R9-290 Review (Gigabyte Windforce Edition) - Good but Complicated Value.

⭐ Overall Rating: 4.4 / 5
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So I found the R9-290 on amazon for $250 USD and decided to pull the trigger, and honestly after spending a lot of time with this graphics card I can say that it is a good buy (though still not a great buy), even though the card runs triple A titles fine, it still suffers from some weird micro stuttering from time to time (maybe my eyes can notice it better than others? I dunno). Also the fact that the card benched LOWER (?) after 2 weeks of usage really has me scratching my head. I also throw in the comparison of the r9-290 vs gtx 970 and I will make another video showing a head to head comparison in more depth as I believe these two cards are the best out there at the moment.

Though the Windforce solution did a fine job of cooling the card and I can recommend it to anyone. Also the card did overclock pretty well I was able to get it to 1089mhz on the core and 1515 (x4 effective) on the memory, so the memory showed a big overclock. As for everything else you can watch the review to find out more.

Benchmarks from 4:08

Rig Used for testing:

5820k @ 4.2ghz
16GB (4x4) Crucial DDR4 ram @ 2400 14-15-14-40
240GB Intel SSD 335
650w Antec Earthwatts Bronze
Gigabyte x99-UD4

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