New card £150(approx)

[RobRoy]

Hi all

I currently have the following setup

Gigabyte Z97X-SLI
Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle
SuperFlower FX 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply
Kingston HyperX Savage Red 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3
XFX Radeon R9 390 "DD Black Edition" 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Could anyone recommend a gfx card upgrade for approx £150.

 

[snips86x]

If you an stretch to 200,th3 1660 super would be perfect. If not, this would do the job

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/powe...raphics-card-black-friday-deal-gx-197-pc.html

 

[Gibbo]

RX 590 !!!

 

[RobRoy]

Would the rx590 be a good upgrade or would I be better spending an extra £50 and get https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pali...raphics-card-black-friday-deal-gx-053-pl.html

 

[JediFragger]

RX 590 !!!

Jump on this asap!!!

 

[Nasher]

AMD for the low-mid range stuff tbh. You get more for your money.

 

[Quartz]

The RX 5500 is going to be launched on the 12th.

 

[Poneros]

Unless your card is dead I wouldn't bother. It's better to keep saving for a bigger jump.

A 590 would be 23% faster.
A 1660 Super would be 46% faster.

You'd really need to jump to a 2060 Super/5700 (OC) to double your performance. And also your CPU is gonna keep you behind in a fair few titles which will be even more evident if you get a new GPU.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-r9-390.c2664

 

[JediFragger]

A 590 would be 23% faster.

Oops, didn't notice he already had a 390. Agreed, keep saving.

 

[Gray2233]

I'd say 1660S is your best bet, it's a more healthy performance jump and shouldn't have too many problems in your system. If you buy anything higher end GPU wise I'd do so with a view of upgrading your other components soon after.

 

[Pulseammo]

I have a 290x, which I think is similar performance to a 390, and I definitely would not buy an RX 590. As others have pointed out the performance uplift is pretty small.

 

[Journey]

Clean up PC, sell and buy a new one. Only then will you get much of a difference.

£550 will buy you a 6c/12t CPU, 16GB DDR4 RAM, decent motherboard, nice fast SSD and an RX590 or similar, and obviously a case PSU etc. That might en up costing you £275 after the sale of your system, but it is better than putting up with what you have now.

A better balanced system will help these days, if you are playing more modern game titles lots of them need more than 8 threads available, and you only have 4, and only 8GB of RAM.

 

[RobRoy]

Thanks all for the replies I’ve went with the 1660 super with a view to getting a new mobo cpu memory soon

 

[RobRoy]

Unless your card is dead I wouldn't bother. It's better to keep saving for a bigger jump.

A 590 would be 23% faster.
A 1660 Super would be 46% faster.

You'd really need to jump to a 2060 Super/5700 (OC) to double your performance. And also your CPU is gonna keep you behind in a fair few titles which will be even more evident if you get a new GPU.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-r9-390.c2664

The card is on the way out with it overheating and bluescreening

 

[Poneros]

The card is on the way out with it overheating and bluescreening

In that case, imo, if you can reach for the 1660 Super it's the best buy. Did you re-paste your 390 recently? Maybe also check on the thermal pads. Could still be fine.

 

[JediFragger]

If you don't fancy opening it up just sell it on the Bay as overheating and you still might get a decent price for it