£250 to spend

[Ringiho]

So I have £250 (or thereabouts) to replace my failing RX480 8GB.

The obvious choice is to just grab an RX580 but wanted too see if there are other suggestions or recommendations. I'm playing on a 1440p monitor.

Thanks!

 

[Ringiho]

^^^

That if you don't mind buying second hand.

I'd lean towards not, purely for warranty. The Sapphire RX480 only had two years and its binned it in 2.5

It's not a total no though.

 

[Ringiho]

I guess the RX590 is worth considering as well?

Would the 1070 be the next step up? It's quite a jump in price.

 

[Ringiho]

Asrock 590 at £239 with the three games!

Or wait until Boxing day and we shall see how close to £299 we can get Vega 56 again with the three games.

Looking very quickly at some benchmarks, Vega 56 seems to be where I'd want to be. An actual upgrade!

It's a shame that 2 years later to replace the card you have, you have to pay more for essentially the same thing.
Dude, where's our advancements?

100% this. It's disappointing to replace a failed card after 2.5 years with the same model.

What is wrong with the current card? Any chance you could undervolt/underclock, to drag it out a bit longer?

It's something I can try. The card is causing the screen to flicker randomly under load, there are grey bars appearing for a second then disappearing. It continues to do the same on the desktop and does randomly blue screen sometimes. Tried a few different drivers but no change.

 

[Ringiho]

the 56 will almost double your performance, definitely wait if you can for a month.

This is the option I took, decided to grab a Vega56. It arrived today!

It is installed in the machine but isn't working. Onboard graphics is active and nothing in device manager. When I had this problem with the RX480 it was a case of a BIOS update but there doesn't seem to be anything newer for my aging Z68A-GD55 (G3), currently on BIOS 25.8 (LINK).

Any other recommendations?

 

[Ringiho]

Well the 8 pin is connected directly from the PSU, I then have a 6 pin to 8 pin adapter connected.

It looks like a later BIOS might exist in the beta section of the MSI forum, just have a look at that as well.

 

[Ringiho]

what UEFI boot options do you have set? also list CSM options, had a similar issue a while back on z68, due to not truly supporting a UEFI card.

Having a flick through the BIOS I can't see much of that to be honest!

Edit: I managed to get all the files for the beta BIOS. That has been flashed but no change in the card working.

Edit2: Tweaked the power cabling on the card and it is now working. 6 to 8 adapter is gone and its working.

 

[Ringiho]

Start undervolting now

Yeah I need to have a look into that. The heat pumped out is impressive.