?Things can only get better? to quote Howard Jones. How many times have you seen a revision to a product and the above statement failed to be true? Most of the time it's usually to boost sales of an end of life product or fix a problem that was so minute it didn't make any sense. No need to worry, some manufacturers actually revise their product to make them better maybe by increasing clock speeds or adding stronger memory modules. The fact is there are product out there that are actually not end of life and have been refreshed to provide something extra that you will actually benefit from. At times better does mean a bump in the price but most of the time it doesn't affect the price at all.

Sapphire Technologies one of the premier manufacturers of AMD based Graphics cards, announced a refresh to one of their best-selling Radeon R9 series graphics cards the Vapor-X 280X on March 4th 2014. At first thought, you might think this is another refresh to boost sales but it's quite far from the fact. Sapphire's refresh of the Vapor-X 280X consists of three major changes, increased engine clock from 950MHz to 1000MHz, increased boost clock from 1070MHz to 1100MHz and the addition of Tri-X vapor chamber cooling. These changes place the R9 280X Vapor-X amongst the elite in its class for superior cooling and clock speeds and although it could be the Vapor-X is still not top of the line 280X in Sapphires repertoire.