Great find, have some heat.

Hmmm this or the Sapphire from amazon france? http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B00I7N9E9A?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_act_title_1&smid=A1X6FK5RDHNB96
both awaiting stock

Heat added!

yoyo tech have some great deals on

Great deal if they get stock.

This since its from a UK seller and im not sure about the whole warranty thing with buying from different countries. Also MSI is extremely reputable and this cooler is great

Great find. Sorely tempted to upgrade my 285 :laughing:

Great deal, might by 1....oh wait no I wont as they haven't got any!

Update

Just seen dabs have some i5 6600k processors on sale for £129.99, says awaiting stock but good price none the same

At least the cracking price for In Win 901 case at £59.99 is in stock, normally means they actually have some

Is this the same as 390 or 390x in real world performance?

The i5 6600k is showing as £209.99 for me...got a link?

£209.99 link --- http://www.dabs.com/products/intel-core-i5-6600k-unlocked-3-50ghz-6th-gen-skylake-cpu-socket1151-quad-core-3-5ghz-3-9ghz-turbo-bx80662i56600k-BH1V.html?q=i5%206600k&src=16

Same lol

Can some one tell me if this Msi 290x card is better than the sapphire 290x tri-X as I bought that from Amazon France and could return it.
Thanks

Ok thanks

Is this better than a 960 4gig

I had the 290 version of this card. For about 5 days before the inability of the cooler to operate at acceptable noise levels made me send it back. Lots of people had similar experiences though some thought it was great. YMMV.

Great deal. Heated :smiley:

What's the warranty length on this?

Thank you very much guess I will keep the sapphire. Only need it to last untill the new gen cards and will sell on eBay.
Thanks again for your help

Just wait for DX12 to be supported by games in 2016 the benchmark shows R9 290X is going toe-to-toe with a GTX 980 Ti!!! 33% Faster Than GTX 980 with DX12 !!!

This or the gtx 970?

290x

​ http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2015/08/directx-12-tested-an-early-win-for-amd-and-disappointment-for-nvidia/

Nope. It's true. DX12 massively increases AMD performance, but does little to nVidia. It was a conscious decision by nVidia to focus on speed in current generation games and its left them seriously lagging in next gen. They've actually been paying off developers to delay DX12 games to avoid the embarrassment of a £120 card beating an £800 card - Google "Ark dx12"

It said £202.50p when I checked out on Amazon with credit card. I will go double check at the bank tomorrow. I hope ur wrong and thanks for the heads up

All my results come up with "Ark: Survival Evolved" and its "delayed" DX12 implementation - for a game that's not due for release until the end of next year.

I've been playing it on Early Access (not bad, not great) but your conspiracy theory here is quite amusing, to say the least.

As for DX12 "massively increasing" AMD performance, it's mostly a way to bypass the CPU dependence from AMD cards. For the most part, they won't get a 'speed boost' - they'll just have their old speed inhibition removed (in games with support for DX12 hardware only). For games with hardware DX12 support which also make heavy use of async compute, AMD cards will then also get a speed boost (although it's worth noting that while Nvidia cards don't have hardware async compute, AMD cards are also missing hardware support for some DX12/12_1 features).

How many of those games are we going to see? Not every DX12 game will make heavy use of async compute. But basing an entire generation's performance on the back of one game is akin to those utter morons who claim that console gaming is "better" than PC gaming because Arkham Knight had so many problems on PC.

In short, DX12 is good news for everybody. In games that take advantage of DX12 hardware, Nvidia sees a small performance boost, and AMD not only has one of their performance deficits greatly reduced (finally), but also sees a decent performance boost on top.

If you're really worried about DX12, don't buy anything right now. There isn't a card on the market with full hardware support for DX12/12_1 - not AMD, not Nvidia. Wait until next year.

Hmm.I am trying now to check,and they told me that impossible to deliver to my adress in London.'

You can use translators online - just copy/paste text.
They not explain why.
try yourself now

I try to copy and paste on my phone but it copy's the url link on my iPhone.

Waiting for Amazon France to get back to me and I will go check bank tomorrow. Was u interested in that card ? If so I will message u back about it tomorrow

Irrelevant, these are not reference cards. They run cooler and a hell of a lot quieter than the original blower fan design from AMD.

yes for me is interestning.tnx

Have some heat :smiley:.

I thought MSI stopped building/manufacturing these 290x's?

I sold mine a while back for £200 on gumtree & upgraded to the MSI 390X 8GB. Haven't looked back once as I've been satisfied with both, more with the 390x (Y). Worth the money if you can afford it :smiley:

Sounds more like a side-grade to be honest :stuck_out_tongue: They won't produce them anymore.

Haha maybe but was worth the jump lol. I'm not crazy on gaming, just few heavy graphic titles/gams and lots of BR films :smiley:

Also, correct in not being produced as it's always out of stock? Nevertheless, good price if it ever does come into stock :smiley:

A few could be lurking in a warehouse somewhere.

AWSOME Great Deal

Great deal - again, pretty much the R9 390X but much cheaper; unless you game at over 2K, you don't really need the 8GB VRAM...

All gone?

I'm off uptown in a few hours so I will let u know how much they charged me. Just checked Amazon France and they are the same price in euros still but our out of stock but maybe they will get some more. Had email from amzon France and it says £202 but will double check with the bank .

Cold for me if Its around 180 yes but not 205....

any thoughts on a reasonable price PSU to go with this? not sure my current cheap CIT500W is upto the job....don't want to make all the savings on this irrelevant by spending a fortune on a new PSU .

Out of stock?

Anyone who bought one of these cards from this supplier , log in to your account and check your order status , i ordered yesterday when it was in stock , just checked and order has been cancelled, peed of so much they didn't even have the curtsy to let me know.

I remember when we were flirting with the ~215 r9-290x....we were all waiting for the day it went down to 200. And when it did it was glorious.... have some heat for the good 'ol days.

Hot, I paid £229.99 for my 290x back in April. Good to see they've not come down THAT much!

This or the 390 non X for £230?

Is this much better than the R9 285?

​Not irrelevant as my comments were about non reference cards as I own one.

This review for the MSI R9 390 quotes 41dbA under load. https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/R9_290X_Gaming/23.html
The Sapphire R9 290X 4GB is 37dbA under load.

Confirmed at £202.25 from the bank so good price

No longer showing on their website.

Has anyone had any status updates/processing?

Yeah just checked my e-mails earlier, ordered this on the 30th of November like many others and seen I had an e-mail from paypal (nothing from the supplier) saying I had been refunded. Pretty disappointing it has taken them this long especially since I had received an e-mail asking if the 4-6 week waiting period was ok. Don't think i'll be using them again or recommending them to anyone.
Update: - Just received a response to my email inquiring as to why my order had been cancelled, their response being they did send the e-mail (yesterday) to completely the wrong e-mail. Never received a single piece of notice from them.