1079 for Sapphire 280X is good deal? Feel like placing order now.

hikari?

Should I go for Vapor-X or it wont differ much from the normal Dual X model?

Which card? toxic? should be able to run without much problem. and it is a 80 Gold certified. mayb don't oc your gpu n cpu too heavy. neway, if its not able to support, your pc will shutdown the moment you game.

btw, cheap but effective ways to further cool down you gpu. my idle drop around 5C and load by 5C-10C (BF 4/3, Firemark.) now max temp stress by FM is at 68C  total additional cost RM90 (1 fan bracket + 2 xigmatek fan) - might be myth but thats how better it has to my gc temp.

Rm30 only for the bracket.

Read this...
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7406/the-sap...-toxic-review/6

"With that said while this isn’t necessarily a head-to-head article between the 280X Toxic and the Asus 280X DirectCU II TOP, it’s a logical comparison we have to make given the fact that both are factory overclocked 280X cards shooting for strong out of the box performance. For gaming workloads the 280X Toxic cleanly and clearly beats the Asus card here by a meaningful performance amount. However Asus is absolutely a spoiler here due to their aggressive pricing and their very quiet cooler. Their 280X DCUII TOP can’t match the Toxic, but it’s $40 cheaper and over 5dB quieter. Consequently if all you want is the fastest 280X on the market then Sapphire’s 280X Toxic is clearly the card to get, otherwise the Asus card is worth a consideration for its better price/performance ratio and cooling performance. As is almost always the case for factory overclocked cards there is a price to pay for the very fastest card, both in literal cost and in power and acoustics."

should be okay...  3 yr warranty anyway

Mine is nearly the same as yours, idle at 40-41 degrees. (No aircond in my room) Load in battlefield 4 is about 72 degrees. Seems okay to me.

hmm same card as mine and I do face similar problem before but now its totally gone...You're on win7 or 8.1 now? ermmmm, I suggest try do these first:

- uninstall everything related to AMD radeon driver (clean your registry as well after full uninstall)
- uninstall every overclocking or monitoring tools including profiles etc..
- restart your PC and install AMD driver 13.11 b8 (what I was using right now)

whoa I cant help then since I'm using win7 64bit..probably its a windows problem with this driver, have you tried latest 13.11 beta 9.4 btw? Maybe someone with Win8.1 PC and Radeon GC can help here

no problem for me.
1st q, is that window is LEGIT? but neway, smth is conflicting hence causing bsod. its either hardware or software.
does he already tried his GPU other PC?

As sai86 mentioned, its a good idea to try out your GC on another PC...swapping is a good way to troubleshoot problem but we need another PC for that

no, sometimes the BSOD is not defect, it's just AMD drivers are rather wonky.

I had a same machine with HD 3450 / HD 5450 / HD 7790 and HD 7970.

The HD 7970 works with the latest drivers but not the rest.
The HD 7790 needed it's dedicated driver, and will not work with legacy or latest drivers.
The HD 3450 will only work with legacy drivers.

NecroPhilia could you take note of the file mentioned during BSOD? It might be same issue as i was facing.

I solved it by disabling some stuff.

oh i thought there's BSOD.

could be just graphic card having problem. even my HD 5450 was a nutter, the most 'angin' card I ever used.

For now, ignore all those beta drivers. Just stick to the usual drivers. Does the screen look fine before driver install?

seeing you post this up, izzit because when they inject the bios into the gc has some error/conflict?
as my 7970ghz works with any driver. hence the above.

on the forumer problem, green and red lines aint a hint to get the gc to microwave to BAKE it ady? 

my 7970 ghz certainly did not work properly when 7790 and legacy drivers exist. It was around the early Catalyst 13 days, before 13.4 I believe.

that was just a few months ago, search for HD 3xxx drivers and you'll be pointed to legacy drivers, same goes to HD 7790.

this is not the case for the past few Catalyst revisions.

NecroPhilia It could be win8.1 trial(no update?) and driver conflict, from my current 280x Top, 5pcs of my previous HD7970s, 2pcs 7850s, 7770 none of them have any issues on Win 7 64bit eventhough I always keep the driver updated to latest beta driver.  Its a good idea if you can fresh install win7 on separate HDD/SSD and try latest 13.9 WHQL..see if the problem goes away or not.

if the problem persist, then I suggest go to nearest computer shop ask for their help to try out...then only RMA if confirm GPU problem.

You can find BSOD dump file in "C:\Windows\minidump\"
Try this removing method from me.

1. Download and install DriverFusion from here + Windows Installer Cleanup Utility from here. Although Cleanup Utility is an old software, it still work in Win8.

2. Remove all AMD software thru Control Panel. Do not reboot.


3. Run Windows Installer Cleanup and find any entry of AMD or Catalyst or CCC. Click Remove. Please don't screw up when selecting them. Do not reboot.


4. Now run DriverFusion, select AMD Display and click Delete. Reboot your system.
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5. Now try install your driver.

P/S: If you already done step 1 and you didn't find anything in step 2, simply proceed to step 3.

As I mentioned at your other thread, please test with 13.10 WHQL 

You might want to select remove Nvidia display driver in DriverFusion too since your previous card was GTX560Ti.

nah, the nVidia driver won't cause any issues. Windows won't have conflict on such petty matters.

I've had so many AMD and nVidia cards together on same OS. NEVER had any issues regardless GTX 5, 6, or 7 series.

The only ones giving me problem are AMD to AMD cards. really strange.

Lol no offense taken at all..I was just telling that no issues on win7 64bit thus I've no idea if it's on Win8.1..it would seem to me that you really need to find out whether your GC or software conflict causing this problem..try out some of our sifu's suggestion and let us know your result 

Hmm.......better go ahead and claim the warranty.

You could test other bios, but it will void your warranty. Not recommended.