Published: February 15, 2014 | Source: MSI | Author: Tom Logan

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.

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.