Hardware AMD Radeon R9 290 Review

Wonder if they will use the Hawaii Pro gpu for a dual gpu solution. R2990 etc... That would be interesting.

 

Yeah it did, actually. It stopped me too.

 

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/11/amd-stomps-nvidia-with-r9-290-at-least-in-reviews/

Any comments on this? In particular, this is worrying:

Have AMD been cheeky and carefully selected the R290 cards for review as those better performing bins?

 

This is not the kind of card I would buy on release date, better wait a few month to see some real return on experience. Who would put a max temp security on stock card if they where that confident in their tech ? Those card just looks like over feeded technology with a security to prevent it from auto melting itselfs.

Stock, non overclocked card, should run at 100% without such a trottling security.

 

Well, I just ordered one, so we'll see

Otherwise it just goes back!