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AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB Review - Trip to Hawaii for $399
The week before Halloween, AMD unleashed a trick on the GPU world under the guise of the Radeon R9 290X and it was the fastest single GPU graphics card we had tested to date. With a surprising price...
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For AMD, X does not mark the spot
How does all the power of a GTX 780 for a price tag $100 lower sound to you? Honestly it might sound a little loud as the reference cooler on the R9 290 can be a little loud at 50% which is the speed...
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AMD Releases Catalyst 13.11 Beta 9.2 Driver To Correct Performance Variance...
AMD recently launched its 290X graphics card, which is the new high-end single GPU solution using a GCN-based Hawaii architecture. The new GPU is rather large and incorporates an updated version of...
View ArticlePodcast #277 - GTX 780Ti, OCZ Vector 150 SSD, Details about Kaveri, and much...
PC Perspective Podcast #277 - 11/14/2013Join us this week as we discuss the GTX 780Ti, OCZ Vector 150 SSD, Details about Kaveri, and much more from APU13!You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you...
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Retail Radeon R9 290X Frequency Variance Issues Still Present
Since the release of the new AMD Radeon R9 290X and R9 290 graphics cards, we have been very curious about the latest implementation of AMD's PowerTune technology and its scaling of clock frequency as...
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Controversy continues to erupt over AMD's new GPU
Ryan is not the only one who felt it necessary to investigate the reports of differing performance between retail R9 290X cards and the ones sent out for review. Legit Reviews also ordered a retail...
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ASUS Radeon R9 290X DirectCU II Graphics Card Review
It has been a crazy launch for the AMD Radeon R9 series of graphics cards. When we first reviewed both the R9 290X and the R9 290, we came away very impressed with the GPU and the performance it...
View ArticlePodcast #281 - NVIDIA GSYNC Preview, ASUS ROG MARS 760, Custom Cooled R9...
PC Perspective Podcast #281 - 12/19/2013Join us this week as we discuss our NVIDIA GSYNC Preview, ASUS ROG MARS 760, Custom Cooled R9 290Xs and more!You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can...
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Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Tri-X 4GB Graphics Card Review
It was mid-December when the very first custom cooled AMD Radeon R9 290X card hit our offices in the form of the ASUS R9 290X DirectCU II. It was cooler, quieter, and faster than the reference model;...
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CES 2014: MSI Previews the Radeon R9 290X Lightning
The MSI Lightning series of graphics cards continues to be one of the best high end enthusiast lines available as we have seen with our reviews of the MSI GeForce GTX 780 Lightning and the R7970...
View ArticlePodcast #283 - AMD Kaveri APU Launch, Gigabyte's New Slim Gaming Notebook,...
PC Perspective Podcast #283 - 01/16/2014Join us this week as we discuss the AMD Kaveri APU Launch, Gigabyte's New Slim Gaming Notebook, and CES 2014 Wrapup!You can subscribe to us through iTunes and...
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Battlefield 4 Mantle Early Performance Testing
Late last week, EA and Dice released the long awaited patch for Battlefield 4 that enables support for the Mantle renderer. This new API technology was introduced by AMD back in September....
View ArticlePodcast #286 - AMD Mantle, Battlefield 4 Performance, Chromeboxes and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #286 - 02/06/2014Join us this week as we discuss the release of AMD Mantle, Battlefield 4 Performance, Chromeboxes and more!You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can...
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AMD Radeon R9 290X shows up for $549 on Newegg. Is the worst behind us?
Yes, I know it is only one card. And yes I know that this could sell out in the next 10 minutes and be nothing, but I was so interested, excited and curious about this that I wanted to put together a...
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Just Delivered: MSI Radeon R9 290X Lightning
While Ryan may be en route to the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco right now, work must go on at the PC Perspective office. As it happens my arrival at the office today was greeted by a...
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The AMD Radeon R9 295X2 8GB Graphics Card Review
AMD likes to toot its own horn. Just a take a look at the not-so-subtle marketing buildup to the Radeon R9 295X2 dual-Hawaii graphics card, released today. I had photos of me shipped to…me…overnight....
View ArticlePodcast #304 - GeForce GTX TITAN Z, Core i7-4790K, Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Force...
PC Perspective Podcast #304 - 06/12/2014We have lots of reviews to talk about this week including the GeForce GTX TITAN Z, Core i7-4790K, Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Force, E3 News and more!You can subscribe to...
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Civilization: Beyond Earth Performance: Maxwell vs. Hawaii, DX11 vs. Mantle
Turn-based strategy games have long been defined by the Civilization series. Civ 5 took up hours and hours of the PC Perspective team's non-working hours (and likely the working ones too) and it looks...
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AMD Radeon R9 290X Now Selling at $299
When NVIDIA launched the GTX 980 and GTX 970 last month, it shocked the discrete graphics world. The GTX 970 in particular was an amazing performer and undercut the price of the Radeon R9 290 at the...
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Newegg Jumping Gun on New AMD Game Bundles: GTAV and DiRT Rally?
AMD has been pretty quiet on the bundle scene, but I think we may have had their future plans revealed to us a bit early.In case the offer gets pulled, here is a screen grab from Newegg on May 13,...
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