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I'm building a PC soon blah blah blah, I'm assuming if I were to ask what $200 card to get most of you would say the R9 280? Do I use the GTX 960 or R9 280, what I really want to know is the GTX 960 better then the R9 280. Another reason I want a gtx is for shadow play (<-- whatever its called). Anyway: What GPU do I go for which one has better performance... thanks!

Hello I'm building my PC soon in about a month or so and I really cannot find a card to stick with! I REALLY do not want to screw up and get a certain part wrong so I've made several posts and I'd like to thank everyone who has helped me so far! Anyway I'm stuck between the R9 280 or 285 (GTX 960 slightly out of my price range and I don't think it outperforms the R9 280/285). Also the R9 280x not to sure about the card I mean I don't really want to pay an extra $30 for a slight increase of performance. Budget for card slightly over $200 or below it This is my build PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($166.99 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($44.88 @ OutletPC) Memory: G.Skill NS Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($63.98 @ Newegg) Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.99 @ SuperBiiz) Case: Fractal Design Core 1300 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($34.99 @ NCIX US) Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($44.99 @ Newegg) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 - 64-bit (OEM) (64-bit) ($79.71) Monitor: Acer G226HQLBbd 60Hz 21.5" Monitor ($101.98 @ Newegg) Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN881ND 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter ($18.49 @ Amazon) Total: $605.00 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-01-22 18:05 EST-0500

Hello I'm building my PC soon in about a month or so and I really cannot find a card to stick with! I REALLY do not want to screw up and get a certain part wrong so I've made several posts and I'd like to thank everyone who has helped me so far! Anyway I'm stuck between the R9 280 or 285 (GTX 960 slightly out of my price range and I don't think it outperforms the R9 280/285). Also the R9 280x not to sure about the card I mean I don't really want to pay an extra $30 for a slight increase of performance. Budget for card slightly over $200 or below it This is my build PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($166.99 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($44.88 @ OutletPC) Memory: G.Skill NS Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($63.98 @ Newegg) Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($48.99 @ SuperBiiz) Case: Fractal Design Core 1300 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($34.99 @ NCIX US) Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($44.99 @ Newegg) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 - 64-bit (OEM) (64-bit) ($79.71) Monitor: Acer G226HQLBbd 60Hz 21.5" Monitor ($101.98 @ Newegg) Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN881ND 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter ($18.49 @ Amazon) Total: $605.00 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-01-22 18:05 EST-0500

Is GTX 960 worth it over 280, 285, 280x considering its prices will drop to compete with the 960? I also won't expect it to handle anything I throw at it. Opinions are gladly accepted

Yeah so I've built my brothers system but my brother didn't want to game back then. So i wanted to ask you can i run a Sapphire R9 280 on a Corsair 450w PSU PC SPECS CPU: I5 4670K MOBO: MSI Z87 G55 RAM: hyperX fury 8gb Storage: 120gb Samsung 840 PSU: Corsair 450w Gold PSU Case: Corsair 200r

Is power color good? They have cheap cards.. But that's not always a good thing. I want to get the r9 280. Please share experiences below. I just don't want to get a card that will not work or feel cheap. Thanks.

Hey yall, It would be that time to decide what GPU brand to go with and I need some advice. Firstly, which card would perform better from stock. Secondly, what would perform better overclocked and finally, which would run coolest stock and overclocked. Any answers appreciated

Hey I am going to be doing a pc build soon and I was wondering, what is the best psu (between 600 and 700 watt) and under £60. If you respond please link to uk websites only please.

Hello I've decided to use the R9 280 in my first Gaming PC build over the GTX 760. Anyway I was wondering does it really matter what brand I use? What I'm trying to ask is do the different brands of the R9 280s perform better or work better. As of now I think I've made my decision of using the MSI R9 280. Thanks!

