How To - X99 mATX Gaming Rig - Part 2
Published by Luca Rocchi on 16.04.15Page:
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| For our system we chose to use an AMD high-end graphics card, the flagship R9 290X. In this case, we used the custom from Club3D's
top offer, the R9 290X royalAce. The market currently features plenty of models based on reference or custom design,
and for a high-end system, which is designed to be quiet, cool and fast, we preferred to choose a custom graphics card. The R9 290X royalAce uses a rather large CoolStream 2.5 cooler which comes wtih three 80 mm fans. While the graphics card measures at 308mm in length, it fits perfectly in our small Antec PC case. In order to ensure greater stability and solidity, Club3D used a matte black backplate of excellent quality on this model. As we mentioned previously, the cooling of a graphics card is one of the main points that you have to keep in mind when you have to choose the right model, and in addition to the three fans, Club3D also uses four copper heatpipes which are in direct in contact with the aluminum fins on the heatsink. Even the GDDR5 memory is cooled by a passive heatsink placed directly on the chips. The R9 290X graphics card is based on AMD's 28nm Hawaii GPU with a core clock set to 1'050 MHz on GPU and 1'350 MHz (5,400 MHz effective) on memory. The reference card has a maximum clock of 1'000 MHz for the GPU and 1'250 MHz for the memory. With these frequencies and the massive heatsink we believe it is possible to get an excellent gaming experience, even at high detail settings. To feed this graphics you won't need a huge PSU, however, a good power supply is always one of the most important parts of any system and you should consider a high-end solution with a good certification. The bundle of the graphics card also includes a few video and power adapters, and when it comes to R9 290X, you will need one 6-pin and one 8-pin PCI-Express power connector on your PSU. As far as the outputs are concerned, you get 2x Dual-Link DVI-D, one HDMI 1.4a and one DisplayPort 1.2 output. |
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| Page 1 - Introduction | Page 4 - Memory and CPU |
| Page 2 - Solid State Drives | Page 5 - Graphics card |
| Page 3 - Motherboard | Page 6 - Conclusion |
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