The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

Dicehunter · 2 Dec 2017 at 12:11

opethdisciple said:
Vega needs to be £450 to a be a success. AMD has Vega strategy all wrong.

It's a much better deal to buy a 1080.

Vega 56 should be £299 and Vega 64 should be £399, currently it is vastly over priced.

opethdisciple · 2 Dec 2017 at 13:20

Dicehunter said:
Vega 56 should be £299 and Vega 64 should be £399, currently it is vastly over priced.

If they hit those prices, Vega would be seen in a different light entirely.

ubersonic · 2 Dec 2017 at 13:38

Dicehunter said:
Vega 56 should be £299 and Vega 64 should be £399, currently it is vastly over priced.

Problem is Vega 56 is already selling out due to mining, lowering the price at this point would do nothing but lower AMD's revenue.

If they could get the V64 down to £400 that would be amazing as it would basically kill off any 1070ti/1080 demand except for die hard fanboys or the super naive, but then you're in the situation where the V64 is now so cheap that it's a miners dream too.

Illuminist · 2 Dec 2017 at 14:35

ubersonic said:
Problem is Vega 56 is already selling out due to mining, lowering the price at this point would do nothing but lower AMD's revenue.

If they could get the V64 down to £400 that would be amazing as it would basically kill off any 1070ti/1080 demand except for die hard fanboys or the super naive, but then you're in the situation where the V64 is now so cheap that it's a miners dream too.

Sold my Fury X for £320 then bought a vega 56 for £380 from Overclockers first batch, then used an eiswolf liquid cooler and a LC bios so its now running like a £699 water cooler vega.
No one can ever tell me that a vega is not awesome and value for money. **** Nvidia (sorry)

balky12 · 2 Dec 2017 at 18:03

Dave2150 said:
What power supply?
Reseat Card
Connect two separate 8 pins from PSU to GPU
DDU to completely wipe out any existing drivres
New windows installation (download fully up to date version from Mircrosoft to save time updating)
Custom drivers install > clean install
Try in another system with a 700W+ GPU, if still not working, RMA

Thanks. Think in my tired state I kept trying to install vega drivers and not RX Vega drivers! D'oh

LoadsaMoney · 2 Dec 2017 at 20:32

Does the switch for Red/Blue LEDs, just change the tach LEDs colour, or does it do the Cube and the Radeon logo as well ?

nashathedog · 2 Dec 2017 at 20:56

opethdisciple said:
If they hit those prices, Vega would be seen in a different light entirely.

What makes me both laugh and lol as you crazy kids say* is how Raja sat watching Nvidia release the 1080 etc and he gave it the big one about how overpriced it was and how you can get 2 RX 480's for less and run them in crossfire, Then he saw how the 1080 was still selling loads regardless of the price so he revised his Vega master-plan, fast forward to today.

*Look at me quoting Dick Roman, What a douche :rolleyes:

JediFragger · 2 Dec 2017 at 21:49

Think we can agree the guy was a bit of a ***** who would say anything to sell a few more cards (regardless of what it meant for him personally). Good riddance imo.

**** off Raja, you self-serving ****.

silversurfer · 3 Dec 2017 at 15:25

I still think he was genuine in his vision, it'd be more accurate to assume incompetence then malice if thats your take. Illuminist has it right, this is one of the cheapest new releases ever if you could sell your old card for such high prices

Dicehunter said:
Vega 56 should be £299 and Vega 64 should be £399, currently it is vastly over priced.

You will get those prices if Sterling goes to 2 dollars to the pound, the problem with considering any discussion on price is sterling went down in value over the years. If it goes back people will be impressed perhaps but its an external influence. I dont think UK really set the prices here and anyway AMD isnt making the cards now, its down to 3rd parties so the medium term will see it rise in price. I guess there is no other Vega coming out to change that

LoadsaMoney · 3 Dec 2017 at 15:47

Just popped AB on, so i can see my clocks, temps etc..., and ran through the Last Light bench, core was anywhere from 1570 to 1600+, temp was only around 65, with a fan speed of only 52%.

nashathedog · 3 Dec 2017 at 16:11

AngelofDeath69 said:
Do you guys think its worth getting ryzen 1700x or 1600x maybe to replace my 4690k? Not much point to use vega if my cpu will bottleneck it and wonder if ryzen is futureproof.

A 4690k is fine and for gaming the Ryzens offer around the same performance, I went from a 4790k to a 1600x and in some situations ie when a games heavily single threaded the Ryzen drop behind a little, If you just need to scratch the upgrade itch go ahead but if you want it for extra gaming performance it's not enough to warrant the money. In hindsight I'm feeling like I shouldn't of bothered yet.

GoogalyMoogaly · 3 Dec 2017 at 16:13

LoadsaMoney said:
Just popped AB on, so i can see my clocks, temps etc..., and ran through the Last Light bench, core was anywhere from 1570 to 1600+, temp was only around 65, with a fan speed of only 52%.

I noticed AB and GPU-z seemed to record the same fan speed in rpm, but disagree on the % (GPU-z thinks it is lower)

calken · 3 Dec 2017 at 16:59

Here we go:

The case is a bit short on space.

(hmmm, no pictures for me...)

LoadsaMoney · 3 Dec 2017 at 18:00

GoogalyMoogaly said:
I noticed AB and GPU-z seemed to record the same fan speed in rpm, but disagree on the % (GPU-z thinks it is lower)

Yeah, the core speeds must be depending on what you run, as i popped Prey on for a bit, and my core was anywhere from 1660 odd, to 1700+, and was doing over 100fps, lowest i saw was about 92, saw over 1700 in GTA V too.

Martini1991 · 3 Dec 2017 at 18:11

Got my card running 1600 in wattman at 1025mv. This really allows me to keep the fan in check. Using frame rate limiter in AB and for for older games I really can't hear the card over my normal case fans etc.

Think I'll stick like this until navi and hopefully go AIB on that. The extra 10% performance isn't worth the fan noise etc

GoogalyMoogaly · 3 Dec 2017 at 18:50

I should probably tweak mine to get it running a bit leaner, I just can't be bothered with the faff at the minute, especially with everyone saying about how WattMan/WattMatt loses their settings from time to time.

melmac · 3 Dec 2017 at 18:59

GoogalyMoogaly said:
I should probably tweak mine to get it running a bit leaner, I just can't be bothered with the faff at the minute, especially with everyone saying about how WattMan/WattMatt loses their settings from time to time.

It's takes about 5 minutes to get 90% of the max tweaks out of it, and the difference is surprisingly good. That's without doing any actual overclocking at all.

LoadsaMoney · 3 Dec 2017 at 19:13

GoogalyMoogaly said:
I should probably tweak mine to get it running a bit leaner, I just can't be bothered with the faff at the minute, especially with everyone saying about how WattMan/WattMatt loses their settings from time to time.

Same, i might not bother either, running fine as is, i like to cap my frames to 80 anyway, as plenty that.

calken · 4 Dec 2017 at 10:09

Try again to post of picture of my cramped Vega 64 LC.

silversurfer · 4 Dec 2017 at 13:44

Thats when LC is nicest, you'd have no airflow otherwise. I used to have 4 IDE drives setup in a case like that with a 60% cpu oc but realised 50c wasnt really going to work out

Martini1991 said:
Got my card running 1600 in wattman at 1025mv. This really allows me to keep the fan in check. Using frame rate limiter in AB and for for older games I really can't hear the card over my normal case fans etc.

1025mv is better then I can do I think, I'll try again now. The card is ideal at that level.