Review for user Stormside from Rauelius

  • Rauelius (21)

    Purchased XFX AMD Radeon R9-290.

    Rauelius was the Seller on December 3, 2018 HardForum

    Stormside was offering the card at a very fair price. From what I could tell, they blew out what dust he could on the card (it's like 5 years old at this point, dust is expected),fans looks great but like I said, it's a 5 year old card. Took it apart and found everything mint. Capacitors, memory modules and the HSF itself was definitely blown very well as I didn't have to clean it too much. The rest of the card though...needed love. Which I gave it. Also XFX really did a crummy job polishing the HSF on this, but I polished it to a mirror finish and cleaned up the card. Interesting note, the shroud said "R9-290x" on a sticker underneath, I may try to unlock it in the future.

    Put this card together with an i5 4670 and 16GB of RAM. Runs nice and cool and pretty darn quiet. Stormside definitely took good care of this card, as far as one can go without dismantling it at least, and it shows.

    Communication on [H] was very good. I appreciated that Stormside responded to my simple request, where I just put my Zip and a link to the posting. I was busy and didn't have time to put much thought, but it was understood, which is appreciated. After payment and shipping was agreed upon, I was kept me posted on the status and provided a tracking number.

    The box was in great shape, and came with all the accessories that a new card would come with. I can tell this was taken care of, it's good to see this level of passion in a fellow tech enthusiast.

    I would definitely do business with Stormside again, an asset to the community.

    December 7, 2018