Thanks for your input.
Yes, Fury seem to be great. I am getting Fury Nano as soon as they are available.
How much are you getting at xpool? It is not on
poolpicker, so hard to compare with others:

I know that there are many nicehash miners and nicehash paid 0.00032930 per MHs. You mentioned that you have 6.1 mhs. So you'd get 0.00200873 BTC (0.00032930 x 6.1) for 2015-07-27.
I'm using 2015-07-27, because that's the last published date of nicehash on poolpicker.eu.
dashminer.com paid 0.003644 BTC per 100% on that day. With your "strange" settings of "64%" you'd be getting around 0.00233216, which is 16% more than nicehash.
But as I mentioned before, if you are looking for a "cool & quiet" mining, dashminer.com is not what you want.
If you were using full potential of your graphics card (100% of R9 290), then you'd get a 0.003644 BTC payout, which is 81% more than on nicehash with 6.1 mhs.
Something like this...
PS: There is example.bat in dashminer package. What happens if you don't use your .conf file and just run from command line? I would not recommend setting gpu-threads to 4. "1" (default) is a good value for R9 290.
Thanks