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R9 270X first impressions and review !

£69 for a 270X is astonishing and its a pretty good card full stop.

Crysis 3 is a very demanding game even today, i had a 7870 at the time and was surprised how well it ran that game even at very high settings.
 
FoxEye said:
You conclude it will run any game at max settings, based on playing 2 games that are now years old? I'm assuming you mean max settings at 50 FPS.

You're wrong, I'm afraid. At 1080p and max settings there are plenty of games that won't achieve playable framerates on a 7870. I can state that as 100% fact as I have a 280X and I hardly play anything on max settings, due to poor frame rates.

If my 280X can't do it, your 270X can't either. Sorry, buddy.
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Agreed, no way you can max out newer games with aa/af and get a playable framerate at 1080P with this card.

It is very good value for the money, though I'd see it more as a low/medium settings ultra budget card and nothing more.
 
Ive had my 7870 since they came out in early 2012,cost me £280 from overclockers.
It has been a great gpu,runs cool and even on the latest games im getting 45 to 60 fps,
with the settings on medium/high at 1080p.

I really cant tell much difference between medium and ultra settings,maybe my eyes are getting worse as i get older.

But for £69 the 270x is an amazing card,glad you happy with your purchase brianthesnail.
 
Cracking value, glad you like the card, one hell of a bargain you got there.

Can I ask though, is the GTX 780 in the first picture an accident?
 
thanks guys ... point taken "foxeye" .. maybe my euphoria was getting the better of me ... back in the real world maxing out some game will affect framerates/quality and that defeats the object of having a card like the r9 270x
had one scare tonight .. ran "wolfenstein old blood " and the game crashed and driver stopped responding .." .. however this happens with all new cards ive bought ( 1 game always spoils the run ) .. that said i ran bf3 straight after and it ran without any probs .. suprisingly smooth ( but not at max settings lol )
question : using driver 15.2 .. is this a beta driver ( windows 10 installed it ) ... and what would be a more stable driver ( if any ) ?
thanks guys for all the replys !
 
Im having problems getting my R9 270X to run, i dont know whether it is a driver issue or an issue with the card but all i could get was a black screen, everything is plugged in correctly. Help please!?
 
ChrisW88 said:
Im having problems getting my R9 270X to run, i dont know whether it is a driver issue or an issue with the card but all i could get was a black screen, everything is plugged in correctly. Help please!?
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Try a different PCI-E slot for starter may be?

Also when you say "everything plugged in correctly", you have you PSU connecting two PCI-E power to both PCI-E 6pin of the card? It's nothing personal, but quite frequently people claim they have "everything plugged in", and in the end they have left one of the two PCI-E not plugged in and unpowered :p
 
Yeah eveything is plugged in, i got it to load up on to windows then as soon as i start any program the screen goes black and i cant see anything??

Whats strange is that i can restart my pc and it will work but will switch off when it gets to windows, is this a power supply issue or something like that? Mine is 500w so think that should be enough.
 
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Im using windows 10 at the moment, the free version that was downloadable. Think ive got 15.7 for drivers, inthink thats how you say it, which one would you recommend?
 
ChrisW88 said:
Im using windows 10 at the moment, the free version that was downloadable. Think ive got 15.7 for drivers, inthink thats how you say it, which one would you recommend?
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Windows 10 has been known to cause some problems for stability graphic cards, for both AMD and Nvidia (Nvidia have a bigger issue from what I've read).

The 15.7.1 driver was released on the 29/07, which is the first driver released on the same day as the Windows 10 official release, so it might not be problem free. There is a latest beta version driver 15.9.1 Beta that was released on the 30/09, so may be it would be more stable and fixes some problem for graphic cards in Windows 10?

This is one of the reasons why many people not yet upgraded to Windows 10, due to concern of getting more issues than it's worth at its early stage of release.
 
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The beta driver didnt work but for some reason it worked fine with my old card which is a 6950, going to try reinstall windows 7 and see if it works with that now.
 
hi chris .. i had this problem initially ... to fix this theres a switch on the side of the card which is hybrid bios .. i changed it to "legacy bios" ( check manual and back of box ) and it runs fine .... the card is set to "hybrid bios" by default,however if your motherboard does not support a uefi bios then the card wont work .. solution .. move it to "legacy bios" and then reinstall again .. it will now work ...
the hybrid bios switch is more of a hinderance than help.... anyway try this chris and let me know if it works
 
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