Hi!, I'm going to go into as much detail as i can as no other forum has helped me yet or even got close so i'm hoping u lovely guys are linus tech tips can help me!, I have a new GPU an ASUS Radeon R9 280 DirectCU II TOP 3GB, along with a new Power Supply Corsair CX600 (non modular). The Card and the Power Supply are only 2/3 days old, both brand new from amazon. I've been having crash's to a random colored screen usually brown/back with vertical stripes but I've had nearly every colour of the rainbow or it seems like it, the sound loops(caps lock stop working etc etc i can get you a picture if this helps)at first it was sorta random, but now its seems to be whenever I use my GPU at any load,(fine when browsing etc as far as i know it crashed 1 time when watching videos but had World of Warcraft Loaded in the background). I'm using HDMI at 1080p(moniter can support this) My fps in games doesn't drop before the crash's nor do i get screen tearing/artifacts, My temperature's don't do any thing out of the normal (GPU 30-60) (CPU 20-45), I've opened the side of the case, and watched the PC as it happen's the GPU fans do not change, the CPU watercooler makes a tidy buzz but its always done that tempts are fine, the PSU makes a little 'buzzy?' noise and i mean little before it does it (hint why I'm asking if it could be that) but u have to put your ear to it to hear it, and well iv never put my ear right next to a PSU before so this could be normal for all i know. I've tried stress testing my CPU had no problems, tried using FurMark, it crashed after 20sec - 1mins? last i see was tempts at 49C, but i don't wanna do it to much as I don't want to damage anything else in my PC, I get no artifacts or screen tearing before the crash's, (i had One window leave a 'trail' yesterday, when trying to make it crash to see why,before i fount Furmark). I only have my Old PSU which is a arctic 500W, so I'm not sure if i can use that to test if its the GPU or the PSU (maybe you guys can tell me?) and my old GPU AMD radeon 6850HD ran with my old PSU so i guess i cant test how the PSU acts under load with that. my new PSU is plugged into the same power socket as my old one, so i doubt its the power socket. Complete PC spec's: Mother-board: ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 Processor : AMD Phenom II X4 960T ~ 3.0GHz (stock speed, bottlenecks on heavy CPU games i know) RAM : Corsair 8Gb (4Gb x2) CPU Cooler : Cooler Master seidon 120M Graphic Card: ASUS Radeon R9 280 DirectCU II TOP 3GB SSD : Kingston hyperX 120GB (Windows installed on) HDD : 500GB LAPTOP HDD (little one, Sorry i don't know the name) Case : Corsair Carbide Series 300R Fans : 1x 140MM that comes with the case, 120MM that comes with watercooler, 120MM exhaust also came with case and a corsair AF120 quiet edition PSU : corsair CX600 Fixed cable's I have no DVD/Blu-ray driver in. Fix's I've tried: Complete re-install of AMD Catalyst Control Center, And every driver down to USB, even re-installing Cool N quiet etc. doing a full sweep and CCleaner after each time, and in safe-mode and without. Remounting the GPU Going over and reinserting every Power Plugs?(that sounds wrong to call them that) watching ASUS GPU tweak, like its the latest hobbit, didn't see anything out of the normal, haven't touched a setting as its new and i don't wanna do anything with it that i don't know.(my general rule) Turning Off the GPU booster in my Bio's watching tempt's like i said before never a problem. Using the little 8pin connector that came with the GPU Stress testing (crashed SUPER fast) using FurMarks, As I've seen people ask for it on other like topic posts Looking over Event Viewer Only thing i can find is 'The AODDriver4.2.0 service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the path specified.' I haven't updated my Bio's I have to admit but i haven't had time today! would that course a full random colour screen crash? I never had a problem before with my old GPU/PSU so I'm guessing its not my motherboard or ram? but i have no clue. Oh 1 last note and i feel silly about this but I used AMD CCC to auto tune my CPU the day i got my GPU and my computer BSOD, i turned it off after that completely, and stayed far away. making sure everything went back to normal. if u need anymore Info/pictures/HWmoniter/Dxdiag even open-hardware moniter graphs, screenshots i'm very happy to help Computer seems to run fine when, not running games but don't hold me to this as it could be potluck . Sorry for the long Post i just really wanna get down to the Problem, and i cant really tell amazon that BOTH are faulty unless they really are. tl;dr: got a new PSU&CPU now get random full screen coloured crash's, updated drivers, did a full sweep etc problem still there, tempts are fine! Oh god just see this isn't in the Troubleshooting Forum, Sorry!!!!

Both the 7870 and 7950 are HIS's brand with one fan...so might not be that quiet, and might run hot....but their prices are too low! There is no beating the 7870 Ghz edition in its price range! If you opt for the larger $129 7950, you might want to consider a gtx 670....but good luck finding a new one ;p

So after about 3 weeks of waiting for GPU to be delivered to me, after my Gigabyte windforce HD 7950 died, I got a R9 280 as my "replacement". It is an Asus direct CU II version, now I have only one question. As the GPU seems to be brand new, the box hasn't been opened, I was wondering if I should sell it. I could get quite large amount off a GTX 970 if I did that. About 250€ is the lowest price for a new 280 from what I have seen. Would it make sense to sell the replacement now, or should I just wait until this one also dies, then buy something? I know that is the most reasonable choice, I just want to know if being unreasonable is any good in controlled amounts.

