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what's going on everybody welcome back tickle tomorrow we're bringing you all the tech all the time today on the tech table we have the new gigabyte win force r9 280x AMD fans I know you guys have been waiting for this card so without any further ado let's actually jump in talk about the features and what this card is about how it performs at the end of the day whether it's worth your money as the unusual all right folks so like I said when I reviewed the MSI twin frozen edition of this card you guys all know that the r9 280x is a rebranded 7970 gigahertz edition card which as we said before it isn't a bad thing you still get all the standard features that you had before and a few other things you still get the 2048 stream processors now this card has actually clocked the highest of the ones that we've seen yet because it's core clock is that 1,100 megahertz the standard core clock is at 1 gigahertz so you see you've got a lot of little leeway there you've got a 384 bit memory interface with the memory running at 1500 megahertz so this card's pretty much exactly the same as the previous generation card now it does support though DirectX 11 point 2 that is something new it's also going to support all of the things that you've seen the past I Finity all that stuff you've also got some improvement as far as using these cards in a crossfire solution now there's still some micro stuttering issues that are going on with multi monitor technology but as far as single monitor technology the micro stuttering has been improved and another story will breaking for you guys will give you a little sneak peek you can actually use this card with a 7970 gigahertz edition in a crossfire configuration now what makes the gigabyte card special well they're wind force cooling is extremely good cooling it keeps the card running very cool and keeps the car running pretty quiet as well now as far as the cards cooling goes it was pretty much neck and neck with the MSI card burning about 1 degree hotter which only makes sense because it's actually clocked higher as well so you're getting between 66 and 67 Celsius under full wood that's pretty damn good that means that this card is running cooler than previous generation cards if only by a little bit and that's always a good thing that's gonna allow you do better overclocking because the cooler the card runs the more flexible the card is going to be gigabyte like MSI uses all quality components across the board when they make their card because they want the card to last a long time in your system now as far as the power connectors go you need a single six pin and a single eight pin power connector it's 250 watts of TDP for the car another cool feature of the gigabyte wind force card is its dual BIOS feature meaning you can set one bios for overclocking one bios for normal if you happen to miss one of the bodies up you can always flash it and get it right back to normal factory settings now the rear i/o of this is exactly the same as the very first reference Edition 7970 cards that we saw it has a single DVI connector a single HDMI and two main DisplayPort adapters and inside the box that comes to the main DisplayPort to standard DisplayPort cable in case you only have that type of cable so with that said though let's jump in now check out the benchmark song which is the human Zoo written by yours truly and the staff here at echo tomorrow and let's check those bad boys out right now I like oats so there you have it you guys can see that obviously the r9 280x is totally kicking ass on the gtx 760 and is going neck to neck with the gtx 770 which is priced at $100 more than this card now in the beginning we said this is a rebranded card but that's not necessarily a bad thing because there are a lot of new features and vidi has been known to do this as well and when you do it as long as you make some new feature changes improving upon the older technology that's okay they've done this here with their new cgn technology the 11.2 that you're getting with the DirectX you can run it with an older car there's a lot of differences here that are going on plus it's priced at a hundred and a hundred and forty dollars less than competing cards that's right you're going to buy a 79 70 gigahertz Edition last month it would have been between 100 and 140 dollars more than this card so that's definitely a solid thing and a winner for the gamers so at the end of the day I say this is an editor's choice here for the AMD fans of those people looking for a card in the $300 that'll play all their games at 1080p and even play them at 2056 by 1440 that's right I'm Miller we'll see you guys back here in TECO tomorrow if you missed anything make sure you check out the link down the description below with a link over the full review and if you're not sub hey there's a little button back here make sure your sub because we've got all kinds of action always going on on tech up tomorrow you