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hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with a review of the new AMD Radeon r9 290 so this gives you a ridiculous amount of performance for $400 so let's take a look the r9 290 reference design is entirely unchanged from its bigger brother which means that while it looks nice it really can't compete with more open coolers you still have dual BIOS onboard but instead of having quiet an uber modes the 290 runs the fan at 47% basically splitting the difference it's a loud card however you can adjust the fan speed down if you're willing to give up a bit of performance physically it's identical to the 290x with dual DVI HDMI and DisplayPort and 8 plus 6 pin PCI II power connectors it's also based on the same Hawaii GPU that's been slightly cut down with 2560 stream processors compared to 2,816 max clock speeds of 947 megahertz versus one gigahertz in the same four gigabytes of gddr5 vram that's very nice to have on a $400 card especially for gaming and high resolutions like 4k AMD is really pushing the card right out of the box so don't expect to get much more by overclocking by default power tune will run the car right up to 95 degrees Celsius before throttling which they insist is safe but you can lower the max temperature if you'd like you also get all the new features from the 290x including crossfire without a bridge you get mantle as well as true audio support however the real kicker with this card is the ridiculous performance you AMV definitely isn't pulling any punches with the r9 290 for $400 you get a card that outperforms the GTX 780 and sometimes even the r9 290x however it does that at the expense of being a very loud and a very hot card at the price there's no beating this card as long as you're willing to deal with the higher temperatures and noise level so what do you guys think would you pick up an AR 92 94 your next build definitely be sure to let me know in the comments below anyway thanks so much for watching if you enjoyed definitely be sure to subscribe to the channel so you're always kept up to date with the latest and greatest anyway I will catch you guys next time