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FuryX worth it still???

DONOHUE07

DONOHUE07

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hi guys, I have been following the 2nd hand GPU market on eBay and there's some FuryX's going for around £250, I currently have a 290 (paired with a fx8350) and have the itch to upgrade my rig on the cheap, is the FuryX worth the £250 over my exsisting card in today's market? Am i right in saying it compares to the 980ti so it should still give the much more expensive 1070 a run for it money?

Currently game at 60hz 1080p btw.

Cheers guys
 
Mixed bag. When it performs well it outperforms the 1070. However, run out of VRAM and it gets ugly, fast. I don't know if I would pay £250 for one (and I have one). As the guys have said get a new CPU and board first and retire that storage heater, then think about GPU. But I think I would save up and get a 1080 myself.
 
DONOHUE07 said:
hi guys, I have been following the 2nd hand GPU market on eBay and there's some FuryX's going for around £250, I currently have a 290 (paired with a fx8350) and have the itch to upgrade my rig on the cheap, is the FuryX worth the £250 over my exsisting card in today's market? Am i right in saying it compares to the 980ti so it should still give the much more expensive 1070 a run for it money?

Currently game at 60hz 1080p btw.

Cheers guys
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Assuming you do not have the blower 290, upgrade to Ryzen 5. You will gain more FPS than upgrading to FuryX while keeping the 8350.
If you had a current CPU, even a 3770K, I would have said yes. The FuryX is very good card for £250, especially after you upgrade it's bios to the AMD UEFI so you can push it to 1190/600, and the AIO at stock speeds.
Had one up to 1h ago (still keeping it) and I am not going to sell it. Is superb piece of kit, to just have it as backup for any rainy days. (literally just in case there is a leak and destroy the 1080Ti).
 
At 1080p 60hz a 290 does a fair job but if you must scratch that itch then a Fury X at 250 isn't bad. It's not great either though, Especially as you won't know what it was used for and how it was used,
Can't you find anything here on the MM?
 
Panos said:
Assuming you do not have the blower 290, upgrade to Ryzen 5. You will gain more FPS than upgrading to FuryX while keeping the 8350.
If you had a current CPU, even a 3770K, I would have said yes. The FuryX is very good card for £250, especially after you upgrade it's bios to the AMD UEFI so you can push it to 1190/600, and the AIO at stock speeds.
Had one up to 1h ago (still keeping it) and I am not going to sell it. Is superb piece of kit, to just have it as backup for any rainy days. (literally just in case there is a leak and destroy the 1080Ti).
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It not a blower, it's the XFX DD 290, still hotter than the sun mind.. I get where your coming from regarding upgrading the CPU (I'm also looking at 2nd hand 5820k's), but a Ryzen 5, DDR4 RAM and a new mobo is going to cost substantially more than the FuryX.
 
nashathedog said:
At 1080p 60hz a 290 does a fair job but if you must scratch that itch then a Fury X at 250 isn't bad. It's not great either though, Especially as you won't know what it was used for and how it was used,
Can't you find anything here on the MM?
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Nothing on the members market that's grabbed my attention recently
 
DONOHUE07 said:
It not a blower, it's the XFX DD 290, still hotter than the sun mind.. I get where your coming from regarding upgrading the CPU (I'm also looking at 2nd hand 5820k's), but a Ryzen 5, DDR4 RAM and a new mobo is going to cost substantially more than the FuryX.
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But you ain't going to get more perf. You are CPU limited.
Also clean the 290. Replace the paste. After 4 years with it, it won't perform good and should be running hot.
Use the Kryonaut, and Thermal Grizzly pads.
 
Panos said:
But you ain't going to get more perf. You are CPU limited.
Also clean the 290. Replace the paste. After 4 years with it, it won't perform good and should be running hot.
Use the Kryonaut, and Thermal Grizzly pads.
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Good points, I'll look into the cpu usage in games I'm playing and clean the 290, never done that before...nervous thinking about it!

Thank you
 
I've done exactly what your contemplating a year ago, I went from a Sapphire R9 290 to Fury X because I got it bloody cheap as a b grade gamble from Ocuk.

I run the Fx8350 @ 4.8 as it gets all pissy above that.

Im on a 34" 1440p wide-screen freesync monitor and it more than handles it, I do have the upgrade itch but just can't justify it right now as real world performance is still suprisingly good (for me anyway) despite what all the naysayers say.
 
You could get a ryzen 1600 and a cheap 350 board for £250.

You would just need to save up for some ddr4.

Skip fury and wait for vega 56 pricing or see if you can get a good price on 2nd hand 1070 or 980ti
 
Panos said:
Assuming you do not have the blower 290, upgrade to Ryzen 5. You will gain more FPS than upgrading to FuryX while keeping the 8350.
If you had a current CPU, even a 3770K, I would have said yes. The FuryX is very good card for £250, especially after you upgrade it's bios to the AMD UEFI so you can push it to 1190/600, and the AIO at stock speeds.
Had one up to 1h ago (still keeping it) and I am not going to sell it. Is superb piece of kit, to just have it as backup for any rainy days. (literally just in case there is a leak and destroy the 1080Ti).
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I've seen you post this before, it almost reads like its a guarantee, my Fury-X on the UEFI BIOS won't get anywhere near those clocks.

However the card still impresses me even at 3440x1440, just started playing BF1 on almost max settings (a few settings on high rather than ultra) and it performs great, 50+ FPS which is fine with freesync on SP.
 
I flashed my FuryX to the UEFI BIOS after reading one of Panos posts, I don't overclock so don't know if it made any difference, it was just something new to try.
 
iB CoMpL3XiTy said:
I've seen you post this before, it almost reads like its a guarantee, my Fury-X on the UEFI BIOS won't get anywhere near those clocks.
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First of all you need to do a clean installation, after having used DDU and stay away from wattman.
Use the latest MSI AB. In the option activate all the experimental stuff.
It will ask you to reboot the machine.

The raise the voltage to +48 and PL to maximum.
Assuming you have good PSU and you deliver both the 8-pin slots from separate feeds of your PSU you won't have power issue.

Make also a custom fan profile with 75C @ 90% fan speed curve. It wont ever hit more than 50C either way.
Then let us know how it goes :)
 
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