XFX Radeon Double D R9 280X 1000MHz Boost Ready 3GB DDR5 2XmDP HDMI 2XDVI Graphics Cards R9-280X-TDFD

System: Windows 7 64-bit i5 3570k OC @ 4.3 16gb ddr3 2400 Asus Maximus V mobo 128GB SSD (for os) 1TB HD 1000w psu 25" 1920x1080 Upgraded from a 6870 crossfire set-up. Loved this set-up last 3 awesome years. Though, it was the bottleneck of my system so it was definitely time to upgrade when BF4 came out. What a difference this card makes! Jumped up over 40fps in nearly all of my games. My go-to benchmark for my system is Just Cause 2 - Dark Tower. I know, it's an older game. I'm just very familiar with how system runs with that. Using that bench test since my 3870x2 days and past computer set-ups. With the 6870CF, it's 101fps. Jumped to 145fps with this one card. Completely destroys any game I throw at it. BF4 with high combat, outside fighting, minimum 65fps. Indoor or just running around 80-100fps on ULTRA. I feel I don't even have to mention any other game. Just think of your favorite game and this card will destroy it with highest settings! Of course, at time of writing. Don't feel the need to OC this yet. Though, I read this card can easily perform on par with the GTX 780 when OC'd. Make sure you have adequate airflow. This card blows the hot air down into your case instead of out through the back. If you're going to CF these cards, take that into consideration. The top card will get hotter than the bottom. So spacing and airflow is very important. Which reminds me abut something I've read about, make sure you get a 10cm CF bridge, which this card does not come with. The way this card is designed, the bridge has to go around the fan casing, and you'll have to break off that little tab thing on the end of the bottom bridge. Guaranteed the one it came with wont be long enough. It's AMDs not XFXs fault. From what I've seen in pictures, it looks like all the cards are designed like that, no matter the brand. It's definitely a design flaw. Hopefully, I saved you some headache if you choose this awesome CF option. If what I said is confusing, you'll figure out what I mean if you choose to get two. This card will run different depending on your system setup. Consider your bottleneck to get optimal performance out of this card. For most people, it's probably the CPU. Regardless, this card will help whatever setup you have. It's recommend that you have least 4GB of system memory and 750W psu. Requires a 6pin and an 8pin cable. Does come with attachments if you don't have that. Of course, XFX comes with a "lifetime warranty." Which is awesome. Though, I want to mention this because I found it odd. The serial number needed to register this product is on the sku sticker. That's normal. The part that was weird was there was this white sticker conveniently covering the part with the serial number on it. Don't know if it was Amazon or XFX who put this idiotic sticker there, but I'm putting my money on XFX. Trying to prevent us from registering this product? That was my thought as I was trying to peel it off. I was worried because the sku sticker was coming up with it! I had peel it off and hold up to the light to be able to make out the serial number underneath this white sticker. If you have the same situation, this is what you'll have to do too. Regardless, awesome card! They have even lowered the price since I bought it! Huge bang for the buck. 7970GHZ go for $420 on this site. You're saving yourself over $120+ for a better beefed up version of that card! With better drivers due to come out, this card will get even more insane! Please download latest drivers from AMD website and not the CD it came with. You're better than that. READY FOR PRIME TIME! Get it! You wont be sorry!

So much goodness in this package... It's sleek looking, actually quieter than the 6870 double d it replaced, and it's huge... I'm not even kidding, I had to relocate my hard drives to the lowest spot on my Antec 900 case, and even then it was a tight fight. I'm really not sure what I'll do if I buy another and crossfire them in the future. As far as performance, I'm running 3 monitors but running games on 1 for the time being, on a 20" widescreen 1600X900. The latest game I picked up, Rome 2, saw a nice increase in performance. On my old build, running a Phenom II 945 3.0 ghz quad with 4 mB DDR2 and the 6870 1gB, I was seeing average FPS of 35, lots of dips to the teens, with medium quality and small unit size. Now my build is an I5-3570k 3.4ghz, 8 gB DDR3 1600 and this new R9 280x, all on a Z77-G45 MSI mainboard. Average fps is now 85 with high detail and a few settings on ultra! Skyrim (with lots of graphical improvement mods) has also been silky smooth where with the 6870 it was starting to stutter a bit in outdoor areas with long views (Like in Whiterun at the top of the steps going to Dragonsreach). Bioshock Infinite (with maxed out settings) was a joy to behold... For $300, it's definitely a good price/performance ratio. On a side note, another plus was the fact it has two DVI ports as well as two mini displayports and an HDMI, exactly like the 6870, so I didn't have to hunt around for another adapter to get all 3 of my monitors working. PS: I decided to try World of Tanks on Eyefinity, was interesting with all that widescren real estate. With all graphical settings maxed out it was still kicking about 50 fps on average.

