Replacing daughter's graphics card.

[pieman109]

The vid card in me daughters pc has started to play up, random locks, artifacing, etc so its replacement time. Its an AMD 7950, which is yonkers old now so I'm looking at spending about £100-£120 s/h to replace it. I thought about a s/h R290x but I was wondering what other newer spec options there are. It would only be used for light gaming, watching, etc.
Any suggestions?

 

[Journey]

Spend the extra and get the RX 570 at £159 with the £100+ of free games.

 

[Figo]

For £100 you will be hard pushed to get better performance than your HD 7950... That will be faster than most GTX 1050s and RX 560's as is... a GTX 1050ti would be a negligible improvement. as said above, best bet would be to pony up for a RX 570 - should be achievable as you will be able to flog the 7950 for a few bob yet.

 

[pieman109]

I'm currently looking at a s/h asus 1060 dual oc which appears to be going for a reasonable price, just over £100.
Opinions on this one?

 

[pieman109]

I'm currently looking at a s/h asus 1060 dual oc which appears to be going for a reasonable price, just over £100.
Opinions on this one?

I must admit, the performance (before it started playing up) of the 7950 has been really good, it might just need a good clean out of any accumulated dust and a reinstall of the latest appropriate drivers.

 

[Quartz]

I'm currently looking at a s/h asus 1060 dual oc which appears to be going for a reasonable price, just over £100.
Opinions on this one?

6GB? Avoid the 3 GB cards.

 

[Lokken86]

Spend the extra and get the RX 570 at £159 with the £100+ of free games.

Yeah the games make it a stonking good deal.

 

[nashathedog]

@pieman109 In case you don't know this about the GTX 1060's, as well as less memory the 3 gb version also has less cuda cores than the 6gb version. But from the usage you mention if the price is right it wouldn't be a bad choice.

That said, as already mentioned you can get 3 games with a new AMD 570, you can pocket close to £50 if you sell them so a 4gb 570 is definitely the option I'd choose.

 

[pieman109]

Bit of an update. I had a look around the interweb and by all accounts, the HD 7950 3gb is still a beast, and can hold it's own in quite a few of the newer games, though some game options need reducing a tad to keep the framerate up.
So I took the card out and to say it was clogged with dust would be understatement. I took the cooler off, cleaned the gpu and reapplied some arctic silver, cleaned the heatsink/s and fans reinstalled and it hasn't crashed yet so all being well, result!
Thanks for the help guys