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Crossfiring Sapphire 7970 OC edition, $450 budget

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January 13, 2014 7:57:26 PM

Hello all!

I'm looking for some ideas on what to pair with my existing 7970 Sapphire OC edition video card.

My budget is ~$450 CAD. The purpose of the upgrade is for gaming.

My system is as follows:
1000w gold OCZ power supply
Intel 3570K
16 GB corsair 1600 RAM
Corsair 600T case
240 GB Vertex 3
ASUS Rock Extreme6

My aim is to run Star Citizen on maxed out graphics (if possible) with decent framerates - I'm hoping for 50+ FPS.

The cards I've looked at are as follows:

Sapphire R9 280x 870mhz 3g 6000mhz $349 CAD
http://products.ncix.com/detail/sapphire-radeon-r9-280x...

Sapphire R9 280x Tri-X 1100mhz 3gb 6000mhz $399 CAD
http://products.ncix.com/detail/sapphire-radeon-tri-x-r...

Gigabyte R9 280x 1100mhz 3gb 6 ghz $399 CAD
http://products.ncix.com/detail/gigabyte-radeon-r9-280x...

ASUS R9 280x 1070mhz 3gb 6.4 ghz $399 CAD
http://products.ncix.com/detail/asus-radeon-r9-280x-oc-...

XFX R9 280x 1000mhz 3gb 6ghz $399 CAD
http://products.ncix.com/detail/xfx-radeon-hd-r9-280x-1...

Powercolor R9 280x 1030mhz 3gb 6ghz $399 CAD
http://products.ncix.com/detail/powercolor-radeon-r9-28...

Now - here's the big question - is it worthwhile going with one of the $400 cards, or with the $350 Sapphire card? If the answer is yes, which one? Historically I've gone with a Sapphire card, because I've had excellent experiences with the quality of their product. I've also had good experience with ASUS and Gigabyte (non-graphics related products).


Which card would you all recommend? Am I barking up the wrong tree altogether?

Thanks for any input!

Edit - edited to clarify the different products so people don't have to go to an external site.

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January 13, 2014 8:59:54 PM

go with what card matches your current one the best as far as clock speeds. These cards are suppose to run the same so the closer they at before the better they run together. I'd go with asus or sapphire if I were you. Nothing wrong with gigabyte, but their windforce cooler seems to under perform for a 3 fan set up when there are 2 fan set ups doing better than it.
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