Want to upgrade from a Radeon HD 6870 1GB

Orangehat44 · Jul 13, 2016

I bought my computer in October off a friend who built it probably 2-3 years ago. He admitted from the start the GPU was where he skimped a bit. I assume I'm looking in the 200$ USD ball park (wife would probably prefer under lol) but if theres something gobs better in the 250-300 range I could probably be patient and save for another month or so. As the title states the existing card is Radeon HD 6870 1gb (XFX double d if that bit matters).

The rest of the computer as follows:
AMD FX-430 Vishera Quad Core 3.8 ghz
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0
16gb G.Skill DDR3 1866 RAM
700w ps

and i use 2 240gb SSD's (he had 1 ssd and one high rpm HDD, and he thought the SSD went bad so I bought a new ssd, turns out it was the HDD that was bad so i just kept the original and put the one i bought in inplace of the HDD)

I'm not the most computer techy and dont know what would make a good bang for buck upgrade or even what GPU's would be compatible for my system to upgrade to. Total war Warhammer is the newest intensive game I've gotten and can play it but on pretty low settings

Any help is hugely appreciated

Edit: If it matters i do use 2 monitors. (one is 1920x1080 other 1600x900 for max resolutions)

dexxterlab97 · Jul 13, 2016

For that price it will definitely be RX 480

PatrioticPickle · Jul 13, 2016

dexxterlab97 :

I agree, but that being said your 4300 will bottleneck it. A 8350 nearly bottlenecks it. I'd wait for the 1060 to release first though.

As AMD processors pair better with Nvidia GPUs because of the higher CPU overhead associated with AMD GPUs which requires better single core performance from CPUs which AMD Cpus dont have. For example:
Pairing a R9 390 and GTX 970 with i5's results in similar Framerates.
But pairing these cards with a 8350 shows the GTX 970 pulling ahead.

This is an older article but it should explain what I mean http://www.overclock.net/t/1495236/amd-vs-nvidia-cpu-overhead
The 780ti becomes more ahead of the 290x when paired with the 8350.

Orangehat44 · Jul 14, 2016

PatrioticPickle :

I dont know much about what bottlenecks what why, might try to do some research this weekend. newegg was almost entirely out of stock on the RX 480 only one that was availible was like 450$, and amazon says temporarily out of stock.

Would it be worth while to consider upgrading cpu (if thats possible) as well as the gpu and would that be doable at a reasonable price, again prob sub 300$.

Or, is there a budget gpu around 150$ or less that would be an upgrade for me currently to limp on for another 6mo to a year before a proper upgrade.

Sorry for so many questions, but i just wanna figure out my options. After getting really frustrated with the drivers on my card being wonky and it seemly the wrong version no matter what i did, instead of their final driver release that they put out a few months back. Makes me want to upgrade now cause im sick of it, but that would likely mean going cheaper, but if it makes way more sense to wait and save i can probably be patient and deal with it for another couple months.

madmatt30 · Jul 14, 2016

On that board you could drop any fx CPU in there & overclock the ass off it in all honesty.

A 6300@4.3ghz+ is enough to power anything around a 970/rx480.

What I would suggest is keeping your 4300 as is & looking for a good deal on a 970 as suggested.

The RX 480 is overpriced as of now, the 1060 is due out in a few days & is also likely to be vastly overpriced on release.

The Asus strix 380 4gb is also available for $154 with rebate on newegg at the moment & is still worth consideration at that pricepoint

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121978&FM=1

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