The system, in which the card is used:
ASRock Z97 Extreme4
Intel Core i7 4790K Haswell refresh LGA 1150
16GB Crucial DDR3 1600MHz RAM (2x8gb)
CPU cooler Aplenföhn Brocken
bQuiet power supply 730 W
LianLi ATX case closed
To the map:
General:
It is above all extremely long. I had read that though, but would not have thought behind that is actually only about 2cm square to the drive bay of the 3.5 inch drives. Due to the architecture of my motherboard ASRock I had a couple of hard disk connections Cabling different because the first PCIe slot in extension protrudes just above the SATA places - here you should have at least in mind, as your own setup. Furthermore, the electrical connections with one 8-pin and one 6-pin, an adapter of 2 times 6-pin to 8-pin once located but at. Generally one can say is that you get the usual Asus quality, the card is extremely well made, nothing wobbles, the back of the board is specially protected - all very fine.
Temperatures / volume / stroke:
First I want to note here that the variance of each card in the high-end segment seems to be currently very high. One and the same graphics card, whether Nvidia or AMD chip, may vary leistungstechnisch strong currently. My 290X has not to be bringing about 87 degrees in a 30 min FurMark test at 100% utilization in any case a maximum of 57% fan speed and has fallen at all times respect their 1050 Mhz, while the volume is quieter than I after various tests had suspected, but a little louder than my Palit GTX 970 Jetstream was. So a consistently positive impression.
Games Benchs in 1920x1080:
Far Cry 4 runs on Ultra incl. 16x Anilaising constant over 60 fps. ARMA III to very high and well 4 km sight with 8x Anilaising between 50 and 80 fps. In most other games like CS: GO and co. I would recommend anyway, a Framlimit on max. 128 purely to rip. Solangs no 4K gaming should be, so you can control all the currently still high tear with a single 290X. General Benchs found, yes, but also anywhere in the network. Spulenfiepen I have from several hundred FPS quietly audible in practice therefore irrelevant.
I recommend everyone who buys this graphics card or one of the popular alternatives, this test in the first few days in accordance with, as you being too much negative hear about individual copies and reads. The same I could find in my GTX 970 unfortunately. Assuming that my 290X runs as it is to run, I can only awarded 5 stars. The performance is at best measurably worse than the 970, which surprised me. In these games 290X definitely makes you feel good and currently costs less than most 970, and 980 as anyway. In the unlikely event report a problem, I will update this article accordingly.
