The AMD R9 295X2 In 2020 - How Well Does This Liquid Cooled Dual GPU BEAST Hold Up?

[@ZacturaTV]

I too hate it when I go on a business trip and accidentally bring my AMD R9 295X2.

[@MrAnugrah123]

relatable

[@0divide136]

ah yes

[@roosterbooster6238]

What business are you in as that case is surely only used by bond villains, diamond smugglers or to carry nuclear weapons 😬😬

[@rayirth.upside-down]

@@roosterbooster6238 he is a diamond smuggler who gives the gpu to the police officers as bribe who catch them

[@alexmaldonado2804]

Same, happens to me all the time >:(

[@Kikike654]

Future video: The Nvidia RTX 3090 in 2030 - The best budget option

[@KhoaTran0720]

The RTX 3090 will be considered a low end card by 2030, it will probably become a budget card in 2023-2024

[@amanfern]

@@KhoaTran0720 nope more like 2025 or 2026 because its a flagship, even flagship cards from 3 years ago aren't considered budget. Like the 1080ti for example.

[@TheFraps1]

@@KhoaTran0720 with how technology progress seems to be going, i bet the 3090 will still be considered very powerful in 2024 and far from a simple budget card, just like how the 1080 is still a 1080p60 and High/Ultra graphics capable GPU 4 years later

[@rashidhumine]

@@TheFraps1 Its only holding on because Games have been Holding back as 2013 Consoles such as the Ps4/XOne exist and all games that have been made works on those Consoles, if Devs truly made games Specifically for the RTX 3090 for example even the Ps5/Xbox Series X wouldn't be able to handle the Levels of fidelity that the RTX 3090 could do, its sad because we never truly see the capabilities of GPU's as Consoles exist.

[@lordof7seas]

@@TheFraps1 they will try to sell 8K and fully raytraced games next-gen, 3090 will lag then. 3090 will be the 4K60 card.

[@kurfurst6465]

The Vesuvius codename is very fitting for this card

[@spawnkeeper999]

Thats the band name from the movie " The Rocker 😂😂😂

[@jayr5970]

Well someone don't know about the infamous volcano 🌋🤣🤣

[@spawnkeeper999]

@@jayr5970 Lamooooo

[@twizz420]

@@spawnkeeper999 smh

[@a7o50]

"Hardware previously unboxed" should be the name of this channel

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Haha yeah that’s good

[@gamtax]

Blue themed for a better fit.

[@thealien_ali3382]

@@RandomGaminginHD I love u x

[@roosterbooster6238]

Brilliant 🥳

[@dan665_]

I remember thinking this GPU was the coolest thing ever back in middle school.

[@yasu_red]

It isn't?

[@shatiquego9876]

To be honest this card gives most new cards a run for their money in terms of looks

[@Dondolini94]

I mean, looks like it can trade blows and win against a card like my 1070ti.. The stoppage of dual cards support was a huge letdown for me

[@Xenoray1]

exactly the same!

[@WhiteTree97]

I was in high school when this was released. I knew it was shit even back then

[@zWORMzGaming]

Brave Steve attacks the 295x2! I can only imagine the nightmares... I had my fair share with the GTX 690 and people say crossfire is even worse... The 295x2 sure is beautiful, but I think I'll pass on this one 😅 Great video as always!

[@bb2ridder757]

Man I still love my gtx 690’s sadly 1 is semi broken but the other one still works fine. It is always fun to come across a new game with sli support.

[@imender9219]

@@bb2ridder757 what's wrong with the semi broken one?

[@Doughnuts-ph4cc]

Hey Kripsy!

[@dodgydruid]

I was always wanting a 690, even if it was just for the beast look it has and still a pokey old thing despite it long abandoned by nVidia.

[@level8473]

EYYYYYYYYY el KRRRYYYZZZZPPPPO fancy meeting you here

[@julianmajer116]

I remember when back in the middle school this card was released, bought myself a R9 270X but R9 295X2 was my dream GPU. So happy now that I couldn't afford it

[@ducewags]

I remember back in middle school the Apple 2e had a upgrade for ram. It was the cats weow as it made power up time 2 times quicker, or just over 1 min to power on the system, the monitor took longer to heat up and turn on. Oh how times have changed.

