[Newegg] PowerColor R9 270 with 3 free games - $99.26 after MIR

[RussianSensation]

PowerColor TurboDuo AXR9 270 2GBD5-TDHE/OC Radeon R9 270 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Video Card

= $138.99

Less 7% off w/ promo code SHDFSF67
Less $30 MIR expires December 2, 2014
= $99.26

Comes with 3 free games AMD coupon, including Alien Isolation.

This card is 31% faster at 1080P 4AA gaming than a GTX750Ti.

 

[RussianSensation]

Updated November 16, 2014 with new rebate expiring Dec 2 and new 7% off coupon code.

 

[cytoSiN]

Thanks RS. How do you feel about this cooler compared to some of the others out there? I know MSI runs cool and quiet. Any thoughts on this one?

 

[RussianSensation]

Thanks RS. How do you feel about this cooler compared to some of the others out there? I know MSI runs cool and quiet. Any thoughts on this one?

"There isn’t any means of controlling the VDDC (VGPU) voltage on this card. There are some utilities that seem to work like TriXX, but it will not in any way set the voltage. You’re stuck at 1,188V and you’ll have to make the best out of that. With that said, we managed a healthy 1125MHz in the core and an impressive 1,550MHz on the Hynix GDDR5 memory. Some benchmarks we could complete at 1,150MHz but that was not stable to run through the entire suit we used. Thus we settled on the lower frequency. We suspect that for everyday use one will likely want to employ 1,100MHz or perhaps 1,075MHz for that added safety. Of course each model will vary and our particular card according to GPU-Z had an ASIC quality of 67.9%. Not great by any means, yet we managed a healthy 170MHz overclock for our tests. That is impressive by our measure, especially given that we had nothing but the TDP power limit slider and fan speed to work with.

Talking about the fan speed again, at full throttle it managed to keep the card form going above 65’C even with the overclock on both the core and memory. This was in contrast to the normal fan profile which capped temperatures at 71’C. It’s very obvious that this is one capable cooler that PowerColor has built."
http://www.theoverclocker.com/powercolor/

For someone like you with a 570, I'd look towards a faster card as I don't feel R9 270 is a good enough upgrade. I think you should wait for an R9 280X/290 to drop to $170-180.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

"There isn’t any means of controlling the VDDC (VGPU) voltage on this card. There are some utilities that seem to work like TriXX, but it will not in any way set the voltage. You’re stuck at 1,188V and you’ll have to make the best out of that. With that said, we managed a healthy 1125MHz in the core and an impressive 1,550MHz on the Hynix GDDR5 memory. Some benchmarks we could complete at 1,150MHz but that was not stable to run through the entire suit we used. Thus we settled on the lower frequency. We suspect that for everyday use one will likely want to employ 1,100MHz or perhaps 1,075MHz for that added safety. Of course each model will vary and our particular card according to GPU-Z had an ASIC quality of 67.9%. Not great by any means, yet we managed a healthy 170MHz overclock for our tests. That is impressive by our measure, especially given that we had nothing but the TDP power limit slider and fan speed to work with.

Talking about the fan speed again, at full throttle it managed to keep the card form going above 65’C even with the overclock on both the core and memory. This was in contrast to the normal fan profile which capped temperatures at 71’C. It’s very obvious that this is one capable cooler that PowerColor has built."
http://www.theoverclocker.com/powercolor/

For someone like you with a 570, I'd look towards a faster card as I don't feel R9 270 is a good enough upgrade. I think you should wait for an R9 280X/290 to drop to $170-180.

An R9 290 dropping to $180? On what planet would that happen on? :biggrin: