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780 caught fire. I've got a bandaid, but longterm?

Kaxey
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My EVGA GTX 780 SC ACX caught fire the other night due to a factory defect in the card I received in an RMA two years ago. Despite it being their fault for not testing, EVGA won't replace it because I'm 90 days out of a 3-year warranty...

 

So I've bandaided it with a Zotac 1050ti Mini for $145. I bought the Zotac because it was instock now as opposed to next week. I'm pretty poor rn because I had to take a month off work because of the gap between summer and fall terms at school. I'm gonna save up for a new card and I'm considering just getting a new case, power supply and cables and rebuilding in a smaller, better condition case than my current one. What's the most cost effective method of getting the performance I lost with the death of my 780? What's most "worth it"? I'd like to do VR, too. Near the end my 780 performed like shit anyway, so I'll be better off with the 1050ti, but I don't know if the card is gonna satisfy me long-term in terms of 1080p 144hz preferences.

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GTX 1060 6GB or RX 480/580

✨PC Specs✨

AMD Ryzen 7 3800X | MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus | 16GB Team T-Force 3400MHz | Zotac GTX 1080 AMP EXTREME

BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 4 | Samsung 850 EVO 250GB | NZXT 750W | Phanteks Eclipse P400A

Extras: ASUS Zephyrus G14 (2021) | OnePlus 7 Pro | Fully restored Robosapien V2, Omnibot 2000, Omnibot 5402

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see if you can find a used 980ti

Snorlax: i7 5820k @4.5ghz, Asus X99 Pro, 32gb Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666, Cryorig R1 Ultimate, Samsung 850 evo 500gb, Asus GTX 1080 ROG Strix, Corsair RM850x, NZXT H440, Hue+

Smallsnor: Huawei Matebook X

 

Canon AE-1 w/ 50mm f/1.8 lens

Pentax KM w/ 55mm f/1.8 SMC lens

Zenit-E w/ 58mm f/2 Helios lens

Panasonic G7 with 14-42mm f/3.5 lens

Polaroid Spectra System

 

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2 minutes ago, silv3rsid3up said:

If you can find one for under $300

 

4 minutes ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

GTX 1060 6GB or RX 480/580

 

I was looking at 1060 3GB, if i'm vigilant I think I can find one on sale for that low. I saw an ASUS one on sale for $310 the other day on Amazon but it sold out.

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12 minutes ago, Kaxey said:

I was looking at 1060 3GB, if i'm vigilant I think I can find one on sale for that low. I saw an ASUS one on sale for $310 the other day on Amazon but it sold out.

You can find 6gb variants for less than that which are in stock right now.

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/video-card/#c=373&sort=price&X=0,30000

CPU: I5 4590 Motherboard: ASROCK H97 Pro4 Ram: XPG 16gb v2.0 4x4 kit  GPU: Gigabyte GTX 970 PSU: EVGA 550w Supernova G2 Storage: 128 gb Sandisk SSD + 525gb Mx300 SSD Cooling: Be Quiet! Shadow Rock LP Case: Zalman T2 Sound: Logitech Z506 5.1 Mouse: Razer Deathadder Chroma Keyboard: DBPower LED

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