[@MultiYippee]

I had a 270X too! Nice card

[@julianmajer116]

@@MultiYippee Yes it was decent but suddenly stopped working one day

[@freedustin]

@@julianmajer116 Weird. I'm still using mine today.

[@andrewgoss1682]

Bought a 270x in middle school as well.

[@jorus]

I know you probably won't see this comment but I watch all your videos and I would only say keep up the good work man

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Thanks :)

[@Doobie3010]

@@RandomGaminginHD Gotta admire his reverse psychology there.

[@deputybluevein93]

@@Doobie3010 Brilliantly executed to be fair

[@lainworld]

Remembered when this was my dream back in the day when I was young, talking about slotting 2 in one PC; whilst ignoring the electric bill and the imminent fire hazard. Oh how illiterate I was...

[@jakegarrett8109]

I thought about doing that. I had found 2 R9 390X2 8GB cards for $250 total, so that would be 4x 390 8GB cards for $250 and performance way above 2080ti levels in a common board with 2 16x slots. My personal build though is 4x Fury (which really only works on a Threadripper platform, which is what I have so it works great), but at one point I almost swapped them out for FIJI Pro duos (duel Fury on a PCB), but kind of pointless for gaming since Xfire only supports 4x GPU cores and not 8x (but dang those Pro DUO cards were insanely cheap!). It works great in most of my games, silky smooth 100 fps in Crysis 3 at 4k Ultra (compared to a choppy 45 fps on my Titan Xp), so its around 2x 2080ti SLI performance for just $500, but since it requires a Threadripper platform its nowhere near the value proposition of 2x duel GPU cards on a cheaper motherboard, but I use the threads so its not just gaming. Highest monthly electric bill I've ever had was under $40, so not bad, but I also don't game 24/7 (even still it would be a decade before 2x 2080ti ever paid for themselves).

[@roosterbooster6238]

@@jakegarrett8109 would you describe your pc as “furious” 😉

[@センナ-h4c]

I don't think "illiterate" suits this sentence because illiterate means not capable of of read or write

[@ghibodeus]

I used to own a 290 and a 290x. Crossfiring them has been a terrible idea in almost every circumstances, but individually those cards were awesome

[@warchant59]

My old rig still has a 295x2 in it. I love that beast. Yes it's nasty hot and Crossfire is temperamental, yes it cost way too much but it is so handsome and so cool. It served me well for just over 6 years and it went along with the theme of that build which was the absolute best AMD could muster at the time. FX 9590 Black Edition, 295x2, all water cooled and 1200 watts of power on tap. Literal space heater! I had so much fun with it despite it not being optimal in any way. Fun video!

[@ihatecommunism9958]

I know it's kind of a pain, but I wish Dual GPU's were still utilized. I'm sure it's a pain in the rump to develop games that take advantage of Dual GPU setups, so I understand why they've all but stopped doing it. Even still, it would still be awesome to see me more games that supported it.. Great video, dude!

[@vitaobatera]

Likely the card gets a lot of power from the PCI-E slot, so it doesn't work on every motherboard

[@bengraham8833]

I'm also wondering whether there's some kind of PCIe splitting going on that isn't supported on all boards

[@TheHavocInferno]

@@bengraham8833 that's exactly it. Many boards don't support PLX chips properly, which is the PCIe splitter chip on the card.

[@reik019]

Not really, it does draw the standard 75W from the slot. However, the card does break the PCIe standard and draws around 215W from each 8 pin cable (Which is only supposed to give 150W per cable), which means that you need a really good PSU to run one of them, and to run two, you will need something like a good quality crypto mining PSU that can give full power to 6x8-pin cables, they are pretty power hungry pieces of hardware.

[@FacelessVixen]

This takes me back to when I was first watching Jay and Linus and learning about PC hardware. The concept of the card was crazy to me back then and it still is now.

[@KokoroKatsura]

HUGE ANIME BREASTS

[@eclipsegst9419]

@@KokoroKatsura ahh i found the cultured section.

