blackened23
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AMD pays to have the MKT centered in one place in the frontpage, I wonder who takes care for the rest of the site (including this forum)? :think:
I seem to remember one marketer being banned from this forum for spreading false benchmarks for his new AMD GPU. Recently. So I guess the answer is AMD is taking care of both? Apparently.
But this is off topic. Let's not discuss this shall we? My main point was this: The 780 has proven to be an excellent overclocker. Time and time again. On air, on water, etc. The 290X? It does scale very well. It OC's decently. But I haven't seen anything mind blowing yet. That could be, and probably is due to the lack of aftermarket 290X cards. Although the 290X DC II didn't overclock all too well either.
We'll see when more aftermarket 290X cards hit the market. The GK110 does have the advantage of having more aftermarket cards available. Just to be clear here, though: I'm not saying the 290 / 290X aftermarket cards are bad. If they are at MSRP, they are great purchases. My question has to do with the overclocking headroom of the 290X versus the overclocking headroom of the GTX 780. IMO, the 780 has been proven by many many websites. Many aftermarket 780 cards as i've mentioned have hit 15-20% faster than Titan speeds *without* BIOS modifications. With only a measly +38mV of additional voltage.
The 290X isn't proven yet in terms of OC'ing (IMO), but also doesn't have tons of aftermarket cards out. That doesn't mean the 290X is a bad card. As far as i'm concerned, the aftermarket cards are great so long as 1) The price is at MSRP and 2) The reference issues are fixed. Which they are with aftermarket cards. I personally think the reference cards should be avoided like the plague, but the aftermarket cards fix all of the issues associated with reference. So they're great as long as the price is MSRP, as mentioned.
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