XFX r9 280x DD Black Edition - No unlocked voltage?

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Hello there,

I ordered this graphic card a few months ago and I it's package came with the label "unlocked voltage". Now I did not look into this since the card was pretty powerful already.

But after taking a look a few days ago I noticed that the Voltage is locked at 1.2V and not unlocked?
So I did some research and saw some older reviews where it was unlocked and a new ones where it wasn't.
What I am guessing is that it has something to do with a newer BIOS where XFX locked the Voltage for some reason.
The tempatures are fine and I don't understand why they did that. Is this a reason to return the card? Should I just flash it with an older BIOS? Can XFX offer me some kind of custom BIOS?

I am really not what sure what to do and a little bit angry that they did not change the package. To represent the actual product.
:??:

I hope someone can help me with this. Preferably the XFX Support I saw somewhere around the forum but I can't message anyone.

Thank you in advance.
 
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Return the card if its still under warranty. After you start overclocking, the warranty will no longer apply.

And I would be careful if I were you, R9 280X already runs pretty hot, push it too hard and it will boil!
 
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First of all thank you for your quick answer.

I have not even finished my case cooling and the tempatures do not go beyond 70 even on really hot days.
Allright I did not take a look at the VRM tempatures but are these really affected if I do not increase the memory clock speed?

I was not planning to do so anyway since it won't improve performance anyway.
 
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Memory clock speed is the one thing you should increase, otherwise the performance gains will be negligible. I recommend not overclocking at all, whatever will run 1080p 60fps before the OC, will do so after the OC, whatever runs below 1080p 60fps won't make much difference after you overclock. There just isn't enough thermal treshold to make enough of a difference.
 
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I don't think that there is a way to find out that I did overclock?
Besides that I already did and after 1 hours at 99% usage at 1175/1700 it reached 69c and 85c on the VRM but these were the peak tempatures.

They do not seem dangerously high so I thought a slight change in voltage like 1.25v should be alright.
I really wonder if I can give back the card and get something like a Sapphire Radeon R9 280X Vapor-X same price.
 
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Most vendors have a return policy of only 14 days, anything exceeding that they can only replace for the exact same model, but only if the supplier hasn't repaired the faulty device in... well, that depends on the vendor, but it can be between 7 and 21 days.

Oh yes they can and they WILL know that you overclocked, and your warranty WILL BE void. the damn thing has concealed sensors everywhere. I once had 2 GeForce 9500 GT's in an SLI with an open case when suddenly my cat rushed in and... "marked its territory" on one of them. I tried cleaning the cat piss off and sending it for repairs but the bastards doing the diagnostics saw that water came in contact with the device, and then bye bye SLI.
 
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Thanks,

I just tried that I hope it doesn't take to long.

 
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Well it turns out that the card might be locked because of some "warranty concerns" in Germany.
I don't think this is the reason and they just changed it recently with a newer bios version because in older German reviews it's not locked...

If I can change the card you think a 4GB r9 380 would be good? Just wondering what version XFX or sapphire. But I think after this it's pretty obvious.
 
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I tried it with the 015.043.000.005.000000. I was missing the "5" in my version. Card made weird noises and voltage still wasn't unlocked.

Don't want to screw the card up and probably won't return it either my next card will be from Sapphire : )
 
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