Recent content by sleepyman

I know you didn't have time to show overclocking benchmarks...what clocks can overclockers expect...I would like to see more precise details on the test systems. For example, you could have used a reference r9 290x in silent mode in your benchmarks which would mean you tested the r9 290x at more...

A few things to take into account when reading this review. First of all, the r9 285 that is tested is clocked at 918 MHz not 954 MHz (read the small print). Secondly, the power consumption numbers measure the power consumption of the r9 285 clocked at 973 MHz instead of the 918 MHz card that is...

AMD should have just charged $50 more and added decent coolers to the R9-290x and the R9-290. What we're seeing in the retail R9-290x benchmarks is a heavily UNDERCLOCKED card. A proper cooling solution and more refined drivers (GCN 1.1 requires different drivers than GCN 1.0) will close the...

This reminds me of the GTX 480 vs the HD 5870. The performance of the GTX 480 was close to the HD 5870 at launch even though it consumed more power. But, over time (with driver improvements), the GTX 480 destroyed the HD 5870. Also, it is not like the GTX 480 was consuming more power because the...

There are a lot of nvidia users with three monitors and SLI systems who play only DX9 games writing comments today. I hope they are planning to upgrade their Kepler based systems before "Next Gen" games come out and developers use OpenCL and Mantle to midigate the fact that console CPUs are...