Gigabyte R9 270X GDDR5-4GB 2xDVI/HDMI/DP OC Graphics Card (GV-R927XOC-4GD)

I don't like to hear that others are getting defected cards but I just got mine a month ago in a sealed box with everything in it, Plopped it in and can Run skyrim on ultra. gets to about 49-51c Under load. Not a problem. Gives great performance for the money. I desired more though so I bought a stronger Power supply and just bought my second one of these cards for some crossfire. This card preforms well. If youre looking for simply better performance I really do urge you to get a 290x (or 2 if you wanna crossfire) It has a great deal of better performance for not that much money. Dont hassle trying to Upgrade or sell your 270x if you need something future proof for a bit.

I paired this with an FX-8320 and it handles just about everything I have at Totally maxed settings or between high and ultra on newer titles (like BF4) at 1920x1080. You should note that the R9 270X is a remade HD7800 series card with a higher clock (this is boosted a bit further) and requires less power (2x 6-pin PCIe). I bought this at just over $200 which is still inflated (damn bitcoin miners) but I still think it's worth the cost. It is Crossfire capable and I will pick up another to try it out once it comes back down. I don't game on multiple screens so this card is perfect. Only downside was Amazon's shipping. It's the first time they screwed it up but it did arrive and I am very happy with it. UPDATE 4/16/2014: Decided on a whim to try an overclock it and I guess I lost the overclocking lottery with this one. I only managed to get an extra 20MHz (1120MHz) on the core. The voltage is locked on this card so that may have held it back a bit. Still, while stress testing it using Valley Benchmark, it never went over 55 C at 53% fan speed. With the Windforce cooler, that around 2200 rpm and it's still very quiet. Just a slight hum at full load. I'm still overjoyed with this card. I'm sure others will have better luck overclocking these. I just didn't get lucky.

I received this card 01/15/2014. The box was not sealed, no tape no nothing. I didn't think much of it. Opened the box, the card was in an obviously generic anti-static bag. Card itself APPEARED brand new, ie no obvious dust or signs of use. Installed the card in my x16 PCIe slot (i only have one slot), hooked up the 2 x 6 pin PCIe power connectors and fired up my computer. First off the card would not display on one DVI output, and only displayed the number zero in the lower right of the other monitor. Bad sign. No BIOS screen no nothing. I could hear my machine boot into the Windows desktop (windows sound) but nothing came up on either monitor (one was black, other still not detecting DVI input). I hit the reset button and rebooted. No bios screen came up, and same black on monitors etc, heard windows sound booting to desktop and a VERY long time the system hung at a black screen, but then all the sudden my desktop appeared. I thought this was strange but it seemed to be working. Check catalyst control center, and GPU-Z card seemed to be detected properly with the right amount of VRAM etc. Played Civ 5 for a few hours, card performed well. Left it overnight then next morning restarted my machine, same thing boot to black screen, windows sound but no display. Couldn't boot into safe mode either, checked everything in BIOS, card showing fine. Never could get the card to display anything after that. Put my HD6970 2GB back in and instantly all displays worked and booted into windows without a single problem. TLDR: card was bad, i got someone's open box return. Shame on you Amazon. I spend thousands of dollars a year on Prime, and you send me some reject returned card. Newegg wouldn't even do that. This wasn't a mobo issue, the machine always booted fine right into windows, but no display ever worked correctly, and 1 DVI was never even detected = defective card.

It is hard to decide how many stars I should give. I think this is a good model, but my experience with this order was unacceptable. I didn't expect amazon will ship an open box item instead of new. My experience with amazon was good for many years. The box looked like it was opened several times, its flap was half-torn. It clearly looked like someone's return. The card inside was in a plastic bag, I didn't notice any scratches right away, but the bent heatsink caught my attention right away. Because of the shape of the heatsink, I didn't expect the card to work or to cool itself under load. I still decided to test it to get some idea about this model. To my surprise, the card was functional with no overheating. It passed all tests and its performance is quite good despite of its bent shape and being an open box item. My rating reflects the average of my impression about the card and my experience with this order.

Quiet, good FPS in game. This card is a much better card than my previous one. It is much lower in noise, and greater FPS. I believe it was a good price, too, considering it is a 4gb card.

After purchasing several non X models in PC builds I decided to try out this card. I think I may just have got a bad one. After several attempts at solving heat issues and crashes, I put in a normal Gigabyte R9 270 and it performed flawlessly. Trying this one in another PC and the problem followed the card. While it worked, it was good....