I currently have to live with an AMD R9 280x (XFX) which has slight problems like one of the 2 fans being broken, making terrible noises and sometimes crashing in 2D applications (funnily not it 3D applications like games).
It would be very good to change the card out as i need my pc for my (sadly non paid) work and i pretty much have no money/need all my money for upgrading my camera (again for my non paid work).
By the way, your build guides taught me how to build my pc, so thanks for that!