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I'm fairly certain that AMD 290/290X cards can be overclocked as well.
As a 290X CF owner I'll say one thing... Don't discount the heat. Upgrading from 7970 CF to 290X CF I was shocked by how much worse it was in that regard. I mean, I'm not going to spend hundreds more for a lower power card just because it'll cost me less on my power bill. That just doesn't make any sense financially. I might consider paying extra for a lower power card just because the extra heat getting pumped into my room is a real issue. Its not about running crappy cases without venting, I have a custom WC loop with full cover cards so they're not hot at all, its the fact that 300W of extra heat is being dumped into my room. Ambient temps can get uncomfortable real fast if I'm gaming with my door closed (necessary to prevent disturbing the other residents with my teamspeak chatter). Is it worth hundreds of dollars? Personally the answer is still no, but the impact is real and shouldn't be ignored.
agreed re: the heat etc.. Been there and done that.
True, owning a beast that can spit out during load between 1000W and 1300W, he can heat up a room real vast.
Just keeping it real uninformed
I never made any such implications. I was only stating that if you're going to overclock the 980s, an apples-to-apples comparison would be against overclocked 290X's. That only fair, don't ya think?Fixed that for ya ^^ That is because of the implications you made by your comments before basically insinuating that a R290x can be overclocked on Air vs a 980 on air to match a GTX 980 Overclocked.
I never made any such implications. I was only stating that if you're going to overclock the 980s, an apples-to-apples comparison would be against overclocked 290X's. That only fair, don't ya think?
Actually a 290X with a good aftermarket cooler is a real decent overclocker, and a good one on water, whit out throttling, and the GTX 980 is fairly limited in its OC by the limited over voltage nVidia allows.
3 months ago i got my self also a 4K TV but i got my self a Panasonic with a DisplayPort input, so i would not hhave any problems with my HTPC.
I never made any such implications. I was only stating that if you're going to overclock the 980s, an apples-to-apples comparison would be against overclocked 290X's. That only fair, don't ya think?
. But there's the apples to apples courtesy of Brent Justice! What's the 290x, $399? That's probably priced about right. I'd probably still go 970 over a 290x though.
Actually, you can pick up an XFX DD 290X right now for $299 AR on Newegg with the three free games from their Never Settle bundle.I think the next thread down is 290X vs 980 both OC'd by Brent and the 980 was 16-28 percent ish (going off memory) faster depending on the game.
Edit: actually I already posted on page 8 of this thread
Subjectively, frame pacing is better with Maxwell than it has ever been. But there seems to be something wonky going on with SLI and the 340-series drivers, as people with Kepler cards are also reporting SLI issues with the newest drivers. I know NVIDIA will sort these out eventually, but the question is when.
