HIS 290x IceQx2 Turbo & XFX 290x/290

[RussianSensation]

As shown by the ASUS DCUII example, even what would previously be thought of as a good sized dedicated heatsink for the VRMs are woefully insufficient for the 290/290x.

Seriously, you keep repeating this over and over. Can you provide evidence of a single review where the stock VRM cooling has failed on the Asus DCUII 290/290X cards? If not, stop spreading fud.

As I already mentioned you are just making up data without a single ounce of scientific evidence that shows VRMs are compromised once temperatures reach 85-87C. You claimed that your Sapphire cards are unstable at VRM temperatures of only 80C but Sapphire Vapor X and Dual X have VRM temperatures that are more closer to 85-90C out of the box. Chances are your GPU is simply unstable at your overclock and the problems you have have nothing to do with VRM temperatures. I have tested over 20 7970s and none of them had an unstable overclock when VRMs were at 110C. You keep making up some arbitrary number that once VRMs are at 85C or something, the card is trash. :thumbsdown: What tool did you even use to check your VRM temperatures?

Furthermore, the Asus DCUII design on 290/290X is identical to the 780 cards and those aren't failing at all which lands more evidence that your data of VRMs not being able to handle temperatures of 90C is just an opinion, not fact.

 

[Imouto]

And as already said the DCU card isn't even the DCU TOP or the Matrix. If you want to OC heavily wait for one of those.

 

[amenx]

That is hands down the ugliest aftermarket card i've ever seen. The HIS card, that is.

Agreed. But no matter how ugly a card is, aesthetics never figure in to my considerations for a GPU. If its molded to look like a brown turd, its OK with me as long as its a solid performer.

 

[horza]

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