Need Help: AMD R9 280X

ToyUnleased · Aug 11, 2014

NEED HELP: AMD R9 280X --> Which brand will be good

XFX / Sapphire / Asus

Please ensure which is the best

i dont need or willing to crossfire

thanks in advance,

feel free to suggest

damric · Aug 11, 2014

Kind of hard to pass this deal up.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Video Card: HIS Radeon R9 280 3GB IceQ OC Video Card ($185.91 @ Newegg)
Total: $185.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-08-11 16:00 EDT-0400

Gaidax · Aug 11, 2014

Hardware-wise I trust Sapphire. I had 3 of their cards over the years and no issues with either.

MSI on the other hand - 2 out 3 cards I owned died.

LukaBoki · Aug 11, 2014

Definitely go for the Sapphire.They have the best coolers for AMD cards.Go with the Tri-X,you will have no problems with that one.
I have a Sapphire R9 270X Dual-X and I apsolutely love it! it is cool and quiet,just what I want.
Make sure to choose a solution of I helped.

ToyUnleased · Aug 11, 2014

actuall i can get XFX / Sapphire / Asus, so i have to make choice between them, please tell me which one will be better

LukaBoki · Aug 11, 2014

ToyUnleased :

Sapphire.

TopLuca · Aug 11, 2014

The three brands are very good , XFX is very underrated , they make very good produts. My advice that you'll barely notice a difference between the 3 of them , get what is cheaper or looks better in your case.

speely · Aug 11, 2014

Pass on the XFX if you can. It might be a bit cheaper but there's a reason.

I have two XFX 7850's, and I wish I'd done some reading about them before I purchased them. From what I understand, XFX uses cheap MOSFETs and VRM circuits, and unless they changed recently, pretty lousy cooling. My 7850's run really hot and can't even handle the suggestion that I might think about overclocking.

Granted, they don't run so hot that they have to throttle to protect themselves, but my computer is under my desk, and after a couple hours of gaming, my legs are sweaty from all the heat being dumped out under my desk.

I've never owned an Asus but I have a couple friends with Sapphire hardware and they all swear by them.

TopLuca · Aug 11, 2014

speely :

Personally I've had Sapphires and XFXs and my favorite has to be XFX , maybe you've had bad luck with them but they also offer lifetime warranty and mine were very good overclockers.

speely · Aug 13, 2014

TopLuca :

Heh, well I'm a little jealous then. I could only raise the clockspeed 40 or 50 MHz before I encountered problems. Couldn't even TOUCH the memory frequency. It was through some research on that that I found several reviews that talk about the cheap VRM chips and MOSFETs.

Anyhoo, all I'm sayin' is that when upgrade time comes again (probably when AMD's new FX uarch comes out) I'm probably going with something from Sapphire, unless Asus or Gigabyte come out with something ridiculously awesome.

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