We mounted the Fury X in superb BitFenix Phenom Mini ITX Chassis using the top fan area as an interesting placement idea.
Once installed, the Fury X hardly overhangs the mITX motherboard tray, and with the AIO cooler design, the proximity to the outer chassis door is no longer an issue, most of the hot air is exhausted out of the top of the chassis.
The XFX Radeon Fury X is a good looking card, as with all of the Fury X releases, and it compliments mITX chassis very well.
We can’t think of a nicer install using the out of the box AIO cooler and configuration.
Test Set Up
All updates to the Operating System, games and Synthetic benchmarks are assumed, and a full defragmentation on the SSD after a fresh install before any benchies are carried out. Today we are using the Release Version 15.15 AMD Catalyst drivers for all tests which are the latest WHQL drivers at the time of writing.
- Processor: Intel Core i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz
- Motherboard: MSI Z97I GAMING AC (MS-7897)
- Memory: 16GB Corsair Vengeance (PC3-19200)
- Drive: Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series 256 GB x2 RAID 0
- Audio: On-board Realtek High Definition Audio
- PSU: Thermaltake Smart SE 730W
- Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
- 2048 x 1152 60Hz Native Resolution
- Driver Version 15.15
Driver settings used for synthetic and gaming tests.
Sound Performance
We tested the sound performance at idle and during heavy load. We used a certified Db meter at 15 inches range.
The Fury X AIO cooling solution gives a very flat sound level delivery. Even during heavy benchmarking we didn’t seem to cause it any issues. We have added the Zotac GTX 980 Ti and the XFX R9 390X as a comparison.
XFX AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Graphics Card Review
Package and Bundle - 8.5
Performance - 8.5
Price - 8
Consumer Experience - 8.5
8.4
At around £550 in the UK we expected a whole lot more though. Maybe we are easily disappointed or expected too much, and the fact that our sample may have been from the B grade of stock doesn't help, but it also worries us. That's a lot of money, and if you received it in a similar condition as we did, you would send it back.