Asus 290x disappointment :(

[Screwbal]

So this is partly a gripe but also a question to others to confirm what memory is on your card.

Just yesterday my 290x finally showed up which I explicitly waited for the Asus model to be released paying more of a premium for what I would believe and had read online from some sources that it should be high end parts. Don’t get me wrong, a short round of some testing it works well but looking at the long term picture I’m saddened that Asus put Elpida memory on their BF4 launch bundle.

It may not be a big issue today but give it a bit down the road when it would be nice to push things further not having Hynix memory with its ability to overclock better and higher is a disappointment. I haven’t pushed things hard yet as its only been a few hours but everything I find online says how Hynix overclocks far better than Elpida and if I can’t overclock that well due to the memory choice Asus picked what was the point of paying the Asus premium for the GPUTweak software?

So my question to folks who have gotten their cards are which memory is installed on your card? If you don’t know you can grab a utility from here that will identify it for you.

#3 on the first post has the memory identification utility http://www.overclock.net/t/1437170/290x-voltage-control-vdroop-mods-custom-bios-thread
--Screwbal

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The ASUS 290x on newegg where ten dollars more than the other brands.

ASUS 10.00 tax for there branding not components.

I think with the Ref. 290x GPUs it is the luck of the draw man, people have been reporting the same with other 290x brands.

I am waiting for the 290x DCII with its supposed 12 layer PCB etc, ect.

[Razorjacked]

The 290X is running on a 512bit Bus so you are going to see minimal gains from overclocking the memory on this card. There is plenty of bandwidth on the memory to handle anything the GPU is able to run.

I cannot comment on why the choice but it maybe to the bus width issue of 512 vs 384. 512bit bus hasn't made an appearance since the 2900XT, so it may be a certification issue. /shrug

[cplifj]

i have an 290X with elpida and it didnt even come with BF4. the box says 290X-G-4GD5.

the card itself says 290X-4GD5. so whats up with this. the card doesnt perform well , and on top it causes black screening in BF4 which i had to buy sepperatly.

a combination that really made my year.

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What driver are you using? ^

[Dartmaul]

I had 3 290X cards total (Sapphere). Exact same models. Two of them were Elpida and one was Hynix. So it's not actually about Asus has chosen Elpida. All vendors use both ICs, so it depends on luck which card would you get.

BTW I confirm that Hynix clocks better.