{"id":62477,"date":"2014-03-10T14:44:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T12:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=62477"},"modified":"2014-03-10T14:50:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T12:50:30","slug":"asus-r9-280-directcu-ii-priced-dated-for-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/62477-asus-r9-280-directcu-ii-priced-dated-for-sa","title":{"rendered":"Asus R9 280 DirectCU II priced, dated for SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASUSTek South Africa\u00a0announced the launch of the new ASUS R9 280 DirectCU II graphics card on 10 March, confirming a recommended retail price of <strong>R5,349<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The card will arrive on our shores at the end of March 2014 (the international release date is 10 March).<\/p>\n<p>ASUS claims the R9 280 DirectCU II runs up to 20% cooler and up to three times quieter than reference designs.<\/p>\n<p>The new card has a base clock speed of 874MHz, which boosts to 980MHz. The card also boasts 3GB of GDDR5 video memory and support for resolutions of up to 2560 x 1600.<\/p>\n<p>Other features include DIGI+, a voltage-regulation module, and GPU Tweak which allows users to tune their graphics settings and broadcast live gameplay.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62480\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ASUS-R9280-DC2T-3GD5_with-box.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62480\" class=\"size-large wp-image-62480\" alt=\"ASUS R9280\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ASUS-R9280-DC2T-3GD5_with-box-600x480.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ASUS-R9280-DC2T-3GD5_with-box-600x480.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ASUS-R9280-DC2T-3GD5_with-box.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ASUS R9280<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here are the basic specs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PCI Express 3.0<\/li>\n<li>OpenGL 4.3<\/li>\n<li>3,072MB (3GB) GDDR5 memory<\/li>\n<li>980MHz boost clock<\/li>\n<li>874MHz base clock<\/li>\n<li>5,200MHz (1300MHz GDDR5) memory clock<\/li>\n<li>1,792 stream processors<\/li>\n<li>1 x DVI-D<\/li>\n<li>1 x DVD-I<\/li>\n<li>1 x HDMI output<\/li>\n<li>1 x DisplayPort<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62475-destiny-of-spirits-release-date-confirmed-for-ps-vita.html\">Destiny of Spirits release date confirmed for PS Vita<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62467-ea-mum-on-titanfall-sa-cancellation.html\">EA mum on Titanfall SA cancellation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62464-australia-looks-set-to-get-titanfall-server-support.html\">Australia looks set to get Titanfall server support<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASUS South Africa confirms and prices the launch of their latest graphics powerhouse, the ASUS R9 280 DirectCU II<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":62478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1517,12095,12094,6292,21,1969,12093,2163],"class_list":["post-62477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-asus","tag-asustek-south-africa","tag-directcu-ii","tag-graphics-card","tag-headline","tag-news-2","tag-r9280","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62481,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62477\/revisions\/62481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}