Question 1

What kind of power supply does it need?

Accepted Answer

It requires (1) 6 pin and (1) 8 pin PCI express power connection so you will need a power supply that can provide that (or the appropriate adapters).  I have an 800 watt power supply but that is probably overkill.  Your own power supply needs will depend on all that you have powering the system and what the power supply provides per rail.

Question 2

Does this include the Crossfire bridge as shown in the picture? I wanted to check as it's not mentioned anywhere else that I can see.

Accepted Answer

These newer cards no longer require the crossfire bridge when using pci 3.0. there is enough bandwidth to eliminate the need for the bridge for the the cards to communicate. But they do include one in the box, I have this card and it does.

Question 3

Does this card have a VGI Connection?

Accepted Answer

It does not.  It has 2 DVI, 1 HDMI, and 1 DisplayPort.  If you're looking for a card of this caliber, I highly suggest that you get a monitor that at least has HDMI to take advantage of the card.

Question 4

What is the cross fire bridge and what does it do? This is my first PC build so sorry if it's a dumb question. Thanks.

Accepted Answer

Cross fire bridges used to be for linking up multiple cards so that you can use both of their power combined to to play games or whatever you do. Nowadays, you dont need them, because if you just plug your cards into to PCIE slots, they will just communicate over the bus instead of an additional bridge. NVIDIA cards still require to use an SLI bridge however, for this same purpose, just that NVIDIA has their cards communicating over a bridge instead of the bus

Question 5

Would this card work with my setup Athlon X4 760k, MSI A78M-E35, 8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport, 1TB Western Digital Black, PS is a 430 watt but will upgrade to the one needed if card needs more?

Accepted Answer

John, There is no reason why your system would not work with the Radeon R9280 except the power supply. This card requires both a six pin and an eight pin power plug on the top end of the card. The R9280 works fine on my Intel i7 4Ghz Haswell system. I have 16 Gig of ram on a ASUS ITX 97 series mobo.
I have a Corsair 750 power supply (fully modular) so everything has enough power.

Question 6

I am wondering if I can run two monitors at once using this card.  Lets say I want to watch episodes of LOST on one monitor and use Adobe Audition on the other ... can this be done?  Thanks for the help.

Accepted Answer

Yes you Can use dual monitors with this video card. Having said that I would provide a link explaining how to but I am not allowed too. Here is some information that maybe be useful.

Connecting multiple monitors for AMD Eyefinity technology couldn’t be simpler. There are four easy rules to remember:

The first two monitors can connect to the graphics card with any display output on your product: HDMI, VGA, DVI or Display Port.
   
The third (or greater) display must be connected to the graphics card via DisplayPort.
   
 If your monitor does not have a DisplayPort connection, you will need an inexpensive active DisplayPort adapter for it.?
    
Every family of GPUs supports a different maximum number of displays.

Remember that these are the most basic requirements. Creative designs like the Sapphire FleX HD 7950 or the MSI R7970 Lightning make it even easier to configure AMD Eyefinity technology by reducing, or even eliminating some of these requirements for AMD Radeon™ graphics products. In that respect, always make sure to carefully explore these non-reference solutions and their product specifications when configuring a system with AMD Eyefinity technology by checking with the graphics card manufacturer.?

Question 7

Hi, Dear

I have listing CP as below, Please help out graphic card is it compatible with those parts.? thanks, Ann

ASUS Z87-PRO Motherboard
Intel Core i7-4770K
Bitfenix Ghost Chassis
Seasonic Platinum Series 860W Power Supply
ASUS DirectCU II r9280-DC2T ------ is it compatible??????? 
Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB Kit 1866Mhz
Kingston HyperX 3k 120GB SSD (x2)
Western Digital WD Black 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
ASUS 12X BD-ROM 16X DVD-ROM SATA Internal Blu-ray Drive
Bitfenix Spectre Pro LED 120mm case fan (x4)
Noctua NH-L9i L-Type Low-Profile Cooler

Accepted Answer

As long as the card fits inside your chassis it should be compatible, and seeing as how the chassis has a width of 210 mm and the card is 5.7" tall it should work just fine. The z87 plus does have PCI-E x16 slots, which is what you should have for this card, but that isn't something you need to worry about too much, mostly just whether it fits inside the chassis. Your power supply should supply plenty enough power for your system. PCpartpicker is a great resource to check compatibility for your parts if you want to do some research yourself. This looks like it should be a great system.

Question 8

Does this card work with PCI Express 2.0 slots? I can only see that it works with 3.0. I'd like to know to see if it's compatible with my motherboard, the Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 AMD Motherboard.

Accepted Answer

Yes it will work in a 2.0 slot because PCI-E is backwards compatible and PCI-E 2.0 is fast enough so there will be no bottleneck when it is used.

Question 9

I had bought the ibuypower ARC Series NE611FX and I am wanting to upgrade the video card.  Will this card work, and is there a way to find the specific form factor for the power supply that this case uses?

Accepted Answer

Yes it should work no problem but just make sure your power supply unit is at around 650W or more. Anything less than 600W you may be asking for trouble with the power demand this card has. Also, I would add more RAM to your PC at the same time, 4GB is low especially if you plan to add this card, I would add at least another 4GB. Kinda like adding too much peanut butter to a peanut butter cup without the proper chocolate ratio.

Question 10

Will a Corsair CX500 or CX600 work with this GPU? Thanks.

Accepted Answer

I'm using a raidmax 630w and I get 100% gpu usage on a 1150mhz oc, but it depends on the power draw of your cpu aswell. For reference I'm using a fx6300 oc to 4.4ghz with 8gb ram, 1 hard drive, 3 case fans and the Asus r9 280 and I don't have any power issues at 630w.

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