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My graphics card died, I'm not sure what to replace it with ...

DooVoo

DooVoo

DooVoo

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Hi All,

After a rather frustrating few weeks ruling out other components, it's time to return my Asus AMD Radeon HD 7970 Matrix Platinum after only 6 months.

Unfortunately, they aren't in stock at Amazon any more and so I'm looking for a suitable replacement. Having just bought a Maximus Hero VI motherboard and Intel 4770k from the helpful guys at Overclockers, I thought I'd ask here for some advice.

Looking around, it seems a replacement 7970 might not be the way to go. The R9 290x might be worth looking for or maybe even switching to an nvidia card (I've not had one of those in a long while!). I'm just not sure.

One thing I'm wary of is when purchasing the 7970 originally I had a lot of vsync problems when running eyefinity across three monitors. This ended up being an issue with the different display outputs not being quite in time. I solved this by replacing the first 7970 with the Matrix Platinum, which has 4 display ports. Is this still something I need to be wary of? I can't find any new cards that have this many outputs of the same type.

Any suggestions or pointers people can give would be hugely appreciated!
 
After some ocuk forum surfing, it seems that it might be worth waiting for the Asus Radeon R9 290X DirectCU II to come out. However, with only 1 display port, I would be worried I'll be right back where I started with the multi-screen tearing...
 
I had the same card, got it from bolton tho, refused to work and was DOA!

So i found ocuk and got the Msi gaming gtx 780, which i have had zero issue with
If you want to stay with Amd, Id go for the msi r9 290
Can get the 290's to the same as the 290x but save a load of cash

I like msi graphic cards, the twin frozr 4 cooler keeps the card cool but is also very quiet
 
Thanks for the replies guys. The idea of a working card hadn't occurred to me, so extra points for Boomstick and Stas :)

So it seems the R9 290 or the GTX780 seems like it might be the card of choice here.

Does anyone know about the multi-monitor problem? I haven't been able to find anything definitive about whether 3 monitors on different connection types will suffer the vsync timing issues I had before. It seems like no one is complaining about the issue any more, so maybe it's been resolved?
 
r9 290 and I would say if you want extreme quiet lots of overclocking I'd wait the couple weeks for stock of the custom cooled version, unless you want to water cool or add a heatsink yourself in which case you can buy a cheaper reference version(MSI say they allow people to replace the heatsink without voiding warranty, and Sapphire through OCUK will also allow heatsink to be replaced).

I used to have weird flickering issues on my 7970 with too low clocks but I've had far far fewer issues with this with the 290 I got. I do get some flickering but it's ONLY and I mean only because I'm undervolting loads while doing mining to use as little power as possible. At stock OR higher voltage I've seen not a sign of flicker or issues I had with the last gen so all those issues seem to have been eliminated.
 
Thanks of the replies guys. I am leaning towards the GTX 780Ti with the DCU2 cooler, especially with the great reviews about it running in SLi.
 
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