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Don Lapre posted:If you want a 290/290x probably worth contacting him to see if hes gonna list more. Dude had a million dollar mining operation.
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Josh Lyman posted:He has a single 290 up in a non-Buy It Now auction, probably a buyer from last week who didn't pay up, so it seems like he might be done. Still, I messaged him and I'll report back. quote:Hello there, I just listed 1 about 1/2 hour ago - please check my listings.
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May 22, 2014 19:39
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I checked the ASUS RMA form and they only request a serial as well.
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May 22, 2014 20:54
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SourKraut posted:FYI - He just put these up, and has them listed as new / never used for $169.99. 
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May 24, 2014 08:15
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My Gigabyte WindForce 290 is pretty great. I can't really hear I above my system fans.
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DrDork posted:I got a Sapphire Tri-X OC 290 off a guy on Amazon. Box arrived and I noticed there was an extra letter on the box--a trailing X. Yeah, the genius sent me a 290X--for which he'd paid $700 not even two months prior--for the price of a used 290. And it works perfectly--overclocked it to 1125/1425, even. Sometimes you get lucky, I guess.
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SwissCM posted:Nvidia don't seem to care about it. See PhysX.
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Shaocaholica posted:Is the 290x ref cooler really that bad? Link?
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Factory Factory posted:That's subjective. IMO 60 decibels is INCREDIBLY obnoxious. I mean, sure, I dumped a ton of money into a GPU mod so my system has a noise ceilingof ~25 dBA, but really: 60 dBA is crazy for background white noise.
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Jun 5, 2014 15:52
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Shaocaholica posted:Well I just won a miner 290x for $300 shipped. Yay me!
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Jun 7, 2014 21:38
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Hace posted:Looks like AMD's answer to Shadowplay is starting to mature a little bit: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8224/...client-game-dvr
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Is it just me or is the 970 a marginally better 290? Looking through the benchmarks, there are a couple games where the 290 outperforms so it's not simply an across-the-board win for the 970, but the 970 currently has a lower street price (though it's sold out) for new models. I imagine the supply of 290/290Xs that were being dumped by Bitcoin miners in early summer has run out, so unless you're really budget constrained to $250 all-in for a used 290, there's literally no reason not to choose the 970 instead.
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Sep 24, 2014 07:15
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Unlucky7 posted:The only thing I noticed in the user reviews of the Zotac 970 is that the card apparently runs hot and the cooler slightly struggles with it. I don't have any additional fans in my PC, so should I wait for a MSI to be available?
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AirRaid posted:Without any prior knowledge of the problem and no prompting from anyone I just peeled the drat sticker off carefully in the first place. Little common sense here maybe? Sure the glue is a bit much and they maybe should have thought of that but who is hamfistedly tearing that poo poo off in the first place?
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Oct 2, 2014 11:30
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Rastor posted:AMD has made their first response: the R9 290 has been reduced by $100 (from $399 to $299) and the R9 290X has been reduced by $150 (from $549 to $399).
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There was some notion that Nvidia skipped the 800 series to use for notebook cards, but they're just going with 980M and 970M: http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/07/...-performance-a/ What's up with that?
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Ak Gara posted:Someone correct me if I'm wrong but aren't 970's literally 980's with some shaders turned off etc?
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How stupid is it to sell my 290, which I assume I'll get $200 for after fees and shipping, then buy a 970 for $350, just to satisfy my OCD of having a lower power, more performance efficient card? I do have a 1440p primary, but I don't game that much.
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craig588 posted:MSIs seem to have problems with the fan motors failing, possibly made worse by a "remove before using" sticker using too strong of adhesive. Even cards with the redesigned sticker have had problems with early fan failure though.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:No one else answered, so... Josh Lyman fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Dec 6, 2014 |
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Dec 6, 2014 10:02
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We have a 3D TV. Frame interpolation looked strange to me at first, as did the first Hobbit movie in 48fps, but it looks normal to me now. I haven't seen the subsequent Hobbits in theaters.
