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Help with a graphic card

SnowAkechi

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Hello~ I've used Tomshardware before and liked it so I figured I'd come back and ask this question. I built a computer on Cyberpowerpc recently for the Independence Day sale, or well I suppose build is incorrect. They had an AMD PC on sale for $500 off; which I looked at and purchased. However...it has an AMD R9 280 3GB GDDR5 card, and I keep trying to find information on that but can only find information on the R9 280x, did I make a mistake buying this card? The full specs of the PC are as follows;

AMD FX-8320 3.50 GHz Eight-Core AM3+ CPU 8MB L2 Cache & Turbo Core processor
GIGABYTE 970A-DS3P AMD 970 ATX w/ Ultra Durable 4 Classic, On/Off Charge, GbLAN, 2 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 2 PCI motherboard
8GB (4GBx2) DDR3/1866MHz Dual Channel Memory (Corsair Vengeance) ram
AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card (Major Brand Powered by AMD) Graphics card
600 Watts - Standard 80 Plus Certified Power Supply - SLI/CrossFireX Ready power supply

Would love to hear your thoughts, also would like to know if I made a huge mistake buying this since it's using all of my money + some of my parents.

The games I'd use it for mostly are Tera: Rising, SC2 HoTS, Vindictus, Warframe, Minecraft, Ghost Recon, Diablo. Thanks guys/gals.
 
Solution
280 is just slightly crippled 280x (less shaders and lower clocks), they used to be called hd7950 and 7970, and of the two 7950 had better price/performance ratio. So you havent been scammed or anything, it is just the way AMD names their cards.

280 in TPU database
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2405/radeon-r9-280.html
and 280x
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2398/radeon-r9-280x.html


edit and the whole system looks like solid (upper) mid-tier rig, there's no single weak link in it that would bottleneck it.
280 is just slightly crippled 280x (less shaders and lower clocks), they used to be called hd7950 and 7970, and of the two 7950 had better price/performance ratio. So you havent been scammed or anything, it is just the way AMD names their cards.

280 in TPU database
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2405/radeon-r9-280.html
and 280x
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2398/radeon-r9-280x.html


edit and the whole system looks like solid (upper) mid-tier rig, there's no single weak link in it that would bottleneck it.
 
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Phew, I was so afraid of that, so it should run those games fine? Would it run games like BF4 on a high setting or would it be somewhat crippled to a medium or high with certain things turned off? If you know. >_< I've been really limited on my current rig, and by limited I mean I can barely play browser games now, I have a AMD Radeon HD 6700 series, and when I try any of the games I listed I drop to roughly 10-15 frames, it's infuriating to use, so I'm really hoping this new one will run wonderfully.
 


That's true, thanks a lot for clearing that up for me, I was quite...worried that I royally messed up lol.