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NVIDIA GPU blew up. Replacement recommendations for £500 or under...

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So my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 blew up the other day. Green and pink dots everywhere, 1990's / AOL-style resolution, Code 43, etc.

Looking to get a new GPU pretty soon-ish.

Any recommendations for £500 or under? May need to go lower -- not sure yet.

Professionally, I edit RAW / Lossless (4K, 5K, etc) video, including post / VFX work, and I like to be able to run the most recent games at pretty decent settings. Not yet gotten into the VR craze. Surprisingly, my GTX 580 was actually able to handle most of this... Well, until it blew up.

Anyway, looking forward to reading some of your suggestions!
 
AMD Phenom X4 Quad Core 9950 2.60GHz Black Edition,Corsair Dominator 4GB DDR2 PC2-8500C5 TwinX RAM, seriously if thats what your running, a nvid GTX 1060 should fit in
and I like to be able to run the most recent games at pretty decent settings - not with that processor you wont
 
Well for around £480 you can find some decent GTX 1080's. But I do agree with the above post, you would have a big bottleneck with that CPU and RAM if you got a GTX 1080.
 
Fair enough. Yeah I would say either GTX 1080 or 1070ti when that releases, as it may have an effect on prices. The 1070ti will likely perform worse than the 1080 though, so just go for the 1080 if £500 is your budget, you even get a free Game - Middle Earth: Shadow of War.

For 1080's below £500 I would recommend:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/zota...s-graphics-card-zt-p10800c-10p-gx-101-zt.html - Long 5 year warranty, good cooling performance, subjective backplate colouring.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pali...dr5x-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-037-pl.html - Below par 2 year warranty, good cooling performance, more neutral colour scheme.


Those are the only 2 I would recommend below £500. There are some others available, but they are louder and run much hotter.
 
1080 or vega 56 / 64. Obviously the AMD cards are over budget but those are your options.

Better yet is maybe wait a bit and see what happens when the rumoured 1070ti launches.
 
Sorry to hi-jack this thread but rather than start a new one, just a question in regard to the GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme PLUS, how would the MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X Plus compare as that also has the 11Gbps memory on it, are they pretty much the same as I think it is about time I upgraded from my R9 290 and am considering either of these two cards at the moment.
 
Ordered! Thanks, guys. Looking forward to receiving it.

Intrigued as to how much better it'll be compared with my GTX 580... Well, when my 580 was working, anyway.
 
opethdisciple said:
My maths would put it at approx 4x as fast.

670 ~ 580.

2x 670 = 970.

2x 970 = 1080.
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Oooh. Very nice. Wonder if any of the games I was playing on my 580 will look any different. I was able to run most games at max settings. Only have a 1920x1200 monitor here.
 
T-800 said:
Does that method even work on modern cards? I remember using that trick on cards like 15 years ago... Lol.
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Yes it does lol, even works on ssd drives xD, I guess it will work on any chip / micro controller that gets loose because of high temperatures.
 
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