{"id":1893,"date":"2014-11-06T14:25:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T22:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2014-11-06T14:25:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T22:25:38","slug":"looking-to-upgrade-video-card-not-much-has-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1893","title":{"rendered":"Looking to Upgrade Video Card, Not Much has Changed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/HD5850.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1894\" alt=\"Sapphire Radeon HD 5850\" src=\"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/HD5850-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/HD5850-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/HD5850-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/HD5850.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I was thinking that the\u00a0Sapphire HD 5850 Xtreme 1GB GDDR5 video card that I purchased for my HTPC 3 years ago was getting a little old and that it was time to upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to pick it up for $140 back then and it&#8217;s been a great card.<\/p>\n<p>So what can you get for $140 today? \u00a0Well, without mail-in-rebates, you are looking at something in the Radeon R7 260X range. \u00a0Is that an upgrade? \u00a0BARELY!.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, looking at the numbers, the difference probably wouldn&#8217;t even be that noticeable.<\/p>\n<p>With mail-in-rebates and sales, you can often find a R9 270\/270X for that price, which is a bit of an upgrade, but considering my card is 3 years old, that&#8217;s kinda sad.<\/p>\n<p>With Black Friday around the corner, I&#8217;m hoping to get a good deal on a R9 280\/285\/280X, which would be a definite improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking that the Sapphire HD 5850 Xtreme 1GB GDDR5 video card that I purchased for my HTPC 3 years ago was getting a little old and that it was time to upgrade.<br \/>\nI was able to pick it up for $140 back then and it&#8217;s been a great card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[177,188,104,187],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-technology","tag-geforce","tag-radeon","tag-upgrade","tag-video-card"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11UM6-ux","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1896,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}