MSI R9 290 Gaming Review

MSI R9 290 Gaming Review

Test Setup

MSI R9 290 Gaming 
Intel Core i7-3960X @ 4.6GHz
ASUS Rampage IV Extreme
Corsair Dominator Platinum
Corsair AX1200i
Corsair Neutron GTX
Corsair H100i
Windows 7 x64 

Overclocking

There is a lot of extra performance to be had now the card is being kept cool, with 120MHz over and above the ‘out the box’ OC setting, and a further 400MHz on the GDDR5. Hopefully this leads to the performance improvements we expect.

MSI R9 290 Gaming Review 

Temperatures

With the knowledge that the Radeon is designed to run up to 95°C it says a lot for how well the Twin Frozr works in keeping the Hawaii core down to 85°C, and more importantly it’s quiet.

MSI R9 290 Gaming Review
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