Bargain RX 480?

[roadie]

Well this is all interesting stuff! What I may do is just buy the cheap ASUS and if the fans prove too loud under load, swap the cooler out for my Accelero, which would be quieter and should have greater cooling capacity too.

I'm limited in the length of graphics card my case can take to the width of an ATX motherboard.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

I don't get you guys, every AMD launch, the previous gen cards always go so cheap, they are too cheap and everyone buys. Then new ones release at higher price.

They're not new though, the 580/70/60s have been out for nearly a year now, and yes, they are at cracking prices now, but in a couple of weeks, their prices are getting whacked up, which is a massive fail, for a nigh on year old card.

 

[varkanoid]

They're not new though, the 580/70/60s have been out for nearly a year now, and yes, they are at cracking prices now, but in a couple of weeks, their prices are getting whacked up, which is a massive fail, for a nigh on year old card.

Do you have a TARDIS ?

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Well this is all interesting stuff! What I may do is just buy the cheap ASUS and if the fans prove too loud under load, swap the cooler out for my Accelero, which would be quieter and should have greater cooling capacity too.

I'm limited in the length of graphics card my case can take to the width of an ATX motherboard.

asus dont support cooler removal, Void warranty. Evga ( Nvidia) and Gigabyte (both) dont mind, not sure for AMD only like sapphire . Just as a heads up

They're not new though, the 580/70/60s have been out for nearly a year now, and yes, they are at cracking prices now, but in a couple of weeks, their prices are getting whacked up, which is a massive fail, for a nigh on year old card.

damn, about to receive a test one from Taiwan but thats still a week away... tell me its been delayed by over a year... :O

 

[roadie]

asus dont support cooler removal, Void warranty. Evga ( Nvidia) and Gigabyte (both) dont mind, not sure for AMD only like sapphire . Just as a heads up.

Thanks man, I'll bear this in mind.

An order has been placed.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Thanks man, I'll bear this in mind.

An order has been placed.

Wise move, grabbing a one before the price rise, enjoy.

 

[Howie87]

Been having no end of trouble with mine. I suggest checking out these threads as a lot of people are having the same random crashing issue all within the last few weeks...

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/asus-rx480-dual-problems.18773368/

https://community.amd.com/thread/213468

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/752559-new-gpu-crashing-rx480/

I would RMA the damn thing but then it will have to be inspected and replaced which could take weeks and my Ryzen build has no iGPU

So far I've dropped the clocks to 1280mhz and voltages to 1125mv and it seems more stable... At stock it was running 1175mv at level 5 boost of only 1225mhz which suggests to me that it's a poor card and the voltages were ramped up to maintain stability.

Also I never got an email for my Doom key and the one I got sent by the customer service department doesn't work! I complained about this and got a response over a week ago saying:

"That link should work fine, I have no idea why you're having this problem. I've actioned a replacement code for another Doom code under a separate promotion and the details for that will be sent over shortly"

Guess what? No email and no follow up

Top customer service OCUK *claps hands slowly*

 

[Spikey]

How are these cards at 1440p? I mainly play CS and R6 Siege with a bit of BF4/1 for a second PC.

 

[JamesM]

Am I missing something? £159 for the Gigabyte 480 4GB is still a low price is it not? Or were they lower?

 

[Terrorfirmer]

I bought this card and it's a disaster. Non-stop crashes, cooler sounds like an argos value hairdryer and gets hot very quickly.

Only way to stop it crashing is to run fan at 80-100% which is about as loud as the R9 290 reference cooler at 100% load.

Asus have serious, serious quality control issues to release a card like this.

edit - I also have a 4GB G1 Gaming RX480 and that's perfect, league ahead of this card, even putting the crashes and temps aside it's also pretty quiet.

 

[roadie]

Yes after the trouble I have been experiencing so far, I cannot recommend the ASUS Dual OC RX 480. It may be cheap, but it appears there is a good reason for that...

If I cannot get mine working satisfactorily this weekend I will have no option but to return it.

 

[Darujhistan]

I bought this card and it's a disaster. Non-stop crashes, cooler sounds like an argos value hairdryer and gets hot very quickly.

Only way to stop it crashing is to run fan at 80-100% which is about as loud as the R9 290 reference cooler at 100% load.

Asus have serious, serious quality control issues to release a card like this.

edit - I also have a 4GB G1 Gaming RX480 and that's perfect, league ahead of this card, even putting the crashes and temps aside it's also pretty quiet.

ASUS suck.