I bought this a few months ago while I was upgrading from my very dated rig. So far I have had no issues with this card and I was running BF4 all on max settings and maintaining 60 FPS with VSync enabled and around 65 - 70 FPS with VSync disabled. Granted I am using an old monitor running 1600 x 900 but I am also running another monitor to have the BF4 map up and that monitor is running at 1360 x 768. Yeahhh, I need to update my monitors. Anyway the other items I am running this with are: CPU: AMD FX-8350 CPU cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H90 140mm liquid cooler Mobo: ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 RAM: Crucial Ballistix Elite 8GB DDR3 1600 (not the best but...meh it works) Case: Corsair Carbide Series Black 400R Mid Tower Case fans: 2 Noctua 140mm fans, 5 Noctua 120mm fans 1 Corsair 140mm fan (the one on the liquid cooler) This thing runs super quiet (quiet enough that my wife and I can sleep with it on in the room) and super cool love it. My only gripe with it is it is that since it is AMD it does not do PhysX. Though my 8350 is strong enough to handle the load of PhysX on low to normal settings on some games.

Got it on sale for $269, free shipping with prime... the price is incredible! I paid more than double that for my HD7970 when it first hit the market. The Tahiti core is no longer the fastest single-GPU around (as it was touted when it was originally released as the HD7970), but it's still an extremely capable chip that can run all the latest DirectX and OpenGL APIs. I am running this card successfully in CrossFireX with a HD7970. This works because the R9 280X and the HD 7970 use the same GPU core, just a different brand name and packaging. I don't overclock, and my case is a Corsair Obsidian 650D with the stock cooling solution (air). Running the Unigine Valley 1.0 benchmark at maximum settings with Catalyst 14.4, I get between 60 and 110 FPS with CrossFireX between this card running at its stock speeds, and a Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 running at its stock (non-GHz Edition) speeds. With just the Sapphire card alone, I get between 30 and 50 FPS depending on the scene. Temperatures on both cards don't pass 80 Celsius even after extended use, but I do manually set the fans to run at 70% (I'm fine with the noise, I have great noise-canceling headphones). One thing to keep in mind is that, for effective air cooling of cards of this size and power, you aren't going to get a very quiet build (assuming no water cooling). It's just not possible to design something that moves air in the quantities required to cool this beast under load, without it getting loud. Granted, the stock fan in the HD7970 (original release of the Tahiti core) was much louder (higher pitch) than the dual fans on this XFX card, but they're both loud cards. If you are buying this card, you should be prepared to either put the system far enough away from you and/or your family members that the sound is not distracting, OR wear good noise-canceling headphones, OR invest in a whole-system water cooling solution (including water cooling for the GPU). These cards are designed to operate at up to 100 Celsius without a significant degradation in its expected MTBF. However, if you are concerned about temperature and would prefer to run it significantly cooler, just use AMD Overdrive to force the fan to spin a bit faster. 90% or higher fan speed would be "red-lining" and may reduce the lifespan of the fan, but 70 - 75% should be fine. Just make sure that, especially with this specific card, you have very good air expulsion from the interior of your chassis into the environment. The original HD 7970 had a vent on the rear of the card that expelled most of the exhaust heat out the back of the case. This R9 280X dumps most of its exhaust heat into your case. That can become a problem if you don't ventilate your case enough. If you can control your case fan speeds, run them at max. It will help prevent your card from overheating. This is especially important if you are using a CrossFireX configuration.

