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Radeon 7870 to 280X?

StinkyPinky

StinkyPinky

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Yesterday my 7870 pushed its last pixel. It was only 2 years old so that's kinda annoying.

As much as I would love a 290 I really don't have the budget nor the excuse to upgrade to such a powerful card. Especially as I only game at 1080p and plan to do so for some time.

Has anyone moved from a 7870 to a 280X? Is that a reasonable upgrade?
 
StinkyPinky said:
Yesterday my 7870 pushed its last pixel. It was only 2 years old so that's kinda annoying.

As much as I would love a 290 I really don't have the budget nor the excuse to upgrade to such a powerful card. Especially as I only game at 1080p and plan to do so for some time.

Has anyone moved from a 7870 to a 280X? Is that a reasonable upgrade?
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The move from the 7870 and 280 is not that big (like 25%?)

spend the extra 50 bucks and move up to the 290 reference card and run it in quiet mode.
 
Uh...yeah. So it's much worse than I thought. I put in my old 5850 to keep me going and while it posts with that, it fails to detect my SSD. Swapping around cables, ports etc and it fails to see it. So both my video card and SSD are dead so I'm thinking the PSU is suspect and the motherboard is probably damaged as well.

Awesome.:'(

I'll just go into the corner and get into a fetal position.
 
I'm assuming you tried plugging the power cables that were in the working HDDs into the SSD drive, just to make sure it wasn't a connector that was bad? Also, how did the GPU fail? Just didn't start up, corrupt image?

Try resetting the CMOS.
 
Yeah I tried all that including the cmos.

And I was playing a game and the screen went black and PC was unresponsive. Rebooting would result in no post. Swapping in the 5850 now gets it to the bios but it doesn't detect the SSD no matter how many cables I swap. Frustrating.
 
Sounds like you haven't eliminated the mobo as a possible culprit though. You have a friend with a system that you can throw the ssd or video card in? Even a laptop will work for the ssd.
 
StinkyPinky said:
Yesterday my 7870 pushed its last pixel. It was only 2 years old so that's kinda annoying.

As much as I would love a 290 I really don't have the budget nor the excuse to upgrade to such a powerful card. Especially as I only game at 1080p and plan to do so for some time.

Has anyone moved from a 7870 to a 280X? Is that a reasonable upgrade?
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I went from 7850 to 7950. Pretty nice upgrade IMHO. You can get a R9 280 for $190. For 1080 gaming I think it's a good combo of price/performance. I can vsync 60fps/60hz on most games at high to ultra settings.
 
I wouldn't do it personally. And like others said it is not clear whether the video card is the problem there.
 
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