Darkresurrection :
ubercake :
With AMD, you're always left hoping.
do you wanna start the war again really!? AMD is not a thief like Intel or Nvidia, AMD cares for enthusiasts more than Intel or Nvidia...I am not surprised to see this article at Toms, they don't like AMD and who knows why, I have my r9-290 delivered today, didn't notice such a joke, Toms is being ridiculous...
You haven't gotten the X edition of the card, so that should be ok.
But, Yeah. AMD cared for people when for years all of us AMD customers had to deal with microstutter issues caused by dropped/runt frames on their crossfire setups (among other persistent driver-related issues). AMD 'enthusiasts' were very quick to point out that all multi-card solutions have the same issues. For those of us that got fed up and made the switch, we no longer had to deal with it and we found out this wasn't the case. In this way, AMD really did help enthusiasts years ago with the 5000 series by convincing us to switch. While we had our AMD cards, we always hoped the next driver release would fix existing issues, but the new drivers often caused new issues.
Now, they convincingly release a card in the R9 290x (really with no microstutter in crossfire which is a good thing) that is supposed to be the best and when it comes down to picking one up at the store, it's a far different experience than those sent to benchmark/test sites. Surprise!
Now it's 'Hopefully, they'll get the fan-speed thing worked out'.
Didn't AMD send the spec to these manufacturers or were the manufacturers winging it?
Again, AMD offering people hope. Lip service != Performance.