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So finally decided to get another graphics card (had a 750 ti previously) and am planning on upgrading slightly to a r9 270 with plans of a slight overclock. Like everyone else i wanted to reduce the chances of a DOA so i started reading reviews, and i read and read and read.....been at it for a couple days. And i gotta say this shit can make a buyer paranoid as hell, first choice was sapphire but didn't like the listed fan speeds under load, then is was MSI which had good fan speed but an issue of oil leaking from their fans, then it was powercolor which seems nice, nice cooler and aesthetics but i find the bracket a bit ugly and lastly was XFX which was plain to look at but of all had the least negative reviews. All that isn't even considering the professional reviews which are sometimes conflicting as hell ( one reviewer compared a 270 to a 750 ti) and the 270 was supposedly overclocked. So what am i taking away from all this...........NOT MUCH, cept that the r9 270 is still the card i want despite what anyone says, still gonna overclock and i wish manufactures had a way test functionality at least a little to reduce DOAs.

 

Gonna be ordering soon and going to cross my fingers and pray to Tech God that my card is a good one. Amen

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So finally decided to get another graphics card (had a 750 ti previously) and am planning on upgrading slightly to a r9 270 with plans of a slight overclock. Like everyone else i wanted to reduce the chances of a DOA so i started reading reviews, and i read and read and read.....been at it for a couple days. And i gotta say this shit can make a buyer paranoid as hell, first choice was sapphire but didn't like the listed fan speeds under load, then is was MSI which had good fan speed but an issue of oil leaking from their fans, then it was powercolor which seems nice, nice cooler and aesthetics but i find the bracket a bit ugly and lastly was XFX which was plain to look at but of all had the least negative reviews. All that isn't even considering the professional reviews which are sometimes conflicting as hell ( one reviewer compared a 270 to a 750 ti) and the 270 was supposedly overclocked. So what am i taking away from all this...........NOT MUCH, cept that the r9 270 is still the card i want despite what anyone says, still gonna overclock and i wish manufactures had a way test functionality at least a little to reduce DOAs.

 

Gonna be ordering soon and going to cross my fingers and pray to Tech God that my card is a good one. Amen

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Yeah tell me about it, two hours into reviews & still you don't know what to buy.. it's like..

 

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people will be more incline to make a review when theyve had bad experience with a company, and the more a company sells the more bad reviews

 

you see, this is why XFX has the least bad review, because they sell less then MSI, which because of that has more negative reviews.

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powercolor

I heard about you :lol: .......incidentally thats what i think i might be going with

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people will be more incline to make a review when theyve had bad experience with a company, and the more a company sells the more bad reviews

 

you see, this is why XFX has the least bad review, because they sell less then MSI, which because of that has more negative reviews.

True the number of XFX reviews was waaaaaay less than MSI

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Grab the one with the best warranty :)

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XFX. :D

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Spending a bunch of money for a gpu that is slightly faster than your current one? Am i the only one you thinks that's pointless?

If you are going to upgrade,make it worth it!!!

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Is the difference in performance between a 750Ti and an R9 270 enough to justify the upgrade ? 

 

Considering the brand - i would go with sapphire or msi.

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Yeah tell me about it, two hours into reviews & still you don't know what to buy.. it's like..

 

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Hahha so so so so true!

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Spending a bunch of money for a gpu that is slightly faster than your current one? Am i the only one you thinks that's pointless?

If you are going to upgrade,make it worth it!!!

sold the 750 ti to a friend cause he needed it more than i did at the time.....and i have an i3 3240 so going much higher wouldn't make that much sense

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sold the 750 ti to a friend cause he needed it more than i did at the time.....and i have an i3 3240 so going much higher wouldn't make that much sense

Ah,ok then!

My recommentation to you would be the gigabyte windforce edition. Why? Because i saw a video that in gaming load, the windforce 270X(which is an overclocked 270)  stays in 55C and it's super quiet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j03lmIDEmb4

 

 

 

I saw your sneaky edit mr helping :P

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