Why Are You Upgrading: My graphics card recently started puttering out and dying, it was supporting two monitors up until recently and now will only turn on with one monitor attached, and it starts making fairly loud grumbling noises when I actually try to play games. Tech-proficient friend confirmed that it was definitely the graphics card with the problem, and I love using two monitors at once so I'd like to get a replacement 
It's still working (sort of) for now, but gradually getting louder.
Approximate Purchase Date: Within the next month or two
Budget Range: No real limits, but I don't need the bestest most expensive thing around.
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Games (gw2, steam stuff), adobe photoshop, general internet and tv shows and whatnot.
Parts to Upgrade: Graphics Card
Location: I live in Melbourne, Australia, so places like MSY, pc case gear, scorptech etc are in my area. Amazon and stuff might work too.
Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080
Current Build:
Corsair GS-600 Power Supply
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
Gigabyte GA-880G-UD3H Motherboard
Corsair CMX8GX3M4A1600C9 8GB (4x2GB) DDR3
(dying) [strike]HIS Radeon HD6870 1GB[/strike]
As well as storage and blah blah. If I've left anything important out sorry, I'm a bit of a doofus.
Additional question!! I am unsure if I will need to upgrade anything else to keep my computer running nicely with the new video card and games and such, I would appreciate any advice if that is the case
Additional question number two: (This isn't really the right place for this one so feel free to ignore) I've had this computer for about 3 years now I think, is it worth replacing the graphics card at this point or should I tolerate the dying card and save up for an entirely or mostly new build all together? I've been considering switching to intel from amd and I'm not sure if I want to spend money on parts compatible with this build and then have to get new ones again in a year or two if I decide to overhaul everything...
It's still working (sort of) for now, but gradually getting louder.Approximate Purchase Date: Within the next month or two
Budget Range: No real limits, but I don't need the bestest most expensive thing around.
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Games (gw2, steam stuff), adobe photoshop, general internet and tv shows and whatnot.
Parts to Upgrade: Graphics Card
Location: I live in Melbourne, Australia, so places like MSY, pc case gear, scorptech etc are in my area. Amazon and stuff might work too.
Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080
Current Build:
Corsair GS-600 Power Supply
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
Gigabyte GA-880G-UD3H Motherboard
Corsair CMX8GX3M4A1600C9 8GB (4x2GB) DDR3
(dying) [strike]HIS Radeon HD6870 1GB[/strike]
As well as storage and blah blah. If I've left anything important out sorry, I'm a bit of a doofus.
Additional question!! I am unsure if I will need to upgrade anything else to keep my computer running nicely with the new video card and games and such, I would appreciate any advice if that is the case
Additional question number two: (This isn't really the right place for this one so feel free to ignore) I've had this computer for about 3 years now I think, is it worth replacing the graphics card at this point or should I tolerate the dying card and save up for an entirely or mostly new build all together? I've been considering switching to intel from amd and I'm not sure if I want to spend money on parts compatible with this build and then have to get new ones again in a year or two if I decide to overhaul everything...
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