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more welcome to my unboxing and review of a product that I can't figure out the
reason for its existence this is the r9270 from AMD in particular we have the
MSI gaming Edition with their twin frozer cooler their military spec
military class design so that means very robust components great for overclocking
and running cool and Lasting a long time and all that stuff as well as well
that's pretty much it the cooler and the better designed PCB are kind of the
benefits of a gaming class card from MSI all right so why can't I figure out why
it exists well because it's pretty similar to the 270x so it comes with a
two Molex to single PCIe six pin adapter it's 150 watt TDP card so you only need
a single six connector you've got some user guide and Driver discs and all that
don't worry about it all right so the graphics card itself has a fully
featured core which means 1,280 stream processors a 256-bit memory
interface and the only real difference between this and its bigger brother the
270x is the slightly lower frequency on
the GPU core so a reference to70 would
be clocked at around 925 MHz whereas a reference 270x is going to be at 1.05
GHz now with that said this MSI one comes clocked at 975 MHz
anyway so the performance is very very
close and it costs about 10% less now all of the usual features with the
exception of true audio are supported direct x1.2 their new mantle API which
is going to have support in Battlefield 4 and Star Citizen and some upcoming
games coming soon although we've yet to find out how much of a performance
difference that makes it do have support for their new easi Affinity so you can
plug three displays into whichever three connections you want and you can even
use a DisplayPort Hub to connect up to six displays to this individual card
although for a 2 gig card with this kind of power I wouldn't really recommend
running ifinity 1080P and expecting to play the latest games at Ultra details
the performance is going to be everything for this now our usual thing
is we take the cards oh yeah I guess we should do a bit of a tour of the cards
so we've got MSI 100 mm propeller blade fans so they have the uh coating on the
edges they spin backwards in order to prevent dust buildup and all that noise
speaking of noise it's very very very quiet then we've got some heat pipes
down here so we've got two heat pipes leading out to a pretty large actually
aluminum finay so you can see that there is a bit of a p PCB extension right here
so it's actually longer than the PCB itself but for good reason because
they've actually got more cooling potential there they've also got their
usual rigidity enhancing piece right here that actually does help the card
seg and droop lest we've got a crossfire connector supporting up to two-way
Crossfire configurations and a gorgeous matte black PCB on the back we've also
got a PC Express 3.0 16x interface and
the aforementioned six pin PCI Express plug so you will be yeah that's pretty
much it okay so it comes down to Performance and price so the price is
better than a 270x and the performance once we overclocked this thing we got
this thing just absolutely rocking because it's a non-reference card it
does overclock and it is cool better than our reference 270x and we actually
got pretty much the same performance with Max overclocks on this card and the
other one so we're looking at something like this going holy crap well this
thing is fantastic it's basically just cheaper so this is why I'm saying I the
the whole I don't know why it exists thing because AMD is basically undercutting the 270x by bringing this
card to us only a couple weeks later and it's performed great so without further
Ado I'm going to hand things off to slick and he can let you guys know that
the performance is awesome with actual graphs oh whoa hey hold on okay I'm back
no I missed something okay so they've got their zero core technology which
basically turns off the GPU when your system goes to sleep and the display
goes off so you can actually save a lot of power that way not full sleep display
off sleep just to be clear and I wanted to talk a little bit about our testing
methodology for our graphics cards we overclock every card so the cold hard
truth is yes designs like this will do better than reference designs a lot of
the time but them's the brakes I guess that is a lesson about buying
non-reference cards cards versus buying reference cards if you want the absolute
maximum performance when you're overclocking you can see all of our overclocking settings in the graph and
chart that is actually linked below the video description so you can see exactly
what we're doing and if you want to see stock benchmarks there are of course a
hundred other sites that'll have stock benchmarks for this card so feel free to
go and check those ones out but we're showing overclock numbers in all of our
games at 1080p which is what this card is designed for 1080p Sweet Spot
performance and now off to Luke slick
whatever his name is the first thing to notice is that in our overclocked
benchmarks the 270 beats out the 270x
just like in our overclocked benchmarks how the 290 beat out the 290x although
in this situation it's slightly different because our 270 has an
aftermarket cooler where our 270x did not so there's a slight difference there
for overclocking with this card it was actually quite simple you take all the
sliders to the very end click apply and
you're done it's completely stable we had a core clock of 1050 the entire time
no matter what I threw at it it was completely stable and this was awesomely
boring it was awesome because you get to just take all the sliders and put them
at the end which is always kind of fun but then it was boring because it just
kind of worked and had no issue whatsoever and there was no fine-tuning
or anything like that I was just put them all at the end and you're good to go it only got to 63° and the fan speed
only went up to 27% on the heaviest load I put it on so it seems like there might
be some extra power there that it could harness but it just isn't other than
that it performs really well and as lus said I'm not entirely sure sure why it
exists but I'm happy it's here so that's about it if you like the video like the
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