[@peterkolesar4020]

Exactly, I was building my first PC back then watching LTT and Techquickie and then I saw this monster of a GPU 😀 back then it looked like this is going to be a new era of graphics cards - the best chips availible, put 2/3/4 of them on a single card possibly causing a nuclear meltdown 🤣🤣

[@justinpatterson5291]

being the low tech modder that I am. I could see myself trying to build the whole computer in the box the card came with. Call it the Lyin Lee 1fiddy.

[@jakegarrett8109]

That would be sick!

[@staz3014]

I saw a briefcase gaming PC on reddit a few days ago, so i imagine that it's pretty much feasible.

[@justinpatterson5291]

@@staz3014 its definitely feasible depending on what kind of performance you're seeking. Low and mid tier builds are easy enough. Higher end stuff is harder due to the power and thermal limits.

[@pr0j3ktEv0luti0n]

Pretty crazy i got one of these in a 4770k system with alot of quality parts for 300 bucks last year, literally bought it for this card because its one of many AMD grails. She will collect dust until i ever need to use her has a backup or wanna do some era appropriate benching!

[@RC-pj1pr]

You can pair the 295x2 with another 290x to get 3-way crossfire, give that a go. You'll need a beefy PSU I remember this back in 2014, was considering buying the 295x2.

[@kjcolewelle]

Actually recently downgraded from an RX 580 to my old R9 280, bc I was getting a lot of random blue screens with the 580 (even after a lot of troubleshooting). For 1080p it’s still fine and will do 1440p VSR just nicely, thank you. Solid as a rock.

[@adwaitagnome]

I remember how much I wanted the 295X2 in 2014. The gigachad graphics card of 2014, drawing *all* the power. Seeing this has been quite nostalgic, as it was the first graphics card I *really, really* wanted. So much so that in a few sites to this day I have my username based on the 295x2.

[@TheNiteNinja19]

I wanted one as my solution for Crossfire in a Mini ITX case. Ambitious idea, but very expensive.

[@peterkolesar4020]

I had a few passwords back in the day go like: "something"295x2 😀

[@projectfreedom9510]

This was the era AMD was just using brute force on it's GPUs. I remember the 290x was just a power hog. Extremely inefficient cards compared to what it was competing with at the time. Amazing how much AMD has improved. I'm so grateful they did turn out to be the game changers.

[@danb4900]

2012-2017 were the dark days of AMD. Small market share, inefficient cards, obsolete furys, shitty ass CPUs, poor drivers and support. AMD cards only really had status for value at this time.

[@hi_tech_reptilez]

FYI there is a mod out there that allows 144hz Skyrim with zero physics issues. I was skeptical, downloaded, and have played through most of the game that way. I only mention it because it made me so happy lol. It should allow above 60fps gameplay even at 60hz, tho I haven't messed with that personally.

[@baichoc]

Man this video is very well edited, a lot better compared to the older ones, keep this quality up, I enjoyed the video.

[@rakkarok5525]

I like this card as a collector of sorts this would be a great addition to my collection. One of the oldest cards I have is the NVIDIA Winfast PX 7950 GT 256mb. This was used around 2008 and the game I was playing Combat Arms. It was a very good experience considering the 256mb V Ram. . .Great vids .Like the content.

[@boffyboydj]

You still want one in your collection ? I managed to grab one today so it's going on Ebay / Private sale

[@lflyr6287]

RandomGaiminginHD : I'm telling ya mate, AMD FINE RED WINE. The R9 200 series from 2013 was the second true DX 12 and ASYNC capable hardware....and that parallelism in its architecture helps it compensate for the slight lack of GDDR5 speed....to run modern games very well. And yeah that 512-bit memory bandwidth helps a lot indeed as a horsepower throughput :). I do myself own a Gigabyte R9 390 8GB Windoforce 2X....which I love because it plays games at 1080p Ultra easily on a modern fast IPC CPU like Ryzen 5 5600X :). And the R9 290 and R9 390 are completely equal in terms of horse power and architecture. And look where the GTX 780 3GB or the GTX 780 Ti 3GB is today....in the trash bin where it belongs due to it's limitations and very very poor aging performance.