I ask because a person with an R9 280 told me that they would not recommend the i3-4130 (or any dual core) to be paired with the R9 280 because the CPU will bottleneck the GPU. The user suggested the AMD FX-6300 hex-core instead, but I have been told multiple times that the i3 would be better for gaming thanks to it's stronger cores. Has anyone with an R9 280 experienced similar bottlenecking? Am I better off switching to the AMD processor or will the i3 do fine? OR, should I save for some sort of i5 Quad core instead?

I was looking on newegg, and I was wondering if this bundle was good for gaming. I want to play games like borderlands, far cry 4, and I'm a casual gamer. And also if its possible to add a 150 watt after market cpu cooler with the 650 watt power supply. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.2145098

i want to upgrade my pc and my choices are both sapphire dual x but one is the r9 285 and the other is the 280 (i dont live in us or canda so the 960 is way mor pricy from them two). my most demanding game is bf4 and i want it too live as long as possible. the problem is the future proof the 285 has lots more fetures but the 280 has more ram so i cant choose. please help

Hello guys, its been a while since I posted here in LTT I've read up an updated TomsHardware Bang for the Money GPU and the updated TechReport system build guide and I've found that getting a GTX 960 over a R9 280 is something that is to be considered. First off, I would probably play AA - AAA titles but mostly, I'd spend my time coding and playing GTA V/DotA 2/upcoming NBA 2K titles or if there's something new that would replace 2k (lol). I would also consider temps and electricity costs, this 2 factors are really crucial here in PH. Electricity costs way too much here as we don't produce electricity thru nuclear blah blah blah. For the temps, welp, welcome to the Pacific ring of fire )

So me and my friend are doing budget build for another friend. I am an Nvidia fanboy... So hear me out, despite all my love for Nvidia I agree the price to performance Amd is the way to go! But I am a noob at amd cards so which one is better of the two for gaming?! r9 280 vs r2 270x

So I'm pairing a r9 280 with the 4440 and I'm going to be using a 900p monitor and I know it will run some games 60fps 1080p will I be able to max out pretty much anything at 60fps 900p with the r9 280? EDIT:also what will the price tag for the 380x be? north of $200?

So I have been holding off to buy parts for my first gaming computer build I think this is probably the cheapest it'll get. Just want an experienced person to look over the parts and see if i'm good to go! I read some reviews on the power supply and a couple just the motherboard plug is really hard to get in and said it took him "two hours" to get in, Kinda worried about that so If you have any suggestions on a good power supply around 500w let me know (don't care if it's modular I guess). Going to be using an older 900p monitor for now and I'm probably going to max out a lot of games at 900p. Thank you for your time. Build here: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($174.61 @ OutletPC) CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.98 @ OutletPC) Motherboard: MSI H81M-E34 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($49.99 @ SuperBiiz) Memory: Team Elite Plus 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($51.89 @ OutletPC) Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 280 3GB DUAL-X Video Card ($172.98 @ Newegg) Case: Fractal Design Core 1300 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($37.99 @ SuperBiiz) Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($51.08 @ Newegg) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($87.75 @ OutletPC) Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN881ND 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter ($18.19 @ OutletPC) Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator - OEM Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse ($17.99 @ Newegg) Total: $692.45 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-26 16:54 EST-0500

Hello there, i'm about to upgrade my GPU and was hesitating. I wanted to buy something around 200 euros, got sights on a r9 280 from sapphire at 183 euros and a gtx 960 gigabyte at 200 euros. Was wondering which one would be the best, and if or maybe was it better to wait on the upcoming 3xx series.

Hey guys, I have a gigabyte windforce R9 280 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-AMD-280-Graphics-Card/dp/B00IYD0HYO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1424618416&sr=8-1&keywords=gigabyte+280) And I want some sort of backplate purely for aesthetics. I have seen an EK one but not sure it's compatible.

I'm going to be building a PC, (build courtesy of these forums ) and I need some help with the connections between my PC and my monitor. This is an extremely stupid question, but I just don't want to mess anything up. The graphics card I'm getting has a DVI-D port (this would be a female port, correct?) and my monitor has a DVI-I port (this would be female, correct?) I need to connect the two, and I need every single cable, converter, etc. for the job. What do? Is there any tech limitations I should worry about with these ports? Any and all replies are appreciated EDIT: Will I be running a cable from my graphics card to my one monitor or will I run the cable from my mobo? My mobo has a DVI-D port already, so would that be the best option?

I have an R9 280 and want to water cool my PC I was just wondering if anyone knew a waterblock I could put on it.

