Powercolor RX480 Red Devil 8GB

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Hey Guys,

So I have never bought a Powercolor card in my life and Wootware has great special on the RX480 8GB for R4000.
IS this a good buy or should I rather look at a different brand. Has anyone bought the card discussed, how is the performance. I just want to play Battlefield 1 and Ghost Recon Wildlands in Full HD.
 
I have bought a few Powercolor cards from them during the years, all good, no complaints. With that card, i don't think you'll have issues playing those two games.
My last card I bought begininng last year, Powercolor R9 380x. Plays everything I throw at it.
 
Great card, buy it.

Seriously, not much else to say! Good brand too.
 
beans100 said:
I have bought a few Powercolor cards from them during the years, all good, no complaints. With that card, i don't think you'll have issues playing those two games.
My last card I bought begininng last year, Powercolor R9 380x. Plays everything I throw at it.
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Thanks I have been an Nvidia Fanboy, but at this stage anything that can play at 60fps and 1080p is a win for me.
I like the 8GB memory I think this future proofs it a little bit.
 
ToxicCorra27 said:
Hey Guys,

So I have never bought a Powercolor card in my life and Wootware has great special on the RX480 8GB for R4000.
IS this a good buy or should I rather look at a different brand. Has anyone bought the card discussed, how is the performance. I just want to play Battlefield 1 and Ghost Recon Wildlands in Full HD.
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I've got one (I bought it on special for 4.3K from Wootware; why is it just getting cheaper and cheaper ffs?) and it's great.

Presuming you are playing at 1080p and have a decent CPU, it will play just about any game at max settings.
 
ToxicCorra27 said:
Hey Guys,

So I have never bought a Powercolor card in my life and Wootware has great special on the RX480 8GB for R4000.
IS this a good buy or should I rather look at a different brand. Has anyone bought the card discussed, how is the performance. I just want to play Battlefield 1 and Ghost Recon Wildlands in Full HD.
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At that price point you have two options the powercolor rx480 8gb & galax 1060 6gb. Both will do the job.

If there is a specific game you play most of the time (gta v in my case) look at the benchmarks maybe as at times there can be a big difference on how titles run on a specific gpu. But overall they are much of a muchness.
 
ToxicCorra27 said:
Hey Guys,

So I have never bought a Powercolor card in my life and Wootware has great special on the RX480 8GB for R4000.
IS this a good buy or should I rather look at a different brand. Has anyone bought the card discussed, how is the performance. I just want to play Battlefield 1 and Ghost Recon Wildlands in Full HD.
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I have the R9 290 and not a day's problems with it since purchasing it two/three years ago.

I can't fault the brand, and supplied by wootware which has amazing after service. Won't even bat an eye :p
 
Pitbull said:
I have the R9 290 and not a day's problems with it since purchasing it two/three years ago.

I can't fault the brand, and supplied by wootware which has amazing after service. Won't even bat an eye :p
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Almost time for an upgrade :D
 
I paid R4799 for my Powercolor Radeon RX 480 8GB 256bit GDDR5 PCI-E 3.0 :cry:

But OP , no problems ... it's a great card.
 
Pitbull said:
Yea, I really really really want to. But to swing it past the wife though... bleh
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I dunno, at 1080p the 290 is still doing pretty well, I looked at the performance of a 290x vs 480x and came to the conclusion that it's not worth it to upgrade for the performance gain you will see. Maybe Vega? will be worth it.

My whole system is from 2014 and I'm still playing most titles on high detail 1080p at decent frame rates. I also want to upgrade but honestly pc tech seemed to have slowed down a lot the last 4 years. Maybe it will be worth upgrading next year when games and software make more use of CPU's 16 cores etc, but presently it will just be a waste of money.
 
Dan C said:
I paid R4799 for my Powercolor Radeon RX 480 8GB 256bit GDDR5 PCI-E 3.0 :cry:
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Yeah I paid the same price for my gtx1060 and now it's R4k, grates my ass. But as they say in afrikaans, C'est La Vie.
 
My MSI Rx480 8GB is running like a dream playing BF1 and Battlegrounds, so assuming you have a nice CPU you shouldn't have any problems.

Powercolor is a decent brand and at that price I would go for it!!
 
Hey Guys,

Thanks for all the replies, can't wait to get the card.
My mobo: Not a Gaming MSI Motherboard
Intel Core i5 6500 Skylake
8GB Crucial Ballistix DDR4 Memory
Full HD Screen
Antec 550w Power Supply
 
ToxicCorra27 said:
Hey Guys,

Thanks for all the replies, can't wait to get the card.
My mobo: Not a Gaming MSI Motherboard
Intel Core i5 6500 Skylake
8GB Crucial Ballistix DDR4 Memory
Full HD Screen
Antec 550w Power Supply
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Yeah got the same..just got 800W power supply with 16gb ram and two red devils...

i must say DX12 games that support multi gpu these cards run everything maxed out with 80 to 120fps easy
 
Boom3laar said:
Yeah got the same..just got 800W power supply with 16gb ram and two red devils...

i must say DX12 games that support multi gpu these cards run everything maxed out with 80 to 120fps easy
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I kinda feel dumb for buying the 4 x 2 Crucial Memory. The board only has two slots, so kinda shot myself in the foot. Overall my pc upgrade for 2016/2017 cost me about 9K
 
ToxicCorra27 said:
I kinda feel dumb for buying the 4 x 2 Crucial Memory. The board only has two slots, so kinda shot myself in the foot. Overall my pc upgrade for 2016/2017 cost me about 9K
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Ya its cheap for 9k what you got...you could always just sell the ram and get 8 X 2 memory modules
 
ToxicCorra27 said:
Hey Guys,

Thanks for all the replies, can't wait to get the card.
My mobo: Not a Gaming MSI Motherboard
Intel Core i5 6500 Skylake
8GB Crucial Ballistix DDR4 Memory
Full HD Screen
Antec 550w Power Supply
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I have the same CPU and a rx480 4gig. 60+ fps on high/ultra at 1080p
 
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