Late last year along with the unveil of AMD's flagship Radeon R9 290X graphics card, AMD also unveiled a lower cost offering, the Radeon R9 290, which promised only slightly lower performance at a significantly lower price.

Since then the Radeon R9 290 has been extremely popular, and due to high demand and a shortage in components, we haven't really seen any custom designed Radeon R9 290's on the market until late last January.

That said, today we'll be reviewing a the MSI Radeon R9 290 Gaming 4G, which is MSI's latest custom designed graphics card based off AMD's Radeon R9 290 GPU. Given that the Radeon R9 290 Gaming 4G is one of MSI's gaming series graphics cards, we can already expect a number of features such as MSI's Twin Frozr IV cooler, Military Class components, and a slight overclock, which are pretty standard across MSI's entire line of gaming graphics cards.