gfx Card

[Jaff.]

so apparently mine has blown. im after a new one. im not massively clued up with these things so some help please?

i dont want to spend much but i dont want a crappy card either so best value for money please.

i have a 750W PSU already so that shouldnt be an issue.
the old one was a palit gts450 if it helps?

 

[Ex-User (19928)]

Would help if you mentioned a budget or what games you play.

 

[Jaff.]

Think the most graphically intensive game I have is Euro truck sim 2 lol.
Or maybe grid 2

Budget is as I said, not a lot. Sub £100 ideally.

Looks like the one I had goes for about £30 so an improvement on that for a bit more money would be ok I suppose

 

[Addicted]

Radeon R7 260X, £90 on Amazon. Multiple flavours available so choose your victim (Sapphire, XFX etc)

 

[Jaff.]

can yo explain a bit clearer please? theres so many different phrases flying about with these cards im getting a bit lost.

last time i bought a card memory was king and the more you had the better.

 

[Addicted]

Any of them from here:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=r7+260x

I'd prob go for the top one (Sapphire 2gb), there are some with only 1Gb VRAM so yep get the higher ones

 

[Jaff.]

that looks very similar to the one i was looking at in PC world only with 2ce the memory lol

good to know i was on the right track

 

[Jaff.]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00FSC50N2/?tag=cliospnet01-21

anything wrong with that?

i dont understand the price diffrence? if its essentially the same thing.

i gather there are only a certain amount of chips that are made and these chips are put on different cards made by different people?

 

[Addicted]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00FSC50N2/?tag=cliospnet01-21

anything wrong with that?

i dont understand the price diffrence? if its essentially the same thing.

i gather there are only a certain amount of chips that are made and these chips are put on different cards made by different people?

http://www.hwcompare.com/15484/radeon-r7-240-vs-radeon-r7-260x/

Quite a lot of difference imo!

 

[Jaff.]

fair point. amazing what a difference 1 number makes lol

ill see about getting that saphire one then

 

[Darren S]

The 260X is a good shout by Addicted - certainly for the budget in mind.

You might score lucky on the Bay and get a marginally quicker nVidia card. But the 260X is 'significantly' better than the GTS450 that you already have.

 

[Jaff.]

That pretty much sells it to me lol.

I'll get one ordered.

 

[Jaff.]

Little help please?

My misses went out and bought a similar gfx card to that linked one, put it in the PC, worked fine for a few days.
Played games fine until yesterday when I loaded a new game up and I got a black screen and eventually the PC shut off. Now it turns on but doesn't display anything on the screen. Tried taking gfx card out and run it on the run cable in the motherboard and it still doesn't work.

Unplugged the cpu to clean the fan etc out because it was getting dirty and I've put it back in, taken the cmos battery out for a minute then tried it and still nothing.

It won't turn off now either. PC turns on, won't boot and won't turn off I have to turn the psu off.

Did notice the hdd light isn't flashing at all. Don't know if that's relevant?


I'm thinking it may be and my hdd is fecked?

 

[Addicted]

Thats a weird one, what happens if you put the old gpu back in?

All cables plugged in? Did the GPU need a PCI power and have you got that in?

 

[Jaff.]

The old gpu was knackered as far as I'm aware being as a new one sorted the issue.

Yes the gpu has a desperate power supply but I'm not even getting any signal from the vga off the motherboard

 

[GiT]

PSU fried? Seen that a few times.

 

[Jaff.]

How would I test that?

Surely it wouldn't turn on with a fecked psu?

 

[GiT]

How would I test that?

Surely it wouldn't turn on with a fecked psu?

Voltage test. You may well be getting Mobo power, but GFX power rails blown. Had that years ago mate. Took ages to suss out lol.

Leave button battery out over night with full power off.

 

[Jaff.]

I'll give that a go.

Hope it's not fucked tbh

 

[Ex-User (19928)]

If it's not posting (the first screen where it shows hardware summary and lets you enter the BIOS) then there is a hardware fault somewhere. If you have a PC speaker then you should get beeps that will help you diagnose, unless there's something wrong to the point that it doesn't get that far (which will be power related, whether it's a loose cable or faulty PSU).

Do you have a spare PSU that you can use to test?

 

[Jaff.]

I've got a crappy old one off an old PC that I'm tempted to try.

No beeps from the PC, not sure it has a speaker tbh