HELP With GPU AMD HD 4870

andres13 · Postby **andres13** » January 3rd, 2016, 6:07 pm

the gpu turns on but stopped working ....any one can fix this ? or have any ideas how I can.

ninjabilly · Postby **ninjabilly** » January 3rd, 2016, 8:07 pm

Probably try baking it
https://www.google.tt/url?sa=t&source=w ... 7uO_fba4Gw

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andres13 · Postby **andres13** » January 3rd, 2016, 9:41 pm

ninjabilly wrote:Probably try baking it
https://www.google.tt/url?sa=t&source=w ... 7uO_fba4Gw
Thanks, i might still want to try something a bit more professional, but seems logical tto flip and heat.

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ingalook · Postby **ingalook** » January 3rd, 2016, 10:26 pm

andres13 wrote:the gpu turns on but stopped working ....any one can fix this ? or have any ideas how I can.

Hey man I have a pair of HD7850s to sell ($500 a card)

Its a nice lil upgrade from what you have if you interested

andres13 · Postby **andres13** » January 8th, 2016, 4:55 pm

Bump ^ yeah man I'll pm you about those still would like to know if it is fixable

EFFECTIC DESIGNS · Postby **EFFECTIC DESIGNS** » January 8th, 2016, 8:32 pm

4870 is about 8 years old regardless when you bought it. Its 8 years old what more do you want?

Buy the 7850 from him and stop worrying how to fix something that cannot be fixed.

ingalook · Postby **ingalook** » January 9th, 2016, 12:38 am

EFFECTIC DESIGNS wrote:4870 is about 8 years old regardless when you bought it. Its 8 years old what more do you want?

Buy the 7850 from him and stop worrying how to fix something that cannot be fixed.

lol - de man just attached to his hardware, that 4870 probably served him faithfully over the years

I change practically all the hardware in my rig every 2 years or so... its an addiction - plus men always seem to need my stuff and are willing to pay for it

Ridorii · Postby **Ridorii** » January 9th, 2016, 12:41 am

I'd go against buying the 7850 and building a whole new machine, suggesting how old your entire machine is by now. Lord knows what specs you have, and its 2016. Save up and build yourself a future proof pc instead of upgrading old and probably not supported hardware.

ingalook · Postby **ingalook** » January 9th, 2016, 1:01 am

Ridorii wrote:I'd go against buying the 7850 and building a whole new machine, suggesting how old your entire machine is by now. Lord knows what specs you have, and its 2016. Save up and build yourself a future proof pc instead of upgrading old and probably not supported hardware.

I'm sure he'd benefit with a total overhaul... but judging from the fact that he is trying to nurse a 4870 back to health, he is probably looking to spend as little as possible to get his machine back up.

Ready to help/advise with whatever he decides to do

EFFECTIC DESIGNS · Postby **EFFECTIC DESIGNS** » January 9th, 2016, 2:26 am

Ridorii wrote:I'd go against buying the 7850 and building a whole new machine, suggesting how old your entire machine is by now. Lord knows what specs you have, and its 2016. Save up and build yourself a future proof pc instead of upgrading old and probably not supported hardware.

Well first of all when it comes to video cards there is no such thing as future proof.

I have built a PC with a future proof motherboard for myself with a ASUS H97M Plus mainboard. But thats all you are gonna get in the realm of future proofing and its only cause intel has no competition anymore as AMD effectively dead. So all they do is make 5% performance boost a year. In 20 years if I still alive I might change this board and notice a difference. Has an upgrade path to a 4790K core i7 about 8 years down the road when I see games really using 8 threads properly and my i5 can't make again.

Also for $500 a HD 7850 will do him just fine seeing that he only wants his HD 4870 which is incredibly outdated compared to the 7850 this suggests that he probably plays DOTA or league or one of those games designed with a 15 year lifespan. Judging from his preference he needs nothing more than the 7850. I have a GTX 970 and I mainly play starcraft 2 still as all them console ports fail hard. I could have just ran Starcraft 2 on the integrated GPU on my i5 literally.

andres13 · Postby **andres13** » January 9th, 2016, 6:28 am

^ thanks for the comments guys, no not attached to the old hardware my little brother just found it somewhere in the House and he wanted me to see if I could get it fixed..... from the way it looks he loves to play games like BF3, COD, mine craft all online so I'll build him a proper desktop ground up, any suggestion for a CPU and GPU? AMD or Intel

andres13 · Postby **andres13** » January 9th, 2016, 6:31 am

Oh he uses ps3 and his Toshiba laptop(with i5 intel) right now so they work but not at 60fps....more like 20-28fps.

Ridorii · Postby **Ridorii** » January 9th, 2016, 1:27 pm

Depends on your budget really, and if youre buying the parts locally or shipping them down.

andres13 · Postby **andres13** » January 9th, 2016, 2:24 pm

Shipping ^ I'll buy online amazon most likely and get them shipped

warrenc_alexis · Postby **warrenc_alexis** » January 11th, 2016, 4:03 pm

EFFECTIC DESIGNS wrote:
Ridorii wrote:I'd go against buying the 7850 and building a whole new machine, suggesting how old your entire machine is by now. Lord knows what specs you have, and its 2016. Save up and build yourself a future proof pc instead of upgrading old and probably not supported hardware.

Well first of all when it comes to video cards there is no such thing as future proof.

I have built a PC with a future proof motherboard for myself with a ASUS H97M Plus mainboard. But thats all you are gonna get in the realm of future proofing and its only cause intel has no competition anymore as AMD effectively dead. So all they do is make 5% performance boost a year. In 20 years if I still alive I might change this board and notice a difference. Has an upgrade path to a 4790K core i7 about 8 years down the road when I see games really using 8 threads properly and my i5 can't make again.

Also for $500 a HD 7850 will do him just fine seeing that he only wants his HD 4870 which is incredibly outdated compared to the 7850 this suggests that he probably plays DOTA or league or one of those games designed with a 15 year lifespan. Judging from his preference he needs nothing more than the 7850. I have a GTX 970 and I mainly play starcraft 2 still as all them console ports fail hard. I could have just ran Starcraft 2 on the integrated GPU on my i5 literally.

I also upgraded my system with a Asus H97-Plus motherboard last October but I don't agree why you consider that a future proof board? It just seems to me like we have mainstream non-overclockable 1150 socketed boards which has already been replaced with 1151 for Skylake. The only think I might say we "probably" scored with is being able to use a pcie based M.2 drive... and that im not even holding me breath for wrt compatibility.

One last thing. How hard would it to source haswell CPU's to buy 8 years from now from a reliable seller, good condition and priced which makes sense over just rebuilding again.

PS. I use a Xeon E3-1231 v3 in my build. It works decent.