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October 19, 2013 12:40:04 PM

What's the difference between MSI, Asus, XFX, Gigabyte, and Sapphire?

Which one should I buy for the 280x?

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October 19, 2013 12:46:35 PM

1. Asus
2. Sapphire
3. XFX
4. MSI
5. Gigabyte

They all give similar performance but Asus, Sapphire and XFX are always the most solid choices from many perspectives.
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October 19, 2013 12:46:36 PM

Sapphire has the best overall build quality and some of the best cooling on the market. In just about anything AMD go for sapphire. The Toxic looks like a good buy, that or the Vapor-X
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October 19, 2013 2:32:07 PM

Asus, great OCing, great cooling, quality components, think NewEgg has already sold out of the CU and the Matrix twice - they're going fast
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October 19, 2013 2:50:08 PM

XxKINGxX40 said:
What's the difference between MSI, Asus, XFX, Gigabyte, and Sapphire?

Which one should I buy for the 280x?


The Sapphire R9 280X Toxic, the best by far, and not to mention you can clock it above and beyond the great factory oc, by another 10%, which will make it as fast as a 780, that costs twice as much.

But most important... IT LOOKS DAMN SEXY!
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October 19, 2013 6:19:18 PM

Hey guys, if I get 2 Sapphire R9 280x Toxic or Vapor-x, will my Corsair RM 750 support them? Or do I just get 2 of the normal Sapphire R9 280x ?
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October 19, 2013 6:42:34 PM

Nop, you need a 1000W PSU for Toxic 280x Crossfire
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October 19, 2013 7:05:14 PM

Yes, you will be fine, Alex Leyzar is a troll so don't listen to him.
XxKINGxX40 said:
Hey guys, if I get 2 Sapphire R9 280x Toxic or Vapor-x, will my Corsair RM 750 support them? Or do I just get 2 of the normal Sapphire R9 280x ?


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October 19, 2013 7:44:23 PM

I'd want 800-850Watt
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October 20, 2013 9:57:14 AM

The problem with those sites is that they give way too much watts to avoid bad PSU(s). I'm having a hard time explaining this but a cheap 1000w PSU gives out the same power as quality 750w PSU.
Alex Leyzar said:
Im not trolling anything at all, i was quoting what Sapphire says.
Here is a link for you.
http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1...
You do w/e you want.


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October 20, 2013 10:01:20 AM

I would go for any of these PSUs. @Alex, that was a typo, heck, AMD had shown dual 7970GHz(s) in their "Fixer 2" videos running on an AX860.
XFX ProSeries 850W, Corsair HX850, Corsair RM850, CM V800, Corsair AX860, Corsair AX860i and Seasonic X850-KM3.
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October 22, 2013 12:17:18 PM

asalikus said:
The problem with those sites is that they give way too much watts to avoid bad PSU(s). I'm having a hard time explaining this but a cheap 1000w PSU gives out the same power as quality 750w PSU.
Alex Leyzar said:
Im not trolling anything at all, i was quoting what Sapphire says.
Here is a link for you.
http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1...
You do w/e you want.




Hey right now I have 1 Radeon R9 280x. I was planning to buy another one in around a year to make it crossfire. But, i was also thinking about buying the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO and OCing my AMD FX 8350. If I do that, will my PSU have enough power to run another R9 280x?
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October 22, 2013 3:39:28 PM

XxKINGxX40 said:
asalikus said:
The problem with those sites is that they give way too much watts to avoid bad PSU(s). I'm having a hard time explaining this but a cheap 1000w PSU gives out the same power as quality 750w PSU.
Alex Leyzar said:
Im not trolling anything at all, i was quoting what Sapphire says.
Here is a link for you.
http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1...
You do w/e you want.




Hey right now I have 1 Radeon R9 280x. I was planning to buy another one in around a year to make it crossfire. But, i was also thinking about buying the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO and OCing my AMD FX 8350. If I do that, will my PSU have enough power to run another R9 280x?

It will likely have enough, go to 4.4 and you are good.
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October 22, 2013 3:41:29 PM

The Q6660 Inside said:
XxKINGxX40 said:
asalikus said:
The problem with those sites is that they give way too much watts to avoid bad PSU(s). I'm having a hard time explaining this but a cheap 1000w PSU gives out the same power as quality 750w PSU.
Alex Leyzar said:
Im not trolling anything at all, i was quoting what Sapphire says.
Here is a link for you.
http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1...
You do w/e you want.




Hey right now I have 1 Radeon R9 280x. I was planning to buy another one in around a year to make it crossfire. But, i was also thinking about buying the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO and OCing my AMD FX 8350. If I do that, will my PSU have enough power to run another R9 280x?

It will likely have enough, go to 4.4 and you are good.


Thanks! :D 
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October 22, 2013 6:50:20 PM

XxKINGxX40 said:
The Q6660 Inside said:
XxKINGxX40 said:
asalikus said:
The problem with those sites is that they give way too much watts to avoid bad PSU(s). I'm having a hard time explaining this but a cheap 1000w PSU gives out the same power as quality 750w PSU.
Alex Leyzar said:
Im not trolling anything at all, i was quoting what Sapphire says.
Here is a link for you.
http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1...
You do w/e you want.




Hey right now I have 1 Radeon R9 280x. I was planning to buy another one in around a year to make it crossfire. But, i was also thinking about buying the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO and OCing my AMD FX 8350. If I do that, will my PSU have enough power to run another R9 280x?

It will likely have enough, go to 4.4 and you are good.


Thanks! :D 

No problem ;) 
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April 4, 2014 1:16:48 AM

i wanted to buy gpu, sapphire dual x r9 280 x,, or xfx r9 280x(regular edition, black edition not available in india) fits in my budget.. which one should I go for?. as vapor and toxic doesn't fit in my budget .
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