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What's your fallback card?

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Everyone seems to talking about ditching their Radeons for the greedy miner market and using what they have as their fallback.

For example, I currently run a 7770 and my fallback card is a 7930 ( yeah yeah 7870 XT) with about six hours on it. the 7770 is just quiet I don't game much past 4x type games so it doesn't matter at all. Maybe one day I'll buy a 1050Ti and downclock it so the fan never turns on.

In the meantime, what's your fallback plan if you sell or blow up your main card?
 
My fallback is a 750 Ti. I also have a 5770 somewhere in a box if I'm really desperate.

There are 2 RX 480's in this rig, but I won't sell. Hoping to put them to work on this mining thing and see what happens.
 
My fall back is 970.

I retired it when one of my family's GPU died and I had to transplant one of my 970's to it, and the single 970 was pissing me off in more way than one (one DP on it meant I could either use my 4k monitor at 4k and my Swift not at all, or use both Swift and 4k monitor at 1440p as the monitor does not have HDMI 2.0 and 30hz annoys me more than 1440p).

Right now it's the only spare GPU I have around the house, my plan was to use it for HTPC but I think I will instead get a 1060 or 1050 for that, I need the 3rd HDD space in that case.
 
My fallback card used to be a 280x, but it's tentatively sold, so currently a 270oc. Currently my backup card is my primary until PowerColor gets off its ass and gets me a working rx480.
 
My fallback is an Asus Strix RX480. If Vega turns out a winner, I will sell that.
 
780Ti falling back to 1050Ti. I am considering just running the Intel IGP, since all of the games I do care about are older games.
 
A GTX 660 is my fallback card since I run SLI GTX 660. If they both blow them I am el screw-oed.
 
GTX460 sitting in a closet. Hard to use it once when a card died, it was terrible :(
 
I have a 930 GT or a 850 GT if I need to fall back to them. But chances of both of my 1070 FTW2 failing is slim to none
 
I have a crapton of mid-highend 5xxx and 6xxx Radeons (5670, 6670, 6770, 6950, 6970).
Love those - solid, dependable, still pretty decent for stuff like GW2, support for 3+ displays, support for multi-channel PCM HDMI audio.
 
I don't mine or anything but I have a spare evga 670 ftw in its box, just in case. I haven't even had time to stress test my new one yet. Gotta get to it.
 
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Use a 1080 with Intel graphics as a fall back since I sold my 970's the other week. I was pissed off a couple years ago thinking I didn't have a computer to use when my 780 caught fire. I comepeletly forgot that Intel's CPU have integrated graphics XD. It worked for the well enough for the week it took for my RMA to come back.
 
vegeta535 said:
Use a 1080 with Intel graphics as a fall back since I sold my 970's the other week. I was pissed off a couple years ago thinking I didn't have a computer to use when my 780 caught fire. I comepeletly forgot that Intel's CPU have integrated graphics XD. It worked for the well enough for the week it took for my RMA to come back.
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Caught fire? Jeebus!
 
My fallback is the iGPU in my processor. I spent a year-plus without a video card at all as I was waiting for the Pascal/Polaris launches so I know it's a legitimate (though painful) fallback.
 
vegeta535 said:
Use a 1080 with Intel graphics as a fall back since I sold my 970's the other week. I was pissed off a couple years ago thinking I didn't have a computer to use when my 780 caught fire. I comepeletly forgot that Intel's CPU have integrated graphics XD. It worked for the well enough for the week it took for my RMA to come back.
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GTX 780 was a solid performer but in terms of issues it's the worst card I ever owned, I RMAed it once, got the same card back from MSI, it died again a few months later and they sent me a couple hundred bucks back instead of a card, used that to buy my fury nitro.
 
I have an R9290, the fallback would be the HD6970 which preceded it and is currently on a display shelf with my HD4850 and TNT2 Ultra.
 
Sulphademus said:
I have an R9290, the fallback would be the HD6970 which preceded it and is currently on a display shelf with my HD4850 and TNT2 Ultra.
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See now in this instance I'd buy some clunker and mine that 6970 with XMR or something.
 
Titan X Maxwell with EVGA Hybrid cooling because I bought a Titan X Pascal. This is my last Titan X, but I do really enjoy it. I cannot stomach the Titan X Pascal, 1080Ti, Titan XP merry go round anymore :(, but am glad they are putting out more powerful cards.
 
When I built my Skylake system I grabbed the ASUS variant board with the onboard DVI port. If my GPU fails I'll just use iGPU while waiting for a replacement.
 
1050 TI for me since I need to be able to drive 3 monitors and my motherboard only has 2 outputs so iGPU won't work for me. Currently running a 1070 that I sold my 480 to buy. I tend to switch hardware around frequently.
 
I'm selling my Fury (since it was in my main rig) and falling back on the RX470 that I want to keep for my HTPC/Couch Gaming despite the inflated prices.

Then I'll buy Vega and put the RX470 back in the couch gaming rig.
 
Magic Hate Ball said:
I'm selling my Fury (since it was in my main rig) and falling back on the RX470 that I want to keep for my HTPC/Couch Gaming despite the inflated prices.

Then I'll buy Vega and put the RX470 back in the couch gaming rig.
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You'll make out well by dumping the Fury anyhow and they are power greedy so good call imo.
 
I am on my fallback card right now, evga 670 gtx. I'm waiting to see what volta and vega bring, then buy accordingly.
 
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