720 videos at once? probably not

"Old GPU but an OK deal" is trolling... Are you being serious?

Most of the time a second hand purchase will get you more for your money, that's why people buy second hand. That's common sense, not trolling.

The 290X is near 3 years old. In the land of GPU's, that's pretty old.

Well because comparing a second hand GPU to a brand new GPU is always going to get you more FPS per £ :stuck_out_tongue:

Of course, RX 470 is coming out 'soon'. AMD released a 'expected August 4th' for that, and 'expected August 8th' for the RX 460. Price and performance remain unknown, but the specs of RX470 are very close to RX480 but the rumour was $150 vs $199 for RX480 (both for 4GB), so around £150 making this probably not that great value.

agreed, for those that can't afford the slightly more expensive 480 4GB this is a great price and gaming card.

Of course, RX 470 is coming out 'soon'. AMD released a 'expected August 4th' for that, and 'expected August 8th' for the RX 460. Price and performance remain unknown, but the specs of RX470 are very close to RX480 but the rumour was $150 vs $199 for RX480 (both for 4GB), so around £150 making this probably not that great value.

The 380 stock is being reduced to make room for the 460, 470, and 1060 3gb (maybe called 1050).

If you can wait, this will go even further, or you can pick up a next gen budget range card for the same price.

Don't rush for this card.

Also, remember, if you have a lower end processor, something less than an i5 2500k, there is a good chance this card will bottleneck your CPU.

Looks like eBuyer are slimming down their R9 3xx stock lines. I picked up an Asus R9 390X Strix from them a few weeks ago for £199.

will this play 720 video?

I'm wondering why the RX480 is being mentioned at all? The performance of this card is not in the same league as the RX480. This is cheaper because it's not got the performance of a higher end card (the RX480 being mid range in reality).

I won a R9 290x for £133 from ebay. What a deal :smiley:

Yep! Thought it was a clearance offer. Obviously not, may have been a misprice?

Nice that's a very good deal. May well have been a mis-price yeah, nice result :smiley:

Faster than a RX 480 in a lot of games, better FPS per £ than a RX 480 too at that price.

No doubt about that. Was it second hand though?

Most likely. But that shouldn't really matter so much. I've had good experiences with second hand GPUs in the past.

Well because comparing a second hand GPU to a brand new GPU is always going to get you more FPS per £ :stuck_out_tongue:

Not always, there's some scalpers on eBay. Any way, is that a bad thing?

Can you quote me where I said they got a bad deal?

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I thought it was a OK conversation. A good way to end it though. Good job.

Well you were mostly trolling. The R9 290x isn't that old, in some ways it's architecture is still ahead of what nVidia are doing. The Async Computing performance certainly is any way.

"Old GPU but an OK deal" is trolling... Are you being serious?

Most of the time a second hand purchase will get you more for your money, that's why people buy second hand. That's common sense, not trolling.

The 290X is near 3 years old. In the land of GPU's, that's pretty old.

My point being that just because it's old doesn't matter, since it's faster than a RX 480 in a lot of cases. Only downside is that it's slightly hotter.

I never doubted the 290X is still a good GPU but £133 for one second hand is not astonishing. They were going for around £200 brand new around the 390X release. It's an OK deal. As I said :stuck_out_tongue:

It's decent. The only downside so far has been the stock fan profile is too passive for my liking - it's quite happy to let the card reach 90C+. That's within thermal limits and won't be a problem, but still, I'd prefer it to be cooler. Easily sorted with Afterburner. It's now OC'ed to 1150MHz core and 6600MHz memory quite happily with a small core voltage bump, and temps never go above the low 80C's.

​stop talking rubbish!! overclockers have already stated they will have stock of the 4GB which is slightly more expensive then this, the titan pascal is what I would call expensive 1200 dollars. When the 4GB 480 was be sold it was well under 200 pound.

Good work around. What CPU are you running with that? What are the main set games you playing with it. Cpu wise i'm running i7-4790K 4.4GHz chipset graphics lol meaning i get 30 fps max on low settings. Just waiting to pull the trigger on one of these graphics cards in time for Battlefield 1.

i5 4690k @ 4.6GHz.

Have a look at PC part sale groups on Facebook etc, you could easily pick up something like an R9 270 for ~£70-80 which will let you play at 60FPS/1080p as long as you're sensible with the settings. I had a pair of them previously, they were very good for the money. OC super easy as well, you pretty much just slide everything to the right in Afterburner :laughing: . Then once the new gen AMD and Nvidia has been out for a bit, non reference cards are widely available and prices have stabilised, have a look at the newer stuff.

I have a Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7870. Is this a good replacement? Thanks.

​cretin.

i maybe old but, i have an 7850 overclocker edition card, what would be a reasonable upgrade for the price second hand, what would anyone recommend plz

Same price on amazon : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sapphire-Radeon-Nitro-GDDR5-Graphics/dp/B016EY8JMG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469816499&sr=8-1&keywords=r9+380

Edit : According to camel camel camel its been this price since last Saturday lowest price yet.

a little advice / guidance please... would I notice any benefit upgrading from Asus r9 270x top? 8320 processor, 16gb ballistix ram... wondering if there would be bottlenecking??