what gpu to buy? (150$-@200$ budget)

[newbie900000]

Hello everyone, wondering if anyone can suggest a good graphics card for a 150-200 dollar budget in the used market (currently in a shortage of products, middle eastern country pakistan)

i got a RX480 which was overheating which begs me to ask another question that if there could be something wrong with my hardware that cause it to overheat? (bios or anything other thing, NOTE: ive removed the side panel of the case and have it in an air conditioned room)

 

[TheStyne]

In terms of the used market, you basically just have to look around and see what you can buy. It looks like either a 1060 6GB or a 1070 is going to be around that price, though it would have to be a pretty cheap 1070. 

 

I wouldn't really recommend buying something new though, because it's not gonna perform much better than your RX 480. For that bad boy, is it overclocked? And is it really dirty? What kind of cooler is it, or what model is it exactly?

[Haro]

5 minutes ago, newbie900000 said:

got a RX480 which was overheating

Define overheating ? What temps ?

 

5 minutes ago, newbie900000 said:

 

Wait for ampere and big Navi if possible. 

[mariushm]

You should have removed the cooler, clean the old paste, apply new paste, put cooler back.

Also, RX cards are easy to bios mod .... so you can download the bios using the AMD/ATI Winflash tool, then use SRB Polaris to edit the bios to force the fans on the video card to spin up sooner and keep the card within reasonable temperatures... then program the new bios on the card. It's optional, you can do the same with msi afterburner or from the amd control center , global wattman or whatever it's called.

 

 

 

[newbie900000]

1 minute ago, Fixinit1 said:

In terms of the used market, you basically just have to look around and see what you can buy. It looks like either a 1060 6GB or a 1070 is going to be around that price, though it would have to be a pretty cheap 1070. 

 

I wouldn't really recommend buying something new though, because it's not gonna perform much better than your RX 480. For that bad boy, is it overclocked? And is it really dirty? What kind of cooler is it, or what model is it exactly?

yeah my main consideration was the 1060 6gb is it better than the 1070

 

the rx480 was a bust i tried everything it was running hot so i return it to the seller, for curiosity it was a sapphire nitro variant and was throttling at 90c 

[newbie900000]

2 minutes ago, BlueScope819 said:

First, clean your GPU. Second, if you want a new one wait two months for the next gen of GPUs to launch.

well not really in the market for a brand new gpu probably in the future but for now it will be out of my mentioned budget

 

[newbie900000]

3 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

Define overheating ? What temps ?

 

Wait for ampere and big Navi if possible. 

i cleaned the gpu changed the psu and everything you can even check some of my older questions here, got the thermal paste changed didn't do anything to the temps it would go above 90 and then throttle down moreover the seller agreed to take it back

[newbie900000]

4 minutes ago, mariushm said:

You should have removed the cooler, clean the old paste, apply new paste, put cooler back.

Also, RX cards are easy to bios mod .... so you can download the bios using the AMD/ATI Winflash tool, then use SRB Polaris to edit the bios to force the fans on the video card to spin up sooner and keep the card within reasonable temperatures... then program the new bios on the card. It's optional, you can do the same with msi afterburner or from the amd control center , global wattman or whatever it's called.

 

 

 

already cleaned the whole thing with a new thermal paste my bet is on the vram which was hotter than the rest of the gpu (felt it by hand) and i had a custom fan curve ramming them to 100% which would drop down the temp to 88c

[newbie900000]

2 minutes ago, BlueScope819 said:

Well sure, but the idea being is that if you wait for the new launches it will drive down the prices on the used market because all of a sudden everything is an extra generation old

thats true for some markets but i doubt that it will effect the used market right away due to this COVID 19 

[TheStyne]

3 minutes ago, newbie900000 said:

yeah my main consideration was the 1060 6gb is it better than the 1070

 

the rx480 was a bust i tried everything it was running hot so i return it to the seller, for curiosity it was a sapphire nitro variant and was throttling at 90c 

I don't quite get what you mean. The 1070 is surely better than the 1060 6GB. If you returned the 480, then here's my recommendation: If you want something right now, I'm sure you can get a 1060 6GB or an RX 580 very easily, and it will perform pretty well. If you want to wait a little bit, like a few weeks, then you could probably get a 1070 within your budget. If you're willing to wait a couple months, then you could probably get something like a 1660 for a similar price to the 1060, and maybe a 2060 for a similar price to a 1070? Depends how fast the price falls when the new GPUs come out. It's really a game of performance vs urgency

[Haro]

Just now, newbie900000 said:

right away due to this COVID 19

We don't know what can happen  in 2 months. 

[SavageNeo]

6 minutes ago, newbie900000 said:

yeah my main consideration was the 1060 6gb is it better than the 1070

 

the rx480 was a bust i tried everything it was running hot so i return it to the seller, for curiosity it was a sapphire nitro variant and was throttling at 90c 

rx 480 is pretty close to 1060 6gb in terms of performance. but 1070 is better. Yopu should wiat for Bid Navi and ampere (new gpus)

[newbie900000]

3 minutes ago, Fixinit1 said:

I don't quite get what you mean. The 1070 is surely better than the 1060 6GB. If you returned the 480, then here's my recommendation: If you want something right now, I'm sure you can get a 1060 6GB or an RX 580 very easily, and it will perform pretty well. If you want to wait a little bit, like a few weeks, then you could probably get a 1070 within your budget. If you're willing to wait a couple months, then you could probably get something like a 1660 for a similar price to the 1060, and maybe a 2060 for a similar price to a 1070? Depends how fast the price falls when the new GPUs come out. It's really a game of performance vs urgency

thankyou for the suggestion