Video card died a sudden death

[FGBullet]

I had a Radeon HD 6870 that decided to quit yesterday. Looking for a good card to replace the old girl and would appreciate any recommendations.

Thanks,

FGBullet

[xPoisonx]

I had a Radeon HD 6870 that decided to quit yesterday. Looking for a good card to replace the old girl and would appreciate any recommendations.

Thanks,

FGBullet

What CPU & ram so you have?

[FGBullet]

What CPU & ram so you have?

AMD Phenom 2 X4 965
4 GB of ram

[xPoisonx]

I'm not too familiar with Radeon cards, but I used to have that same cpu and used a gtx 550ti, they are pretty cheap on ebay.

[FGBullet]

Thanks, I definitely want one that can run 60 fps maxed out on all settings.

[BoilerDown]

Check this: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8225/best-video-cards-june-2014

I agree with their conclusions, although I'm not sure if it would be tweaked in some way to be specific to Aces High.

[TequilaChaser]

What brand was your HD6870, bullet?

Are you saying you could run it with max settings and still obtain 60 fps?

On one of my pc builds I have the AMD Q975 3.6 GHz quad core with 16 gigs of  system ram, and use an XFX HD6870 1024 MB VC... OS being Windows7 ultimate sp 1 64 bit...

Using the 2048 texture setting in the login screen video settings and in-game graphic settings every thing turned on/checked, I can only obtain a constant 60 fps at 1920x1200 screen res, when the environmental slider is turned all the way down or just using the first notch only...

TC

[Masherbrum]

Depending on your MB, you could possibly go from the Deneb to a Bulldozer, or possibly even a Vishera FX-8350 Black Edition.   

Also, a GTX 760 would be about right.   

My .$02.

[Max]

I just did a rebuild with the GTX 760 (EVGA) and love it. All settings maxxed out (I don't give a diddle about shadows) is giving me a solid 59 FR. My CPU is an i5-4680 + 8 G RAM

[Drane]

Recently installed the GTX 760 it works great!

FPS are in high 50's maxed out at 60hz refresh rate on monitor. That seemed a little jumpy so set monitor to 30hz refresh and AH is rock steady at 30 fps. Much more fun to play.

[FGBullet]

Thanks everyone. I ordered an AMD Radeon R7 265 a couple days ago. Wondering if I should have ordered a GTX 760 instead. But I think the card I ordered will suffice.

Really appreciate the replies!

[Drane]

Bought the NVidia GTX 760 mainly because I've been having odd problems with AMD chipset and video drivers the last year or so. This has been on 5 different computers so I'm pretty sure it's AMD's drivers.

[Bizman]

Thanks everyone. I ordered an AMD Radeon R7 265 a couple days ago. Wondering if I should have ordered a GTX 760 instead. But I think the card I ordered will suffice.

Really appreciate the replies!

I've been happy with Radeons for the last decade or so. For what I've learned problems may occur if the drivers are of newer generation than the card itself. They should be backwards compatible, but if the new drivers are heavily optimized to run features older cards don't have, something may go awry. Every card has a "golden" driver, often one of the latest before the launch of a next generation. Hardware compatibility issues are also possible although rare. There's a zillion possible hardware combinations which no one has resources to test thoroughly. So if all new hardware with the best available drivers don't work, changing one component to a different make may do the trick.