The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

muziqaz · 19 Nov 2018 at 14:51

Anyone ever replaced Vega LE fan with something else? Mine is exceptionally noisy at any RPM, obviously with higher spin speed noise gets on my nerves now.

Marine-RX179 · 19 Nov 2018 at 15:00

muziqaz said:
Anyone ever replaced Vega LE fan with something else? Mine is exceptionally noisy at any RPM, obviously with higher spin speed noise gets on my nerves now.

Have you capped the frame rate to match your monitor's refresh rate, or you just let the card running 100% at all time with unlimited frame rate?

Panos · 19 Nov 2018 at 15:07

muziqaz said:
Anyone ever replaced Vega LE fan with something else? Mine is exceptionally noisy at any RPM, obviously with higher spin speed noise gets on my nerves now.

@Lokken86 I believe has put the Morpheus cooler on it.
I have watercooled both my Vegas.

muziqaz · 19 Nov 2018 at 15:08

Marine-RX179 said:
Have you capped the frame rate to match your monitor's refresh rate, or you just let the card running 100% at all time with unlimited frame rate?

I have Freesync monitor capped at 144mhz. So more demanding games still push fan to spin higher. By the noise, I mean not the whining noise, no, its like some rumbling noise, even at low rpm its annoying, but less noticeable. At the certain RPM it makes that noise, and there is only couple of specific RPM where it does not, and since AMD driver software has no control over fan speed for some reason, I am stuck with free spinning fans.
Also, to be clear, its not the GPU pump making the noise, I done some old fashioned tests done to make sure its a fan making noise.

TBF, My Fury X LE fan was also noisy, but that was whining noise from fan speed, so when I limited its fan speed to certain RPM, it was ok. With Vega, Drivers cannot control fan speed anymore.

flea.rider · 19 Nov 2018 at 15:20

so just ran fire strike .. what do you think ?
3DMark Score
20190
Graphics Score
24615
Physics Score
21549
Combined Score
8266
Graphics Test 1
121.19 fps
Graphics Test 2
95.82 fps
Physics Test
68.41 fps
Combined Test
38.45 fps

Marine-RX179 · 19 Nov 2018 at 15:21

muziqaz said:
I have Freesync monitor capped at 144mhz. So more demanding games still push fan to spin higher. By the noise, I mean not the whining noise, no, its like some rumbling noise, even at low rpm its annoying, but less noticeable. At the certain RPM it makes that noise, and there is only couple of specific RPM where it does not, and since AMD driver software has no control over fan speed for some reason, I am stuck with free spinning fans.
Also, to be clear, its not the GPU pump making the noise, I done some old fashioned tests done to make sure its a fan making noise.

TBF, My Fury X LE fan was also noisy, but that was whining noise from fan speed, so when I limited its fan speed to certain RPM, it was ok. With Vega, Drivers cannot control fan speed anymore.

Try downloading the Logitech Gaming Software on your PC and the Logitech ARX Control App on your phone.

With your PC and your phone connected to the same network, you would be able clearly see on your phone the status of your card and CPU (clock speed, memory speed, usage, fanspeed, temp) in real-time. By using this and tweak the setting in Wattman, you should be able to have a clearer idea of if the settings you are applying in wattman is taking effect or not.

P.S. The Logitech Gaming Software on PC and the Logitech ARX Control App does have some stability issue for the syncing (if Logitech ARX Control App have been moved to the background for too long it will freeze), and sometimes it would require you to close the Logitech Gaming Software and restart, and/or disabling/re-enabling wifi on your phone for them to sync properly.

muziqaz · 19 Nov 2018 at 15:29

Panos said:
@Lokken86 I believe has put the Morpheus cooler on it.
I have watercooled both my Vegas.

nah, watercooling is out of the question, as its too expensive and too fussy endeavour for the card with such a short lifespan

Besides its working fine, just fan is crap

muziqaz · 19 Nov 2018 at 15:35

Marine-RX179 said:
Try downloading the Logitech Gaming Software on your PC and the Logitech ARX Control App on your phone.

With your PC and your phone connected to the same network, you would be able clearly see on your phone the status of your card and CPU (clock speed, memory speed, usage, fanspeed, temp) in real-time. By using this and tweak the setting in Wattman, you should be able to have a clearer idea of if the settings you are applying in wattman is taking effect or not.

P.S. The Logitech Gaming Software on PC and the Logitech ARX Control App does have some stability issue for the syncing (if Logitech ARX Control App have been moved to the background for too long it will freeze), and sometimes it would require you to close the Logitech Gaming Software and restart, and/or disabling/re-enabling wifi on your phone for them to sync properly.

That is a lot of extra software for making other software work as it supposed to be working, but its not. My main issues is the fan, I don't mind the driver issues, as once the fan is replaced, it can spin to whatever speeds it wants to

As a side note, the issue with drive is, that lets say I set max rpm to 1200rpm, and minimum to 900rpm, it ignores it and goes up to 1600rpm+. So if I change minimum rpm to 945rpm, system spins the fan to 1300rpm max. So its mix and match. Have no idea why it ignore the settings, but that's beyond the current point and is not important.

