Quote Originally Posted by The Joker View Post
Take it back and get it swapped.
The GTX970 is faster than a R9 290 and on par with a R9 290X, it uses less power, produces less heat and comes with quite a bit of new tech. I would personally take the R600 knock. Also don't sell it on Carbonite, you'll get R50 and a half eaten pack of simba chips.
Listen to this man, he toys with GPUs daily. On the Carbonite front, AFAIK the market is flooded with AMD GPUs post Bitcoin mining, so the secondhand market is highly competitive. Swap it out for the 970 and enjoy the PhysX...