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my 7870 bit the dust, Help
Yup, it crapped its bed, it went to the merry gpu hunting ground, it is in short DEAD!!!! I would like to replace it with something a little bit better but I have not searched for a new card in 4 years. Any suggestions? Any suggestions about company I should but it from? Thanks in advance for your help
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@The OP, a 380x sits in the same mid range price spot as your 7870 did back then and will give you quite a nice boost over it. I wouldn't replace a 7870 with anything less than a 380 or 970 tbh.
As for the original poster, exactly what do you have in your current computer? For what it's worth, your old Radeon HD 7870 basically still exists, but has been renamed twice to now be a Radeon R7 270X. To give some idea of performance, a Radeon R9 390 or GeForce GTX 970 will offer about double the performance of your old 7870.
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Sorry but its a fact. Even HBM 1 failed so much it had a very low memory speed around 500 if i remember correct. while Nvidia with HBM 2 will bring the 5-7k
OP: What kind of computer you have otherwise? If the computer is already getting older, you might want to just purchase some cheap GPU to match the rest of your system.
Alternatively you might also consider purchasing high-end GPU if you're planning to update the rest of your computer soon, so that you won't have to buy another GPU when you make the update.
Computer is as slow as its slowest part, so you should consider the system as a whole when deciding what to buy
I wasn't really commenting on your AMD hate, tough. Personally I don't take a stance on AMD vs. NVidia, I think people should by the best graphic card no matter who made it. I also think that on most situations in today's market the best is NVidia's card. So I don't want to start arguing for AMD.
I just argued against jesteralways' logic because it was so completely stupid.
r9 390 (300$)
r9 380x (230 $)
r9 380 (170$)
GTX 950 only if you cannot get couple of $ (20-ish) for 380 under any condition ;P just buy 380
depending on how much money you want to spend ;P
Oh, and never NEVER buy referent model (cooler) because they generally suck....a lot.
ANd its a good idea to buy GPU with 4 GB of RAM if youre buying for longer term and play on 1080p (and 1440p)
Fort instance this is great deal for 180$
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131673&cm_re=r9_380-_-14-131-673-_-Product
ALthough, both NVidia and AMD reduced prices on their whole lineups recently, and it will take a bit to hit the street so its wise to wait for a week or two prices should go down, if you can manage.
http://wccftech.com/nvidia-cuts-prices-900-serie/
http://wccftech.com/amd-r9-fury-x-nano-price-cuts/
If youre asking about brands, MSI (gaming), Gigabyte (windofrce), XFX (doble dissipation), Powercolor (PCS+), Zotac, EVGA, all good. Asus (stix) is behind and more excpencive
AMD's CPUs have been problematic for the last several years, as Bulldozer was a disaster for reasons that doomed all derivatives of it to be problematic. But Zen is a new design, not another Bulldozer derivative, so it's not doomed for the reasons that Bulldozer derivatives were. Zen could be awesome, or maybe it won't be. But that's a CPU and the original poster isn't looking for a new CPU.
HBM was co-developed by AMD and Hynix. Graphics vendors can only use the memory that the memory fabs can build, and presumably you can only buy HBM1 so far. Given AMD's expertise with HBM, they opted to use it on the Fury series cards, while Nvidia hasn't used it at all. When HBM2 is available, it will presumably be available to any vendors who want to use it. But that's waiting on what the memory companies can build.
Given that AMD co-developed HBM and Nvidia didn't, how likely do you think it is that Nvidia will adopt HBM2 while AMD will decide that they don't want to use HBM at all anymore once HBM2 is available? You could argue that HBM2 will be better than HBM1. You seem to be arguing that HBM is awesome if Nvidia uses it and terrible if AMD uses it, and that makes no sense at all.
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
To take a historical example, AMD had GDDR5 well before Nvidia in the Radeon HD 4870, and then in the 4890 and 4770. By the time Nvidia started to adopt GDDR5 in the GeForce GT 240 (basically a test card, like the Radeon HD 4770) and later most of the GeForce 400 series, AMD didn't suddenly abandon GDDR5. Rather, AMD offered it in almost their entire lineup, outside of the bottom of the line. As with GDDR5, AMD invented HBM with the intention that they'd use it in a lot of products, not just one and then forget about it.
I see three basic ways that you could go. One is to get a Radeon R9 290 on clearance:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129316
That's much faster than anything else that fits your budget. The down side is that the reference cooler is pretty bad, so the card will run relatively hot and loud.
A second option is a Radeon R9 380:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125794
Or if you like rebates:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131673
That's significantly faster than what you have, and competitive with a Radeon HD 7970 that was likely AMD's top end when you got your previous card.
The third option is a GeForce GTX 960:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127844
That will use less power than a Radeon R9 380, but it's also slower by perhaps 10% or 20%. For most people, I wouldn't recommend it at current prices as it's slower than the R9 380 for the same price, but it does use significantly less power, in case you're really sensitive to that. For temperature and noise, the R9 380 will be fine.
As for confusion about Zen, even on AMD innovations page the new cpu and gpu info are under zen announcement. So i thought they might be applying same tech on graphics card too. Sorry if i created confusion.
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The MSI version in particular is fantastic.
Warranty is separate from tech support, and it's handled by the store that sold it. Where I'm from the store will replace your old GPU with newer and better version if the old one is so old they can't repair or replace it with same model any more.
If you're a business then the rules are different and you might actually get something like 3 years of tech support from the store, or if you're buying a complete computer that might also be different, but you're the first one who's ever talked about a store giving years of tech support to a single GPU bough by a consumer.
EDIT: Maybe someone from USA should comment on how tech support is handled in there. Comparing tech support of Bangladesh to tech support in Finland is not going to be a good indication on what kind of tech support the OP should expect.
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I didn't know it worked differently in other countries. Ty for info.