With the holiday spirit in mind , i'm looking to upgrade my 'old' gpu :)

[Stefan_10]

Greetings ! And happy holidays , I am looking to upgrade my Saphire r9 280x into either a 1060 3gb (maybe 6 gb , if I find a good deal) or a 480x 4gb (again , maybe 8 if I find a good deal)
My current build is fx8350 , 8gb of ram , a decent psu (not a known brand , but it served me well) .
Any recommendations ? I am interested strictly in 1080p 60fps gaming of recent and future games.
Consider that I am a poor first semester student , still looking for a job . I found some good deals on the lower RAM versions of these gpus , and the 8gb version of the 480x for ~250 euros (red devil), same with the 3gb 1060. I leave it up to you guys to guide me for now

 

[junkeymonkey]

personally I don't see anything much wrong with that 280x ? Considering that your a poor first semester student , still looking for a job .

that card should still hold its own today

''Number of GPUs [1] ''

http://www.3dmark.com/search#/?mode=advanced&url=/proxycon/ajax/search/cpugpu/fs/P/1541/897/500000?minScore=0&cpuName=AMD FX-8350&gpuName=AMD Radeon R9 280X

http://www.3dmark.com/search#/?mode=advanced&url=/proxycon/ajax/search/cpugpu/fs/P/1541/1103/500000?minScore=0&cpuName=AMD FX-8350&gpuName=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060-3GB


you do gain some but worth the cost ???

 

[john TJ]

a gtx 1060 3gb should be fine for now , a 6gb model would be future proofing ,in over all performance 1060 is better , though rx 480 leads in very few DX12 games

 

[Stefan_10]

personally I don't see anything much wrong with that 280x ? Considering that your a poor first semester student , still looking for a job .

that card should still hold its own today

''Number of GPUs [1] ''

http://www.3dmark.com/search#/?mode=advanced&url=/proxycon/ajax/search/cpugpu/fs/P/1541/897/500000?minScore=0&cpuName=AMD FX-8350&gpuName=AMD Radeon R9 280X

http://www.3dmark.com/search#/?mode=advanced&url=/proxycon/ajax/search/cpugpu/fs/P/1541/1103/500000?minScore=0&cpuName=AMD FX-8350&gpuName=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060-3GB


you do gain some but worth the cost ???

I have plenty of money saved up to buy one of these , I just want to play the likes of deus ex with max settings on 1080p y-y
Or at least a bit better than I can now . Ill get about half my money back from selling the 280x anyway .

 

[junkeymonkey]

sad thing is how many guys get a 10 series card and not getting what they expected or find there old hardware don't work with them .. if I had a solid working 280x I would be hard pressed to get rid of it [opinion]

''I have plenty of money saved up to buy one of these , I just want to play the likes of deus ex with max settings on 1080p y-y
Or at least a bit better than I can now . Ill get about half my money back from selling the 280x anyway ''

maybe ? you will know after you buy it and try it

 

[Stefan_10]

sad thing is how many guys get a 10 series card and not getting what they expected or find there old hardware don't work with them .. if I had a solid working 280x I would be hard pressed to get rid of it [opinion]

''I have plenty of money saved up to buy one of these , I just want to play the likes of deus ex with max settings on 1080p y-y
Or at least a bit better than I can now . Ill get about half my money back from selling the 280x anyway ''

maybe ? you will know after you buy it and try it

well , what can i say . I guess ill hold onto my 280x a bit longer

 

[junkeymonkey]

I don't want to discourage you after all my AM3+ experances I would look to a new intel heck even a last gen haswell -I all way built AMD but after am3+ I jumped ship and went intel and cant say it was a wrong move

all I changed was the cpu and motherboard and pulled the rest off the AM3+ [memory gpu hard drive psu all pulled from the amd right on to the intel z87 ] and it was night and day programs games all just worked and preformed so much better .. in noi way can I say it was a bad move wayyyyy more happy with the intel

so even with the new card your old am3+ may be your hold back over all ?

heck even AMD's own CEO admitted the platform was a mistake and did not work out as expected

''Ultimately AMD’s focus on new “growth areas” isn’t the culprit. What has hurt AMD is a big bet on a Bulldozer architecture — in which two CPU integer cores share a floating-point unit and other components — that simply didn’t work out. “Everyone knows that Bulldozer was not the game-changing part when it was introduced three years ago,” then-CEO Rory Read said at a Deutsche Bank event. “We have to live with that for four years [through 2015]. ''

its now what ? 7 years old ?? in computer / electronics years that's near obsolete and well behind the times

of course this is just all a opinion from me you could start another thread and ask

by the way my older 7850 still does me good not no power house but plays things fine and dandy still also got a 980ti

 

[Stefan_10]

I don't want to discourage you after all my AM3+ experances I would look to a new intel heck even a last gen haswell -I all way built AMD but after am3+ I jumped ship and went intel and cant say it was a wrong move

all I changed was the cpu and motherboard and pulled the rest off the AM3+ [memory gpu hard drive psu all pulled from the amd right on to the intel z87 ] and it was night and day programs games all just worked and preformed so much better .. in noi way can I say it was a bad move wayyyyy more happy with the intel

so even with the new card your old am3+ may be your hold back over all ?

heck even AMD's own CEO admitted the platform was a mistake and did not work out as expected

''Ultimately AMD’s focus on new “growth areas” isn’t the culprit. What has hurt AMD is a big bet on a Bulldozer architecture — in which two CPU integer cores share a floating-point unit and other components — that simply didn’t work out. “Everyone knows that Bulldozer was not the game-changing part when it was introduced three years ago,” then-CEO Rory Read said at a Deutsche Bank event. “We have to live with that for four years [through 2015]. ''

its now what ? 7 years old ?? in computer / electronics years that's near obsolete and well behind the times

of course this is just all a opinion from me you could start another thread and ask

by the way my older 7850 still does me good not no power house but plays things fine and dandy still also got a 980ti

As far as i've read , the 8350 that I have should be good enough for at least another year , especially in 1080p gaming .
I think I might just upgrade to the 480 red devil edition , and hope for the best

 

[junkeymonkey]

well ok ? if buying a new card regardless maybe NVidia is the better way ? thing is a lot of hype and smoke screening over quality

I waited for the 10 series cards and just bought a 900 series to be honest the 10 series maybe claimed faster but if you look don't do as much and did not cover al my needs as the older 900 series did

all I can say is try to look past the hype and smoke screening and more to the facts

http://www.eteknix.com/amd-radeon-rx-480-reportedly-frying-pcie-slots/

http://videocardz.com/61667/what-reviewers-say-about-radeon-rx-480-exceeding-pci-express-power-specifications

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3093406/components-graphics/tested-amds-new-driver-fixes-the-radeon-rx-480s-power-draw-and-boosts-performance.html

don't guess it fixed this guys RX card ?

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3263421/gpu-massively-overvolting-insanely.html

like me 900 cards still supported analog native off the card 10's don't - 900 series supports OS' down to xp - 10's don't 10 series burning up as well ?

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-gtx-1080-evga-catches-fire-video/

then maybe this guys palit card ?? ''previous gpu Palit gtx 1050ti I used DVI cable and played for some time until it FRIED''

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3269546/monitor-dvi-signal-vga-works.html

see like me I held off intill the 10 series was released and got the end of the 900 series run most all its bugs were by then worked out [opinion]

in the end all you can do is what you feel is best for you if you get a new card all I can do is hope luck of the draw was on your side and hope you enjoy your new card


good luck