[@mossconfig]

Hybrid gpus are great. I got a deal on one of evgas hybrids which is great

[@TheNiteNinja19]

I bought a hybrid 980ti back in the day when GPU's were all bought by cryptominers for a great deal. Its still being used in my cousin's PC to this day. Overclocked far beyond its stock clock and kept its cool, literally. At 1,512mhz on the core, it can run today's games at 2560x1080 just as well as my 5700XT at 3440x1440.

[@TigerChamp99]

I wanted to see this video real bad. Thanks for doing this video and try Cyberpunk 2077 with this GPU even though it's not officially supported.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah I definitely will, be interesting to see which future games might work, if any

[@yrrah123]

I had 2 970s in sli and I ran into rather alot of problems with games not supporting sli . I got a 2070 super in the end but i did love the look of my sli set up such a shame it's a thing of the past now. Good video man

[@effexon]

It's weird to look back at this and whoa, amd was THE powerhungry card. Now it's opposite, amd is more powerful AND power efficient card especially.

[@fatalpotatoe4741]

The R9 series is genuinely an amazing line up of GPUs, I just bought an R9 280 in 2020 for 45 quid, runs 1080p games flawlessly

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah they’ve held up really well

[@Dakhanavar99]

@@RandomGaminginHD sold this week my R9 280x matrix edition for 90€ and going to buy a R9 fury oc for 90€. 👍

[@jakegarrett8109]

@@Dakhanavar99 Haha, nice hustle and free upgrade! I have 4x Fury in my build, mind blowing fast and good price. You'll like that upgrade!

[@Dakhanavar99]

@@jakegarrett8109 i hope so mate. Since its for playing only at 1080p and fps only i think will do the job well done! 😁

[@jakegarrett8109]

@@Dakhanavar99 It should do fine for that. I will note that if you upgrade your monitor your Fury will hold onto fps well, it does much better fps scaling at higher resolutions like 1440p and 4k, (like an RX 480 will beat it at 1080p, but at 4k the Fury takes a decent lead). You'll find that Fiji is weird (like even at fixed frequencies changing voltage will change performance even when its stable), there's a lot of weird quirks to it if you get into serious overclocking with them, but otherwise leave it alone besides maybe dropping the Vcore some (it varies per card, but if you leave it stock you might start with shaving 50mV off and keep lowering until unstable and that will save some on power)

[@MrHowardMoon]

I remember the winter days with my FX 4100 lol Cold in my room? Turn my pc on and run a game haha 😂

[@Batdeeran24]

Omg the intro is so relatable! Finally someone else who always has the same problems as me

[@Chjken]

Me: Doesn’t care about pc parts Also me: wow a random GPU I won’t ever buy very interesting

[@hashbrownz1999]

I'm still mad that crossfier/SLI support died. Meant a great deal to enthusiast builders, and i always hoped to see it advance, not regress :(

[@williamorangeofjuice7804]

oh jeez the R9 firecracker... i remember buying two of these bad boys, both were doa. ended up waiting and getting a 1070. these are infamous for just straight up dieing. even more so then the msi r9 280 series... great video

[@sudh75]

i actually own one of those, bought it instead of a 980 and felt stupid when the 980 ti came out. it served me well but i upgraded to a 1080 ti about a year ago, really weird to see a video about it. cheers mate for a good video

[@tcelltech2518]

Don't have time to watch yet, but saw the title and thumbnail and had to comment. This is amazing. Your content never gets old. (Even though technically it's all YEARS old) haha

[@fgwt6126]

Motherboard has to explicitly support Crossfire even though the card itself plugs into a single physical PCIE slot. Since 2018 its been harder and harder to find games that natively support this GPU. Games that do support multi GPU / Crossfire, perform faster than you would expect - this is still an amazing GPU considering its age.