So if I match the new fan to the specs of Vega cooler fan, am I correct in believing that card won't even notice fan was chopped off and swapped?

flea.rider · 19 Nov 2018 at 15:38

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Marine-RX179 · 19 Nov 2018 at 15:53

muziqaz said:
That is a lot of extra software for making other software work as it supposed to be working, but its not. My main issues is the fan, I don't mind the driver issues, as once the fan is replaced, it can spin to whatever speeds it wants to

As a side note, the issue with drive is, that lets say I set max rpm to 1200rpm, and minimum to 900rpm, it ignores it and goes up to 1600rpm+. So if I change minimum rpm to 945rpm, system spins the fan to 1300rpm max. So its mix and match. Have no idea why it ignore the settings, but that's beyond the current point and is not important.

So if I match the new fan to the specs of Vega cooler fan, am I correct in believing that card won't even notice fan was chopped off and swapped?

Have you tried increasing the target temp to 75C or 80C and see if the fan speed would reduce?

Panos · 19 Nov 2018 at 15:56

muziqaz said:
nah, watercooling is out of the question, as its too expensive and too fussy endeavour for the card with such a short lifespan Besides its working fine, just fan is crap

Seems you haven't heard of the EK MLC

Morpheus is a dual fan heatsink

Lokken86 · 19 Nov 2018 at 16:05

muziqaz said:
nah, watercooling is out of the question, as its too expensive and too fussy endeavour for the card with such a short lifespan Besides its working fine, just fan is crap

The Morpheus is incredibly effective. You can put the fan speed to low rpm, wouldn't hear it and it would still cool better than any of the non water-cooled 64s. It's a bit of a beast on high rpm but of course you'll know what 2x120mm fans at 2000-3000rpm sound like.

Temi_D · 19 Nov 2018 at 16:17

Panos said:
SI AB and install it. Turn off GPUZ.

LtMatt said:
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-18-11-1
Known Issues

Radeon Overlay may not appear when toggled on systems with multiple displays when Battlefield™ V is running.

Some systems running multiple displays may experience mouse lag when at least one display is enabled but powered off.

Radeon RX Vega Series graphics products may experience elevated memory clocks during system idle.

Since it appears to be just a driver issue, I can live with it, thanks guys.

Also, this is my official submission to join the owners club

Quite pleased with the card, I've set the core to 1000mV and it holds ~1520MHz with HBM at 1000MHz. It's quite silent and runs below 70c

Panos · 19 Nov 2018 at 16:18

Temi_D said:
Since it appears to be just a driver issue, I can live with it, thanks guys.

Also, this is my official submission to join the owners club Quite pleased with the card, I've set the core to 1000mV and it holds ~1520MHz with HBM at 1000MHz. It's quite silent and runs below 70c

Don't lock

leave it idle.

Kaapstad · 19 Nov 2018 at 16:24

Temi_D said:
Since it appears to be just a driver issue, I can live with it, thanks guys.

Also, this is my official submission to join the owners club Quite pleased with the card, I've set the core to 1000mV and it holds ~1520MHz with HBM at 1000MHz. It's quite silent and runs below 70c

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Goose · 19 Nov 2018 at 16:47

muziqaz said:
I have Freesync monitor capped at 144mhz. So more demanding games still push fan to spin higher. By the noise, I mean not the whining noise, no, its like some rumbling noise, even at low rpm its annoying, but less noticeable. At the certain RPM it makes that noise, and there is only couple of specific RPM where it does not, and since AMD driver software has no control over fan speed for some reason, I am stuck with free spinning fans.
Also, to be clear, its not the GPU pump making the noise, I done some old fashioned tests done to make sure its a fan making noise.

TBF, My Fury X LE fan was also noisy, but that was whining noise from fan speed, so when I limited its fan speed to certain RPM, it was ok. With Vega, Drivers cannot control fan speed anymore.

I've made a few posts in this thread about the noise the cooler makes, specifically that there are two noises, one being the normal whoosh of the fans and another sound more like motor noise. I'm glad i'm not the only one to have noticed it. I think i can live with it though as it's much harder to hear now my side panels are both on and i always game with headphones.

[Edit] Just noticed you have the Sapphire Limited Edition which isn't the same as my Nitro+. Derp.

Marine-RX179 · 19 Nov 2018 at 17:24

Temi_D said:
Since it appears to be just a driver issue, I can live with it, thanks guys.

Also, this is my official submission to join the owners club Quite pleased with the card, I've set the core to 1000mV and it holds ~1520MHz with HBM at 1000MHz. It's quite silent and runs below 70c

I feel sorry for that single 120mm exhaust fan at the back...thats LOTS of heat that it has to remove from the case by itself

Temi_D · 19 Nov 2018 at 17:57

Marine-RX179 said:
I feel sorry for that single 120mm exhaust fan at the back...thats LOTS of heat that it has to remove from the case by itself

No such thing as too much positive pressure

Marine-RX179 · 19 Nov 2018 at 18:03

Temi_D said:
No such thing as too much positive pressure

Add 3 more intake fans to the top then

KentMan · 19 Nov 2018 at 18:03

Struggling to get over 7800 with my Nitro 64, Ryzen 1700 @ 3.9 and 3200mhz ram on the Timespy benchmark, probably need to tighten my ram timings, but the score seems kinda low to me?

I'm using Panos settings from this thread, in a Phanteks Enthoo Primo case with a ton of airflow.

Any thoughts?