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AMD R9 280X Crossfire Performance Review & Benchmarks!

2013-10-21
today's video is made possible by Squarespace welcome back that's right we're yet you're on TECA tomorrow and I'm Eric your host oh we bring you all the tech all the time now the new AMD line of cards has hit the market and we were lucky to get our hands on a couple of cars we got the MSI Twin Frozr gaming edition r9 280x and we also got the gigabyte win force r9 280x so we took both of these cards we clocked them both the same at ten fifty megahertz they come out of the box at ten fifty megahertz on one card and eleven on the other so we just decide we just keep it at the tip 30 mega just to make sure there's no problems at all we ran the tests there were no problems whatsoever and pretty much these things are running similar to what you would see a pair of semi 970 gigahertz addition cards run at now what do we use for our testing well we use a Haswell based system with an i7 4770k 32 gigabytes of Patriots fiber extreme memory now for our boot drive we're using a 240 gigabytes and disk extreme SSD for our storage drive we have a one terabyte Western Digital black drive we're using an Evo 212 cooler from the people over at Coolermaster and pretty much that's it other than the motherboard which is the Asus hero this is one of their latest boards on the rock series and this thing works really well and is really moderately priced with that said let's jump in let's check out some of the performance and see how these two cards did excuse me walking out to the benchmarks on if you guys don't know it that is the human Zoo by me and the team here at Tech of tomorrow now we have all these songs you can listen in for free over at wwq tomorrow music calm a website that we made with Squarespace we launched this site using Squarespace calm which is probably the quickest and easiest way to set up your own website Squarespace has 20 templates to choose from to start you off and is constantly improving their platform with new features and designs it doesn't matter if you're on your desktop tablet or smartphone everything is optimized to look good automatically if your only issues along the way don't worry you can take advantage of their 24 hour a day 7 day a week tech support team who are ready to help you get your site up and running pricing starts at just eight dollars a month with a free domain if you sign up for a year and to make things even sweeter for you our lovely tech up tomorrow fans you guys can receive 10% off along with a free trial upon signing up by using our discount code T ot 10 at the checkout so if you enjoy the content we put up and have been looking to create your own website you can help support the show and get a killer deal on a killer service at the same time the link is down below in the description check it out sorry folks you guys see the performance results and all that now like usual these drivers are not that mature but you guys demand we get the videos out to you real fast so that's what we're doing now you guys can see in some of the tests we were getting you know 100% double the performance and some of the other ones we weren't now these drivers though are very very new as the drivers mature we'll see a lot better performance going on and like I said all the micro stuttering issues that we used to see on single monitors are now eliminated they haven't eliminated a multi screen and eyefinity but if you're just a guy who sits in front of your computer with one monitor you want to do crossfire you ain't got to worry about anymore that micro stuttering crap getting in your eyes and eliminating your you know joyful game I don't really see it that much but there are a lot of people out there who say they can see the micro stuttering my is just too old I guess because I don't really see that stuff now like we talked about yesterday and you guys can check that out in the video right over here you guys can use a 79 70 Sedition card in conjunction with an r9 280x and crossfire you just have to use the 7970 as your primary card so if you guys happen to miss that video it will be right over here check that out if you're not sub the sub button is right up here and down to the like button is a link to all the information including the review if you guys want to check that out so I'm Eric peace out this new guys back here on deck tomorrow with
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