Gigabyte Releases Three R9 200 Series BF4-Edition Cards
Now you can buy a Radeon R9 280X, 270X, or 270 from Gigabyte with BF4 included.
Gigabyte has released three special editions of its R9 200 series cards, namely versions of the card that come with keys for Battlefield 4 downloads through Origin.
The three cards that come with the key are the GV-R928XOC-3GD-GA, which is a Radeon R9-280X, the GV-R927XOC-2GD-GA, which is a Radeon R9-270X, and the GV-R927OC-2GD-GA, which is a lightly overclocked (50 MHz) R9-270.
Both the X-rated cards feature Gigabyte's triple fan WindForce coolers, which are capable of dissipating up to 450 W of heat, while the R9 270 features a dual-fan WindForce cooler.
Sorry, no WindForce cooled Radeon R9 290 or R9 290X just yet.
There was no word on pricing or availability, but expect a small premium over standard versions of the cards.
I know what it is, but do you really expect the average joe to remember that?
No! Nobody wants the blender strapped onto a GPU! Let the partners with good coolers come in for crying out loud! I would be tempted to swap back to team red had they done it off the bat, I guess they just hate money!
I know what it is, but do you really expect the average joe to remember that?
I'm not exactly sure the average joe knows you can build a computer, let alone that
They visited nvidia and jabbered about their reference cooler. Let's follow that up by visiting a company like Gigabyte or MSI, who provide after market coolers for both red and green, and really get into the guts of the process.
@ vmem - that gpu name really helps when you copy/paste into a google search, or search directly on store's webpage. It has to be unique in a field full similar products.
@ jenesuispasbavard - why? marketing, it looks cool, people feel buying a reference cooler might be the bottleneck in their overclocking attempt. I've overclocked above and beyond any real necessity because I had a good time doing it =)
I think people saw how fast the coolers for the 280X came out and thought the 290/290X would be just as fast. I think people forget the 280X is just a rebranded 7970 so they already had after market coolers designed for the PCB and core.
I beleive there is a slight design change; if you read Toms article when they installed the Accelero3 it fit reasonably well, not perfect. Also the R9 uses more ram chips so I'm sure manufacturers ahd to re-do contracts with suppliers, undergo testing/qualifying... which is why there were only reference designs on launch.
Yes all video cards are manufactured by Asian Corporations, got it.
Yes it's most probably cheaper to operate Asian based call centers, got it.
Yes English is a hard language to master, got it.
I'm not asking to even to be able to better understand Gigabyte's 'Tech Support'. I'm asking, and yes this sounds crazy, know your product. I had to carry out two RMA's over the course of 5 weeks (yes it takes that long), all because Gigabyte was so blatantly incompetent. Neither card needed to be RMA'd (except for the wild coild whine in the second).
Speaking of which, I'm shocked that no media outlets have brought up the issues so many people are having with their 290 and 290x cards.
http://www.gigabyte.us/MicroSite/351/index.html
I think people saw how fast the coolers for the 280X came out and thought the 290/290X would be just as fast. I think people forget the 280X is just a rebranded 7970 so they already had after market coolers designed for the PCB and core.
Actually I've seen how fast 95% of cards get third party coolers. I've been able to get most of my cards (memory notwithstanding) with third party coolers on day one (or at the least within 1 or 2 weeks). This is pitiful from AMD and a shame, the cards don't have a chance to breathe and so performance is taking a hit if people don't want a vacuum inside their computers.
Assuming makes an ass out of u and me.