Graphics card for a 10yr old System

Noakesy85

Noakesy85

Noakesy85

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Good morning OCUK,

I'm in a bit of a bind, over the weekend my PC suddenly died and after a bit of fault diagnosis it turned out the graphics card (MSI Geforce GTX980) had given up the ghost causing it not to boot.

Unfortunately my MoBo is an LG1151 using PCIe 3.0.

I'm having trouble finding a decent replacement card to get me through until my inheritance comes through when i intend on building an Up to date system. Most cards I can find available are either PCIe 4.0 or 5.0, I'm guessing neither of those will work with my board?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.:)
 
Gray2233 said:
What CPU do you have out of interest? That socket was used for a few generations despite chipset limitations being (artificially) introduced.

What sort of budget do you have?

Regardless, a pci-e 4 or 5 card will work in a gen 3 slot, they're backwards compatible, although there might be other concerns.
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Currently I'm running an i5 5600. I don't really want to spend more than £300 as its just to get me by for now, the cheaper the better really. I've had my eye on the RTX5060 which is currently at £270.

If PCIe are backwards compatible then it shouldn't matter too much but i didn't want to pull the trigger on the 5060 and it not work when i plug it in.

InkZ said:
You could just grab a 2nd hand 1080 or 2080 and sell it on when you get your inheritance and build your new PC.
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I need to get my post count up a bit to get access to the members market, that would really help me out right about now
 
Gray2233 said:
I assume I'm not breaking any rules here, as OCUK don't sell second hand old cards, but you can pick up a 1060 or 1070 for around £60-80 via CeX, I believe they come with a warranty period too.
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Hmmm, I'm sure we used to have a CeX in Norwich, might have to look next time I'm there!
 
Well im currently reduced to using the onboard graphics for the time being... You know the old adage 'Bad luck always comes in 3s'??? Well I'm now up to number 4!

In the last month We had the main water feed to our house decide to burst, Our boiler decided to go down, the PC randomly died and this morning on the way to work... the front pipe of my exhaust decided to detach itself from the rest of the exhaust system :mad:

GPU is firmly on hold for the time being :mad: I appreciate everyone's input though, at least I've got an idea now for when I can actually get it sorted.
 
Quartz said:
Since you have nothing to lose, how about disassembling it and giving the GPU a clean and repaste?
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In all fairness i was planning on doing that anyways, just to appease my curious mind more than anything. I just needed to find the free time to do it.

There was a distinct smell of burning coming from the card so my best guess is that its fubard but it wouldn't hurt to take a look :D
 
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