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  • smunter6 - Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - link

    Ironic side note: this is cheaper than any open air cooled 290 on the market.
  • iamkyle - Thursday, January 9, 2014 - link

    And just like that, they are out of stock. Gotta love those BTC miners!
  • wbensky - Thursday, January 9, 2014 - link

    *LTC
  • makerofthegames - Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - link

    I'm surprised they kept the normal 2-slot width and air vents on this. It looks like the unit is thin enough that it could have been a single-slot card if they sacrificed the second DVI port. And the air vent seems unnecessary - it might even marginally worsen cooling of the rest of the system by letting air in/out where it shouldn't.
  • Flunk - Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - link

    Queue the dremel, or if you lack class like I do, a hacksaw.
  • BrightCandle - Thursday, January 9, 2014 - link

    It might look like it could be single slot but because of the barbs the card will almost certainly need that second slot in one of the two directions at least. You might be able to have it only take up one slot in the usual direction (down), but it requires the barbs to come out the backside above the CPU. In Crossfire its more typical to have one barb come out on the CPU side and have an extender come out from the card to the next card and finally have the last bit of water come out the bottom. The extender needs the space of a card slot to be workable with and the last card has water being expelled at the bottom so the barb and tubing is taking up the second slot as well.

    Equally important is you don't want to loose a DVI slot.
  • ZeDestructor - Thursday, January 9, 2014 - link

    I'd happily lose the DVI slot (displayport ftw!), and the barbs aren't a fuss: as long as there's enough clearance to fit in a normal PCIe card (I have a network card and a sound card in my PC, and a RAIDcard is in the wings. All in all, for a two card setup, my machine is already completely full, and I have to use a PCIe extender to fit any more.

    I'm not saying remove it for everyone, just give us a removable DVI port (via a ribbon cable or something).
  • madmilk - Thursday, January 9, 2014 - link

    Given that air-cooled R9 290s are still over $500... this is quite a steal.
  • AndrewJacksonZA - Thursday, January 9, 2014 - link

    This looks fantastic. I would not mind this card at all.

    Does anyone know if they have a 290X in mind?
  • superart2 - Monday, February 10, 2014 - link

    woot!!.

    Just managed to snag one of these bad boys. Came out to just under $600 with tax and shipping.

    They were scheduled to start selling these at 10:00amCST. They BuyIt button showed up at 10:15, and they were all sold out before 10:30.

    Lucky me :-D !!

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