To overclock today, we used the dedicated overclocking tools within the latest version of AMD’s Catalyst Control Center.
We managed to get the card stable to 1,100mhz, an additional 5.7% core overclock on the ‘out of the box speeds'. Increasing the power limit settings past 30% did not reap any further reward. The GDDR5 memory had a little extra headroom, hitting 1,319mhz before artifacting would occur.
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I have the Gigabyte R9 290OC 4G Windforce Ed. And all i can say is… Damn it’s Awesome! It’s awesome in anything! And i don’t regret buying this little monster. Am i gonna give 6 star for this card.