chispy - Radeon R9 290X @ 1290/1450MHz - 4515.76 DX11 Marks Unigine Heaven - Xtreme Preset

[Moose83]

So seems like there are lot of crap 290X outside Nice score, i will wait for Lightning

[chispy]

Yes Mr. Moose there are a lot of duds 290x out there with very low ASIC quality like my first one was 71.2 ASIC and was very bad clocker core , is all in the ASIC quality , this one is 78.9 ASIC , good core , bad Ram Elpida , will mod the ram before going LN2 to see if it helps clocks a little better.i Still have a better one with ASIC quality 79.3 and Hynix ram , im saving it strictly for LN2 low volts high overclocks runs very cool. I am still binning 290x VGAs

Edited December 5, 2013 by chispy

[flanker]

Do you know, if some 290 cards are with Samsung or Hynix? But still nice result!

[chispy]

Hi my friend Flanker3R , As far as I know yes 290 cards are also a gamble and a mix of Hynix and Elpidas , its a matter of luck to find the good ones with Hynix memory and high ASIC quality.