Recommend video card with the performance of R7 370

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Recommend video card with the performance of R7 370

Сообщение rado84 » 30.09.2016 10:04

First, sorry for English but I don't speak Russian. I can somewhat understand Russian by reading it since I'm Bulgarian but I've never learned Russian.

I have a problem with my current video card (the driver crashes too often, sometimes more than 10 times a day) and for this reason I decided to switch to an nVidia card. So, can you recommend me an nVidia card with the performance of AMD R7 370? I tried searching such a card on Google but all I could find was with a 128-bit bus which means that Armored Warfare wouldn't run the way it's supposed to run. My best friend had a 128-bit nVidia with a lot better performance than my previous AMD card and yet AW ran as if he was running it on a Pentium II PC. The game just needs 256-bit video card and I just couldn't find anything equal to R7 370 by performance, except a few video cards for which I'll have to work 10 years before I can afford them...

Feel free to respond in Russian or English. I can understand Russian by reading it and my mother knows Russian. I just won't be able to respond to you in Russian cuz I know only a few words which I remembered from "LADA Racing Club".

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Re: Recommend video card with the performance of R7 370

Сообщение GothMan » 30.09.2016 13:28

First concerning your R7 370. Did you try your card in other systems. Maybe trouble not in videocard but in other hardware, PSU for example.
The second ones. The thin memory bus is not a big problem for modern nvidia's cards. In 900-s and 1000-s series they use a smart texture compression algorythms, so there would not be a bottleneck effect. Of cause, and I'm sure you have learn it, R7 370 equals GT950. If you planning to upgrade your platform in a close future you may acquire GTX 1060 or wait for a 1050 http://nvworld.ru/news/2016/09/28/#nvid ... -gtx1050ti. Another card with close speed is Radeon RX460, or, if you think about future - RX470/480 (they are pricely, but have wider memory bus).

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Re: Recommend video card with the performance of R7 370

Сообщение rado84 » 30.09.2016 16:35

I haven't tried it on other systems. There is a small chance that the problem is caused by incompatibility between the NVIDIA 750SLI chipset and the video card but I have my doubts about that. There's also the fact that AMD stopped testing their driver with WHQL unlike NVIDIA which makes me think nv's driver will crash less or not at all.
I am thinking about the future and for this reason I'm gonna upgrade my PC. But for the moment a video card with the performance of 370 will be quite enough cuz I don't play many games. Only Armored Warfare (which is optimized for NVIDIA only which is the other reason I wanna change the video card) and World of Tanks.

P.S. The problem is not with the PSU, I'm sure of that! Corsair CX750.

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Re: Recommend video card with the performance of R7 370

Сообщение GothMan » 30.09.2016 17:24

I beleive NVIDIA's chipset is not a key factor for amd's driver crashing, and WHQL is not mostly connected with driver stability. The main reason for driver crashing is instability of GPU or its desoldering. You may check it by downcloking GPU on hundred MHz with MSI Afterburner or any other tool.
Conserning PSU: you can never exlude PSU, even it very cool and expensive. Please run HWMonitor and your game. Play game until crash, make a screeshot of a HWMonitor and post it here.
I am thinking about the future and for this reason I'm gonna upgrade my PC. But for the moment a video card with the performance of 370 will be quite enough cuz I don't play many games.
Even you need NVIDIA card due to Armored Warfare optimization, I think the best choice for you is RX470 or not announced yet GTX 1050. I think GTX 1050 will be announced next month with retail ready parts, so you'd be able to buy one alredy after announcement. And don't afraid 128-bit bus.

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Re: Recommend video card with the performance of R7 370

Сообщение rado84 » 01.10.2016 16:18

When you said downclocking, I got an idea - found the specs of the standard (non clocked) R7 370 on the internet and downclocked it to the frequency of the original AMD card. Yesterday I managed to play a whole hour without the driver crashing. Hopefully it will last like this until I buy the new hardware.

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Re: Recommend video card with the performance of R7 370

Сообщение GothMan » 01.10.2016 21:05

GPU will continue to degrade, but there is a high probability it will work at stock frequency pretty long until system upgrade.

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Re: Recommend video card with the performance of R7 370

Сообщение rado84 » 02.10.2016 19:32

Well, thanks for the help, everyone, and mostly for not forcing me to post in Russian, like other forums do. :) Guess it's time to start looking for the GTX950.

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Re: Recommend video card with the performance of R7 370

Сообщение GothMan » 02.10.2016 19:34

Guess, gtx950 not the best choice, IMHO the best one would be not released yet 1050 or 960 (much cheeper).

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Re: Recommend video card with the performance of R7 370

Сообщение rado84 » 02.10.2016 21:24

I don't need the best. Here (in Bulgaria) the best costs a fortune. If GTX950 has the performance of R7 370, it will do perfectly.

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Re: Recommend video card with the performance of R7 370

Сообщение GothMan » 03.10.2016 17:32

Its everywhere. 1050 promised to cost 120 bucks ex. VAT. There good prices at newegg (shipping only to Зoland :( ) I believe will be possible to buy it for $130-140. GTX950 now costs 120-130 USD. Guess 10 bucks don't worth a lot.

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Re: Recommend video card with the performance of R7 370

Сообщение i8085 » 04.10.2016 5:03

rado84 писал(а):I don't need the best....
... but it's always advisable to choose the optimum ... :)
When I need to choose "hardware" I use the comparison table from the site of one of our large trading company. Smart guys working there and their tables are close to reality. Check it yourself.

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Re: Recommend video card with the performance of R7 370

Сообщение rado84 » 12.11.2016 19:11

GothMan писал(а):Even you need NVIDIA card due to Armored Warfare optimization, I think the best choice for you is RX470 or not announced yet GTX 1050. I think GTX 1050 will be announced next month with retail ready parts, so you'd be able to buy one alredy after announcement. And don't afraid 128-bit bus.
You were right - the 128-bit nvidia bus performs a lot better than the 256-bit of AMD. Today I got GTX 1050Ti StormX 4GB which is with 128-bit bus and I can't believe how well games run! All the games that previously lagged now run a lot smoother than they used to run with the R7 370. Even Armored Warfare runs very smoothly at medium settings with nearly 60 FPS. I can't go high or ultra settings because of my current CPU but very soon it will be upgraded as well.
What surprises me even more are the low temperatures it reaches! When I'm not playing a game the GPU temperature is only 26 degrees (Celsius) :shock: and when in game the highest temperature I saw so far was only 52 degrees. I've never thought a video card's temperature could go below 40 degrees when not loaded (when not loaded R7 370 used to work at 40-45 degrees).

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Re: Recommend video card with the performance of R7 370

Сообщение GothMan » 12.11.2016 22:35

My congratulations!

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