SAPPHIRE Vapor-X Radeon R9 280X 3GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Graphics Card 100363VX-3L

Pros: High end Card.
High base overclocks from Sapphire.
Awesome Cooling.
Easy to push further overclocks on it.(see Below)
not a Bottleneck.
Mantle.
Can easly run most the newest games maxed out with Right CPU.

You can not go wrong with this card with an high end CPU..

Cons: My only con isn't with the card itself per say but this card will quickly turn your CPU into your bottleneck. FX upgrade incoming with me.

Overall Review: I have an AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0Ghz and even with that CPU this card darn near maxes out Dragon Age Inquisition with mantle. pretty sure once I upgrade my CPU this thing will max it out without an sweat.

Every other game I own it Maxes out. BF3,BF4, and the Witcher 2 to name an few.

I have also overclocked it to 1150 mHz on the GPU core and 1700 MHz on the Memory with no voltage changes and this thing is runing at 32 degrees celsius idle and about 56 degrees celsius under load. not bad at all concidering this is an AMD GPU.

Had an Radeon HD 6870, also from Sapphire which I bought the day it came out and its still kicking like the day i got it.. I expect the same from this card as I have learned as far as AMD goes you can't go wrong with Sapphire

Pros: Effective
stayed pretty cool
Fairly quiet

Cons: It died on me 2-3 months
Very long

Overall Review: This was not a bad card I have had it for 2-3 months when one day I turned my computer off and a few hours later when I turned it back on I just stopped recieving a display. The card peformed to my expectations up until this point. I do not know what happened and there was nothing I, nor anybody could do to fix it. The fans on the card still come on all the pretty lights still light up everything seems to work fine but I get no signal.

It is truly a shame I cannot replace or refund it. This really put a hole where my heart used to be especially because this is the first computer that I got to help build for myself, but oh well. I will just have to save up for a different card or maybe the same one.

I am not saying it is a bad card or you should not get it because it was probably just some stupid freak accident. It has worked for plenty of other people. Just not me. The only thong I am REALLY upset about is that I can't RMA so I guess I should have gotten a longer warrenty.