Conclusion
Decent shipping frequencies, reasonable power consumption, and a sub-£240 street price makes the WindForce OC one of the more appealing R9 280X boards on the market.Gigabyte has moved quickly to launch a Radeon R9 280X graphics card. It's no secret this new AMD powerhouse is built on the same technology powering the Radeon HD 7900 cards, so Gigabyte literally transitions one model to another via a BIOS update.
Decent shipping frequencies, reasonable power consumption, and a sub-£240 street price makes the WindForce OC one of the more appealing R9 280X boards on the market, but we'd certainly recommend Gigabyte take another look at the too-agressive fan profile and remedy that situation with a BIOS update.
It is perhaps more accurate to think of this as a Radeon HD 7970 OC at a lower price point. The trouble for Gigabyte is that other add-in board partners offer a better all-round package for a small premium. Gigabyte needs to pay a little more attention to cooling and perhaps hike the memory speed for the WindForce OC to mix it with the best of the R9 280X crowd. A good, if not outstanding, card.
The Good
Solid core overclock
Excellent priceThe Bad
Noisy under load
Memory not overclockedHEXUS.where2buy
The Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X OC (GV-R928XOC-3GD) is available from Scan Computers.
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