they end.

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[Silverforce11]

Sure bro, its up to the OP to decide, if he cannot find them at near MSRP then he can make his own decision on how to spend his $.

 

[24601]

Lol..... person that claims he is from "Australia" is giving advice to people living in the USA to visit local shops because "he has it on good authority" that they have lower prices.

I'm sure you go to local shops in the USA every day, it's just your daily commute from "Australia" to check those things out, obviously.

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[stahlhart]

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