Sapphire HD 5770 Dying, looking for replacement suggestions

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Xirix

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My Sapphire HD 5770 started making a horrendous noise this afternoon, after asking around it seems it's probably a ball-bearing related noise and since I was considering getting a new card this year anyway, it seems this is the time.

I'm not sure what route to take though, I'd like to stick with ATI if they're still considered good, or AMD, whatever they are now. It would seem every card now is PCIe 3.0, will that be a problem as my motherboard only has 2.0? Will there be a noticable performance drop / will it even work?

My motherboard is an Asus P7P55DE LX.

I'm ideally looking for basically the same specs as this one, GDDR5 and all that, but with 2gigs of graphics memory instead of 1. Not looking to spend a fortune, perhaps £150ish max?
 
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The R9 380 is significantly faster than the GTX 950, and also a little faster than the GTX 960. It's the best card in the £150 range. But if you don't need that much performance, the GTX 950 is a fine card closer to £100. AMD's R7 370 is a little behind, and also has rather outdated features (the 380 uses a significantly newer version of the GCN architecture).
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PCIe 3.0 GPUs are compatible with PCIe 2.0 MOBOs I run that config myself. The performance drop shouldn't be that massive. Also please don't pick brand over power. Instead evaluate both AMD and Nvidia's offers as you'll get better GPU that way. for 150pounds I'd suggest GTX 950 on Nvidia's side , I don't know that much about AMD cards at that price point though, sorry! :)
 
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There wont be any performance drop because of the pcie 2.0.
Look at r9 380. I suggest to get 4 gb variant. Or you could wait 1-2 months 'till AMD release their new gpu-s.
What's you power supply?
 
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I only really said ATI as I'm stubborn and familiar with how to change settings. Having a look at GTX 950's on ebuyer now, they have good reviews, and if PCI-E 3 x16 will definitely fit in my PCI-E 2 x16 I suppose I could give one a try.

Any suggestion on what make I should go with though? There's a literal ton of different GTX 950's, some with 2 fans even. Does that mean the ones with only one fan might be louder? I like my quiet cards.

My power supply is an OCZ 700. I don't really need more than 2 gigs for what I do with this computer anyway.
 
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The R9 380 is significantly faster than the GTX 950, and also a little faster than the GTX 960. It's the best card in the £150 range. But if you don't need that much performance, the GTX 950 is a fine card closer to £100. AMD's R7 370 is a little behind, and also has rather outdated features (the 380 uses a significantly newer version of the GCN architecture).
 
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Really depends on the particular implementation of each card, not just whether it's a 380 or 950. But if you just pick at random, chances are probably better with the 950 since it draws less power and thus has less heat to deal with.
 
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