[@Glitchy24]

I'll buy that Card from you, I've wanted it just as a piece of Historical Tech and you got it with the Briefcase

[@justtrappin-vii-7207]

Didn't expect it to perform so well, to be honest. What a beast of its time

[@hellNo116]

man i remember drooling over it. back then i even wanted to have the highest wattage system i thought it was cool. now i wish i had the money to update my aging overclockable i7 to sth with more cores and less heat output. we've come a long way. in 1080p gaming the performance per watt is unreal this days compare to the distant past of 2014

[@SavageAirguns]

Hey I am still using a Core2 Extreme 6800 Quad Core.... soooo yeah. Sidenote: coupled with a Gigabyte Windforce x3 970 OC edition, I can still play anything pre 2018 at 1080p and be fine.

[@hellNo116]

@@SavageAirguns i know. i have the gtx970 as well. i am ready to change my cpu, but to be fair up to now it is powerful enough for my work. if i somehow ended up needing more it most definitely be cpu so unfortunately my devils canyon would be retired at that point. if i need more gpu to train neural networks (i am a stupid programmer) there is no way it would make sense to build such a server, nor maintaining it. so i think i will stuck with my gtx 970 till it starts showing technical issues and nor performance ones.

[@connarcomstock161]

*Raises Hand* Back in 2015 I had a pair of R9 Fury cards in Crossfire and gamed on a ( and still have ) 4k monitor. It was an absurd setup that included an 8370e @5.2Ghz under an H115i. The whole thing gulped down like 800ish watts under load and was a bloody space heater. No, really, in the summer my AC unit in my window couldn't keep up and after a few hours of gaming I'd have to stop and let the room cool back down. Oh, and most things ran like mangled ass...except when they didn't and the thing was a goddamn animal.

[@Ultravore]

I was one of the few people who played at 2160p in 2014 :) I bought a Samsung U28D590D which was one of the first true UHD monitors that came to the market. It was 600€. There have been a few others before that were really expensive and you had to drive them like 2 monitors in one device. I think it was because of limitations of the DP interface. Anyway, I did not have a R9 295X2 but I had a single R9 290X. And yeah... it was able to deliver average framerates on high settings in UHD. Was it a great gaming experience? Well UHD was very new at the time and nobody had it so I was just really impressed how sharp and crisp the games looked. And ofc watching videos or just surfing the web was amazing. Looking back at it, no it would not impress anyone nowadays. The input lag just wasn't great. It's not the worst I've ever seen but it's still kinda slow compared with a true gaming monitor. And ofc it's 60Hz only. I still have it today and it serves as a great second monitor in my setup. But I switched to a nice 1440p 165Hz IPS GSync monitor so I can enjoy my games better. I thought it might be hard to go down in resolution after experiencing 2160p but really it wasn't. 1440p really is the sweet spot for PC gaming nowadays. I noticed a slight reduction in sharpness on small text on the desktop but in games you can't see any difference with your eyes but you get a great increase in performance. tbh 1440p still is very demanding. I switched to a Geforce 1070 and later I went all in on a 2080 Ti a few months after launch but it's still not easy to drive games maxed out at 1440p. my recommendation for anyone looking for a UHD monitor is: don't do it! go for a HFR 1440p monitor instead and only if you dump a lot of money into your computer anyway. for everyone else with an average PC, stick with a HFR 1080p monitor. year sharpness isn't great but it's much more important that the games run smooth on your system.

[@SinisterPuppy]

When Vulkan/DX12 was announced and first launched I was excited for Explicit Multi-GPU support developer.nvidia.com/explicit-multi-gpu-programming-directx-12 Found some games that did implement it; but it seems to have become a forgotten part of DX12 :( Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Rise of the Tomb Raider Sniper Elite 4 Ashes of the Singularity (this one supported mixed AMD+NV gpu support) Strange Brigade Hitman (?) R9 295 is GCN 2.0 and DX12; it should give you good scaling in these games at least.

[@bmo14lax]

Man AMD makes some awesome looking cards imo.

[@bdhale34]

My niece uses my old 875k 16GB and R9 290 4G to play games and other computer tasks, still holds up amazingly well.

