Hello
I need to get rid of my old AMD HD5450.
I am thining about this one http://hardware.nl/msi/v305-030r.html

But I reckon also that this may be reasonable to wait for AMD HBM 2.0 cards.
So, what do you think? Is it worth waiting?

PS: if you have other suggestions INSTEAD of the MSI R7-370, then suggest only AMD:-) The price above $250 would be too much.
PPS: if you know a different European retailer with smaller price tag, then post the link, that will be greatful.
PPPS: I am not the hardest video game player, but a lower power consumption and more powerful card from AMD with HBM 2 seems to be a better option.Good GPU however I would go with EVGA, Gigabyte, ASUS or another trusted brand other than MSI. I and others have had far to many troubles with MSI to trust spending money on their brand products.

What do you have for a power supply in the computer ( model power supply and wattage as it says on the power supply label )and what are your system specs that your adding a video card upgrade to?To be honest, I wouldn't buy Gigabyte, since my current RADEON is made by Gigabyte. It is not very good (it glitches a lot). Certainly, some parts may not work correctly, but my loyalty to Gigabyte is diminished.

My CPU is AMD FX-4300 3.8GHz
Mobo - ASRock 970 Rev.3
RAM - 4 gigs, Kingston HyperX Fury, 1866MHz.
PSU - Chieftec 600W - that's all I recall. So, I don't think I will be short on power.

For now, I have a choice from ASUS, Sapphire, Gigabyte and MSI.
Well, on some French forum I have read that Sapphire are not good either))) So, what, ASUS is the Chosen One?
I wasn't able to predict that buying a new card is difficult Glitches.... are you sure its caused by the video card? The HD5450 isnt the strongest performing GPU out there. I praised the GPU years ago for it being low cost and able to hold up to some games at the time, but the evolution of gaming phased out the HD5450 pretty quickly for games LIKE World of Warcraft, Rift, and Skyrim, and other games the HD5450 even on lowest settings probably wont run or if it did the frame RATE would be jumpy and low or not holding to a steady frame rate which can make one think its a glitchy video card.

You might find that you get a new video card and its still glitchy. I havent had any good luck with ASRock motherboards, and they have been known to cause glitches with performance.There are some issues with the video card. It doesn't work correctly on the first launch. For instance, in games it glitches a lot, and when video in Firefox play, it stutters. But after I reload the session, it works in a normal way, like it should do.

Well, I have never thought that this issue may be caused by the mobo. Will look into it. Thanks for the suggestion I feel I am an idiot So, I went to the UEFI, then changed some setting to get connected to the Internet, then updated the UEFI, and now there are no glitches. It took like five minutes only. So your motherboard needed a BIOS flash to correct for a bug or you had something misconfigured for timing etc?

This comes back to my statement on December 11th 2015 of:

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I havent had any good luck with ASRock motherboards, and they have been known to cause glitches with performance.