Question 1

What is the minimum power supply required?
The R9 290 requires a minimum of 500W PSU, I'm assuming that the 290X requires a little more.

Accepted Answer

I'm using two 290x cards in a mining rig with a Seasonic platinum 850W PSU with no problems.

Question 2

What is the core clock rate?

Accepted Answer

See greater detail below: core clock 1000 MHz.
The item can be overclocked.

Graphics Card Manufacturer	Built by AMD
Graphics Chipset	AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Device ID	67B0
Vendor ID	1002
Subsystem ID	0B00
Subsystem Vendor ID	1002
Graphics Bus Capability	PCI Express 2.0
Maximum Bus Setting	PCI Express 2.0 x16
BIOS Version	015.039.000.006
BIOS Part Number	113-C6710100-101
BIOS Date	2013/09/30
Memory Size	4096 MB
Memory Type	GDDR5
Core Clock in MHz	1000 MHz
Memory Clock in MHz	1250 MHz
Total Memory Bandwidth in GByte/s	320.0 GByte/s

Question 3

will this card last beyond 6 months everyone is saying that this card will die in 6 months?

Accepted Answer

no

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