Adding/changing my GPU

[PanCakesYUM]

Hello everyone. 

 

I'm thinking of upgrading my GPU. Myy current one is Asus AMD Radeon HD 7770. It is a good card from the performance perspective but because of the 1GB memory it has, it tends to crash. Now I'm thinking of getting the Gigabyte AMD Radeon R9 280. It's got 3 gigs of memory so I believe it will decrease the crashing. Now the main question is: Should I just add the card and have these two cards or should I change the card completely? And if you think I should change it completely, how. (uninstalling old drivers, BIOS settings, etc.) And if you suggest having a dual card configuration what needs to be done in that case? (if even possible with two different cards)

 

And if you suggest a different card, I'll take in all suggestions if the price stays under 200 euros.

 

Thank you for your help. 

[WoodenMarker]

Switch the cards, install updated drivers, and uninstall the drivers from the old card from the Device Manager. There's no point in keeping both cards in unless you plan on using both at the same time. 

[PanCakesYUM]

Switch the cards, install updated drivers, and uninstall the drivers from the old card from the Device Manager. There's no point in keeping both cards in unless you plan on using both at the same time. 

Thanks bro. And Now that I checked, I only have one PCI-E slot so yeah.

[Briggsy]

make sure power supply is good enough for 280. if not, upgrade that as well. that should be first priority. I think 500-600 watts minimum is required. I believe a 285 uses less power, and the new color compression it uses mean you need less memory in-game, but its probably 6 in one, half dozen in the other (so to speak).

 

once you're ready to install the new card, download and run Display driver uninstaller for AMD drivers to wipe old drivers. then install new card an remove the old one, and download/run latest AMD drivers. 

[Norman_the_Owl]

Get a 285, not a 280. 285 performs "better in every way"-jayztwocents

[Leonard]

Hello everyone. 

 

I'm thinking of upgrading my GPU. Myy current one is Asus AMD Radeon HD 7770. It is a good card from the performance perspective but because of the 1GB memory it has, it tends to crash. Now I'm thinking of getting the Gigabyte AMD Radeon R9 280. It's got 3 gigs of memory so I believe it will decrease the crashing. Now the main question is: Should I just add the card and have these two cards or should I change the card completely? And if you think I should change it completely, how. (uninstalling old drivers, BIOS settings, etc.) And if you suggest having a dual card configuration what needs to be done in that case? (if even possible with two different cards)

 

And if you suggest a different card, I'll take in all suggestions if the price stays under 200 euros.

 

Thank you for your help. 

I think you should look into the R9 285 for performance but if you want the bigger VRAM then as of right no, you will favor the R9 280. 

 

Is your PSU powerful enough to power an upgrade let alone both GPUs at the same time? You need to check this.

 

How do you know the crashing is strictly due to the GPU? 

[ManIkWeet]

Running out of VRam should slow you down, not crash!

[PanCakesYUM]

To all you guys.

 

Power supply: FSP Aurum 600W

 

The crashes I'm experiencing have two possible outcomes:

1. Mantle function error

2. DirectX Error

 

Last one occurs when using DirectX in BF4 and other way around. But if using DirectX it tends to crash A LOT more than when using Mantle.

 

I'm going for the 280 instead of 285 because of the MONEY. It will be an issue since I'm still a student and 16 so no steady income and there will not be because of school. So cards over 200 are no go. And the smaller reason is the VRAM.

 

 

I also have a new problem that has come up. I have some reasons to believe it's because of my motherboard. My computer has crashed on the same way four times now. Three times in BF4 and once in CS:GO. The crash is pretty simple. Sceen freezes to current frame and sound repeats itself very rapidly. (It makes the "rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" sound) Then after a short while, monitor goes dark an "No signal" appears to the screen. (Same as if the PC wasn't on) Still the Fans keep running and seems to be on. Don't know what this might be but something not good. A week before these crashes I experienced dramatic stuttering about as often as the crashes now. (Not too often but still annoyingly too much)

 

Hope you can help me with this one too without having to make an other topic.