High power consumption when overclocking and over volting
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Radeon R9 280X Roundup: Although all five custom Radeon R9 280X cards are much the same in gaming and cooling performance, they still have subtle variations that make some better than others -- and one better than the rest in our opinion.
The HIS Radeon R9 280X iPower IceQ X2 Turbo graphics card is something a little bit special. It looks cool, it's quiet and has a good factory pre-overclock straight out of the box, then with a few simple tweaks courtesy of MSI Afterburner it performs...
Does the HIS IceQ X2 R9 280X deserve your money? Is it a card you should be looking at if you're in the market for an upgrade? Let's weigh up the pros and cons so that I can help you decide whether this is the right card for you. I'll start off by...
More than 18 months after the launch of its 7000 series, AMD has finally unveiled its successor graphics card . As it turns out, it's, well, the 7000 series with knobs on. Just to give us the sense that everything is completely new, though, AMD has...
Well this is my last review for the week and boy has it been a great experience testing out the new R200 series cards. First of all i would like to thank HIS and AMD for giving me the opportunity to review their latest cards to provide detailed reviews...
When I first heard the re-brand rumours I was slightly disappointed but then seeing the prices suddenly perked my interest right back up. AMD have been playing on the back foot in performance terms compared to NVIDIA. But now with the price cuts on the...
The HIS R9 280X ICEQ x2 Turbo is a good card of that there can be no doubting. It sits directly between both the ASUS and GIGABYTE models we reviewed previously when overclocked and exchanges blows with both cards in standard form despite being a...
Another day and another AMD R9 280X review. Today we've got another custom cooled and overclocked graphics card but this time we've got a graphics card vendor that we haven't taken a look at for ages – HIS Digital. This is the first HIS Digital graphics...
Perhaps fortunately, AMD's reference Radeon R9 280X is a bit of a phantom outside our own labs. If you're shopping for one of these Tahiti-based boards, you're looking at third-party solutions. We round up seven models and show what makes them different....
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