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Mate I'm not sure if anyone is actually interested. Maybe like someone has already said, you should probably just stick to Nvidia and rid your mind of any potential worries. Life is too short after all.
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AMD VEGA confirmed for 2017 H1
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Mate I'm not sure if anyone is actually interested. Maybe like someone has already said, you should probably just stick to Nvidia and rid your mind of any potential worries. Life is too short after all.
PEBKAC.
There was a known black screen issue with a small number of 79xx cards IIRC solvable with a firmware update but not 100% on that as its been awhile. Early 200 series were plagued by it (seemed to be down to a dodgy batch of VRAM in >80% of instances) but not aware of anyone reporting the same issues with the 300 series except very isolated cases which are likely to be either the normal failure rate for GPUs or something specific to their setup i.e. dodgy system RAM.
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I'll probably watch it and post anything relevant. Maybe do a screen record as the other one was quite fast. Im sure the info will be vital and game changing and only my own perceptions on presentation can uniquely decipher the Vega enigma
Plus I dont trust websites not to exaggerateT shirts, new logo designs. So many possibles that could change my day
If they had aimed to first release a lower card compromised version it might have arrived already. They'd steal sales from themselves as people always overbuy if given the two choices at once. Unless their hand is forced or Vega is in the main going to be selling outside of gaming on its other uses then I dont think we see the lower card months before the full blown one. They already said Frontier will release now so they'll do a similar gaming version now (or firstly anyway)
I had a 4870 similar, put it to backup and then recently been using it to play gta5. I estimate its done at least 1 billion rotations on the stock fan assembly now, maybe several billion.While at the same time I've had an AMD 4670 and GTX 470 since their launches, and are perfectly fine. The GTX 470 went to a friend as her first desktop I put together from salvaged parts, and it's still ticking. While the 4670 is a reliable back up card for me, used it last year for over 3 months.
8 or 9 years in use.
On the other hand, had a 7950 went wrong in a few months. A fire started on the circuit board. Replaced but that also a bad chip for the fan speed, at this point I should have just replaced cooling myself but instead I RMA who then lose it in at the couriers sending it back to me. Arrives but never works properly again, no more then a few months did this card ever work and RMA people say buy another one lol total fail.
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Unreal reading the comments on that and it hasn't changed one bit in all these years.
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I do not read their articles, let alone their comments section. Lol.
Heh but they're everywhere. Same stuff between most console owners. Does it still happen between processors these days? I remember it was the same between Apple and Microsoft for operating systems many years ago.
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I know its scary its just a big pool of trolls
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The whole site seems like a cesspit to me. But some seem to like it, puzzles me, but it is what it is.
Adaptive sync is already a function that AMD gpus can make use of but the problem is that its not an option
So you take your own experience and project it as a fact for everyone. Well done you should run for office with that mentality.
So you take your own experience and project it as a fact for everyone. Well done you should run for office with that mentality.
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Replacing my HD7950 with a new R9 280(same power draw from psu) FIX the issues with black screens, so it is only logical thet the HD7950 was faulty and nothing else, why is that hard for you to get it?
The say is true for the 390, as many people have the same problem with the 390.
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You have clearly made your mind up, so why not just buy a 1080 now and get it over with?
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They do exist still on 390 cards, I can vouch for that, and in my time trying to diagnose I've read posts on guru3d, AMD support forums etc with similar issues.
I get black screens when I run any core clock over stock, I have to undervolt my cards to stop it happening. Tried more than a dozen dp cables, it happens over dvi/hdmi as well as dp so I know it's not cables or ports. I've also tried different monitors still black screens. It only happens at higher resolutions and higher refresh rates I've found for mine. On my 1080p tv it doesnt happen. I now run my cards at 1000mhz and -31mv, it's the only way when gaming on my 1440p screen I can stop the brief black screens occurring. They last less than a second, but bloody annoying when gaming.
I even borrowed a couple of Kaapstads rx480s a couple months back to test, no black screens on them.
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Probably the same issue the previous posters have had
Have yas tried switching it back on again?
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Black screens were a well known prob on the 290s, they were plagued with it, they were getting RMA'd left right and centre, just do a search, should still be findable.
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