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KentMan said:
@Gibbo care to share any sales info on this little promo? :) i bet you got a hefty amount of Vega stock shifted :) mines arriving around 1pm today, will be installing it tonight and taking it for a spin.
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Over 700 Vega 56 sold, will sell out over weekend I reckon!
500 Vega 64 sold
RX 590 around 100 sold
RX 580 around 300 sold
RX 570 around 150 sold

Sapphire have agreed to send me another 1000 of each which shall arrive next Friday.
 
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Nexus18 said:
How much longer do you reckon the vega 56 deal will last gibbo?

Last 2 days my PC been acting up, booting issues then freezing and so on so looking like I am going to need a new CPU + mobo + RAM too :( Speaking of which any hints to some good AMD/2600 bundle deals coming up?

Just I don't get free delivery to NI so don't really want to be ordering graphics cards and then placing a separate order on a bundle sometime next week as delivery alone is going to bring me to about £22
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So safe to say vega 56 deal will last for at least another week then?

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Or even some decent i5 bundles?
 
Gibbo said:
Over 700 Vega 56 sold, will sell out over weekend I reckon!
500 Vega 64 sold
RX 590 around 100 sold
RX 580 around 300 sold
RX 570 around 150 sold

Sapphire have agreed to send me another 1000 of each which shall arrive next Friday.
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This is all well and good, but on a far more serious note, I got ZERO Haribo with my Vega 56.

Words cannot describe my disappointment.....
 
Aretak said:
There really isn't a universal answer to that question. You would certainly see better performance in a lot of games. There's no such thing as a global bottleneck, within reason (obviously you could create one by pairing a 2080 Ti with a Pentium 4). In a really CPU-intensive title like Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, yes, you'd be limited by the CPU most of the time. It can even vary greatly from area to area within games. You'd be limited by the CPU in Novigrad or Beauclair in The Witcher 3, for example, yet would hit GPU limitations out in the open world. Here's some footage of a stock 2500K paired with a GTX 1080, which shows that nicely:


The card is pegged at 100% (or 99% as it always shows in Afterburner) usage for the vast majority of the time. And the 1080 is even faster than a Vega 56 in general.
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Thanks for the reply, I've decided not to buy Vega 56 and will continue to wait for Ryzen2 and 7nm. AC and Witcher 3 are exactly the kind of titles i'd play (like most I have a backlog of games going back 2-3 years which my 2500k/580 will cope with better), now i'll just put them on the back burner until Ryzen 2 hits at least. Although there's no universal answer and results vary by game and environment, a 6 year old chip and £300 modernish GPU doesn't seem like a great pairing. And in any case I can easily play ACO and W3 if I dial down the settings a bit.

Shame as it was such a great deal but thankfully by asking the forum (i'm not really that techy or an OC'er really) - i've saved myself from a mistake. And I do like the card I have.
 
Darujhistan said:
Thanks for the reply, I've decided not to buy Vega 56 and will continue to wait for Ryzen2 and 7nm. AC and Witcher 3 are exactly the kind of titles i'd play (like most I have a backlog of games going back 2-3 years which my 2500k/580 will cope with better), now i'll just put them on the back burner until Ryzen 2 hits at least. Although there's no universal answer and results vary by game and environment, a 6 year old chip and £300 modernish GPU doesn't seem like a great pairing. And in any case I can easily play ACO and W3 if I dial down the settings a bit.

Shame as it was such a great deal but thankfully by asking the forum (i'm not really that techy or an OC'er really) - i've saved myself from a mistake. And I do like the card I have.
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You can keep your RX 580 and upgrade everything else now. Once 7nm RX 580 replacement comes, you can buy only a new videocard.
 
Can anyone answer this, does the AMD rewards code expire? As I can't install my GPU until mid-late next week and can't redeem until then.
 
adey said:
I had no problems with the games during checkout

Goods Shipped:
£249.99 x 1 - Sapphire Radeon RX VEGA 56 Pulse 8GB HBM2 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11276-02-40G)
£0.00 x 1 - FREE WITH GX-38F-SP: AMD Raise The Game Fully Loaded Promo - Resident Evil 2, The Division 2 & Devil MayCry 5
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I was trying to buy an RX 580 with only two free games. Nowhere in the checkout process does it even mention the games, let alone let you choose which two you want.
 
Gibbo said:
Should be possible but it’s at our own descretion as over coming days/weeks the price will normalise at ocuk around £349 and £449 which should comfortably be the cheapest.
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Ok, what are the chances that the prices will stay at £300 by next Friday?

Just as said, want to try and order everything in one go so that I'm not paying for delivery twice but at the same time don't want to miss out on the deal :)
 
Jono8 said:
Thanks for this. Do let us know how you get on when you get the card!
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It's in!

After the amd rewards website detects your GPU, it asks you to claim your rewards (so you just click claim on all 3 games).

Afterwards, you get an email saying this for all 3 games:

Congratulations on reserving Devil May Cry™ 5! We will update your account and notify you as soon as the content key is available.
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So at the moment it's just a waiting game until the games actually release I guess.

Drivers: Adrenalin 18.11.1 (Latest).

As for the GPU itself, it seems to run ok a quick benchmark - I did a small overclock, but the core clock didn't quite seem to be hitting max (seemed to be around 1500 range from what I saw).

The temperature is 70-72*c which is slightly below target temperature of 75*c (max being set to 85).

Stock settings:
Core clock: 1630MHz.
Memory: 945MHz.

My settings are:
Core clock:
State 6: 1537MHz (1000mv)
State 7: 1632 (1050mv)

Memory:
State 3: 1000MHz (1000mv)

As for World of Warcraft, the frame rate didn't seem to improve much (it was around 30-45fps at least in the city I was in), but I could do silly settings and take no/little frame rate hit... So that's a CPU limitation I believe.

For The Witcher 3 though, I maxed out all settings but turned Nvidia hairworks off, and I consistently hit over 100fps, quite often in the range of 120 +/- 10.

Here's a screenshot of the witcher with after burner OSD up. https://i.imgur.com/a4DhqdP.jpg

One down side so far is that one of my TVs doesn't seem to like connecting to the PC via HDMI... I think it's windows scaling or something making it look terrible, but I haven't found a solution yet. My TV was perfectly fine using DVI with my 7970GHz.
 
Jono8 said:
This is all well and good, but on a far more serious note, I got ZERO Haribo with my Vega 56.

Words cannot describe my disappointment.....
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How much joy a 10p bag of sweets brings and the sheer disappointment when one doesn't arrive. Haha.
I ordered the MSI mag27cq monitor and the Asus strictly OC Vega 64 last week and I was thoroughly disappointed when my 10p sweets weren't included.. I have since then order the Vega 56 on the bf deal yesterday and it will be arriving today.. mad props to overclockers for such a quick turnaround, but... If I don't get my haribo.... There will be # sad face day
 
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