Manufacturers like MSI, Sapphire and Asus have overclocked versions of the AMD Radeon HD R9 290X was announced. So does MSI with the R9 290X GAMING 4G, that of the Twin Frozr cooling of the Taiwanese company.
AMD announced the R9 290X at the end of October, but all the cards that appeared were of the referentiekoeler and standard clock. In the meantime, many manufacturers have their own versions with custom coolers announced. The last in the row to the MSI, the R9 290X Gaming 4G announces, at the same time with the R9 290 Gaming 4G.
Both cards are MSI’s Twin Frozr IV cooling system with which, according to the manufacturer better cooling than the referentiekoelers. The gpu of the R9 290X Gaming 4G turns in overklokmodus to 1040MHz, which is a slight overclock compared to the default 1GHz. The memory is not overclocked and runs at effective 5GHz. Also the coreclock of the R9 290 Gaming 4G with 1007MHz slightly higher than the 947MHz of the standard R9 290.
A competitor HIS is a version of the R9 290X with the IceQ X2 cooling appeared, writes VideoCardz. The clock speed of this model are not yet known. Powercolor has a model with water cooling by EK Water Blocks, and a clock speed of 1060MHz announced. Asus provides his Radeon HD R9 290X-a card from their DirectCU II cooling system to a clockspeed of 1050MHz for the gpu and 5.4 GHz for the gddr5 memory. Also for this card is water cooling EK Water Blocks coming.
Previously announced Sapphire also have R9 290 and R9 290X Tri-X, in which a cooling system with three fans is featured, while XFX both cards of the Double Dissipation cooling with two 80mm fans provides.
