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The last time Intel released an exciting new product was in 2008 with Bloomfield, everything else until now has just been poor incremental increase in performance. I sincerely hope Amd will force them to step up their game because it's getting pretty boring. I would have never guessed that 8...

I'm in! Praise the sun for an awesome giveaway!

You will be fine. I have been gaming at 1440p with a single 290x, an old i7 920 and 6gb ram for quite a while now. Ultra settings and 60fps for most games (some may require to lower shadows and lighting a notch, which is barely noticeable). You wont go back to 1080p!

Make sure the power limit is set at +50% on the gpu. The 290x like to throttle and underclock when it reach a certain power usage. Mine used to throttle a lot on a batch of drivers where the power limit feature was broken (water cooled at 40c). Use a quick benchmark like furmark and gpuz to log...

I play nearly everything maxed out at 1440p with the old i7-920 and a single 290 flashed to X and 6gb of ram. Processors are overated...

This driver finally resolve the throttling problem i had with my 290x! The power limiter now work properly.

One of the best water block (if not THE best) out there along with the Watercool Heatkiller 3.0. I have the older Ek Supreme and the temps are very good.

Exactly, PCI-E 3.0 only make sense with a 3 gpu setup where the lanes would be shared between the cards e.g. (16x-8x-8x or 16x-8x-4x)...

I get 10 more fps in BF4 but it screw up my mouse cursor in the menus and map. The cursor become offset by about 1 inch to the right of where it is actually clicking... back to DX11 for now...

When using Mantle, my mouse cursor become offset by about one inch to the right from where it is actually clicking in every menu and map. Pretty annoying! I get 10 bonus fps average using Mantle on 1440p everything maxed out but im back to DX11. Crashing is back in force since the new patch...

Since i installed the the 14.1 drivers, my water cooled 290x throttle down to a steady 840-850mhz in Furmark benchmark only. Never happened with previous drivers. Tried with and without Afterburner, it look like the power limit feature is not working at all since the further i push the clocks...

A real upgrade would be a higher resolution monitor to use all those wasted fps. No point in upgrading if your GPU can max out all games at 100+ fps, 1920x1080 is old gen. ;)

Why not a nice 27" 1440p Asus? You have more than enough Gpu power.

Unless you find a really good price on this 7990, a set of 290's would give you more fps for your money.

Geforce 2 mx400 Radeon 9550 Powercolor x1800xt volt mod +water Sapphire Hd3870 volt mod +water His Hd4870 volt mod +water , tried in crossfire, wasn't impressed... Sapphire Hd6870 Powercolor Hd7870 Tahiti LE +water 35c @1200mhz... The old D-tek Fusion gpu block rock and still stand the test of...