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XFX R9 280 Black OC Edition Review

Inno3D supply their own software for overclocking, but we achieved the same results by using MSI’s Afterburner, based on RivaTuner. It is more user friendly too.
overclocking

msi afterburner
There is plenty of overclocking headroom on the sample we received, hitting 1,141mhz on the core – a 14% overclock.
3dmark11 oc

3dmark11oc
The manual overclock helped to increase the GPU score from 9,750 points to 11,030 points.

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3 comments

  1. What kind of VRM temps did you get with this card? I’m a little worried as after just 5 mins of Furmark with stock settings my card has VRM temps of 99 degrees.

  2. Hi dav, I meant to add that in. have done now on the temperature page.