Smoking: XFX Double Dissapation 290X 4GB Video Card $250AR @ Newegg

[richierich1212]

XFX Double Dissipation Radeon R9 290X R9-290X-EDFD 4GB 512-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card

$279.99 - $30 Mail-in-rebate makes this a very smoking deal at $249.99 after rebate.

 

[qliveur]

That's a deal. :thumbsup:

 

[yacoub]

Meh. 4GB model. Questionable cooling efficiency. Old tech. It's okay, not great. An 8GB model that can flash to 390X BIOS would be a great deal.

 

[cytoSiN]

An 8GB model that can flash to 390X BIOS would be a great deal.

At this price? Doesn't exist.

This is the lowest this card has ever been, so it's a good deal for those in the market.

 

[lupi]

got the sapphire version with 3 fans and it stays quite cool at 100% use, only paid about $9 more.

 

[danEboy83]

got the sapphire version with 3 fans and it stays quite cool at 100% use, only paid about $9 more.

care to elaborate? ie. sale doesn't exist any more?

 

[RussianSensation]

Meh. 4GB model. Questionable cooling efficiency. Old tech. It's okay, not great. An 8GB model that can flash to 390X BIOS would be a great deal.

Do you have any benchmark that shows that 8GB helps in games over a true 4GB card?

What's a faster videocard at ~$250? Nothing. Saying the card is "old" tech doesn't mean anything when its performance is top notch for the price. It also comes with Lifetime warranty.

An after-market 290X > a 390 since once both are overclocked, 390 will lose.

Looking at AT's Nano review actually shows how well the 290X has aged. Cards like 980 look ludicrous in comparison to a $253 290X (i.e., you pay $200 for what 12-15% more performance?)

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9621/the-amd-radeon-r9-nano-review/4

R9 290X is a great 28nm stop-gap card to coast to next generation GPU architectures, HBM2 and 16nm.

 

[Harrod]

I've got this card, I replaced 2 7970's with it. It runs at around 60c when the fans are cranked up to 100%, in a closed case it isn't any louder than my case fans, in an Antec 1200 case.

I initially sold off 2 7970's in favor of a fury x, but after it became apparent that it would be hard to get one of those cards, I went with this. I view it as getting 70% of the performance at 35% of the price.

I also got this card through tigerdirect on a similar deal, but since I bank with Regions I got another 10% off of the price before the rebates. I believe my total cost was 231 for this card after going through tiger direct.