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Stylo_432

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So these past few days have been hard,and i am having so mutch trouble in making a final decision on what PC i should buy.So here are the graphics cards i could buy.
First one is the R9 270 Sapphire Dual-X OC 2GB GDDR5
The second one is R9 270X Powercolor TurboDuo 2GB.Now i think with a small overclock i can easily achive the R9 270x power,because the R9 270 has better cooling,and its in the shop where i am buying about 10 EURO-s cheaper.Will it make a difference,long gaming sesions,up to 2 hours,will it stress the Powercolor coolers too mutch,because i heard that their cooling is not the best.The rest of the build :
-MOBO : B85 Gigabyte G1.Sniper B5
-CPU : i5-4440, 3.1GHz
-HDD : 'HDD SATA3 7200 1TB WD Blue WD10EZEX
-RAM : DDR3 2x4GB 1600MHz Kingston HyperX Beast CL9
 
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SU11YBEAR
Whats your PSU going to be
http://forum-en.msi.com/faq/article/power-requirements-for-graphics-cards

Comparison of the 270 and 270x (includes some info on the Sapphire Dual but nothing on the powercolor)
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r9-270-benchmark-review,3769-2.html

Main concern would be there is no guarantee that you will be able to push the 270 to a 270x frame rate, it already has a factory OC and you are talking about a difference between 900MHz and 1000MHz for the stock options (yes the sapphire has a base of 945 but that is the factory OC not the stock of the card), personally I would spend the money for a 270x since its better to pay up front for GPU then save money and have to buy new later on
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Whats your PSU going to be
http://forum-en.msi.com/faq/article/power-requirements-for-graphics-cards

Comparison of the 270 and 270x (includes some info on the Sapphire Dual but nothing on the powercolor)
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r9-270-benchmark-review,3769-2.html

Main concern would be there is no guarantee that you will be able to push the 270 to a 270x frame rate, it already has a factory OC and you are talking about a difference between 900MHz and 1000MHz for the stock options (yes the sapphire has a base of 945 but that is the factory OC not the stock of the card), personally I would spend the money for a 270x since its better to pay up front for GPU then save money and have to buy new later on
 
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