[@PashaGamingYT]

Talking about 2014 like this is making me feel old. And I'm not even a teenager yet

[@Packriff4922]

I'm 17

[@Packriff4922]

That makes you feel really old

[@danielmaster911ify]

Mine just stopped cooling properly recently. I got it for only $500 in 2015, so it was a steal. Decided to get a 5700xt to replace it, as I don't really think she does well these days with the lack of Crossfire. I'm glad it was my first and I'll keep it with me forever.

[@JonFlyy]

I'm surprised you have this. When this came out it was rare as hell. Incredible

[@poot111111]

The loss of SLI/Crossfire makes me very sad... Thanks for the vid!

[@aceofhearts573]

Agree. Imagine if we had sli and crossfire supported today. We could get ray tracing with two gpus and it would be amazing and improve the frame rates

[@Carnyzzle]

Great collectable, not so great for actually playing on thanks to multi gpu being basically dead

[@muggsHD]

this new mic is great, vastly improves the quality of the content. looking forward to more

[@russzdylanzz9262]

its so nice seeing all retro gpus and new gpus you reviews... but sadly I am poor guy and all I can do is just washing my eyes by watching your reviews even tho I know I cant even afford it.. :') anyway keep up the good work man! subscribed

[@adamossowicz2611]

Such a cool card! You are so lucky to have this card in the case and all!

[@njdarudedovich6126]

Your voice is so soothing that i could take a dump and sip tea at the same time while watching your interesting videos

[@gamesteamtm8429]

man is cool! testing r9 295x with not the best processor for 2020!!!!

[@Damadchef]

I still have it in my PC... Going to finally upgrade to the RX 6900xt

[@SummonerArthur]

You gotta crossfire two of these! Just buy a 2000w psu

[@RandomGaminginHD]

That would be insane

[@jakegarrett8109]

The EVGA SuperNova 1300 is what I use for 4x Fury (275w TDP each) plus a Threadripper 1950x (which uses about 465w at 4.2 Ghz all core cinebench), and that PSU was like ~$135 and worked well stress testing it. Don't get the 2000w PSUs, most of those are fake chinese spec (I don't want to talk about how many PSUs I've fried at 50-80% rated load... they weren't even cheap), plus most of those are just 2x "1000w" Chinesium rated PSUs bolted together (which you can easily do yourself and use actual quality power supplies with a $2 "Add2PSU" device or just 2 wires) I actually use 2x of these SuperNova 1300 PSUs since its a Halloween build (duel 13's), and I don't want to rewire just to be safe if I'm wanting to use dry ice or LN2 on the CPU, but even one does fine (its somewhere over 1400w on the 12v rail output, around 1,700w at the wall, but these high end PSUs have specs below what they can actually do like my HX1200i does fine at 1350w output and still hits 90% efficiency with 1500w at the wall). So get one of these when they are on sale, they can handle a lot (if you need silence in your build and not just benching get the HX1200i as it doesn't even spin the fan below 700w)

[@jordanwardle11]

Ooh and an fx9590

[@nikityukvlad]

@@jakegarrett8109 I dare to disagree, Superflower manufactures legit 1300+ w PSUs, the brand is quite reputable among hardcore enthusiasts, but they aren't cheap. Jonny Guru, the guys who mainly specialize in testing and reviewing PSUs use this same GPU to stress test PSUs, because AMD should have gone with 3x 8-pin connectors, like hey did with Radeon Pro Duo (Fiji), because R9 295x2 draws more electricity than it is designed by the standard

[@jakegarrett8109]

@@nikityukvlad I didn't mention anything about the OEM/parent company SuperFlower (other companies buy those and slap their labels on them), I'm referring to don't buy generic crap regardless of ratings (since they are fake specs). But on that subject of name brand ones avoid Rosewill (Newegg's brand, but goodness I get tired of seeing those fry and they won't replace destroyed parts like my $250 SSD that fried because one of those died and took my SSD out with it). They aren't even cheaper than Corsair or EVGA, so they should be good but they just aren't

[@GrumpyWolfTech]

I had a 290x and it was the last AMD card I used. It was an amazing card and the first time I ever tried 4k gaming. Only problem was how hot it ran.

[@dasdawfda9913]

Finally I find someone with the same problem as me, I hate it when I get to work with the R9 on my suitcase.

