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I noticed on other forums most people are way more excited about the R9-290X launch than on this forum.

On hardware.fr, that's not the case too.
People are disappointed with the noise, power consumption and weak OC capabilities.
When you know what a 780 overclocked can do, this reference 290X sounds not really interesting.
The price is good though, hopefully, but nVidia will certainly answer with a price slash.



http://www.hardware.fr/articles/910-...formances.html

780 Uber is 780 stock with turbo ON. As you can see, 780 is still very well placed and the cards is way more silent and with good overclocking capabilities.
Only flaw is price but for how long now that Hawaii is out ?