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Dec 24, 2014 18:38
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What about everyone in Europe using 25 fps?
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sauer kraut posted:Today's GTX 960 leaks are dire.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:SHOTS FIRED, REQUESTING BACKUP, REPEAT, SHOTS FIRED 
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I have a 290 so I don't expect to upgrade anytime soon, but I also have a Korean dual-DVI 27" monitor. Should I assume that any card I'll upgrade to in the next few years will only have 1x DVI, and that any monitors I buy going forward must have DisplayPort as opposed to DVI/HDMI? I've been slowly catching up on this thread since page 375 or so. I love this thread so much  .
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SFF is the future. Only poopsockers use mid-towers.
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Unf, wanna sell my Gigabyte WindForce 290 and get this WindForce 970 instead.
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Is there any scenario where buying that 970 for $270 and selling my 290 for ~$200 after Ebay/Paypal fees and shipping makes sense?
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:The scenario where you really want a 970. You know you do. THE DOG HOUSE posted:Just promise to OC it and that $70 will seem worthwhile. Also a 290 and a 970 are on the opposite ends of the performance/heat/noise/whatever/blah spectrum so you can pretend like that is another reason Mutation posted:If you were planning on buying MGS5 anyways then it's like you're only spending ten dollars! Who wants to buy my WindForce 290? Warranty is good through April 2017. 
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THE DOG HOUSE posted:This is hardly an unknown trick, but tonight set it for a 3 day auction on ebay and start at 0.01. People watch the poo poo out of those and you will pretty much always get what you were going to anyways if not more. The only real tip to this is list so that it ends on Friday or Saturday night
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Aside from Freesync (and I don't plan on buying a Freesync monitor anytime soon), is there anything on my 290 I'd be giving up by going to a 970?
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My 970 arrived today. I know 3DMark isn't the final word, but the notion that it's 10-15% faster than the 290 is a stretch if you ask me. Stock 290  Stock 970  That's only a 1.6% difference, basically nothing. Best I could do overclocking 290 without increasing voltage, 100MHz on core and 0 MHz on memory  Best I could do overclocking 970 without increasing voltage, 200MHz on core and 200 MHz on memory  That's a 5% difference, statistically significant but not really impactful. At least my e-penis is over 10k, so that's something. 
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Twerk from Home posted:Is your 290 reference? Reference 290s throttle constantly and are significantly slower than ones with custom coolers.
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Mutation posted:I sold my 280X and joined the 970 club on this computer. 
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It's good to be back.
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Alereon posted:Yes, but the last inch isn't actually usable. 
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Trip Report After Ebay/Paypal fees, shipping, rebates, and selling my Nvidia game code, the 290 -> 970 "upgrade" cost me $65. At 1440p, with both cards overclocked (and only when overclocked), I get 12-19% higher framerates. Was it worth it? Probably not. Do I regret it? Eh, not really. At least the 970 will have higher resale when I upgrade to an 1170.
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Subjunctive posted:Do you notice or care about a noise/temp difference? Curious how that plays out across 2 overclocked cards. As for noise, at idle, my 120mm case fans are louder, and while gaming, the audio of the game pretty much drowned out the 290's fans. I just found out about this though: https://www.kickstarter.com/project...nt-underground/ In high school, I played Descent 3 every day for like a year (until I discovered Counter-Strike), so I'm super hyped. The 970 seems to do a fair bit better than the 290 on Unreal Engine 3 (Bioshock Infinite), so hopefully that'll translate to Unreal Engine 4.
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If you have a 970/980 whose BIOS doesn't come with a 0% fan at idle option, definitely look into tweaking it. I just did it for my Gigabyte 970 and while it's not necessarily quieter due to my case fans, it's nice knowing it's not drawing in dust necessarily.
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:Likely end of month
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