MSI Radeon R9-290X GamingWe have seen many MSI custom PCB or fully custom PCB or even just custom cooled cards and they always impress with some very nice temps along with looking pretty awesome as well. The gaming series carries the Red/Black theme with...
By bjorn3d.com onAMD's Radeon R9 290X is built on the company's new Hawaii GPU, the first truly new high-end graphics chip from the company in a very long time (21 months). Using 6.8 billion transistors, the GPU is built on a 28 nanometer process at TSMC, Taiwan, it...
By techPowerUp! onAt the end of February, we published a comparison test featuring Radeon R9 290(X) video cards from ASUS, Gigabyte and Sapphire. MSI and XFX, amongst others, were absent in this review. In the meantime, MSI has sent us three different models, including...
By uk.hardware.info onMicrostar International (MSI) is a Taiwan-based computer hardware manufacturer founded in 1986. Primarily a designer and manufacturer of PC motherboards, MSI has expanded its business into barebones PCs, servers and workstations, communications devices,...
By HardOCP onTweaking results aside, the MSI Radeon R9-290X Gaming OC is a serious product that has all variables right. Proper cooling temperatures, normal noise levels, great looks, a factory overclock and obviously the raw sheer unadulterated gaming performance...
By Guru of 3D onAMD's reference Radeon R9 290 and 290X cooler earned our disdain once we figured out that it was causing the otherwise-impressive Hawaii GPU to operate at performance levels below the company's specification. Getting the graphics processor to operate at...
By Tom's Hardware onPluspunkte verdient sich die MSI Radeon R9 290X Gaming 4G GDDR5 mit dem guten Kühlsystem Twin Frozr IV. Es lässt die Temperatur im Test nie über 82 Grad steigen und ein Tool passt die Taktrate den aktuellen Erfordernissen an. Für eine Highend-Karte sind...
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La R9 290x Gaming OC Edition de MSI est une version customisée de la R9 290x d'AMD. La carte propose un PCB retravaillé, un système de refroidissement maison, le Twin Frozr et un overcloking en sortie d'usine.Par défaut, sa fréquence GPU est calibrée à...
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Live aus dem PCGH-Testlabor: GTA 5 PC ist das Top-Thema dieser Woche und natürlich stecken wir mitten im groß angelegten Techniktest des Rockstar-Blockbusters. Nachdem wir uns die Nacht um die Ohren schlugen, war eine geeignete Benchmarkszene schnell...
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Nvidia hat mit dem GM204 sehr gute Arbeit geleistet und prasentiert einen Chip, der nicht nur schnell ist, sondern fur einen Grafikchip auch vergleichsweise genugsam. Im direkten Vergleich zur AMD R9 290X ist die Leistungsaufnahme deutlich geringer bei...
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