ASUS Radeon R9 280X Review
Test Setup
ASUS Radeon R9 280X DirectCU II
Intel Core i7-3960X @ 4.6GHz
ASUS Rampage IV Extreme
Corsair Dominator Platinum
Corsair AX1200i
Corsair Neutron GTX
Corsair H100i
Windows 7 x64 Â
Overclocking
If anyone doubted that this is really just a renamed HD7970 then GPUz tells the full story. The ASUS DirectCU II cooler does an excellent job of allowing us plenty of headroom to overclock, with a good increase on the GPU core of 80MHz, and a serious boost on the memory, up by 800MHz effective.
Temperatures
The DirectCU II cooler performs well, keeping the 280X nice and cool even under our most stressful tests.
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