MSI R9 290 Gaming Edition Mini review

Hi, any benches for games like cod ghosts, bf4, grid 2, dirt 3 all maxed out at 1080p. Also what is the idle and heavy load max temperature? thanks

 

Nice looking card.

 

What's the max stable OC so far, lets say with default vram, only gpu?

 

Are the R9 290 black screens purely driver related or hardware ?

 

I had a black flickering screen right after the windows 8 logo after installing the 13.11 drivers that came on the disk. Once I was able to install the 13.12 drivers from amd.com it's been perfect since then. As far as I can decipher from what I've read etc. it's a driver issue.

 

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Idle is 36/37c gaming is around 75c

It can keep 60fps with no drops in all them games maxed out at 1080p

I have bf4 120res scale + sweetfx and it's locked at 60fps.

It's running at 1100mhz at the moment no problems so far. I'll push it some more once I know this is 100% stable.

Oh and I;ve not had a single problem since getting the card, no crashes no black screen ect all working great.

 

Im toying with the idea of getting a one of these ones now, as place ive used quite a few times has got some in, just wondering if im likely to get any compatible issues, as im on the x58 chipset still, i can always try it and see i guess.

 

Go for it! ;D

 

Thanks, not so bad then

 

Bugger, ive just caved (got the X)

Should be here tomorrow!

 

Very nice card there DesGaizu

It took you long enough! :grin:
On a side note, getting the prolimatech mk-26 delivered later this week or next one, will post results.

 

Thanks, can't wait

It sure did , looking forward to those, cracking cooler for the 290s that.

 

what about noise ?

 

In a perfectly quiet room I can barely hear it over my case fans when under full load and fan rpm around 60% To me it's about as quiet as any video card I've owned.

 

Nice

Nice, well maybe i should had waited to this year, and bought a 290x with custom fan :/
Well Iam happy for Asus /AMD Radeon DirectCU-II R9280X-DC2-3GD5, it work fine. And Benchmark not allways proof that the cards is good ingame

 

Mines in and running great, Twin Frozrs a cracker

 

Have this card dual BIOS?
Which has a temperature after OC?

 

Yeah its dual BIOS, position 1 is Legacy, and position 2 (which is the default), is Legacy and UEFI, well it is on the X which ive got.

Whacked mine up to 1080 on the core, and temp stayed the same, @ 77.