GPU died - update help please

Aeronwen

Aeronwen

Aeronwen

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Hi,

I am hoping for some expert help since my GPU just died. Thanks in advance for looking at this :)
I have little clue about PC components, although I am able to place them in my case (Fractal Define R4, which I love) ^^

Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 15063) (15063.rs2_release.170317-1834)
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.2GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti
GPU Corsair CX 500
motherboard Asus P8 Z77_V LX

I have an SSD and several vintage hard disks - not worried about them at all.

If I had £500 to spend where should I best put it?
If I just needed a new GPU fast (I have a match on Friday) what would be my best option for about £200 or less?
 
Danny75 said:
What resolution and refresh rate is your monitor? And does it have Freesync or Gsync.
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I have 2, both Dell - I wouldn't be allowed to change those as we get them free.
DELL ST2320L 1920 x 1080 @60 HZ.
DELL 1905FP 1280 x 1024(p) (60.020Hz)

Don't know about Freesync etc, when I googled it the advice was gsynch would say so in the title, so I guess the other one.
 
For £200-ish I'd go with a GTX 1060 6GB.

For £500 I'd go with GTX 1070 8GB and drop a used i7-3770K in (£125 or less) and even a CPU cooler like the Hyper EVO/212X if you only have the Intel stock cooler, and overclock it a bit. You could sell the i5-3470 to get a bit of money back too. This will extend CPU-related gaming performance on the cheap.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £618.43
(includes shipping: £10.50)



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well, I paid for next day delivery because I have a match tonight but the delivery service is rubbish so apparently I have to wait til Monday.

Maybe OC could use a service that actually try to deliver.
 
I bought it yesterday and it was supposed to be delivered today. If OC and their delivery company are incompetent I don't see that I should pay even more.
 
I hate to be the miserable pessimist, but how do you know that it's your CPU that's died? It can be very difficult sometimes to tell whether its the RAM, CPU or motherboard.
 
Pocah said:
I hate to be the miserable pessimist, but how do you know that it's your CPU that's died? It can be very difficult sometimes to tell whether its the RAM, CPU or motherboard.
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tbh you are right that I don't know for sure. My card though was quite old and I wanted a new one ^^
I suppose I can plug it into my daughters pc and see if it works there - if it does she gets an upgrade

With teh new card (that finally arrived) I had not worried about connecting iy but both monitors were connected with teh old card via the 2 HDMI slots. The new card has

- Display Outputs: 3 x DisplayPort, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DL-DVI

Either monitor works using the HDMI
but with one plugged into that and the other plugged into teh DL-DVI the second monitor doesn't work.

(the cable is stolen from a working setup with our raspberry pi so the cable is fine)

Does anyone have any suggestions of where to go from here, I don't have any other cables to hand right now.
 
My first suspect here would be that the card will not support DVI at the same time as the HDMI, so the very first thing I would do is get a DisplayPort to HDMI adaptor from ebay ( about £3 ) and try that. DVI and HDMI/DisplayPort are as different as chalk and cheese so I would certainly suspect some sort of issue trying to drive multiple monitors.
 
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