Up and running on the new computer. Had some issues after we plugged more hardware in, but after pulling out what turned out to be a faulty media card bay it stopped Michael Baysploding on every reboot/powerup.
I did head over to Linux to get things setup, but to my dismay after running the latest updates mumble took a giant shite. Now whenever I Voice chat it sounds like I’m possessed by Satan’s arse. I might give Fedora 20 a go and see if it’s matured at all.
As for the R9 290 I haven’t had any black screens yet. Hopefully it stays that way.