VPN: AXR9 290 4GBD5-TDHE/OC/TDHEV2/OCPowercolor Radeon R9 290 Turbo Duo 975MHZ 4GB 5.0GHZ GDDR5 2xDVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Video Card
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 Rating: Review Date: 01/22/15 |
Powercolor Radeon R9 290 Turbo Duo 975MHZ 4GB 5.0GHZ GDDR5 2xDVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Video Card
Cons:-I've been having a bastard of a time installing this card in Windows 7 64
Pros:-powerful card runs Far Cry 4 in Ultra mode without a hicup-seems to run in the normal temp ranges with a good airflow case |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/15/15 |
Powercolor Radeon R9 290 Turbo Duo 975MHZ 4GB 5.0GHZ GDDR5 2xDVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Video Card
Cons:can run warm, crossfire is limiting as many games don't support it, but this card doesn't really need to be crossfired it's strong
Pros:very powerful runs everything on high settings Comment:
This card keeps all my games on high settings and some games that I was playing with previous crossfired 4870 now look so much better. I don't find it noisy and with good case ventilation mine doesn't get hot just warm, will be considering adding a waterblock to it and including it in my loop |
It's a very strong card. I did some Futuremark torture tests and the way to keep this card cool is forcing the fan speed to 80-85% with Catalyst. It barely went beyond 70C. Was able to play Far Cry 4 at Ultra settings, running a phenom II 1055T at 2.8Ghz and no issues.I'm having an issue keeping the card installed in Windows. I ran a cleanup utility and got rid of all previous drivers. The Omega 14.12 drivers install, but Windows keep saying there is no driver and the card has an exclamation in Device manager. If uninstall and force the driver it might work, but the problem comes back after a reboot. This has been a pain in the butt since last night. Driver 14.9 worked best but caused the card to freak out a bit during Futuremark. Not impressed by that aspect so far. I don't want to rebuild windows just because of this nonsense.