I was wondering if this GPU will work on a ASUS M5A97 R2.0 mother board and is there a big performance difference with this card to a R9 280?
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Yes the card will work fine with it. That motherboard has PCIe 2.0 and the card does have the ability to work with PCIe 3.0 but you may or may not see any difference depending on what you are doing. As far as the performance difference the R9 280X is literally a rebranded Radeon HD 7970, and you could accurately say that the R9 280 is more like a rebranded Radeon HD 7950. Both of the cards will be excellent choices, I would probably go for the cheapest one myself and save yourself some bucks as the differences are small. It's interesting to note that AMD is releasing an interesting line of Cards. The 280 is just a less beefy copy of the 280X but is by and large the same card, much like the R9 290 and R9 290X are the same card, just less power on the 290.
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Yes - I'm actually using an R9 270X with it right now. That range of card ($150-$250) is a great fit for the APU processors for a balanced system - any cards more expensive than that and you start to find that the rest of the platform is holding you back (depending on the game of course).
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I have the R9-270 setup in crossfire. When I checked out the other R9 cards, I found this to be a very good deal considering the cost. So far they are solid performers and I am able to play all my games with max settings. Haven't tried some of the newer titles but I am confident in saying you will not be disappointed.
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It has to be specific amd graphics cards, I believe the r7 240 and 250 work.
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The card is a PCI-e 3.0, but like all PCIe 3.0 GPUs, it is compatible with a 2.0 slot on a motherboard. You just don't get the advantage of the faster speeds offered by 3.0
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Works fine with my sapphire radeon 5770 with 1 gb gddr5 I don't see why it shouldn't. Pick up an aftermarket cooling unit though as some of the newer games have taken me up near 220 degrees farenheit.
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Yes the graphics card will work on the motherboard. I personally have a GTX 780 on mine.
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Unfortunately, according to the ATI Crossfire compatibility charts on the AMD website these two cards are too far apart to be successfully Crossfired. Your R9 card can only be hooked up with another R9 or an R7 graphics card.
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I play Battlefield 4 and Guild Wars 2. Both keep a smooth steady 60fps. It would probably be higher if my system was a little beefier. I have an AMD940 with ddr2 ram. I don't overclock, and it always stays a tad below 70c under load. My machine gets a little loud when everything is running at full speed, but Im not sure if I can hear the GPU fan above the power supply and CPU fan which will speed up under load. I think its a great card for the money.
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It is a great card and would it would be compatible with the board . although u must consider having a power supply than can power it properly( MSI Recommends a 750w) , if you are using a budget / lower end cpu it will seriously limit your frame rate , you must know if it can fit in your case as it is too long to fit into some cases (dimensions - 276x127x39mm) and if you are using an aftermarket cooler for your cpu how close would it be to the card which may affect airflow inside your case.
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Yes the card should work fine. You will want to pay special attention to your user manual for using the slot in your system. If you are using an inboard graphics card at the present time then you may need to enable your PCIE slot from within the BIOS. If your system is equipped with a PCIE card already then you will want to uninstall your driver for the old card before you shut your system down to put in the new Sapphire Radeon 6450. A little reading and planning goes a long way to making it a successful operation. Good luck on what ever you decide to do.
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Yes it will support both of those GPUs since we still haven't saturated the bandwidth of PCIe 2.0 x16 lanes yet, but I personally wouldn't throw in a GTX 760 into that motherboard. The R9 270X has Mantle support which isolates the GPU without requiring a stronger per core CPU to keep up like the 760 would. I think you'd be best served saving some cash and getting the R9 which will play nicer with an FX CPU. Do you need the R9 though? What games are you playing and what are your expectations? You may be able to get away with an R7 - 260X which still has Mantle, is cheaper, and would handle most games quite well. Let me know if you have any more questions. Chris Yes it will support both of those GPUs since we still haven't saturated the bandwidth of PCIe 2.0 x16 lanes yet, but I personally wouldn't throw in a GTX 760 into that motherboard. The R9 270X has Mantle support which isolates the GPU without requiring a stronger per core CPU to keep up like the 760 would. I think you'd be best served saving some cash and getting the R9 which will play nicer with an FX CPU. Do you need the R9 though? What games are you playing and what are your expectations? You may be able to get away with an R7 - 260X which still has Mantle, is cheaper, and would handle... » Read More Yes it will support both of those GPUs since we still haven't saturated the bandwidth of PCIe 2.0 x16 lanes yet, but I personally wouldn't throw in a GTX 760 into that motherboard. The R9 270X has Mantle support which isolates the GPU without requiring a stronger per core CPU to keep up like the 760 would. I think you'd be best served saving some cash and getting the R9 which will play nicer with an FX CPU. Do you need the R9 though? What games are you playing and what are your expectations? You may be able to get away with an R7 - 260X which still has Mantle, is cheaper, and would handle most games quite well. Let me know if you have any more questions. Chris « Show Less
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I don't know,it never worked for me. I crapped canned it and got a Nvidia GTX 660. I am VERY happy with it. I got the ASUS OC edition. I had used ATI/AMD almost exclusively until this card. I got the ol shove it from AMD. I'll never buy AMD again. I would say skip this card.
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Your computer should be plenty powerful enough to run it, especially once you upgrade the RAM. You may want to double check elsewhere, however. This GPU works as a low power gaming GPU and work GPU for me. I am upgrading but it will work well with your specs.
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I use the Asus R290X DirectCU II card. Yes it was $600 but with Mantel enabled it runs BF4 on Ultra at 1440p with no problems at all online with 64 player servers. Not to mention the same brand card that Asus makes for the GTX 780Ti is about $100 or so more. I'm very happy with the graphics card though, it runs very cool with the Asus DirectCU and has no throttling at all. Its quiet as heck in the Uber mode compared to the stock 290/290X cooled cards. Those cards even throttle in Uber mode and are so loud.
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According to my experience with the Asus M5A97, it'll work more than perfectly. As a matter of fact, you can get two to try crossfire! The only thing you should worry about is the power supply of your computer because you want enough to support the graphics card and everything else.
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Yeah! If you use a Intel processor it will work. I'm using this PSU with an R9 280 and an Intel Core i5. You can simulate the power consumption of your computer on http://www.coolermaster.outervision.com/It is very helpfull.