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AMD RX 480 problems

tres_kun

tres_kun

tres_kun

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I am not trying to jump on the bandwagon
As there are plenty of posts online about the RX480 killing motherboards

A motherboard i have has experienced DEATH

Got the card in a DELL T3500 installed the drivers and the card will not run properly displaying error 43
After a coupple of driver wipes using driver cleaner
Still not worcking
Got the card on the second Pci Express slot full X16 and DEATH occurs
Blinking orange power button suggesting hardware problems
Blinking light number 2 suggesting Pci Express ishew

Wille the motherbord is old and somebody might blame me for manhandeling the motherbord
Dead as dead, reseting the bios or removing the bios battery did nothing

At the moment it is in a Dell PowerEdge T20 with an exthernal PSU to get the card running
It is working like a dream
Works just fine on my Z97 as well
But it will be up to the gods if this motherbord will melt or not
Will keep you up to date with the progress of my Motherbord KILLING RX480
 
Well budget gaming involves gaming on old hardware
Nevertheless for the heck of it i did some testing on this card in regards to undervolting
I have been measuring the power draw on the Pci Express pin using a second power supply a meater and Unigine Valley
The lowest voltage the card runs without crashing is 1.005V original being 1.1V
On 1Volt driver crashed once
Temperature went from 86 to 79 degrees
Attempted to overclock wille undervolted no chance
Power consumption stock voltage about 60W-78W on Pci Express plug only
Undervolted 51W-70W on Pci Express plug only

This was a nice test
Will overclock the card and see if it kills the motherbord
But tomorrow
 
tres_kun said:
I am not trying to jump on the bandwagon
As there are plenty of posts online about the RX480 killing motherboards

A motherboard i have has experienced DEATH

Got the card in a DELL T3500 installed the drivers and the card will not run properly displaying error 43
After a coupple of driver wipes using driver cleaner
Still not worcking
Got the card on the second Pci Express slot full X16 and DEATH occurs
Blinking orange power button suggesting hardware problems
Blinking light number 2 suggesting Pci Express ishew

Wille the motherbord is old and somebody might blame me for manhandeling the motherbord
Dead as dead, reseting the bios or removing the bios battery did nothing

At the moment it is in a Dell PowerEdge T20 with an exthernal PSU to get the card running
It is working like a dream
Works just fine on my Z97 as well
But it will be up to the gods if this motherbord will melt or not
Will keep you up to date with the progress of my Motherbord KILLING RX480
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yes, you are jumping on the bandwagon. The 480 will not kill motherboards, so there was something else wrong.

Even if there was small chance of the 480 killing your motherboard, the only way it would do it is if you were overclocking your card or playing at really high resolutions that would draw enough voltage to damage the board.

It wouldn't kill a motherboard on install.
 
7 year old PC which was designed as a low power work station (it sells only with workstation GPUs), with a questionable " very efficient Active Power Factor Correction (APFC) power supply. " (from dell manual specs).

X58 chipset must have been on its knees already.

Sorry but that's kinda pushing it for 'an upgrade'.

It's a budget card for gamers on budget - that doesn't mean people will be putting it in 7 year old systems that costed $500 for whole PC at the time.

You can actually buy a full skylake pre-built PCs with i5 skylake,case, PSU mobo, ram, aftermarket cooler, 8gb ram, SSD and RX480 for less than a 1080GTX alone.
Pretty sure retailers wouldn't be building and selling full systems if the card was going to kill it. At that budget the margins are tight and it would cost them more money in terms of RMA and testing if that was the case.
 
Science studio done video on this he used an old AMD motherboard (Foxconn) with a decent PSU and a rx 480 and it wouldn't work. He eventually worked out that the problem was the motherboard and the video card, the 480 worked when he used it on a modern motherboard and the old motherboard worked fine with 980Ti.

As much as I want AMD to do well and make a come back they really have dropped the ball here just as it looked like they were starting to gain momentum with a good run of driver releases and excitement behind Polaris.
 
Freddie1980 said:
Science studio done video on this he used an old AMD motherboard (Foxconn) with a decent PSU and a rx 480 and it wouldn't work. He eventually worked out that the problem was the motherboard and the video card, the 480 worked when he used it on a modern motherboard and the old motherboard worked fine with 980Ti.

As much as I want AMD to do well and make a come back they really have dropped the ball here just as it looked like they were starting to gain momentum with a good run of driver releases and excitement behind Polaris.
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Yes, it crashed during benchmarks, and the motherboard still worked afterwards as confirmed when he used the 980ti. The 480 didn't kill the motherboard by just installing it.

Tres_kun is saying that the 480 killed his motherboard before ever playing a game or running a benchmark.
 
So you are inclined to blame the new technology which for the most proven part (being very conservative here) has caused no problems for anyone and, instead, decide to blame a god-knows-how-old piece of technology that was put through god-knows-how-much stress in its lifetime and specifically designed for an entirely different spec and generation.

And for budget builds a brand new motherboard is around 50 quid and second hand you can buy much newer for FAR cheaper so it's a redundant argument.
 
tres_kun said:
I am not trying to jump on the bandwagon
As there are plenty of posts online about the RX480 killing motherboards

A motherboard i have has experienced DEATH

Got the card in a DELL T3500 installed the drivers and the card will not run properly displaying error 43
After a coupple of driver wipes using driver cleaner
Still not worcking
Got the card on the second Pci Express slot full X16 and DEATH occurs
Blinking orange power button suggesting hardware problems
Blinking light number 2 suggesting Pci Express ishew

Wille the motherbord is old and somebody might blame me for manhandeling the motherbord
Dead as dead, reseting the bios or removing the bios battery did nothing

At the moment it is in a Dell PowerEdge T20 with an exthernal PSU to get the card running
It is working like a dream
Works just fine on my Z97 as well
But it will be up to the gods if this motherbord will melt or not
Will keep you up to date with the progress of my Motherbord KILLING RX480
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just reduce the power target, and maybe undervolt it a bit in wattman :D
over drawing doesnt occur in normal circumstances, it's a mixture of things, between memory stressing application, increasing power target, overclocking.
and even then it wont destroy your mobo, unless you are like cursed with a cheap and old mobo under speced, where the safeguards failed for an extended period of time.
 
Can the Memory be undervolted independantly of the VCore on the RX 480?

According the BuildZoid who live streamed himself OCing/Watercooling and adding more caps (and attempting hardware volt mods), the GPU takes its power solely from the 6-ping connector, and the PCIe connector feeds the VRAM and possibly other stuff on the PCB. By that logic, undervolting the core is not likely to reduce power drain on the PCIe slot, but undervolting the memory or downclockign it to 7000mhz (like the 4gb version) would have a big impact.

https://www.twitch.tv/buildzoid if you want to watch his vids form last night (long)
 
Rovman said:
Can the Memory be undervolted independantly of the VCore on the RX 480?
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Yes it can. I've undervolted memory on my 4GB version by 0.02v and overclocked it by 200mhz and its running perfectly stable.
Core is also undervolted and overclocked.
 
The card is more than likely UEFI only, meaning it wont work on a mobo that Is too old and using a bios that does not recognise uefi parts.

No different to if it was a uefi firmware nvidia part.
 
Feoilban said:
Rumour is they are having a para military branch as well .... Very dangerous these hardliners :rolleyes:
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I didn't say dangerous nor did I imply it. I said defensive and mean-spirited. Perhaps reading and comprehension aren't your strongest suits.
 
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