Question 1

Hello! I received this video card and installation disc for Christmas (meaning someone else bought it for me). After weeks of trying to get it installed into my lame computer, it's finally in - but because I had to take the equipment back and forth between several people to get everything put together, the driver installation disc has gone missing. I (and others) have searched, but I can't get the drivers. is there ANY way I could get another copy of the disc? It would be an immeasurable shame if there was no way for me to use this product (especially after all the OTHER parts I also had to buy in order to be able to use it). Thank you for your time, I eagerly await your response.

Accepted Answer

Hello!

The disc that comes with your product isn't actually necessary due to the fact that it comes pre-installed with outdated drivers and it is recommended that you DON'T use the disc as a source of acquiring your driver for your video card.

Since it's an Radeon-based card, you will need to go to AMD's website on getting the appropriate drivers for your card, which can be found on their [drivers + download center] section.

Question 2

Is there any coil whine that I heard was a big issue with the PowerColor R9 280?

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There is slight coil whine under high load, does it in star citizen but not in league of legends my last several cards did the same thing so it's just something I've gotten used to. Nothing much against the card unless you re going for a super quiet build

Question 3

Will this work with the Gigabyte GA-G1.SNIPER Z97 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard?  The motherboard and CPU are Intel, will this matter?

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All modern motherboards including the one that you described has Crossfire and SLI Technology, meaning that this specific GPU will work. The slot that this GPU goes in is called a "PCI" or "PCI-E"

And when it comes to CPUs, it doesn't matter market-wise. If you had to rely on and AMD-only vs NVIDIA-only builds, these 3rd-party companies making these cards wouldn't exist.

Question 4

Hey i cant decide weather to get this a sapphire R9 280 dual x or a gtx 960 how good do you think this is compared to the others and which one should i get?

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Boy tough question I always tend to go with the Nv!dia card myself always gave a stellar performance. I have the GTX980 in my computer. I looked a long time ago on running dual vid cards and it only gave a differance of maybe 10 frames a sec not worth the extra $ to do so. Plus the fact that whatever cards you buy will be outdated by next year, this time. And I might add the power supply to run 2 cards. Better off spending the money on a BIG SSD drive, ram and CPU. Remembering the computer can run as fast as your slowest drive.

Question 5

Bought this card as part of a system rebuild, but didn't connect it because I learned too late my modular PS (Corsair CMPSU-520HX 520W) didn't have the two 6-pin power cables. I can order them, but my question is this: Are the two auxiliary 6-pin power ports required, or only recommended, depending on usage? I.e., can this be run without the additional power, if not overly taxed? Or just one connector? User manual wasn't any help and I'm new to "real" graphics cards so forgive my ignorance.

Accepted Answer

It depends.  No you shouldn't, and you could cause damage doing so.  I did get it to boot with only one before I did the same splitter purchase.  It really needs both, but you might be able to get it to work with one.  I don't recommend anything other than just having Windows open though.  So basically it isn't a solution to run it on one and just be careful as you will be very limited (if you can get it to boot at all), but it might be able to get you to where you can install things and get your computer build up and going while waiting on the dual cable splitter (or whatever option you go with).

Question 6

will it work with msi z97 G-45 and a EVGA 700wB psu? also will it be able t ocross fire?

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Usually you won't have any problems with motherboard/video card compatibility. So that should not be a problem. The issue will be making sure your cpu and motherboard are compatible. You should read over the info section more as it cross fire compatible, and your psu will be able to support it. When you cross fire though, you increase the amount of wattage used, but I still think your psu will be able to support 2 video cards.

Question 7

does this card come with a 6-pin molex power adapter? my psu only has one 6-pin cable

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So I can use Molex-to-6-pin adapters for the two auxiliary power ports on the card?

Question 8

what power supply is required for crossfire?

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I use a 1200 W p/s, but that's probably overkill.  Not sure of the minimum requirement.  Some PC builders and p/s manufacturers have p/s supply requirements calculators on their websites that might help.

Question 9

I am just wanting to try and find out if this would be compatible with my computer?

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What kind of computer do you have?  More specifically if you know, what motherboard do you have.  Generally speaking if you have a desktop computer made after 2006 it should be compatible but some proprietary  Dells or old Gateways may not fit it.  Laptops most definitely  wont.

Question 10

Please help. I installed the latest drivers and a lot of the games I used to play say the drivers are not updated. But that's impossible, since I literally downloaded the most up to date drivers. I'm seriously going crazy, my poor computer worked amazingly for one day and now everything is ruined and I don't know what's happening or what to do!!  I uninstalled any and all display drivers, went to amd website, downloaded the windows 8.1 64 bit drivers for this card, installed, but things still work as my computer used to before this card. skyrim is laggy, and what's worse, i have 2 other games that won't even WORK at all because it says the drivers are not updated properly. please please help. I can't even coung how much $ was SPENT on getting the parts for my computer to be compatible with this video card. we got a new proccessor, motherboard, power souce, and memory. Please, I've been trying since christmas to get this thing to work. please help. 
Is this just a windows 8.1 issue? If so will it be fixed soon??

Accepted Answer

First thing is to make sure you have deleted out all of your old drivers.  Updating or installing over old drivers, while easy, can occasionally cause problems.  The next thing is to make sure you have the right driver as well as all of the necessary drivers.  Also make sure your software is also the same type, i have seen too many people try to install 32 bit games or drivers (I know you noted 64 bit) when they needed 64 or vise versa.  Just triple check to make sure it isn't a simple mistake like that.  This sounds like old uninstalled drivers rearing their ugly head though.

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