Hi everyone, n00b asking for some recommendations here, I live in Indonesia, and one of my buddy is giving me a brand new MSI r9 280 3g. I have encountered some questions regarding the PSU, should i upgrade to a better one? or use the current one, i dont mind spending cash for a new PSU as long as my pc will work fine, because i heard some people say 500w is enough but some say they dont. Here is the website where i can get all my stuff: www.enterkomputer.com/psu.php My budget will be around Rp 1.100.000 max. I don't want anything fancy, as long as it gets the job done. My current rig specs: i5 3570 AsRock pro4 mvp 8gb ram 1- 1tb hdd 1- 500gb hdd 1- 128gb ssd Power color HD 6870 1gb 3 fans ENLIGHT Blacksilver 500w PSU (I got this for sometime and having no problems at all) NO overclocking, just for casual gaming. Note: this is a rig from 2012, so please give me some slack if the specs are lame. Please do help me guys, I will appreciate any info and recommendations given to me. Thank you in advance and have a good one guys!

Hello, fellow enthusiasts. I hope you're doing well. My system keeps crashing when I play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive with AMD Gaming Evolved enabled. I'm forced to CTRL+ALT+DEL my system and shut down the game process. If AMD Gaming Evolved is not running, though, I manage to get a rock solid experience with the aforementioned game. CS:GO is a game that Raptr has certified as being compatible with its in-game overlay, but it's far from being usable since it keeps crashing my game. My system can withstand a 24-hour stress test running FurMark and Prime95 simultaneously, but sometimes it takes just 10 minutes before my CS:GO hopelessly crashes. Here's what I have tried: a) I've tried using Catalyst 14.12 instead of 15.7. It in fact explicitly installs an extra package of stuff meant for AMD APP and video capture that doesn't show up on 15.7's setup. I've read on OBS forums that the removal of that made Raprt issue a patch since theirs and every other software that relied on AMD APP for gaming capture started to have problems with 15.7. Nothing changed. B) I've tried using only Plays.TV's beta client (even though it looks like it's almost completely integrated inside AMD Gaming Evolved). I thought it could be a problem with the Raptr-Plays.TV hook up, but Plays.TV's own standalone software behaved in the exact same fashion. c) I've tried using Mirillis Action as an alternative. It worked flawlessly as it managed to record a 12-hour GOTV broadcasting session without crashing. It only stopped and closed the game because it hit the 12-hour mark (and I can't choose more than that for the maximum video duration, at least not in the trial version). Except for that weird behaviour (since I expected it to just shut down the video capture without closing the game), it worked well: it managed to actually capture 60fps on the 1080p, full quality setting, something that AMD Gaming Evolved / Raptr / Plays.TV was failing to achieve regardless of crashing. But there are two main issues: Mirillis Action is not free software and the performance hit was huge, way beyond the supposed 10% of an AMD APP recording solution. d) I've tried even underclocking the card to the reference design clocks, since this Sapphire Dual-X is a slightly factory-overclocked card. Nothing changed. e) This is the second motherboard I'm using while having the very same problem. I've changed it because somebody I know wanted an LGA 1150 system and I took the opportunity to make a deal and get a more well-featured motherboard, but the problem persisted. The first motherboard was an ASUS H81M-A/BR. Sapphire's Technical Support told me this: But I'm not sure my retailer's technical support will be able to reproduce the issue, since it might be kind of software (driver) related. I'd love to find an easy, replicable way of determining it's a hardware issue that involves only free software/games and that I could instruct my retailer's RMA department to reproduce, otherwise they'll just send me the very same card back if they're unable to determine it's a hardware issue. I'm yet to try playing a different game for longer than the 2 hours I've spent with Diablo III, since I remember playing CS:GO for longer than 3 hours with no crashes. If I manage to get a crash in a different game, that will be a huge thing in this troubleshooting process. Any good F2P game suggestions other than Team Fortress 2 and DOTA 2 (which are both Source Engine-based just like CS:GO) and League of Legends (which I just can't stand) that I could use for this troubleshooting process are welcome. Do you guys think I should try "extreme" things like flashing the motherboard and/or video card BIOS in case any updates are available? Any other ideas? P.S.: In case you're wondering why I'm not using a Dual Channel Kit, it wasn't available at the time of my purchase and due to an online discounted offer I could not purchase 2 of the same modules (it was a one-item-per-customer kind of deal), so I was forced to purchase different heatsink colors for the same module. I took the risk and decided that if MEMTEST86+ failed I'd return the modules and wait for a Dual Channel Kit, but that didn't happen and I happily enjoyed the discounted price for a couple of cool, different-colored versions of the same memory module. Thanks for your valuable time.