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***** AMD RADEON VEGA 56 ONLY £349.99 WITH THREE FREE GAMES!! *****

After watching several reviews on YouTube and scouring the net I just pulled the trigger on the Vega 56. For the price I'd be stupid to pass up on this for the performance offerings especially fine wine and with it matching the 1070Ti.
 
Vinny1511 said:
Thanks guys !

I don't know what to do with them to be honest - Was hoping to offset some of the cost, but that doesn't look like it's gonna be possible, frustratingly.

Some said you can move on the codes as long as the system they are being installed on, has an AMD product.

The reality is, I don't think it's worth the hassle - So looks like I'll have to keep em.

Vinny.
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I think you can sell them on as a package ie, sell the AMD Rewards code, not the individual games. While two of the games are Steam codes you can just copy and paste (easy peasy), Assassin's Creed Odyssey is more complicated. Once you have the code for the whole package, you make an account at AMD rewards, and redeem all three games. Two are Steam codes, but Assassins Creed you have to activate by logging in/creating a Ubisoft account, and then the AMD Rewards site logs in and refers the title over so it appears in the Ubisoft Uplay launcher (kind of like many of the key sites or Humble Bundle IIRC). You don't get a code for Assassin's Creed, so you have to do it via the Rewards site and have to enter the Rewards code for the three games. I don't know if there is a hardware check to see if you have an AMD card installed.

Making an Ubisoft account was major hassle, even before adding 2-Factor authentication which at least is the Google authenticator, not some rubbish written by Ubisoft themselves. Uplay not logging in, accounts not being made, getting locked out for too many retries, etc. I did it eventually, but the Steam games were a matter of seconds, the Uplay one was major hassle in comparison.
 
I have to say I was impressed with the quality for a cheapish card, it has not revved up once and gave it a thrashing of BF1, PUBG, Farcry 5 last night with no problems and playing the strange brigade it is pretty silent.
 
MyBrains said:
Same here (except for the games, nearly forgot about them lol), so far so good.. Core is boosting to 1590 :) Im not gona mess with overclocking just yet, seems to be running great right now.
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With VEGA overclocking does not yield much, in fact your better off undervolting it slightly, they normally boost higher that way or maintain boost longer. ;)
 
Gibbo said:
With VEGA overclocking does not yield much, in fact your better off undervolting it slightly, they normally boost higher that way or maintain boost longer. ;)
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Yeah i saw a few people mention the undervolting, i watched a Gamers Nexus video last night, talking about getting it down to 1035mv. I shall do more research over the weekend though :)

Gotta say thanks again, especially for letting this deal run so long, i almost missed it with too much thinking about how the 590 would turn out. Im sure i made the best decision.

So much for me to learn with Vega after coming from RX 480, 7950, 6870 48xx series :p
 
MyBrains said:
Yeah i saw a few people mention the undervolting, i watched a Gamers Nexus video last night, talking about getting it down to 1035mv. I shall do more research over the weekend though :)

Gotta say thanks again, especially for letting this deal run so long, i almost missed it with too much thinking about how the 590 would turn out. Im sure i made the best decision.

So much for me to learn with Vega after coming from RX 480, 7950, 6870 48xx series :p
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Yeah one of our best sellers, went to buy more today from Powercolor to be told they have no more VEGA, I asked them to manufacturer me some more to which they said yes but the price will be higher as they no longer wish to sell with loss, hence us putting them up as £349 was pretty much a break even, so you guys got an epic deal.
 
Gibbo said:
Yeah one of our best sellers, went to buy more today from Powercolor to be told they have no more VEGA, I asked them to manufacturer me some more to which they said yes but the price will be higher as they no longer wish to sell with loss, hence us putting them up as £349 was pretty much a break even, so you guys got an epic deal.
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389 is still a pretty decent price to be fair given the gpu market.
 
scrivz69 said:
Cheers Gibbo, any tips or videos to do this would be great.
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I can condense some of the info in the Vega thread to give you a basic starting point that doesn't involve flashing custom BIOSes (bear in mind that I've only had my 56 a couple of days).

1. Run Wattman and choose the custom option on the slider.
2. Change voltage control to manual and set State 6 at 1080 and State 7 at 1130.
3. Increase Power Limit to +50 percent (it won't use all that, it just raises the limit).
4. Run 3DMark Timespy or the Superpositon benchmark to test for stability (both free).
5. If that's fine, bump GPU freqency by 5% and test again.
6. If that's fine, manually increase memory frequency to 950 mv and memory voltage control to 1000.
7. Test again

You can probably do more tuning and tweaking, but you don't want to push the settings so you have to increase voltage to get stability, as the idea is to lower power, lower heat, and keep thermal throttling to a minimum so that the card will use it's maximum boost and stay there. Airflow in your case is important to make this work.

For gaming, I'd probably use Chill or FRTC to limit frames to whatever is usable by your monitor. This will again keep the card cool by not doing unnecessary work, and will help keep it at it's boost speed. If you get any crashes, then you'll have to back off your GPU or memory speeds, or bump voltages to get stability. You want to keep voltages down to keep boost speeds up.

These are actually very conservative settings compared to what the guys in the Vega 64 thread are doing, so you should have no problems using these to tune up your card. If anything gets too noisy during testing, you can always drop back to the "turbo" preset on the slider. In real world games the likes off Chill and FRTC will keep noise and heat down compared to hammering things with benchmarks.
 
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I installed my VEGA 56 yesterday and comparing this to the RX 580 I once owned, this is an absolute beast at 1440p.

Radeon Chill works wonders... I sometimes need to check if the fans are actually working?

Worth every penny... @Gibbo thanks for such an outstanding deal!
 
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