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2013/10/10 23:14:23 (permalink)
Doing research everything pointed towards the 7970 Gigahertz edition cards being the same thing as R9 280X cards, so I took the leap and flashed my ASUS Matrix 7970 to the ASUS Matrix R9 280X bios that was on techpowerup. Just needed to make sure the clocks and memory speeds were right between the bios. If anything the R9 280X has 50hz slower vram settings. Free upgrade sidegrade...whee. 
 

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    Re: ASUS Matrix 7970 to ASUS Matrix R9 280X Bios Flash 2013/10/11 05:05:05 (permalink)
    Nice


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    Re: ASUS Matrix 7970 to ASUS Matrix R9 280X Bios Flash 2013/10/11 05:12:37 (permalink)
    So if it is a slight bit slower- you going to flash it back ?   ...or is there some benefit to keeping it on the 280x bios ?

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    Re: ASUS Matrix 7970 to ASUS Matrix R9 280X Bios Flash 2013/10/11 08:36:11 (permalink)
    I'll probably edit the vram back to 1650 and keep it at the latest R9 280X bios. Uncertain what they're doing in the R9 280X bios, but given the new audio stuff they talked about it could be sitting in R9 280X and not 7970. I'm not an OCer, so the 50mhz won't kill me either way. As is the ASUS Matrix cards are really aggressive with the clock settings to begin with vs all other 7970/R9 280X cards. They're OCed right out of the box.
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    Re: ASUS Matrix 7970 to ASUS Matrix R9 280X Bios Flash 2013/10/11 12:10:45 (permalink)
    I also flashed to 280x bios, works perfect! And there's a slightly performance increase 3D Mark 11, with 1215 core clock and 7000 mem clock from 9600 to 10500!
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    Re: ASUS Matrix 7970 to ASUS Matrix R9 280X Bios Flash 2013/10/11 14:59:09 (permalink)
    Nice Old School Brad!
     
    Diff, looking at two 7970(s)_ish or a single 290X for my next GPU........
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    Re: ASUS Matrix 7970 to ASUS Matrix R9 280X Bios Flash 2013/10/11 21:32:47 (permalink)
    Brad.. (new audio stuff) my understanding is only the R6 260 rebrand(HD 7790) is getting the audio stuff because it is GCN 2.0 and the R9 290- 290x
     
    The R9 280x will CX with any HD 79XX card as both are DX 11.1 which windows 8 supports and looks killer on BF 4..


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    Re: ASUS Matrix 7970 to ASUS Matrix R9 280X Bios Flash 2013/10/11 22:34:20 (permalink)
    Ah ok, no loss. 
     
    One would think they could just do it as GPGPU though like Nvidia does with PhysX. I don't see the need for specific chip to process audio.

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    Re: ASUS Matrix 7970 to ASUS Matrix R9 280X Bios Flash 2013/10/20 17:00:32 (permalink)
    If you had to choose, would you take the 280X DC2 or the 280X Platinum Matrix? Thanks
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    Re: ASUS Matrix 7970 to ASUS Matrix R9 280X Bios Flash 2013/11/16 05:50:13 (permalink)
    BRAD - I sent you a PM days/ days ago....  ** is this thing on ?**

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