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The PCB on the 270X Dual-X is a custom version. 

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Hey does anybody know if the Sapphire 270x Dual-X is reference designed or not ?

 

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The PCB on the 270X Dual-X is a custom version. 

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The reference radeon coolers are not that good, unless you are talking about reference pcbs.

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The Dual-X is a non reference cooler design from Sapphire. So no, it is not "reference designed". The PCB itself, is the same as all other 270X's.

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usually on entry level cards the manufacturers dont make non-reference pcbs. so most likely the Sapphire 270x dual-X has a reference pcb

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The reference radeon coolers are not that good, unless you are talking about reference pcbs.

 

No such thing as a reference 270x. Do you mean reference PCB?

 

The Dual-X is a non reference cooler design from Sapphire. So no, it is not "reference designed". The PCB itself, is the same as all other 270X's.

He/She would be referring to the PCB, as they mentioned the Dual-X variant of the 270X, so that obviously rules out the question of the cooler design type. 

And btw, the 270X does in fact have a non-reference PCB, so I guess it'll have better power delivery and thus better OC potential. 

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Okay thanks everybody for the answers and yeah sorry I was talking about the PCB not the cooler,my bad ! :D

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