What's your fallback GPU?

[Okjoek]

Should your GPU meet an untimely demise what's the first thing you have on hand to fill its void until you can repair it / purchase a new one?

 

To fill in for my RX 460 I've got my Intel HD graphics of my i5 3450. Beyond that I have the option of two "low profile" cards, an HD 8350 or a Quadro NVS card of some kind.

[MegaDave91]

Titan X (Maxwell), 780, 680, 660ti

[MoonlightSylv]

I have an R9 380X and a GT 210.

 

Also a dead Fury X.

[OuchMyFaceyHole]

1 minute ago, MegaDave91 said:

Titan X (Maxwell), 780, 680, 660ti

You make me sad. I've been stuck with a 7750 for a total of nearly 2-3 months due to GPU failures.

[Okjoek]

I wonder how many people's fallback cards wipe the floor with my primary card ...

 

 

[iRileyx]

None, oops.

 

My only options would be to buy a cheapo GPU, or temporarily go back to using my old amd apu. I'd much rather buy a cheapo gpu.

[aisle9]

2 minutes ago, Okjoek said:

Should your GPU meet an untimely demise what's the first thing you have on hand to fill its void until you can repair it / purchase a new one?

 

To fill in for my RX 460 I've got my Intel HD graphics of my i5 3450. Beyond that I have the option of two "low profile" cards, an HD 8350 or a Quadro NVS card of some kind.

I'd probably move my GTX 670 around if I lost a card.

[MegaDave91]

2 minutes ago, Hunter259 said:

You make me sad. I've been stuck with a 7750 for a total of nearly 2-3 months due to GPU failures.

Sorry to hear about hardware failures of any type. How's the 7750 working for you?

[GDRRiley]

9800GTX+, hd 5750 or my hd 530

[OuchMyFaceyHole]

Just now, MegaDave91 said:

Sorry to hear about hardware failures of any type. How's the 7750 working for you?

Besides not being able to play much of anything well at 1080p , let alone 4k, it worked alright. Just got my 3rd 980ti back and so far so good. 

[AnonymousGuy]

680, 560Ti, 740, 630, 210.

 

I also have SLI in my main workstation so I would just run without the bad card.

[MageTank]

Should my 1070 go the way of the dodo, I have a GTX 980 Ti, GTX 770, and a GTX 560 Ti to fall back on. Technically, I have a spare 1070, but that is used by someone else. I also have a 1080 Ti on the way on the 31st that I ended up getting for about $500 (thanks Dell) so I suppose by then, my 1070 will be added to that list of "backup" GPU's.

 

I have never really tested the iGPU's on my CPU's. My 6700k's iGPU had bad artifacts (probably due to my extreme torture of the entire system agent subsection) but I suppose I could test this 7700k's iGPU to see if it will work. Would also be interesting to see what my memory overclocking does for performance on the iGPU. 

[Oshino Shinobu]

Well, I have mine in SLI, so another Titan Black. After that, Intel HD 4000

[Okjoek]

1 minute ago, Hunter259 said:

Besides not being able to play much of anything well at 1080p , let alone 4k, it worked alright. Just got my 3rd 980ti back and so far so good. 

Damn 3rd 980ti? I've honestly had good luck with most GPUs from either side of the aisle. The only exception is the GTX 500 series card from my old alienware X51 that died on me after ~2 years of service. The i5 from that Alienware is the very same CPU I still run to this day.

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

if my 760 fails i have a 1080 as a backup 

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

Just now, Name Taken said:

A RX 470, R9 280X or 1080 Ti from my mining rigs.

what are you mining with a 1080 ti 1080 tis are pretty bad roi wise for most algorithms  

[divito]

I donated my EVGA 760 FTW to my girlfriend's rig when I got my 1060 for Christmas; I'd probably just take it back. Outside of that, apparently my CPU has an iGPU so I guess I'd use that in a worst-case.

[Phate.exe]

Back when I was running the RX 470 in my old machine, my fallback card was an R9 270X, which I gave away to a friend so he could actually game.  Then I sold the 470 and the only card I had on-hand was my old HD6850.

 

There is no fallback for my new machine, unless I want to buy another used Fury.

[divito]

Just now, divito said:

I donated my EVGA 760 FTW to my girlfriend's rig when I got my 1060 for Christmas; I'd probably just take it back and let her go back to her APU. Outside of that, apparently my CPU has an iGPU so I guess I'd use that in a worst-case.

 

[TheGlenlivet]

970.  I'd go from Ultra to Good settings...

[kaiju_wars]

Well, I have a 780 as a main GPU.  If that were to (god hopefully it doesn't) die, I did have a GTX 680 to fall back on, but I just gave that to my mom for the gaming PC I'm making her.

That leaves either an HD 6770 or GTX 460 SE until I could get a new.

[Misanthrope]

I have a working 950 on another rig (will turn that into an HTPC) a 290x that boots and manages a few hours of up time without much stress before it craps out (with stress it craps out immediately) and a GTX 260 that thermal throttles but again, boots fine and goes into windows fine.

 

I also have a working 750 on another rig (My sister's) so I say I have plenty lying around should I need to diagnose something.

[KenjiUmino]

because i hand my old cards down to whoever in the family is the next in line with an even weaker card, the only spares i have on hand that are not currently in use are pretty old or potato AF

 

i can ask my brothers and they would probably let me "borrow back" their cards but if i'd need a somewhat gaming capable card RIGHT NOW, a GTS 250 would be the best card i can put in my system at a moments notice - but then i'd have to swap out my PSU as well because the 350W seasonic in my tower does not even have a single 6 pin and is probably too weak to handle the GTS 250 anyways.

 

good thing i keep a spare 500W-ish PSU or two around (though they are not seasonic quality)

[DildorTheDecent]

Since I've two 980s, If one of them coughs i'm still covered  

[porina]

Should the 980Ti in my main system die, I would most likely steal the 1070 FE from my VR system in the first instance. I don't like using it in my main, as the fan noise is quite noticeable. I have another 980Ti in another watercooled system, so extracting that would not be trivial and as a reference card, it also would be noisy. Next down the line is an EVGA 970 which is pretty decent but I bought it a bit late in product cycle so never really used it in anger. Should that be unavailable I can still go on to a 1060 3GB. Unfortunately I got a short card and basically the cooler on it is wholly inadequate. It thermally throttles if you so much as look at it with visible light in the area. So... yeah, I'm not short on GPUs.