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I've seen a very good deal on a MSI Vega 56 (blower) but people seem to talk about the blower cards as if they're a jet engine.
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How loud and hot are blower cards (for Vega 56)?
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Someone asked the same question about MSI Vega 56 Air Boost a few months ago and I replied with youtube clip.
I will say the same again.
Horrible card.
Very noisy as jet engine.
I will say the same again.
Horrible card.
Very noisy as jet engine.
Look if you max out 73% fan speed, replace paste to Kryonaut, and downvolt the card is OK for blower type.
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Don't cheap out and buy a blower card. The non blower cards are an absolute steal.
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I also just missed Grade B Sapphire Vega 56 for £200 as they sold out. I'm wondering if I should hang on for another of these or if I might end up with a dodgy product.
I'll definitely wait for this
Do you invalidate a warranty doing this and if you haven't done it before am I likely to botch it?
I'll definitely wait for this
Do you invalidate a warranty doing this and if you haven't done it before am I likely to botch it?
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With some tweaking my Vega 64 card fans are not that loud tbh they spin around 70% max but mostly sit around 60% with the fan profiles I setup with Radeon Software.
My GPU core maxes out around 70c max and HBM around 80c max with a GPU speed of 1500/975
So long as you keep the GPU at realistic speeds the blower fan is more than up to the job.
It's when you start trying to overclock and reach unreasonable speed the GPU will get hot and loud.
Also worth noting videos for noise are quite moss leading. Mics and distance make the noise sound much louder than they really are.
My advice buy from somewhere that are good with returns of you not happy with the product am sure Ocuk are OK?
Test, tweak and make your own judgement.
My GPU core maxes out around 70c max and HBM around 80c max with a GPU speed of 1500/975
So long as you keep the GPU at realistic speeds the blower fan is more than up to the job.
It's when you start trying to overclock and reach unreasonable speed the GPU will get hot and loud.
Also worth noting videos for noise are quite moss leading. Mics and distance make the noise sound much louder than they really are.
My advice buy from somewhere that are good with returns of you not happy with the product am sure Ocuk are OK?
Test, tweak and make your own judgement.
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Sapphire did an amazing job with the tri-x three fan versions of the 290x, just a shame AMD didn't do that in the first place as the card would have had a much better reception.
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Damn! Near the end while in Uber mode that thing sounded like it was reaching warp speed velocities!
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It depends on what kind of tweaking you want to do. I had a reference Vega 64 for a while and found that it was actually very tolerable once the card was undervolted. The fan would top out at ~2400RPM which, whilst no means silent, isn't so bad (and it was inaudible at idle, despite no fan stop function). It also sat in the high 60s-low 70s, whereas at stock it could pass 80 degrees (which really made the fan scream). I did also repaste it with Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut though, which helped a bit.
What actually annoyed me far more was the coil whine (or rather buzzing). Oddly, it had no noticeable whine when under full load, but in less demanding games it would sit at a lower power state (four LEDs lit on the GPUTach thing), and it had very audible and very annoying coil whine when in that power state. It was that which made me sell it in the end and put my RX 580 back in, since I mostly play WoW and that was one of the games where the Vega 64 buzzed constantly. Obviously coil whine is sample-dependent though.
What actually annoyed me far more was the coil whine (or rather buzzing). Oddly, it had no noticeable whine when under full load, but in less demanding games it would sit at a lower power state (four LEDs lit on the GPUTach thing), and it had very audible and very annoying coil whine when in that power state. It was that which made me sell it in the end and put my RX 580 back in, since I mostly play WoW and that was one of the games where the Vega 64 buzzed constantly. Obviously coil whine is sample-dependent though.
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There however loud you want them to be...you have to scale performance with the noise, or waterblock it and laugh,
No coil noise here either
Current profile making it quieter then my case fans and performing absolutely fine, (yes my case fans are running slow as hell/off on idle, as is the Vega)
And yeah the MSI is a bargain imo, slightly bigger outlets on the oc boost model so can get away with more performance for less noise.
People that haven't used them, quite frankly haven't a clue...
No coil noise here either
Current profile making it quieter then my case fans and performing absolutely fine, (yes my case fans are running slow as hell/off on idle, as is the Vega)
And yeah the MSI is a bargain imo, slightly bigger outlets on the oc boost model so can get away with more performance for less noise.
People that haven't used them, quite frankly haven't a clue...