I'm very disappointed with this card. After 15-20 minutes of playing Dragon Age: Inquisition, or about 15-20 seconds of Fur Mark's 1080p benchmark, the card crashes the computer, restarts, and fails to post until the card cools down. My hunch is that XFX didn't do a good enough job of cooling the VRAM, but regardless of the reason, this performance is unacceptable. On the upside, between crashes, this card preforms pretty well. Evidence supporting VRAM overheating hypothesis: Even with the side removed from my case for good airflow, the problem persists, meanwhile, the GPU temperature stays a cool 60C. There are three things that seem to help the situation, making the crashes less frequent. Primarily, underclocking the memory from the stock 1500MHZ down to about 1200MHZ helps. Slightly less helpful, you can also force 100% fan speed or underclock the GPU to reduce the frequency of crashes. This leads me to believe that the VRAM is getting too hot and by increasing airflow or decreasing the temperature of the GPU heatsink results in slightly better VRAM cooling. The bottom line is that wether my hypothesis of VRAM overheating is correct or not, the card should work out of the box. There may be an aftermarket cooling solution that would fix my problem, but you shouldn't have to buy extra cooling hardware or underclock a card well below the reference clocks in order to get the f**king thing to work. XFX and AMD have now lost my dollar, as I have ordered a GTX 970 and will be returning this POS as soon as the new card arrives. Other thoughts: This card supports 6 monitors. However, if you want to run more than 2 monitors, you need "active adapters" which provide clock signals to drive the extra monitors as this card only has two monitor clocks. AMD made it hard to find this out from the official support material, so I had to go digging on forums to find out why it wasn't working. A little more heads-up about this would have been nice, but I can see why they didn't want to put it out there when 6-monitor support was one of their selling features. Especially since, if my understanding is correct, Nvidia cards do not require active adapters, and regular old passive ones will do just fine.

Gorgeous card, solid build, good performance, but as a previous reviewer said, forget buying this if you plan on crossfire. VRM cooling is practically nonexistent. Top card(s) VRMs hit 115 within minutes at STOCK clocks/voltage, even in an opened, massive Cosmos ii case with box fan blowing directly in. Cards will throttle, fail to reduce temps quickly enough, and finally hard crash system. Every time. Avoid unless you only need one, and have a very ventilated case. XFX needs to get their cooling system together. A+ design and core cooling, F- for secondary cooling. Inexcusable oversight not to take this crucial cooling into consideration. I feel sorry that Amazon has to take the hit with this return -- no issues with them, as always. XFX, produce an actual cooling method for VRMs, add a backplate, and I'd pay $350+ each for these cards. In current state worthless for high-end performance

I got two of these to crossfire, but to my dismay the top card throttles due to VRM temperatures. I've never heard of a high-end card being VRM temperature limited, but when I searched around, I found that the XFX DD 280X does not have a real VRM heatsink. As a result the VRMs reach 115C under heavy load and the card throttles hard. It goes from 1000MHz to 500 MHz until the VRMs drops to ~110C and then repeats. See the following excerpt from a review site ([...] "There are two parts to the cooler, one that cools the MOSFETs and memory and the huge GPU cooler itself. I like how the supplemental cooler contacts all memory chips as well as the MOSFETs, but I do have to wonder just how much good it’s doing. It seems like it’s plastic, and plastic isn’t the greatest of heat conductors. I have attempted to get XFX’s contact information from AMD and will update in case I’m wrong about the material, but I don’t think I am. The PCB behind the MOSFETs was hot, so much so I couldn’t leave my finger on it. Now, MOSFETs can take heat so it might not be a problem, but long term that might not be so good on the FETs. The plastic was definitely warm and wicking heat, but plastic will never do as good of a job as aluminum would." So the end result is I either install my own VRM heatsinks and possibly damage the card/void warranty or ignore the issues and pay to ship the GPU back when the power delivery fails. Both are unpalatable when other OEMs do include decent VRM heatsinks.

Pros: -Big & Attractive. Showpiece in my system -Decent Value (purchased mine $210 12/2015) -Has my system playing the toughest games at high/ultra Cons: (Disclaimer, these cons have not actually effected me, hence the high rating. There seems to be a decent amount of reports however) -BIG, listed as a pro for me, but this could cause issues in your build! -Quality - Seems to be a higher level of reported defective units than some of the other brands. So far mine is running fine. (xfx seems to be on top of their lifetime warranty though so that is good news!) -Many reports of overheating, specifically the VRAM. Proper case cooling may be an issue for many of these reports. I have yet to experience issues in my massive case which includes well thought out airflow with lots of fans, good cable management and component placement. Conclusion: So far this has been a great addition to my system, no complaints.