 Corsair Raptor K40 keyboard and M45 mouse are designed to provide best-in-class features and performance for gaming. Click now to learn more. Welcome to my video. This is the first R9 290X we've got that's a non-reference card about the Gigabyte Radeon R9 290X Winforce. It comes with a 1040 MHz boost clock, 4GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5 GHz. It costs $70 more than a base card. So what do you get for your $70? Well, you get this card instead. It's got a massive 6-heat pipe, triple fan Winforce cooler with their triangle cool concept, which is like a pyramid-shaped block here that redirects airflow up and then down away from the card. It has a max cooling capacity of 450 watts. And I've seen it in action at Computex. It actually does it. Okay, the card also has a 6-pin and 8-pin PCI Express power connector. It's got a slightly non-reference looking PCB. There have been some changes compared to my reference card, so I'll be interested to see how that affects overclocking and performance. And then, of course, you get all the usual AMD technology. So there's bridge-less crossfire, no crossfire connector anymore. It goes through PCI Express. There's easy iFINITY with six displays supported out of the box using a DisplayPort hub. True audio, OpenCL 2.0, PowerTune, and their new Mantle API, which is finally here and drastically reduces CPU bottlenecks. The usual stuff is included inside the box. You got a couple adapters, driver disk, etc. But what we're really interested in is the overclocking capability of this card. With AMD's latest PowerTune, performance is directly affected by the GPU temperatures. And we want to see how the R9 290X compares on air cooling with an overclocked GTX 780 Ti, now that we can keep thermals under control, and especially now that pricing is very, very similar between them. So I'll be handing this over to Luke for performance numbers. I hope you guys enjoy it. I found when overclocking this WinForce card that the overclocks are actually quite fan speed dependent. The cooler is fairly strong, but if you have the fan speed fairly low, it's still going to flush up to about 95 degrees and you don't want it up there. If you hit around 75% fan speed though, you can keep the temperature down quite effectively and hit much higher core clocks and get some really impressive benchmarks out of this thing. It smashed the reference 290X, which was really nice to see. I'm happy to see these aftermarket coolers, and I'm happy to see them wreck the reference cards. Comment on the video down below if you're interested in reference cards and maybe post on the forum. You'll get more interaction that way. As always, subscribe to LinusTechTips and for you Star Citizen fans out there, we have an official Star Citizen team now. So if you go to the PC gaming section of the forum, be sure to sign up as we're expecting great things from that team. We're currently in the 16th position for like biggest teams and we want to get up there more to the top 10. So I'll see you there.