The RX Vega 56 Owners Thread

System2K · 22 Mar 2019 at 01:42

Hello, the gigabyte vega 56 gaming oc is on sale, i've read a lot of bad reviews, did anyone here have any experience with this card?

JarlStreamus · 22 Mar 2019 at 10:39

Hi guys,

So i have the Gigabyte Vega56 card (bought used in Dec). I've undervolted and OC'ed and it performs perfectly most of the time. However randomly I have the annoying black screen max fans crash intermittently-it can happen after 5 mins or 5 hours of gaming. Now im thinking/hoping its not a hardware problem and more a software related issue.

Does anyone know which the most stable Wattman drivers are or if there are other vendor Vega56 Vbios's i can flash the card with? Also i run afterburner with wattman so i can see my fps temps etc-as for the life of me i cant get the wattman FPS counter to bloody work, does this effect stability??/

System2K · 22 Mar 2019 at 16:19

JarlStreamus said:
Hi guys,

So i have the Gigabyte Vega56 card (bought used in Dec). I've undervolted and OC'ed and it performs perfectly most of the time. However randomly I have the annoying black screen max fans crash intermittently-it can happen after 5 mins or 5 hours of gaming. Now im thinking/hoping its not a hardware problem and more a software related issue.

Does anyone know which the most stable Wattman drivers are or if there are other vendor Vega56 Vbios's i can flash the card with? Also i run afterburner with wattman so i can see my fps temps etc-as for the life of me i cant get the wattman FPS counter to bloody work, does this effect stability??/

i'm interested in this card (gigabyte rx v56 gaming oc) because it's on sale but it has many bad reviews, so i did some research and found the cause of malfunctioning could be the vrms below the backplate, gigabyte has changed the design and added vrrms below the backplate, so i think the heat from the heatsink goes to those vrms making it even hotter, if this theory is correct, then the solution is using a fan duct mounted to a fan intaking cold air and pushing it directly to the backplate

Abdul Rafay Mian · 24 Mar 2019 at 00:17

Just got a Vega 56 Pulse

Was reccomended to get the v56 pulse over the v64 nitro+ both had a price difference of £110

Hope i made good choice

Abdul Rafay Mian · 24 Mar 2019 at 00:21

Also one thing i wanted to ask, Will my i7 4790k be enough for vega56 or will i notice considerable bottlenecking ?

leemk · 24 Mar 2019 at 01:17

Abdul Rafay Mian said:
Also one thing i wanted to ask, Will my i7 4790k be enough for vega56 or will i notice considerable bottlenecking ?

Got the V56 Pulse and a [email protected] no bottlenecking at all that I have noticed .

Abdul Rafay Mian · 24 Mar 2019 at 01:50

leemk said:
Got the V56 Pulse and a [email protected] no bottlenecking at all that I have noticed .

Thanks, im currently running at default 4GHz so will see how it goes

dzigg · 24 Mar 2019 at 14:02

Just got my red devil 56 for about $250. Unfortunately it's a hynix, but it's fine for me. Haven't played much with wattman but excited to tinker later.
Also, I got this really weird artifact just before boot up (usually shows the motherboard logo), now it's just a blurry ascii art. But everything else is great. Temp, performance, etc.. anyone having the same problem? Maybe it's because I have an old mother board (1st generation i5 baby!).

System2K · 24 Mar 2019 at 19:53

dzigg said:
Just got my red devil 56 for about $250. Unfortunately it's a hynix, but it's fine for me. Haven't played much with wattman but excited to tinker later.
Also, I got this really weird artifact just before boot up (usually shows the motherboard logo), now it's just a blurry ascii art. But everything else is great. Temp, performance, etc.. anyone having the same problem? Maybe it's because I have an old mother board (1st generation i5 baby!).

i've read that vega has compatibility issues with motherboards that has legacy bios, no problems with old motherboards that have uefi, which motherboard do you have?

dzigg · 25 Mar 2019 at 04:00

System2K said:
i've read that vega has compatibility issues with motherboards that has legacy bios, no problems with old motherboards that have uefi, which motherboard do you have?

Yeah I think it's the legacy bios. I can access the bios, it's just the bios splash screen that's all jumbled up. My motherboard is a gigabyte P55-UD3P, running i5 750 @ 3,8 ghz. Definition of a bottleneck, lol.
Hoping to upgrade in coming months, doing a hackintosh build, gonna go with i7 8700 but Ryzen is really tempting although very hard to hackintosh on AMD...

offitmassive · 26 Mar 2019 at 10:42

leemk said:
Got the V56 Pulse and a [email protected] no bottlenecking at all that I have noticed .

What, settings you using to get 4.8ghz? What cooler you got? Temps? Fan speed?

Abdul Rafay Mian · 26 Mar 2019 at 10:48

Hi Guys. Finally got the sapphire vega 56 Pulse and its very good in terms of performance undervolts and overclocks very well too.

But im experiencing a very bad buzzing sound i think coil whine even on low frames 30-60fps when gaming. does anyone else have the same issue ?

Is it worth returning ? Does coil whine damage the card ?

Plec · 26 Mar 2019 at 10:57

Abdul Rafay Mian said:
Is it worth returning ? Does coil whine damage the card ?

If it's coil whine it wont damage the card - just your sanity depending on the intensity of the noise.

If the sound is particularly annoying - you have the choice to return.

Abdul Rafay Mian · 26 Mar 2019 at 10:59

Plec said:
If it's coil whine it wont damage the card - just your sanity depending on the intensity of the noise.

If the sound is particularly annoying - you have the choice to return.

Thanks, will try returning and see what happens

Plec · 26 Mar 2019 at 11:02

Abdul Rafay Mian said:
Thanks, will try returning and see what happens

What PSU do you have - brand/model?

Abdul Rafay Mian · 26 Mar 2019 at 11:03

Plec said:
What PSU do you have - brand/model?

I have EVGA supernova G2 850W

Plec · 26 Mar 2019 at 11:07

Abdul Rafay Mian said:
I have EVGA supernova G2 850W

Just checking - unlikely the cause.

Sometimes a poor quality/under powered PSU can be an indirect cause - but that's a quality unit and, assuming, a couple of hundred watts to spare.

offitmassive · 26 Mar 2019 at 11:07

Abdul Rafay Mian said:
Hi Guys. Finally got the sapphire vega 56 Pulse and its very good in terms of performance undervolts and overclocks very well too.

But im experiencing a very bad buzzing sound i think coil whine even on low frames 30-60fps when gaming. does anyone else have the same issue ?

Is it worth returning ? Does coil whine damage the card ?

IIRC the pulse and nitro are both probe to coil whine ?

Abdul Rafay Mian · 26 Mar 2019 at 11:09

I mostly game with headphones on, so will just double check tonight when i get home if it is to much I might return it otherwise just keep it.

Is the overclockersuk returns procedure good ? how fast do they send a replacement ?

fastwunz · 26 Mar 2019 at 16:42

Abdul Rafay Mian said:
I mostly game with headphones on, so will just double check tonight when i get home if it is to much I might return it otherwise just keep it.

Is the overclockersuk returns procedure good ? how fast do they send a replacement ?

I had to send mine back because of whine - new one is perfect

dzigg said:
Just got my red devil 56 for about $250. Unfortunately it's a hynix, but it's fine for me. Haven't played much with wattman but excited to tinker later.
Also, I got this really weird artifact just before boot up (usually shows the motherboard logo), now it's just a blurry ascii art. But everything else is great. Temp, performance, etc.. anyone having the same problem? Maybe it's because I have an old mother board (1st generation i5 baby!).

I have the same - no other issues though