Sapphire R9 280X Toxic Edition 3GB Review




/ 11 years ago

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A Closer Look


The cooler as we already mentioned is Sapphire’s Tri-X design which features two 8mm heat pipes, two 6mm heat pipes and a single 10mm “superpipe”. The fans, left to right, are sized at 100mm, 70mm and 100mm respectively.

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The back of the Sapphire R9 280X Toxic Edition has a rather suave looking backplate that adds to the rigidity and aesthetics of the design.

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The Sapphire R9 280X Toxic is a real beast in length. Sapphire have chosen to keep the card at a two slot thickness and as a result the length has been increased to make room for the massive cooling it needs. The total length is about 12.25 inches or 31.5 centimeters.

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Due to the massive overclock, and the massive overclocking headroom, the Sapphire Toxic R9 280X needs dual 8 pins for power delivery.

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It has dual CrossFire X connectors for up to 4 way CFX. There’s also a dual BIOS button to switch between conventional and UEFI BIOS modes. Both BIOSes have the same clock settings.

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The bottom is an open design. Interestingly the card seems to be slightly bent/skewed under the weight or pressure of the rather large cooling solution.

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The end is also an open-venting design and you can see that huge 10mm heatpipe coming down the middle.

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Display ports include dual mini Display Port, HDMI and dual DVI (the white DVI port supports DVI to VGA conversion). With an MST Hub Eyefinity 6 is fully supported.

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