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Any issues with Powercolor graphics cards?(R9 285)

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a b U Graphics card
September 2, 2014 12:47:27 PM

I'm going to buy a R9 285 and I was wondering if anybody had any issues with Powercolor graphics cards? I normally buy Sapphire but they dont have them listed right now.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

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a b U Graphics card
September 2, 2014 12:55:07 PM

Just cause they don;'t have it listed doesn;'t mean sapphire won't relaese it, they have a model for every amd card i think so sapphire will release one
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a b U Graphics card
September 2, 2014 12:58:30 PM

legend001523 said:
Just cause they don;'t have it listed doesn;'t mean sapphire won't relaese it, they have a model for every amd card i think so sapphire will release one


I'm 100 percent certain they will. Amazon has them but 3 weeks for shipping.
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a b U Graphics card
September 2, 2014 12:59:26 PM

hmm okay, but powercolour aren't bad
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a b U Graphics card
September 2, 2014 1:08:12 PM

legend001523 said:
hmm okay, but powercolour aren't bad


It's weird because all the news has been about sapphires version of the card but it's really not released anywhere.
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a b U Graphics card
September 2, 2014 1:08:35 PM

^ yeah it's just all the hype, but powercolour is good too
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a b U Graphics card
September 2, 2014 1:22:37 PM

Yeah, no reason to go with a 760 today, unless you need an NVIDIA card. Price/Performance is behind all 3 "280" cards.
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a b U Graphics card
September 2, 2014 1:26:15 PM

Rapajez said:
Yeah, no reason to go with a 760 today, unless you need an NVIDIA card. Price/Performance is behind all 3 "280" cards.


Scratch that I can crossfire
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a b U Graphics card
September 2, 2014 1:37:39 PM

Well, if you're planning an X-fire build, don't forget that VRAM doesn't stack. E.g., 2 cards with 2GB of VRAM still show up as 2GB of usable VRAM to the system. That said, there's another vote for the older 3GB 280's.

Hard to predict the future, but you may be bottlenecked by the 2GB VRAM once you have a system using 280's in X-fire.
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a b U Graphics card
September 2, 2014 1:45:54 PM

Rapajez said:
Well, if you're planning an X-fire build, don't forget that VRAM doesn't stack. E.g., 2 cards with 2GB of VRAM still show up as 2GB of usable VRAM to the system. That said, there's another vote for the older 3GB 280's.

Hard to predict the future, but you may be bottlenecked by the 2GB VRAM once you have a system using 280's in X-fire.


Yeah that might be an issue later. If I went with the 280 I would definitely crossfire.
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a b U Graphics card
September 2, 2014 2:10:01 PM

I'll go with 2 Sapphire 3GB 280's...the price on them is really good right now
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