GPU burnt up

[oops_idiedagain]

hello everyone, so the night before last my 980ti literally went up in smoke, PSU power surge and dead GPU. Luckily nothing else was damaged. My ? to you all is I have $250 for a new or used GPU, my specs are as follows.

CPU: 1600AF

RAM: 16gb 3200mhz

MOBO: ASUS B450 Prime

PSU: 700w Thermaltake Smart 80+

GPU: GTX 760 (only other GPU round)

 

Thank you all in advance for any suggestions. 

[Biomecanoid]

Get a 2060 from ebay

[TetraSky]

If you can wait a month or so, for botting scalpers to settle down a bit and for stocks to return, maybe, just maybe, used prices may also go down a bit. Even more so when they 3070 is released and AMD release their cards too at the end of the month. As such, there's a possibility you might be able to get a good card on the cheap. But again, this is basically gambling on the "wait and see" approach.

 

If you can't wait at all... I don't think you can afford the 2060 used, because they are still selling for over $300, unless you get lucky with an auction and manage to get one at $275 or so.

In 3 months time, I wouldn't be surprised to see 2060 at $200 used if AMD's offering is competitive.

[oops_idiedagain]

as far as waiting not sure on that, I literally took a 10X performance hit. 30fps time spy as opposed to 3fps with the gtx760. As much as I'd like a 30 series or new AMD GPU I'll wait 6 months to a yr before going to new GPU architecture. The 980ti had 6gb vram so I was thinking 1660 variant with 6gb vram for 6 months to a yr, i want to upgrade cpu when i go to 20 or 30 series

[oops_idiedagain]

Well I found a 1660 super 6gb GPU for $230.00 shipped. I should get roughly same performance as my dead 980ti (my first GPU above $500) Gonna clean it up and put it on wall of fame, lol. TY for the answers

[Ankerson]

4 hours ago, oops_idiedagain said:

hello everyone, so the night before last my 980ti literally went up in smoke, PSU power surge and dead GPU. Luckily nothing else was damaged. My ? to you all is I have $250 for a new or used GPU, my specs are as follows.

CPU: 1600AF

RAM: 16gb 3200mhz

MOBO: ASUS B450 Prime

PSU: 700w Thermaltake Smart 80+

GPU: GTX 760 (only other GPU round)

 

Thank you all in advance for any suggestions. 

 

Might want to get rid of that PSU....

 

Just saying....

 

Replace it with a good quality PSU, if you don't want the same thing to happen to the next graphics card, or worse.