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Hi, I'm looking for a GPU in the R1500 range. It needs to be able to play newer games, but I'm not too fazed with it being the best on the market. I used to have a HD6870 that was absolutely amazing and would gladly have gotten another of those if not for the fact that it seems to have been discontinued.

Any suggestions? I know this is a very limited budget for a GPU, but I game at 1600x900 and I don't play that many high-performance games anyway nowadays.
 
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AMD Radeon R7 260X is what you should be looking at but it's around R1800. A friend of mine purchased one from Evetech and he runs Battlefield 4 on high settings on a Tri-core AMD system with 4gb of RAM that's not overclocked.
 
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I've got a 600w PSU, so it should be sufficient. After this upgrade I don't intend to upgrade for a while so it should hold me for a few more years.
 
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Fox1 said:
AMD Radeon R7 260X is what you should be looking at but it's around R1800. A friend of mine purchased one from Evetech and he runs Battlefield 4 on high settings on a Tri-core AMD system with 4gb of RAM that's not overclocked.
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And I run it also on high with my GTX 460, what does that tell you?
 
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Zewp said:
Hi, I'm looking for a GPU in the R1500 range. It needs to be able to play newer games, but I'm not too fazed with it being the best on the market. I used to have a HD6870 that was absolutely amazing and would gladly have gotten another of those if not for the fact that it seems to have been discontinued.

Any suggestions? I know this is a very limited budget for a GPU, but I game at 1600x900 and I don't play that many high-performance games anyway nowadays.
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If you still have the HD6870, there's no point in upgrading for that price. However, if you really want to, the R7 260X is the way to go.
 
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EmileS said:
If you still have the HD6870, there's no point in upgrading for that price. However, if you really want to, the R7 260X is the way to go.
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DX12 and Mantle support too :)
 
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Fox1 said:
a) Not available.
b) Not future proof.
c) Driver support is at it's end.
d) No DX12 support.
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Nvidia has announced that it is going to be dropping driver support for a large number of its old graphics cards, including essentially the entire 8-series, 9-series, 100-series, 200-series, 300-series, and one card (the GeForce 405) from its 400-series. This includes mobile and desktop products. Support for a number of professional workstation products is also being terminated.
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Nvidia said it will support DirectX 12 on all the DirectX 11-class GPUs it has shipped; these belong to the Fermi, Kepler and Maxwell architectural families.
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The 400 series uses the Fermi architectural, get your facts straight.
 
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EmileS said:
If you still have the HD6870, there's no point in upgrading for that price. However, if you really want to, the R7 260X is the way to go.
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Unfortunately the HD6870 died on me last year, together with my motherboard and PSU. I initially thought it was just the PSU and replaced it with a pretty decent one, but it turned out to be all three those components in the end.

It was a very sad day. The HD6870 was an amazing card.
 
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Zewp said:
Unfortunately the HD6870 died on me last year, together with my motherboard and PSU. I initially thought it was just the PSU and replaced it with a pretty decent one, but it turned out to be all three those components in the end.

It was a very sad day. The HD6870 was an amazing card.
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Sad days..

What are the specs of your PC ATM?
 
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At the moment I don't have a desktop PC. I'm still planning the upgrade but I'm trying not to go over R5000, which is proving very difficult.

I'm looking at a i5 3340 with 4GB RAM (RAM can easily be upgraded later, so I don't have to buy too much initially). The CPU is skirting the low end of the i5 line, but for my purposes I don't need much better than that, especially because I don't plan to overclock.
 
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Go with a H81 Mobo + 4gb DDR3 1600mhz RAM + i5 4440. Should set you back about R3800-R4000. The latest Core i5 Haswell CPU's are more than adequate for gaming.

I use an H61 + 8gb DDR3 1333mhz + i5 2400 and it's going well for 2 years now. Not once have I had the system shutdown whilst gaming.
 
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Go with a H81 Mobo + 4gb DDR3 1600mhz RAM + i5 4440. Should set you back about R3800-R4000. The latest Core i5 Haswell CPU's are more than adequate for gaming.

I use an H61 + 8gb DDR3 1333mhz + i5 2400 and it's going well for 2 years now. Not once have I had the system shutdown whilst gaming.
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Yes. That H81, 4GB, i5 is a great option on a tight low budget. It all depends on what you want in the end, what you have currently, and what your total budget is for the entire rig.
 
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