R9 280X Still has it...

[Figo]

Even when gimped by a little ol' G3258

Really been hugely impressed by this GPU which was snapped up used for under £90

 

[foster grant]

Cant argue with that uh

 

[DONOHUE07]

Now that's how you build PC! I find these 'budget' builds far more interesting than the i7's and 1080s in sli builds.

 

[maonayze]

I gave my lad my old one and he is still playing the latest games at decent frame rates at 1080P.

If it had supported Freesync then I would probably still been using it now.

 

[Lokken86]

What resolutions and settings is that. Also what software did you record it with?

 

[Figo]

What resolutions and settings is that. Also what software did you record it with?

That was recorded through MSI afterburner.

Playing at Medium / 1080p and recording to 720p

should note that while Single player is fine, the G3258, even when overclocked to 4.2Ghz really was rough in MP.

Even at something crazy like 800x600 on low, it made no difference, the Multiplayer is severely CPU bound.

 

[Figo]

swapped over to a bargin basement i5 4590 though...

rock solid 60Fps.

 

[Terrorfirmer]

The lack of HT just kills the G3258 no matter how high you clock it in CPU intensive situations like multi-player Battlefield 4 or BF1.

Still a great chip when it came out for the €49 price tag though and still is brilliant for certain types of games.

For games like Battlefield 1 online, there aren't really any good 'budget' processors - the 860K is passable, weak average frames but generally more stable than Intel Pentium, but it has the drawback of being a bit of a dead end platform compared to Skylake platform.

Best budget processor is probably a second hand Sandybridge or Ivybridge i5 - can often be had for €50-60 and offer performance better than Skylake i3-6100+.

 

[Lokken86]

Quite a difference the cpu made to there and I love to see the 280x still smashing it.

 

[Kirby Wurm]

Isn't the 280X basically a 7970 with higher clockspeed/minor adjustments? Looking it up it's essentially the gigahertz edition. Bloody impressive for a 5 year old GPU, and speaks volumes about the optimisation work DICE put in for such a good looking game.

 

[Lokken86]

Isn't the 280X basically a 7970 with higher clockspeed/minor adjustments? Looking it up it's essentially the gigahertz edition. Bloody impressive for a 5 year old GPU, and speaks volumes about the optimisation work DICE put in for such a good looking game.

It's exactly that. The original 7970 had something like a 925mhz clock speed but they overclocked like a demon so after the 680 came out they basically started making them with higher out the box clocks and boost features. 280x = slightly higher clocked ghz ed so a highly overclocked regular 7970 will be just as good. My 7970 could run at 1250mhz, though it would manage 1300mhz for benchmarks, and was non ghz edition.

 

[subbytna]

I put a 280x into my mates sandybridge cpu'd PC. He plays on his 1080 32" tv and BF1 works great on decent settings. A right little trooper of a GPU for sure

 

[Kirby Wurm]

To be fair the GTX680 copes quite well with BF1, my brother still using the one I sold him for it. He uses the memory usage limiter to avoid going over 2GB, is 3GB enough for 1080P in this game? I'm not trying to start another RAM argument here, just curious.

 

[Figo]

It's been flawless for me so far so I'd say yes!

 

[The__Malteser]

I was looking at Battlefield 1 a few days ago and though it wouldn't run well on my 280x + 4770k (none of them have been overclocked). I'm jealous about your temperatures I get like 40 deg on idle (with one screen) and I get between 65-75 when playing CS:GO (everything on low at 1080p, fan at 100% when I hit 70) even though the GPU usage is around 50%. To be fair, my case is one of the smallest available.

I tried to do some cable management but it didn't help much

 

[Phil2008]

The 290 is about on par with the 480, even tho its like 3yrs old now

 

[Ian Evey]

To be fair the GTX680 copes quite well with BF1, my brother still using the one I sold him for it. He uses the memory usage limiter to avoid going over 2GB, is 3GB enough for 1080P in this game? I'm not trying to start another RAM argument here, just curious.

Yeah 3gb is fine, ultra settings on my 3gb 780 runs at around 70-80 fps @ 1920x1200 res.

 

[southy1978]

My crossfired R9 280x's still kick ass with any modern game I try @1440p, the only card I'd change to would be a gtx 1080!