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[DefStar]

That's one huge stock fan, hope its more quiet than the last ones...

I'm going with a full cover water block, just finished building my now water cooled pc.

[NEOAethyr]

That's one of the dumbest theories I've ever heard, of course it's 512bit... ^^

You can cut it out with the pissing contest already... danke much.

[MaddMuppet]

Say what

[tbone8ty]

http://www.legitreviews.com/amd-rade...e-order_125224

Interesting

[Hornet331]

well it seems its only for there "BF4" bundle. I doubt its gona be limited overall.

[zalbard]

Best guess; yes. Truaudio seems to be more a compute engine which would then output an audio stream to whatever DSP/DAC is attached to the system.

That would be my guess as well. Will probably require an external DAC though USB or SPDIF or HDMI, or whatever they use. It's unlikely to work with current sound cards (especially considering the atrocious drivers...).

They may just make it work with various USB headphones, which would be cheap enough and pretty cool for your average gamer.

[LordEC911]

That would be my guess as well. Will probably require an external DAC though USB or SPDIF or HDMI, or whatever they use. It's unlikely to work with current sound cards (especially considering the atrocious drivers...).

They may just make it work with various USB headphones, which would be cheap enough and pretty cool for your average gamer.

Baumann said that it would work through any of your normal outputs.

TrueAudio is an audio processor, not the delivery mechanism - if you route your sound off the motherboard audio jacks you'll still do that with TrueAudio.

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.p...&postcount=198

[zalbard]

Ah, that's pretty neat. Although I still think they will have many issues due to crappy ASUS and Creative drivers. In fact, not sure ASUS and Creative are going to be willing to assist this sort of thing, as it may just be their direct competitor...

[LordEC911]

Ah, that's pretty neat. Although I still think they will have many issues due to crappy ASUS and Creative drivers. In fact, not sure ASUS and Creative are going to be willing to assist this sort of thing, as it may just be their direct competitor...

Yeah, it sounds like it is meant to be relatively easy to implement from the user side but, like you said, sound card issues are way too common.

It gave me chills thinking about trying to setup/receive TrueAudio and then trying to change all the effects/settings on the soundcard to not interfere.

[PedantOne]

It seems, NDA for R9 290X will ends 10/02/2013! Only few days.

[Zipelgas]

Lets hope it firestrikes 10k+ otherwise it pretty sad thats ofcourse IMHO

[PedantOne]

Lets hope it firestrikes 10k+ otherwise it pretty sad thats ofcourse IMHO

hahahahaaaaa! 10k+ in your dreams

[FlanK3r]

BF4 has date of public 28/29.10.

[PedantOne]

yes, but from 10/03/2013 are R9-290X + BF4 pre-orders. You can buy Radeon sooner, and there will be coupon or code for download after gale launch date.

[Final8ty]

showing it off running across three 4k resolution monitors from a pair of AMD Radeon R9 290X GPUs in Crossfire mode is pretty sweet. http://www.tweaktown.com

[Dimitriman]

R9 290X will be a great card no doubt but I will hold on to my 7970 for the time being, I think I am still ok with it gaming at 1200p for now. When I see a new release that brings me close to 100% improvement then I will surely hit the trigger..

[informal]

R9 290X will be a great card no doubt but I will hold on to my 7970 for the time being, I think I am still ok with it gaming at 1200p for now. When I see a new release that brings me close to 100% improvement then I will surely hit the trigger..

For 100% perf. increase you will be waiting a loong time I'm afraid.

[Final8ty]

You?ve heard about Mantle and how it will boost the performance of AMD?s cards on Battlefield 4, right? Well, today we get a glimpse of what we can expect from that low-level API. According to AMD, Battlefield 4′s demo (at its recent AMD event) was running on a single R9 290X card at 5760?1080 (though it has not been confirmed whether it was running with constant 60fps. We should note that we did not notice any slowdowns, so we are most probably looking at a 60fps gameplay heaven).

Now that?s simply spectacular. Rumor has it that R9 290X?s specs are lower than those of Nvidia?s Titan card, yet with Mantle it seems that AMD?s latest GPU will be able to compete ? or even surpass ? Nvidia?s GPU flagship. Seems after all that AMD?s comment ? about R9 290X surpassing the Titan ? was true after all.

We?re still a bit skeptical about this whole ?Mantle? thing, and whether it will be use-able from other GPU manufacturers. Yes yes, AMD claimed that Mantle will be open and Nvidia will be able to use it ? though during its presentation the red team claimed that Mantle works only via GCN, and as well all know Nvidia?s cards are not based on that architecture.

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/battle...-at-5760x1080/

[Dimitriman]

For 100% perf. increase you will be waiting a loong time I'm afraid.

I disagree, if the Hawaii chip is 30% faster (assuming), and the next gen 20nm tops Hawaii by 40% (assuming), then you already got 82% faster than the performance of Tahiti, that's good enough for an upgrade in my case.
I just think 30% over what I got ins't quite enough yet, my 7970 will last me a long time still..

[informal]

Yeah but you said 100% and you only supposedly will get 82% . For full 100% perf. increase you wil essentially need 3 generations which in turn means 4+ years.

[Greg83]

I have a 4870x2.
Would this new card, give me a 100% performance increase. for 1080p gaming. of the same settings i use now. to achieve ~60fps?
or would it still be a waste to upgrade. its only been, 5870, 6970, 7970.

So 4 complete generations

Or would i have to play some random game that might actually require it, for further eye candy i couldn't even notice. (or set in game)
Currently i max out all my games I have played. no noticeable perf issues.

I do have alot of games though. 570+ on steam, 20+ on origin 100+ on desura.

Have yet to encounter a need for a new video card. thought i haven't played 555 of the games yet.

[Zipelgas]

if u had the money to buy all those games u have the money to upgrade that card, I couldnt use mine longer then 3 days until i sold it it was terrible.

[Greg83]

yes, but i don't wanna waste it. i am just trying to figure out. if there is any reason to upgrade yet. or should i wait another gen or two.
Another else other then just higher res. etc. from these new gpu's i am missing.

I hear they do hardware acceleration of video steaming online now. which i kinda think is cool. If it can improve the quality of the image. Like my sound card can turn horrid sound into quite good.

I have been very interested in upgrading, since 6970 but keep talking myself out of it. Like all i will achieve is a 15% perf gain(under my usages, 1080p upto 60FPS).

[GoldenTiger]

if u had the money to buy all those games u have the money to upgrade that card, I couldnt use mine longer then 3 days until i sold it it was terrible.

People with money don't manage to build it if they frivolously waste it as they try and they don't stay having money if they dump it on anything that looks shiny (just a general comment on "if you have the money to buy X, why not Y"). To answer Greg83's question, if you're only after 1080p 60fps you might see a small gain but if you're OK with "only" 2x MSAA or FXAA in the newest games I'm not sure you'll really see a big benefit, other than the obvious microstuttering problems (but if you don't notice them, no need to change of course).

[MaddMuppet]

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/battle...-at-5760x1080/

If just one of these cards are able to run BF4 at 5760x1080, at maxed or close to maxed settings @60fps, I'm all over a couple of these at launch. As long as the price is around what the 780 is. I won't pay anywhere near Titan prices for a video card.