A Closer Look
The XFX R9 280X DD BE OC uses a sleek looking dual 100mm fan cooling solution. It’s a stark contrast from the last generation of DD coolers from XFX. It’s quite a long card at about 11.5 inches.
The XFX R9 280X DD BE OC uses a fully black PCB and has a tonne of mounting screws to keep the large cooling solution in place.
The bottom is partially open and closed. You can get a glimpse at the dense aluminium heatsink and copper heat pipe array.
The top is mainly open with an XFX logo for aesthetics.
The XFX R9 280X uses a 6 pin and an 8 pin connector for power.
The XFX logo sits atop two CrossFire connectors for up to 4 way CFX.
The end of the cooler reveals four copper heatpipes and a hole where a fifth could be placed. Presumably the XFX R9 280X only needs four heatpipes while a fifth heatpipe might be reserved for higher TDP cards like the R9 290X and R9 290.
The rear I/O is different to the default config and has dual mini DisplayPort, dual DVI (one supports VGA adapters) and HDMI. Eyefinity 6 is possible with a single MST hub.
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You seem to have real problems overclocking a lot of cards you get in for review. Have you tried swapping out other parts of your test bench to see if it fixes it?
The majority of cards we get overclock okay. The only cards I can think of that didn’t were the two MSI GTX 700 ones (GTX 760/GTX 770 TF Gaming) and this card. Everything else did what was expected or sometimes more. Overclocking is more a result of the silicon lottery than anything else. We’ve got a capable motherboard, CPU and PSU so there’s no reason to assume it is being caused by anything other than rubbish overclocking samples.
These temps make no sense. Unless you are testing inside of a commercial refrigerator there is no way your temps can be this low. Cards at less then 5c when idle??? That would literally be just 5 degrees above freezing, so even if powered off those cards could never hit those temps as they would never go below the ambient room temperature.
Your 290 and 290X temps under load are also a full 20c, or more, then every other benchmark that has been posted. No way these numbers are real unless you are doing something else to chill the units.
We use delta temperatures as stated in the methodology and as written on the graphs, normally the room temperature is about 21-23 degrees.
That way readers can estimate what temperatures it will run at for them by adding on their typical room temperature. Of course if it is an card with a thermal control point (which is increasingly becoming the trend these days) then deltas can become a little irrelevant.
Hmm I have R9 280X DD Black 1080/1550 1.2v (cant use the voltage on XFX BIOS lol but on the box i have that has unlocked voltage, strange indeed) but i have flashed the BIOS from Sapphire TOXIC and now i have ulocked Voltage 🙂 so i Gaming on 1050/1550 1.175v +5%POW and its safe, cool and efficient even better that my last XFX 7970DD GHzEd 😀 My temps in BF4 1h gaming is about 56-58 deg. cels. I have Corsair 750D Silento with 3x140mm fans on 50-75% I cant even hear my XFX 😉
the last one was noisy and hot 68-71deg. cels. So XFX is better and better. RMA is Great also.
And question 4U – why the v is locked? is maby the BIOS is set to 2 (default?)
my xfx r9 280x idles at 30 c and folding 57c and heavy gaming 63c
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