Question about a graphics card.

[Funoppi]

I asked before about the Asus Radeon R9 280X DC II TOP OC 3GB GDDR5 fitting Ipisb-ch2 and someone said that it would fit, but i found out they do not sell it anywhere near where i live.
Just wanted to ask is MSI R9 280X GAMING 3G 3GB GDDR5 the same graphics card but just made by MSI and is it any different from the another one?
Sorry for asking again but i dont want to make another 300 euro mistake.

 

[dwatterworth]

The cards are essentially the same, minor differences in length, depth, height, cooling and clock speeds.

The Asus card is 284.5mm long while the msi card is 269mm long.
The asus card will boost to 1070mhz for the GPU core clock while the MSI card will boost to 1050mhz.

Both cards are known to have excellent cooling which will allow them to run at full boost speed nearly 100% of the time in a case with decent airflow.

The excellent cooling characteristics also allow the cards to run very quietly.

The Asus card is slightly deeper, so a few millimeters deeper than a true dual slot card while the msi gaming card fits in exactly a dual slot space, something to consider if you are thinking of running more than one card in crossfire in the future. -- crossfire on another motherboard of course since the IPISB-CH2 only has those additional 1x slots.