[@harrison00xXx]

same experience with my HD 6970 Crossfire setup. Fast AF, but not only that, also a heater and jet turbine

[@Eddian18]

I just replaced mine with a 3080ti. I will remember it fondly. Gave me 7 solid years of 1440p gaming.

[@jamesberkly7575]

I like your book collection in the background lol.

[@theenhancer]

Man this was a big dream machine at the time. Pretty much the original 4K card.

[@jetk247]

I had one for a bit, bought it before the mining craze used it for a while for VR and the occasion mining and then sold it during the GPU high mining times for double what I paid.

[@V8Power5300]

Hooking that cooling solution into a large custom loop could be very fun for overclocking

[@jonjohnson2844]

Yes I really confused airport security with this.

[@LuisHernandez-hs7uz]

Love u just got a 980 I’m exited

[@xPandamon]

Hope you didn't pay much cause that thing aged pretty badly. Draws a lot of power and the VRAM is pretty limited ^^'

[@Domstar97]

Still a great GPU for 1080p if your PSU can handle it

[@xPandamon]

@@Domstar97 Yeah, it's basically a GTX 1060 which is still enough for 1080p. It's just very powerhungry, that's all. A friend of mine got a cheap GTX 980 Ti and had to upgrade his PSU, basically paying extra just to be able to use it :D

[@LuisHernandez-hs7uz]

Well I got the founders edition for 125 pounds and my psu is a 650 watt coler master 80 plus bronze

[@80srenaissance67]

You're a diamond amongst the KZbin HB pencils ✏

[@NLTheGreater]

The 290 cards are my favorite cards AMD next to the ATI 9700Pro AGP. Great cards for their time.

[@joericorn3618]

I still game with an i7 4770 and an r7 240.

[@TheNiteNinja19]

My HTPC is a i5 2400 and a R7 250 2GB, at 1200x800, still plays games decently well. Its limit is like Farcry 5 and Ghost Recon Wildlands though. But older ones like GTA5 is like somewhere between PS3 and PS4 version quality and feel.

[@djbe7850]

My stock 290x runs at 1000mhz on the core and 1250mhz on the memory just curious as to what your clock speeds were? (I overclock mine to 1050 and 1325mhz stable)

[@andrewmanuel8424]

I really like the look of this amd r9 295x2

[@swiftlaker6]

Man I wanted to follow up about this card and was wondering if anyone would even cover it again recently, and of course I know you would!!!

[@TheNiteNinja19]

I wanted one of these for my Corsair Obsidian 250D, to make Crossfire in an Mini ITX. The Titan Z wasn't gonna fit. But I never could afford it, and glad I couldn't, since multi-GPU is pretty much dead. So I used an XFX Radeon HD 290X 8GB edition, the 8GB on a 512-bit bus back in that time was extreme overkill. But it was such a beautiful card and a powerhouse to boot.

[@karlokramaric4164]

God I love your videos, keep up the excelent work mate! :D

[@hivaidz3250]

4 adverts in a 10 minute video? Come on man we never expected this from you

[@masiosareanivdelarev562]

It's fine. The video it's free for us.

[@Quicksilver-7791]

@@masiosareanivdelarev562 i don't have a single ad, and no, I do not have adblocker

[@vaevictis2789]

I had only one ad

[@appleduck1497]

@RandomgamingHD hd I got a pc with GTX 1060 6gb with AMD FX-6100( which you made a video about) with 516gb SSD for like 290$ was it a good purchase. Btw love your vids 💗

[@KubanKevin]

Last dual GPU setup I had was twin GTX Titans. Even with games supporting it, it was a pain. SLI would turn itself off at random times and after driver updates. You’d forget to turn it back on and have your second GPU doing nothing.

[@CoreBlaze]

Do you guys remember " The Fixer " guy from AMD GPU related videos?

[@nofuxxgaming6228]

Waiting g for the top of the line agp 8x build!

[@Bushuu]

I use to have that card, I loved it and still regret selling it, however, there is a collection of bios files that will enable uefi mode for the card (I cant remember where I got them although it was a large site), you do need to flash both gpus with there corresponding file, that might help with your newer cpu, possibly?

