I have £381 and I would like a graphics card

[almoststew1990]

This month I have £381 of cold, hard spending money. My 390x died recently and is out of warranty so I am looking to get a new graphics card. This seems to be just into 1070ti / Vega 56 territory and I have no preference between red and green. What card should I get? They are / were neck and neck in the 1070ti reviews. Let's say £420 so I've got a bit of choice of makes and models.

Or should I wait until the 2070 is released, and spend my £381 on one of those... oh wait... /troll

If this area isn't good value (or wouldn't offer a good upgrade from my 390x) I could spend some savings to up the budget but I would prefer not too.

I game at 1080p but a) that might change and b) I keep my graphics cards quite a long time so don't mind being overpowered now for future proofing in the future.

 

[almoststew1990]

Both will offer a huge upgrade over your 390. What power supply do you have and what CPU?

390x Reviews seem to suggest it isn't a huuuuge upgrade. I have a 4770k at 4.4GHz and a 750watt be quiet PSU I think (about a year old).

Can you stretch to £382? This opens you up to better cards on the market

I'll be eating beans for the month but if it unlocks 1080ti's then I'll do it!

 

[almoststew1990]

Stretch to a vega64, theres only about £40-50 in it depending on where you buy from.

That's an interesting idea, they are not much more expensive. I see in some reviews the 64 performs worse than the 56. Is that a bug that has been fixed? I was hoping, for once, to avoid buying a hot card! (I've had 4890, 460, 7970, 390x...) So How hot do these cards run - I remember they were offered with closed loop water cooling at one point?! This one has a very beefy cooler.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/powe...hbm2-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-190-pc.html

The problem then becomes, If I'm spending £450, a 1080ti is only £130 away... oh this happens every time

 

[almoststew1990]

I'm really tied between the a 1070ti and spending £40 more on a Vega 64. I say £40 more because the Vega comes with AC Odyssey ( I spelt that right first time?!) which is a likely buy for me at 50. This seems to give a reasonable performance increase!

 

[almoststew1990]

I did it. I went with the 1070ti in the end for £365 delivered - I can't quite stomach spending £400+ on a gpu, especially a hot loud one. I want a cooler quieter GPU for a change! Thanks for the help, GPU section.

 

[almoststew1990]

Hope you got the EVGA one

Yes I got the EVGA 1070ti SC Gaming Black edition

 

[almoststew1990]

New?

Yeah, new

 

[almoststew1990]

Big thread bump!

This card has now died and I am 27 days from the warranty expiring. The competitor I bought the card from doesn't seem to have issued me an invoice (or it went into the junk folder and deleted itself), and I appear to have bought the card without making an account (using Paypal as my account kind of thing). I wonder if EVGA will accept the return...

 

[almoststew1990]

Just contact the retailer and they should send you a copy of the invoice by email. Then use that to rma it with evga.

Yeah that's what I've done. Luckily I've got the Invoice number from PayPal. It seems Evga won't do an RMA without first doing general technical support. I hope this doesn't drag out over 27 days! Are EVGA generally good? I'm pretty sure they used to be...

 

[almoststew1990]

That's reassuring!

 

[almoststew1990]

Well after quite a bit of faff I believe I am being sent a RTX 2070 Super Black Gaming as a replacement for my GTX 1070 Ti SC GAMING. No idea when it will arrive, the whole process has not been speedy (I posted my card on the 21st September) but I think that is to be expected!