Thursday, October 3rd 2013
Radeon R9 290X Priced at $729.99 on Newegg.com
US retailer Newegg.com leaked pricing of its reference design Radeon R9 290X graphics cards. An MSI-branded reference-design card got its own store page with its pricing redacted, but Newegg did a sloppy job at that. On close inspection of the HTML code of the page, we discovered the pricing value intended for that page to be US $729.99 (excl. taxes). Given that Newegg.com tends to add $10 to $30 on MSRP, pricing of the R9 290X is likely to have been set at $699 (excl. taxes).
126 Comments on Radeon R9 290X Priced at $729.99 on Newegg.com
"Special Edition" would mean the key and in most instances it a new title that is soon releasing and has an retail holder and disc all packaged in Special Graphics box. In the packaging comes other things like a BF4 sticker, caffine drink holder, and custom doorstop.
Bundle is just a normal packaged card from any AIB that then when the Etailer boxes it to ship they include a card with a code for a game download that alread been released.
But how can we figure out what in that box before buying :banghead:
Wow, if there was ever a definition of opposites... Quad $600+ cards to one midrange...:confused:
I'll wait for GTX 780 TI,because it will be cheaper and probably beats R9-290X :nutkick:.
What i meant earth is see how the 770 Ti performs then grab 3 of them :toast:
Having 0 balance on my newegg preferred account is burning a hole in my pocket
Maybe, maybe just a temporary cut and paste.
But let me not halt the over-reaction-fest.
Look at EVGA signature editions - they're mildly special - tee-shirts, other pish and a ridiculously mild overclock. What's this got? Nobody knows. It's all rather silly.Exactly.
If AMD PR had half a brain they'd have said at their PR release in Hawaii that the preorder comes with a signed shoe, a bottle of sherry and a pez dispenser in the shape of Lionel Hutz. But they didn't.
As far as things look from all information available to prospective buyers you get nothing limited at all. And if we want to go down the path of limited availability of the card well hell, it's a wood screw event.
And I'm not saying the card is bad - I actually like it and am very keen to see it's parlour tricks. I'm just absolutely unimpressed by the pre-launch, pre-sales, pre-order hoopla. Frankly, it's weak, really weak.
Hell if you read the live blogs from techies attending the event, they were all commenting on how 'meh' it was.
(Cheapest currently on Newegg $625)
I was kinda hoping for the 270x or whatever to be a nice step up from Tahiti LE and come with BF4 in the regular game bundle...fat chance I know!
Thing is I haven't had an Ati card since my X800GTO died so many years ago but am really wanting to build an AMD rig and see what all this Mantle and True audio talk is about, however, I don't want to pay over $700 if I can get the full BF4 SP experience by waiting a couple weeks for the regular priced "non limited ed." version of this card.
Can anyone confirm vanilla BF4 is part of the never settle bundle? If it is I'll wait till December for the mantle patch to be released to get the 290X :)
Speaking of stock... looks like the claims that AMD is holding to reference boards only for R9 290X is BS...
wccftech.com/amd-radeon-r9-290x-listed-newegg-72999-asus-r9-290x-directcu-ii-top-spotted/
DirectCU II Top version on the way... hope it's double-slot only... The R9 280X MATRIX isn't...
At least please, you really don't need to follow NVIDIA's rediculous pricing :banghead:
The 290X should be compared to the 780 and priced accordingly. I think that anything over 650$ for the retail card is just greed on AMD's side unless the 290x really stands out vs the 780.