- Sapphire trixx voltage r9 290 tri x upgrade#
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Peak power draw – 400 watts (overclocked)įor the record, my system drew 320 watts when used with an Asus GTX 760 at stock clocks. With the MSI R9 270, the system drew 240 watts.These are all taken at the wall, and you’ll see that a 630W power supply is more than adequate. 3DMark Firestrike – P 7778 (overclocked)įinally, we have the power consumption numbers.
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… and without further ado, the 3DMark results – these are the full system ‘P’ Scores: Now for the 280X’s specifications – stock, and overclocked:
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This is used in combination with Unigine Heaven and Valley benchmark software for stability testing. For overclocking, I always use MSI Afterburner – I’ve tried Sapphire’s own Trixx and other software previously, but always find myself gravitating back to the tried and trusted MSI offering. This aside, I could not help but have a play with the cards overclocking abilities once I’d run through my usual benching tests at stock clocks.
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So onto performance, and yeah, as an upgrade to the R9 270 I’d used previously there was a big jump in performance – expected, but always pleasing nonetheless. As you’ll see from my benchmarks below however, I was pleasantly surprised by how ‘not-as-bad-as-it-could-have-been’ power consumption actually was. Again not an issue, but I did wonder how soon it’d be before the electric company were on the phone asking for a double-size Direct Debit payment. What I had not expected was the necessity for two 8-pin PCIe connectors. The card is enormous but luckily has no issue fitting inside my SilverStone FT04. At the time of writing this article, it’s available at Amazon at £210 but NOT from the rain-forest themselves, rather a third-party seller. Needless to say I was rather lucky as after checking again some days later, the price had risen to its original asking price. I’d had the 280X in my Amazon basket for a while at £235, which I knew was too much for a card soon to be replaced by the upcoming 3xx cards – however having checked my aforementioned basket at approximately 17:23 on 23rd April… the price sat comfortably at £169.99. You’ll see from the image below that they’re not identical with the 290X having some additional blue colouring upon its shroud, but they’re obviously very closely related. Now I’ve had this particular 280X in mind for a while, as having seen it’s bigger 290X brother with its ‘Tri-X’ cooler I’d decided I needed one (without the beefier cards ~ £300 price tag). I’ve had an eye on the Vapor-X line of Sapphire cards for a while as I wanted a GPU to match the blue-themed interior of my FT04. Well I’ve been at it again a little video card ‘purchasing’ happened earlier this week. Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 280X Vapor-X Tri-X 3GB.