XFX Radeon R9 290X Double Dissipation 4GB GDDR5 Graphics Card Review

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XFX Radeon R9 290X Double Dissipation 4GB GDDR5 Graphics Card Review

 

AMD's R9 290X is back in business when it comes to competing with

Nvidia's equivalents. The custom R9 290Xs easily beat out equivalently

priced or sometimes even more expensive custom GTX 780s making them a

solid proposition for any gamer on a budget but wanting maximum

performance. Today we are looking a highly competitive R9 290X from

XFX which has some of the most aggressive pricing on the market and is

currently the cheapest R9 290X available in most markets by quite a

significant margin, particularly in the USA where it can be had for

just $450 at the time of writing which is $50 cheaper than the next

cheapest R9 290X option. This means custom R9 290Xs are now $100

cheaper than MSRP pricing of $550 and XFXs option looks almost too

good to resist. While XFX have lowered the price of their Double

Dissipation SKU they have also recently added a “cherry pickedâ€Â

DD Black Edition skew with an additional 50MHz overclock and more

overclocking potential, this will probably fetch slightly more than

the model we are testing today but broadly speaking those cards are

identical. We've already tested three R9 290Xs so I've got a pretty

good idea about what makes a good one and what makes a bad one, with

the reference design being the textbook definition of a bad one. Let's

have a look at XFX's offering and see whether it sacrifices on

anything to make it the cheapest R9 290X currently on the market!

 

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