Fury X for £330, do I buy?

DONOHUE07 · 7 Apr 2018 at 16:00

currently have an r9 290, i have the itch to upgrade and have had for a quite some time but refused to pay stupid prices. There’s a Fury X on the well known auction site for £330.

Is it worth buying? Is it worth the upgrade?

I game at 1080p, but mostly play VR now

Cheers

AiiR · 7 Apr 2018 at 16:02

Hell no

FlyingScotsman · 7 Apr 2018 at 16:02

No mate, keep your money new cards on there way and prices will dive with second hand.

melmac · 7 Apr 2018 at 16:08

No, well, I wouldn't anyway. Now that prices are falling, wait for a 1070 or Vega 56, they will be much better at VR.

If you can hold on until after Nvidia's event in May, it might be worthwhile.

GoogalyMoogaly · 7 Apr 2018 at 16:10

I've got a FuryX sitting in the cupboard and I'm not even sure I want to switch out my GTX980 for it (not sure how much difference there is in a 980 and 290 these days).

Spyhop · 7 Apr 2018 at 16:14

Don't be spending serious money on 4GB VRAM cards!

andybird123 · 7 Apr 2018 at 16:38

for that price range I would much rather get a 980ti over a fury x
nvidia tend to come out even further ahead in VR than they do on desktop as well

AiiR · 7 Apr 2018 at 17:10

GoogalyMoogaly said:
I've got a FuryX sitting in the cupboard and I'm not even sure I want to switch out my GTX980 for it (not sure how much difference there is in a 980 and 290 these days).

A FuryX would be slightly better than a 980. I had a Fury Nano which benched a few % higher than the 980.

Firestar_3x · 7 Apr 2018 at 17:56

Had a FuryX, out of the 40+ cards i've owned this was one of the most disappointing, was glad it broke so i could RMA for a refund.

LoadsaMoney · 7 Apr 2018 at 18:05

JediFragger · 7 Apr 2018 at 18:39

No way man, the lower the res with the Fury's then the worse they perform. And it's not worth switching to a 580 either, minimal difference!!!!

GoogalyMoogaly · 7 Apr 2018 at 19:10

AiiR said:
A FuryX would be slightly better than a 980. I had a Fury Nano which benched a few % higher than the 980.

Yeah, but there's a few additional factors for me.
First, I'm running my second monitor at 1440p/60hz over DVI. FuryX doesn't have a DVI port, it does have an adaptor though, but I'm not sure AMD will allow me to run the monitor at 1440p/60hz.
Also, I've actually got 980 SLI, so there are a couple games that it works in and I get a nice boost in. Not as many games as I'd like to be fair. Also the 4GB can be an issue that SLI doesn't help with.

melmac · 7 Apr 2018 at 20:32

GoogalyMoogaly said:
FuryX doesn't have a DVI port, it does have an adaptor though, but I'm not sure AMD will allow me to run the monitor at 1440p/60hz

It will work if the adapter can handle the resolution. There is nothing on the GPU side that would prevent this.

GoogalyMoogaly · 7 Apr 2018 at 20:39

melmac said:
It will work if the adapter can handle the resolution. There is nothing on the GPU side that would prevent this.

My 290X wouldn't do it, that's what concerns me.
Well, when I say wouldn't do it I mean didn't give the option, just 1080p/60 or 2160p/30. I have since learn't that you can apparently create custom resolutions in the AMD control panel, not sure if that will fix it.
This is getting a little off topic though.

melmac · 7 Apr 2018 at 20:50

GoogalyMoogaly said:
My 290X wouldn't do it, that's what concerns me.
Well, when I say wouldn't do it I mean didn't give the option, just 1080p/60 or 2160p/30. I have since learn't that you can apparently create custom resolutions in the AMD control panel, not sure if that will fix it.
This is getting a little off topic though.

It was a limitation with the 290 cards when you had two 1440p (or higher) monitors connected to the DVI ports. It scaled down the resolution on the second one. It's not a display port limitation so it will work fine as long as the adapter works.

GoogalyMoogaly · 7 Apr 2018 at 20:56

melmac said:
It was a limitation with the 290 cards when you had two 1440p (or higher) monitors connected to the DVI ports. It scaled down the resolution on the second one. It's not a display port limitation so it will work fine as long as the adapter works.

Good to know, thanks.
I may switch them round and give it a try.

sideways14a · 7 Apr 2018 at 22:16

I had a non X fury and it was pretty decent, but of course the 4gb ram did hurt.
I wouldnt buy an X at that money, it wont be too long (hopefully) before V56 is back down to near its RRP and well.... there is no contest there - thats the card to get unless you want baws to the wall 1080ti performance.

pandem0nium · 7 Apr 2018 at 22:25

A fury X is a £250 card. Sits in between a 1060 and 1070 whilst being older and consuming more power.

I've been using mine while my vega64 is being RMAd and I've been pleasantly surprised how well it still does at 4k.

Habakkuk · 7 Apr 2018 at 22:59

I also want one, but won't go above £250 for it (I already have a watercooling bracket for a Fury X).

Most of the ones I see are Gigabyte/MSI/CP- didn't Asus make some as well?

jigger · 7 Apr 2018 at 23:16

Solid enough card, but not worth £330 IMO.