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- R9 290X COMPATIBILITY WITH MSI Z97 GAMING 7 UPDATE
- R9 290X COMPATIBILITY WITH MSI Z97 GAMING 7 SERIES
– strong power cicuitry, no GPU throttling – nice GPU temperature at idle state (31☌) The card is built with a solid mechanical structure (backplate, Twin Frozr IV), does not suffer from throttling when it’s under heavy graphics load and has a nice design. This R9 290X Gaming 4G is a great product by MSI. The R9 290X Gaming 4G has successfully passed the FurMark stress test. But to correctly cool the GPU the VGA cooler has to do some noise… The Twin Frozr IV does it job by evacuating the heat produced by the GPU. But the card is designed to resist and it resists. With a PowerTune of +20%, an estimation of the power consumption of the R9 290X is:ģ51W!!! It’s an insane power consumption. Let’s see the numbers after a 5-min burn-in test session: To unleash the beast hidden behind the Twin Frozr IV cooler, you have to set the PowerTune to 20%: An estimation of the power consumption of the R9 290X is: The efficiency factor of the Corsair AX 860i is 0.92. When FurMark is running, the CPU pulls around 25W and the total power. With a PowerTune of 0%, the total power consumption of the testbed is 412W and the GPU temperature reaches 82☌. Why? Because PowerTune tries to keep the power consumption under a threshold defined by the PowerTune setting.Īt idle, the total power consumption of the testbed is 55W and the GPU temperature is 31☌ which is a nice temperature. 960Mhz is lower than the normal 3D clock speed (1030MHz). With this setting, the R9 290X runs at around 960 MHz when it’s stressed by FurMark. See THIS PAGE for all results in 1920×1080 fullscreen mode.īy default, Radeon cards work with the PowerTune set to 0% in the Overdrive section of the Catalyst Control Center. I benchmarked MSI’s R9 290X with several GPU tests. The 4GB of GDDR5 memory are not overclocked and comes with the reference clock speed of 1250MHz real speed (or 5GHz effective speed). This MIS R9 290X has a GPU core clock of 1030MHz (reference clock: 1000MHz). Looks like nobody has tested this card at MSI labs before the launch day… or PSUs at MSI are all like my PSU, without the tie ? The dirty solution: just remove/break the small tie on each power connector! This card has however a little problem of design: once plugged, you can’t easily unplug the PCI-E power cables because the heat sink to too near of the power connectors: – 1 x HDMI 1.4 (see HERE for the bandwidth of HDMI 1.4 interface). MSI R9 290X comes with a backplate which is a good point, and includes the following output connectors: This is a very efficient cooler that manages to keep low temperatures mor or less quietly: at idle, the VGA cooler is nearly noiseless while under heavy load the noise is tolerable. MSI has equipped its R9 290X with a custom VGA cooler based on the famous Twin Frozr IV cooler technology. I received the card directly from MSI without bundle… so no picture! MSI R9 290X Gaming 4G homepage can be found HERE. More information about this GPU can be found on this page. These features are available on the Hawk and Lightning series. Although you can overclock it, this card is not intended for overclockers because some OC features like voltage check points are missing.
R9 290X COMPATIBILITY WITH MSI Z97 GAMING 7 SERIES
Here are all Series ranked from the top line (Lightning) to the bottom line (CLASSIC): MSI R9 290X Gaming 4G is a graphics card that belongs to MSI’s Gaming Series.
R9 290X COMPATIBILITY WITH MSI Z97 GAMING 7 UPDATE
So a quick review is still interesting, especially to update the benchmarking comparative tables for upcoming GTX 900 reviews… Even if Radeon R9 290X has been launched around one year ago, this card has no successor yet.
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I received this card several weeks ago but I didn’t find the time to write about it.