Best R9 270?

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Background: New build, primarily gaming. Intel i3-4130 CPU. I have an old low budget type case, HP or some similar brand. The case has no fans, except for the PSU fan. So the case's airflow I think will be pretty much non existant.

I want to save money by not spending a lot. So the GPU I have looked at is the R7 270. Since it's a budget build with only an i3 CPU and mainstream GPU I don't want to spend a lot of money on buying a new case and several fans. That would increase the budget a lot and in proportion to how little i'm spending on CPU and GPU it seems a bit wasteful.

So therefore I think it would be best to buy a GPU with lower TDP, and also one that uses a cooler that pushes the hot air from the GPU out of the case. So not an open air cooler, like Asus CUII.

Question: The problem is I don't know which versions of the R9 270 uses the type of fan I want, and which of these is best?