Yes it does look like the meaty heatsink hits the vrms in that picture, I wonder if it does the same for the vram though as pointed out the IMC is weak so it's not like the DDR5 is taxed.
Thats the TF OC edition, not the gaming ed in that pic above.
There's also the lightning ed with 12 phase, pics of it is around somewhere.
Yes it does look like the meaty heatsink hits the vrms in that picture, I wonder if it does the same for the vram though as pointed out the IMC is weak so it's not like the DDR5 is taxed.
So, we've figured out the AIB you work for is neither XFX or MSI now . My money's on Sapphire.
Please actually read the thread before lieing.
There are two cards in the last few posts. 290 Gaming and 290x OC TF 4S. AFAIK the 290 is the one he was referring to.
When are they coming, and at what cost?
Yes it does look like the meaty heatsink hits the vrms in that picture, I wonder if it does the same for the vram though as pointed out the IMC is weak so it's not like the DDR5 is taxed.
I don't see any heatpipes on that thing.
MSI Lightning N780 $450.00
Where did you find a lightning that cheap? They are $539 on the Egg..
F2F it was on sale yesterday for $499.00 and if you use MasterPass it was another 10% off making it $450.00! it was hard to resist but had to be strong on that and the Asus DC2 last week.
Hopefully these prices will be lower (under $450) once all AIB's 290's are released or think I will be going Nvidia this next purchase but the hold up and wild card for me right now is also depending/waiting on BF4/Mantle performance. If it wasn't for Mantle and waiting for BF4 Mantle performance results I pretty sure I would have already went with a 780 and I had to pass on the below good deals imo recently! I am just a bang for the buck person so no 780 TI for me.
MSI Gaming TF 780 $420.00
MSI Lightning N780 $450.00
Asus DC2 780 $415.00 OB
Perhaps a vapor chamber on the left side connected to the heatpipes on the right side.
Would explain the partially uncovered GDDR5 if that section was covered by the vapor chamber over the GPU.
I've been waiting patiently to see what kind of speeds the custom 290X or 290's in Crossfire would bring, but honestly I've been ready to pull the trigger for a while now and the performance of a GTX 780 Ti like the Gigabyte Windforce OC is looking really good.
With the PSU I have, I could probably run 290's in Crossfire with no overclocking, or go for a single card like a 290X or a 780 Ti, but they are taking so long to come out I may just run with a 780 Ti and call it a day.
No denying the 780 TI performance but I am looking at it like this. I'll go 780/290 for around $450.00 and IF I feel I need more power for what ever reason at a later date (months) I will CF or SLI the 290/780 which the card should be even cheaper by then. After owning my 7950 CF for the time I had it I really think I am a dual card person so I would have no problem going CF/SLI if it is needed (more power) and would actually look forward to it imo. I really think at this point a 290/780 should be fine for me. For now I just have to play the waiting game on the 290's for the info I want to see flow in which will be unknown X amount of weeks.
ASUS Radeon R9 290X DirectCU II OC With 1050 MHz Clock
The ASUS Radeon R9 290X DirectCU II is an overclocked edition card hence it ships with a factory overclock out of box. From a technical perspective, we are looking at the default 2816 Stream processors, 176 Texture mapping units, 64 Render Backends and a 4 GB GDDR5 memory operating across a 512-bit interface. The clocks have been configured at 1050 MHz for the core and the memory runs at 1350 MHz (5.4 GHz effective) which is upped from its default state of 1000 MHz core and 1250 MHz (5.0 GHz effective) clock speeds.
No denying the 780 TI performance but I am looking at it like this. I'll go 780/290 for around $450.00 and IF I feel I need more power for what ever reason at a later date (months) I will CF or SLI the 290/780 which the card should be even cheaper by then. After owning my 7950 CF for the time I had it I really think I am a dual card person so I would have no problem going CF/SLI if it is needed (more power) and would actually look forward to it imo. I really think at this point a 290/780 should be fine for me. For now I just have to play the waiting game on the 290's for the info I want to see flow in which will be unknown X amount of weeks.
I was hoping a big improvement but it is not i am really disappointed.