RIP GPU

[nblackburn]

It all started when my HDD died and upon opening it up to replace with a new one, managed to drop one of the screws which landed under the motherboard. After effectively stripping it to get it back and taking plenty of pictures along the way was able to re-assemble the computer but something was different...The display was no longer receiving a signal from the GPU. After a few days of pondering i took it to a computer shop and they blew some air on it and it started working again.

 

A few days ago it started artifacting and tearing while i was gaming; the next time it was started i was back at square one again so i think i have enough confidence to say it's dead or on it's way out. It has lasted 6 years and has had a good run.

 

Now i am looking at buying a replacement GPU but being as i am not much of a hardware person, would love some advice on a replacement. I don't have a huge budget as i getting married soon but was thinking around £200 which should get me something mid-range. I currently have a AMD Radeon 7770 GHz Edition but am looking at the AMD RX 570 4GB. I was looking at Nvidia but want to take advantage of my FreeSync monitor which i am currently unable to do.

 

• Motherboard: Pegatron 2AD5
• PSU: 600w
• 8 Pin Connector

 

https://support.hp.com/gb-en/product/HP-Pavilion-HPE-h9-Phoenix-Desktop-PC-series/5258492/model/5281261

 

Does this look like a good match or would you suggest something else?.

[Fasauceome]

9 minutes ago, nblackburn said:

I was looking at Nvidia but want to take advantage of my FreeSync monitor which i am currently unable to do.

Freesync doesn't require an Nvidia card to work, in fact it required an AMD card until recently.

 

The 570 should work just fine for you, it's a great budget card. The 570 won't consume much more power than a 7770 so your current PSU should be fine for the time being.

[nblackburn]

3 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

Freesync doesn't require an Nvidia card to work, in fact it required an AMD card until recently.

 

The 570 should work just fine for you, it's a great budget card. The 570 won't consume much more power than a 7770 so your current PSU should be fine for the time being.

Thanks for the quick reply, i appreciate it. I was aware that FreeSync is a AMD technology so apologies if i had confused you there with my wording. I was just saying that if i would have gone with a Nvidia card then i wouldn't have been able to take advantage of it (unless that has changed as you allude to).

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, nblackburn said:

Thanks for the quick reply, i appreciate it. I was aware that FreeSync is a AMD technology so apologies if i had confused you there with my wording. I was just saying that if i would have gone with a Nvidia card then i wouldn't have been able to take advantage of it (unless that has changed as you allude to).

Yeah, new Nvidia drivers allows Pascal and Turing cards to use freesync.

[nblackburn]

2 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

Yeah, new Nvidia drivers allows Pascal and Turing cards to use freesync.

Interesting, thanks again!

[GamerDude]

4 hours ago, fasauceome said:

Yeah, new Nvidia drivers allows Pascal and Turing cards to use freesync.

NOT all Freesync monitor are compatible though, the list of compatible monitors is growing so one never knows. My 75Hz Freesync Acer XR341CK isn't listed as such, but when I hooked it up to my GTX1080, I found that it was 'Gsync' compatible, running at 75Hz.

[Fasauceome]

27 minutes ago, GamerDude said:

NOT all Freesync monitor are compatible though, the list of compatible monitors is growing so one never knows. My 75Hz Freesync Acer XR341CK isn't listed as such, but when I hooked it up to my GTX1080, I found that it was 'Gsync' compatible, running at 75Hz.

You can manually enable adaptive sync on non-verified monitors so it'll work on all of them, just not automatically as with the verified ones.