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Which is the best r9 270x for the price?

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December 14, 2013 7:09:26 AM
a c 1418 U Graphics card
December 14, 2013 7:47:14 AM

That is easy, the cheapest one and overclock it to the speed of the fastest one! You only list good brands.
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December 14, 2013 8:00:48 AM

rolli59 said:
That is easy, the cheapest one and overclock it to the speed of the fastest one! You only list good brands.


Actually i thought about that, but i don't want to overclock because:
1. it will run much hotter, that's why the cards with better coolers are more overclocked and are more expensive
2. i will lose my warranty

The real question is: Is it worth the extra money for the more overclocked/ better cooled ones?
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a b U Graphics card
December 14, 2013 8:08:48 AM

I bought the toxic one with a bit discount. It is running on very low temps, quiet, got backplate for protection, good components, good factory OC and when the warranty end you can OC it much further when you need more performance because the GPU has still a lot OC potential left. I would have bought the Gigabyte card instead.
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December 14, 2013 8:21:52 AM

StarBG said:
I bought the toxic one with a bit discount. It is running on very low temps, quiet, got backplate for protection, good components, good factory OC and when the warranty end you can OC it much further when you need more performance because the GPU has still a lot OC potential left. I would have bought the Gigabyte card instead.


The gigabyte one is the 2nd cheapest here, is it that good?
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December 14, 2013 8:36:23 AM

Yes it is good and Gigabyte don`t charge extra money for OC. Very good cooling, OC and the components are also good but it can be that you need to reduce fan speed with afterburner so that the card is silent too because they set the fan speed to high. Also there is no backplate to protect the backside of the card and the OC potential is less compared to the toxic or devil version but the card is good.
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a c 1418 U Graphics card
December 14, 2013 8:39:26 AM

Yes the Gigabyte one is good and is with the faster cards.
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December 14, 2013 8:57:46 AM

I read in more places that the msi hawk is the best 270x out there and the Gaming 2G is also good. I also read that the vapor-x one is loud and doesn't perform as well. Are these true?
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a b U Graphics card
December 14, 2013 9:21:27 AM

MSI cooling systems are not good, the hawk has good OC but is not the fastest one. Performance depends on higher core clock and memory clock. The powercolor devil has the highest core clock but memory clock is not clocked and the sapphire toxic has also the memory clocked and it is a lot faster. The Vapor X is not loud and has performance like the MSI hawk and you can change the fanspeed of almost all cards and make them without noise except the MSI cards because their cooling system is not good enough and the temperature would get too high.

Name normal clock boost clock memory clock

Gigabyte WindForce 3X OC 1.050 MHz 1.100 MHz 2.800 MHz 2.048 MB GDDR5
MSI Twin Frozr Gaming 2G 1.030 MHz 1.120 MHz 2.800 MHz 2.048 MB GDDR5
PowerColor Devil 1.150 MHz 1.180 MHz 2.800 MHz 2.048 MB GDDR5
Sapphire Toxic 1.100 MHz 1.150 MHz 3.000 MHz 2.048 MB GDDR5
Sapphire Vapor-X 1.050 MHz 1.100 MHz 2.900 MHz 2.048 MB GDDR5
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a b U Graphics card
December 14, 2013 10:03:28 AM

It wont give much performance boost and you will have to use the same GPU with 4GB for crossfire and that much VRAM is not needed for 1 monitor.
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a c 1418 U Graphics card
December 14, 2013 10:09:45 AM

The card will run out of processing power before running out of Vram with 2GB installed.
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December 14, 2013 12:28:37 PM

rolli59 said:
The card will run out of processing power before running out of Vram with 2GB installed.


Future games will need more than 2gb even on single monitor setups.
Take Battlefield 4 for example. It needs 2.2 gigs of vram on 1080p Ultra. So future games like like Watch Dogs will need more than 2gb for sure.
But this depends, if two 270x's would even run BF4 on Ultra 1080p. I'm not sure, would they?
If no, 2gb is enough.
But if yes, then i dunno if 4 or 2 gigs would be the best...
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December 14, 2013 12:32:36 PM

They will run on Ultra but single will not but battlefield does fine with 2GB like proven over and over again with the GTX770 2GB that beats the HD7970 with its 3GB. What I am saying is that the card has to have the horsepower to use it and that happens a level up from the 270X.
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December 14, 2013 12:56:11 PM

rolli59 said:
They will run on Ultra but single will not but battlefield does fine with 2GB like proven over and over again with the GTX770 2GB that beats the HD7970 with its 3GB. What I am saying is that the card has to have the horsepower to use it and that happens a level up from the 270X.


Ok then, I hope you'll be right :) 

And a last question: Will two 270x's in crossfire be efficient? On what level will they perform (roughly)? Will they be better than for example a single r9 280x or a gtx 770?
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a b U Graphics card
December 14, 2013 1:00:03 PM

It is better to get a single card for performance and price, 2x of r9 270x should perform better than a single r9 280x but you can invest in one better single card for the price of two r9 270x.
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December 15, 2013 11:28:52 AM

StarBG said:
It is better to get a single card for performance and price, 2x of r9 270x should perform better than a single r9 280x but you can invest in one better single card for the price of two r9 270x.


I know that :)  But I said I will buy one r9 270x and later i MIGHT add another one.
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December 15, 2013 11:33:05 AM

rolli59 said:
Yes they will beat a single GTX770 or 280X. A single card has about 75% of the performance of the 280X http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/R9_280X_Gaming/2... and you should get at minimum 50% boost with CF.


I found this http://www.reviewstudio.net/868-amd-radeon-r9-270x-cros... and it clearly looks like the r9 270x crossfire setup matches a GTX 780, which is very impressive! It simply beats the s*** out of the r9 280x and gtx 770.
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December 15, 2013 10:08:01 PM

Makkfej said:
rolli59 said:
Yes they will beat a single GTX770 or 280X. A single card has about 75% of the performance of the 280X http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/R9_280X_Gaming/2... and you should get at minimum 50% boost with CF.


I found this http://www.reviewstudio.net/868-amd-radeon-r9-270x-cros... and it clearly looks like the r9 270x crossfire setup matches a GTX 780, which is very impressive! It simply beats the s*** out of the r9 280x and gtx 770.

Yep!
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December 16, 2013 5:02:52 AM

Thanks for all your help StarBG and rolli59 but unfortunately i can choose only one best solution.
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April 27, 2014 8:21:39 AM

actually that doesn't always work for example the toxic and the devil the toxic has higher memory clock speed btut he devil has higher rendering speeds so the devil could be over clock to be as good as the toxic but the devil would be better bc of the rendering all cards have advantages and disadvantages.

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