14 DAY TRIAL // You'd think that the USA and Europe would have access to pretty much every product out there, but that's not the case. Just look at the new graphics card from Sapphire.
Called Radeon R9 270X Black Diamond Edition, the video controller is only up for sale in Greater China.
Which is a shame because the board is pretty fast, as well as cooled by a triple-fan module called Tri-X.
And by fast, I mean that the GPU is factory overclocked to 1.1 GHz and the memory (2 GB GDDR5 VRAM) to 6 GHz.
For comparison, the stock board operates at 1 GHz and 5.6 GHz, respectively, though Dynamic overclocking pushes the GPU to 1,050 MHz in a pinch.
All in all, the Sapphire Radeon R9 270X Black Diamond Edition video card would probably sell well (it does have 1,280 stream processors, 80 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface after all) even without the special cooler.
There's even a temperature-activated color LED logo badge, and dual-BIOS (complete with UEFI), allowing you to roll back to factory settings if you try to manually tweak the performance and do something nasty.
Sadly, I'm not sure what price the Radeon R9 270X Black Diamond Edition board bears. With the normal one at $200 / €200, I'm guessing ten or twenty bucks extra.