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Poll: ** The AMD VEGA Thread **

On or off the hype train?

  • (off) Train has derailed

    Votes: 207 39.2%

  • (on) Overcrowding, standing room only

    Votes: 100 18.9%

  • (never ever got on) Chinese escalator

    Votes: 221 41.9%
  • Total voters
    528
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JediFragger said:
Yup, they just need 6 months after launchg and it'll be fine (and way too late, like Polaris).
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V F said:
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Steampunk said:
But they are feeling the strain and driver support is slipping. It's been several releases now where there is no bug reporting page available from the Radeon UI. Months of the "unexpected wattman error" crashes, and intermittent not resetting of the monitor on wake from monitor sleep, and there's no way to report this. Even the bug reporting page from the driver download page now links to a 404. Looks like AMD are trying to reduce the number of bug reports they have to deal with by making it impossible to report bugs.
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DONOHUE07 said:
AMD's drivers updates have totally screwed up my HDMI audio, it's hasn't been right for months now
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It sound's like I've been extrememly lucky over the last year or so, With my Fury Pro I was running a 1080p monitor at first and then an uw1440 Freesync monitor and I've had no complaint's that weren't fixed up in a timely manner, The downclocking issue and the auto fan issue both happened a couple of times but they got fixed promptly, I suppose part of the issue's been due to AMD replacing the whole driver package, First to Crimson & then to Crimson Relive. That's when my clocks and fan's issues occured.
It's a bit odd if the bug page has disappeared, I'll have to keep an eye out for why.
 
JediFragger said:
Bombarded?? :D:D:D

I think Matt said it was a bug itself that it went awol, which is kind of ironic!
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It nearly crashed the internet.:D
I found it too be a bit buggy to use, I always got sent back to the crossfire or not option when I'd try to send my form regardless of if I'd already chosen or not. It also never had the Fury pro as an option when asked which card you had, Only the X and Nano. So maybe a new bug page would be for the best, :)
 
AthlonXP1800 said:
PCPer finally published Vega Frontier Edition 16GB Liquid Cooled review.

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graph...ga-Frontier-Edition-16GB-Liquid-Cooled-Review
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So the water cooled version gives the 1080 a run for its money but the air cooled is a fair bit slower. A good read and gaming Vega will be decent, so long as they can keep it cool and at 440W, it will really need water to be able to do that but with air, the thermal limits have been upped to 90c, as opposed to 70c with water. An interesting card and price will be key for the gaming RX launch.
 
Interesting the PCPER review of the water cooled version. Nice to see a bios switch, for switching between power modes and with the improved cooler design, hopefully they can avoid the sort of problems that played the fury X.
A reasonably good improvement over the air cooled variant, but still a rather power hungry expensive option.
It goes up against the 1080 much more positively than the air cooled version, now we just need to wait a few more weeks to see what difference, if any the gaming variant brings to the table.
 
bru said:
Interesting the PCPER review of the water cooled version. Nice to see a bios switch, for switching between power modes and with the improved cooler design, hopefully they can avoid the sort of problems that played the fury X.
A reasonably good improvement over the air cooled variant, but still a rather power hungry expensive option.
It goes up against the 1080 much more positively than the air cooled version, now we just need to wait a few more weeks to see what difference, if any the gaming variant brings to the table.
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the majority of AMD reference designs have come with a bios switch for a good couple of years now. even going back, the 7970 reference had a bios switch on it.
 
Mauller said:
the majority of AMD reference designs have come with a bios switch for a good couple of years now. even going back, the 7970 reference had a bios switch on it.
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It's a great feature, especially if you want to experiment with bios modding, you've always got a backup if it goes bad.
 
According to this, it is only the cut-down XL thats going to be custom cooled, XTX and XT are reference, so AIO and ****** blower.

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http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/ra...r_and_liquid_cooled_xl_xt_and_xtx_models.html

What a shame, a Sapphire Tri-X cooler (like on the Fury Pro), would be far better on an XT than that absolute gash blower cooler thats used on the FE, can see everyone just going for the AIO, so lets just hope it doesn't eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee........ :p
 
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AthlonXP1800 said:
PCPer finally published Vega Frontier Edition 16GB Liquid Cooled review.

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graph...ga-Frontier-Edition-16GB-Liquid-Cooled-Review
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AMD desperately need drivers that can give it 15-20% performance. Otherwise this card is not going to sell well, 440W to compete with a 1080 at stock? There is no overclocking headroom on the card, with most overclocked 1080 reaching 2000mhz I just don't see these selling UNLESS they get that extra performance from the drivers which I think they should, HOPEFULLY. How cheaply can AMD offer the water-cooled card? given the large die to start with, HMB ram and now also water-cooled too?

I am scared to think the power draw at 1800-1900mhz if you could go that far? is not the power circutry limited to 550w on these cards by physical design rather than software limitation.

on the bright side, you wont need a heater in winter.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
According to this, it is only the cut-down XL thats going to be custom cooled, XTX and XT are reference, so AIO and ****** blower.

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http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/ra...r_and_liquid_cooled_xl_xt_and_xtx_models.html

What a shame, a Sapphire Tri-X cooler (like on the Fury Pro), would be far better on an XT than that absolute gash blower cooler thats used on the FE, can see everyone just going for the AIO, so lets just hope it doesn't eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee........ :p
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That's exactly what I was thinking. Those big triple fan coolers on the Fury are great. I thought AMD were all but done with blower fans.
 
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