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Woops my bad looking at the wrong version

As an aside Sapphire reports the card to be running at 1030mhz not 1080mhz... http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1&gid=3&sgid=1227&pid=2167&psn=&lid=1&leg=0

Mines been in the mail since yesterday :D

The GTX 780 is retailing for $499.99 The Sapphire is $439.99 Likely to crossfire/SLI whichever card is chosen in the future. Which do you think is better?

Country of origin: Canada Parts Preference: No preference for Nvidia or AMD. So long as the manufacturer is reliable I don’t have a preference for that either. I’ve identified the Sapphire R9 290 tri-x OC and Sapphire R9 290 Vapor-X as strong contenders but am open to other cards. Budget: Top...

So I built my computer in the beginning of January (thanks to the tom's community for help with that btw), at or almost at the height of the R9 series shortages that were driving prices so high. At the time I "settled" for a GPU in order to get a solid foundation for a system I could upgrade the...

Just wanted to provide an update as to how it worked out. When you buy Windows 8 from the Microsoft store you can create an iso extension from the install. It doesn't look like it at first because it asks for your product key and everything long before those options show up. It kind of feels...

Hi, I'm doing a new PC in the next couple weeks (parts are shipping) . I got a good deal on a copy of Windows 8 from the Microsoft store because I'm a student. Problem is it's a digital download and install, they don't mail you the physical disk. If I download the file (it's an .exe) and put...

Hello everyone, I've been shadowing these forums for a while now. I really like the hardware advice you give people and I'm looking for some myself now. I intend to take advantage of some Christmas sales to start my first build. If you guys can give me a build to start out from I can adapt it...