[@Bushuu]

www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/168806/168806 I believe this file might be for the second gpu *Edit* they do not appear normally in techpowerup search, it looks like you need a direct link to the page

[@TheNiteNinja19]

I don't think the board he was using at the beginning was electrically capable of powering 2 GPU's in 8X off 1 PCI-E slot.

[@greenplant]

Suggested PSU for this 2014 card was 900 W :) . It have similar performance like GTX Titan X and GTX 980 TI and GTX1070 is 15% faster then AMD R9.295x2. But still this 6-7 year 1500$ card can play new games releases on high in 1440p is amazing. .

[@slim420-e8v]

I miss my 295x2! First true 4k gaming card I had.

[@Stewcumber]

I got all excited and thought you'd bought an Nvidia 295 (reading comprehension not being my best skill). I bought one of those for £25 and it is also a beast but let down by its lack of DX11 support :(

[@peterkolesar4020]

Legend says they tried to use 4 of these in a power plant back in '86, ended up with a nasty explosion and a bit of meltdown 😬

[@MCMinerHQ]

I got one on the EK waterblock with some deltafans on the radiators she self-turbos so high stock bios its a dream got her used and she mined etherium for years now im enjoying her on minecraft with a 75hz freesync monitor :P edit: for enough amperage on the rails u need a psu that can do 80A MINIMUM to get the full performance. I use antec 1300W at the least because they have state of the art 100A+ per PCI power rail

[@dragonsystems5973]

The problem is the lack of dual GPU support, either SLI or Crossfire... If they had continued supporting them cards like this, the 7990, or even something like say a pair of GTX 1080s in SLI would be insane gaming options, but alas, it was not meant to be

[@MrKillswitch88]

The worst of such coolers were for the powermac G5 that would leak coolant onto the cpu cards and into the psu while at least these modern units gradually dry out but fixing them can be a bit of effort.

[@davidk3850]

since about a year I own a R9 295x2, and I love it, yes it isnt the fastest, it is loud and hot, but imo its still one of the coolest Graphicscards ever .

[@TheNiteNinja19]

The geek factor alone would make it worth using.

[@Silverhelm97]

I had one of these back in the day and until the GTX1080 came out it was king. Now the card relied on crossfire support and even back then most games did not support this feature. Running with crossfire its performance was on par with a GTX1080 but without it the performance was more like a GTX970. Considering this thing came out 2 years before the GTX1080 it was quite the beast. (If the game u where playing had crossfire support.)

[@ddniUK]

Thanks for the video. Would have been good if you had shown and discussed power and heat figures from each of the games. How good is the liquid cooler?

[@GamrGalore3K]

Got a noti for an hour old video, time to subscribe. Also I’ve been waiting for this very moment so I instantly went here

[@juliendesrosiers3177]

Love my R9 fury-x does a great job still today

[@TheWongKeys]

Dang you even have the brief case? Definitly a wall piece id love to buy and put on display with my broken r9 fury and my ati gpu.

[@sandervr10]

For the look it will be a great upgrade for my gtx 1080 ftw ...its just badass looking

[@ignasanchezl]

You know I still theorize that multi GPU setups were killed to force an upgrade. In the few games that works, it works wonder and with explicit multi GPU it was incredibly promising, the example or two out there show it. You could had grabbed two $270 RX 5600 XTs and beat the RTX 3090 in games. No manufacturer wants that, they want cheap low end GPUs so they can sell more to who cant afford it and expensive high end GPUs to sell for higher margins to whoever wants the performance.

[@T_Burd_75]

If nothing else, it makes for nice backup heat for the house when the furnace craps out.

[@HotGritz910]

I was going to buy this card back then, im gald i did my research and bought a 980ti..im still gaming 1440p-1600p medium to high settings on modern games

[@Audi1Pete]

It was a great card in its time, I was plagued with driver issues though, never again will I do crossfire, I still have two of these cards bought them in 2015 cost me a fortune..

[@thelukephone]

I still have my R9 290x, and I watercooled mine as well.