Fury (non-X) concern...

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Unless AMD release firmware/drivers that unlocks the voltage, what will be the point of the non-X Fury exactly? We'll simply have a dozen different cards from their board partners with fancy coolers on... all cooling a card that can't be overclocked more than 5%?? Surely this can't happen?

Unless perhaps the Fury will simply be targetted as a 980 beater, pricing it around the £400 mark (seems likely given the £510 of the X), and then leaving the Fury X to fight it out with 980Ti.

I really am baffled by the fact the Fury X can't be overclocked... they said it was built for that purpose, and if it wasn't (or can't handle it safely) then how could they have made such a monumental screw up with their PR department?!

 

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Typical OC on most reviews show about 10% OC, not 5%.

As you allude to, Fury X has no voltage control at the moment, that does not mean it is not going to change with newer versions of MSI AB for example. Why not wait until it is confirmed one way or the other before being baffled?

You could have easily asked this in one of the many existing Fury X threads.

I did, twice... got lost in the flood.

I'm baffled, quite understandably I would say, because they made a specific claim during the reveal event that this card was an "overclocker's dream" with massive headroom... that's the key point here. It makes no sense, the card was ready and tested... unless there was some major miscommunication between the engineers and the PR team... although as I recall they had their engineers up on stage saying this stuff!!