Guidelines for Flashing r9 290 to 290x

Hardware GPU
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Hey everyone

 

Do any1 have any guidelines for flashing this gpu and how to most likely get a flashable gpu?

 

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fXbsGK_cSE

 

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Any idea on how to most likely get a flashable gpu?

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normaly im not allowed to link to other community´s but there is an thread about it on overclock

But as far as i readed overthere are most cards  sapphire, asus and gigabyte cards failled the flash. most lucky you would get with a XFX or a Powercolor. From what ive read in that topic.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1443242/the-r9-290-290x-unlock-thread

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Thank you so much! :)
I will check it out and mayby order a xfx or powercolor then! :)

Do you prefer one of those over the other?

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:( Unfortunately only a few batches were apparently unlockable, the rest are now laser cut because AMD is being mean... I always thought unlocking extra cores and stuff was awsome even though there was no guarantees...

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i prefer the XFX over the powercolor, but its so wierd, because all those reference cards are basicly the same.

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i hear that even some of the later production models are still unlock able.

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Why can't you link to other communities? We are fairly new and small compared to [H], OCN, EVGA, and OC3D, so we don't have nearly as large or as complete of a resource bank when it comes to threads, guides, and such.