Quote from: FortuneSeeker on June 06, 2014, 10:39:23 PM

Hi all

Some opinions please. I currently have 2 Sapphire Dual-X R9 280x cards that I right now arranging to be send back to Amazon due to failing cards on 2 of the original 3 I bought, so I'm now going to be needing some new cards. I've been mining Execoin for weeks, months even now cos I like the idea and the Devs seem to be involved etc.

Suggestions on good mining cards... especially for cards that don't have failing cooling fans in less than 6 months use. I think I'm only getting 2 this time as trying to put 3 in a HAF-XB case meant they ran at 70+ and an 80+ temp. I guess I'm looking at 280x cards maybe 290x depending on monies, I still haven't paid for my rig since prices crashed with the bitcoin price fall in recent month so I'm not over joyed with the prospect of paying out a lot more

Thoughts?

Good news is the gpu prices have come down, bad news is earnings have also... My understanding is that for the 280x series Asus has the best cards; the Toxic is also good (I think people say it is louder). The Asus has a low clock speed than the Toxic out of the box, but I hear it overclocks really well and makes up the difference. I have a vapor-x 270x that I got on sell and it runs well and stays really could, so you could also consider getting 3 or 4 270x gpu's (probably a better choice than going 290(x) right now).