• iyute@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    The 290X wasn’t that impressive at launch. Ran hot and wasn’t cheap enough to be a good value.

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      1 year ago

      What are you talking about man it was on par if not faster than the first Titan…

      • jk47_99@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        Tom’s literally called it the “Titan killer”. Yes the reference cooler ran hot and sounded like a hair dryer, but the price to performance was amazing. And the AIB cards had some great models, like the Sapphire Toxic.

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      1 year ago

      it was faster than the 780 and literally $250 less than the MSRP of the 780 and the 780ti wouldn’t come out for quite a while

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      1 year ago

      I feel it still deserves a spot on the list. Also the heat issues were mostly addressed with Sapphire’s coolers for example. Just seems highly critical to write it off, at least to me.