What Card under £200

[WYP]

Originally Posted by Duckboy

So in the end I got a Sapphire RX 580 8GB Pulse for £123.11 brand new, for that price I had to!, it should be a big upgrade from my 7850 2gb.



I will be buying a new monitor next week with a bit of luck!

That's an amazing deal. well done.

[AlienALX]

Yeah good going man.Entry level is the only segment where the true deals are now.

[cooperman]

£125 for a new 580 thats a bargain! nice one.

[Duckboy]

Originally Posted by cooperman

£125 for a new 580 thats a bargain! nice one.

I know! it was using a discount code tho, I got about £25ish off, they only had 8 of them, gone in seconds.....

[Duckboy]

I might even miss my MSI 7850 2GB lol it's really done me well over 4-5 years, overclocked to 1200/1450 for 3ish years, but I had to dial it back to 1125/1300 lately tho.


Them 7850/70's proper bang for buck back then, hopefully this will last me a good few years too, can't knock AMD's lower end stuff tbh defo for the price!

[Duckboy]

So, I'm having some problems with this card....


It keeps throttling, high temps etc, it's hitting 77c then downclocking from 1366 to 1100~


I've undervolted the card from 1150 to 1050, but it's still hitting 72c in games and throttling, I was using Heaven Benchmark to check stability, ran it for a good hour, temps hitting 66-67, a good stable 1366mhz through out but as soon as I fire up a game it hits 70c+ then starts throttling again....... Any ideas?


My case is clean with plenty of air flow, v-sync on, limited fps to 60fps too...


I'm not sure what's going on?

[tgrech]

Usually these cards don't throttle until their temps are into their 80's, sometimes even 90's, are you sure it's not power throttling? This might help https://community.amd.com/thread/220803

[Duckboy]

Originally Posted by tgrech

Usually these cards don't throttle until their temps are into their 80's, sometimes even 90's, are you sure it's not power throttling? This might help https://community.amd.com/thread/220803

Thanks for that link, I'll check it out, I guess the first thing is then is to uninstall afterburner.



I just don't get hours after hours of testing, low temps, no throttling, as soon as I game... bam! throttling and higher temps.


I'll try upping the power limit and report back.


Thanks for the help!

[Duckboy]

Well the power limit didn't make a difference, still dropping down to 1100~, I'm really quite stuck.......


I might buy a new cooler for it seen as I got it so cheap.......


any other ideas anyone?

[NeverBackDown]

Could try updating drivers or using a slightly older one and maybe updating the GPU bios.

Other than that I would say return and replace.