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****Official OcUK Fury X Review Thread****

What I love on this forum is the cyclic nature of the arguments. By that I mean the way the same arguments keep coming up, often flipped between red and green teams.

First it'll be drivers. Team X is going through a good patch and Team Y isn't so Team X will bring up drivers a lot. Then it all switches and Team X goes quiet on drivers and Team Y becomes more vocal.

Then there's VRAM. When Team X has more VRAM than Team Y, Team X is always on about how A isn't enough VRAM for this resolution and you need at least B amount, which is what Team X has on their cards. Team Y dispute the fact and we get graphs flung back and forth. Then Team Y get cards with more VRAM and suddenly decide that that's how much VRAM you need for said resolution while Team X argue that's it's not because of blah...

Then there's reference coolers. Team X has a hot and noisy cooler while Team Y has cooler quieter cooler. Team X argue that GPU are fine to run hot it doesn't matter, plus fan speeds can be adjusted and they play games with headphones on. Plus 3rd party coolers will fix both issues (that apparently didn't matter anyway). Then Team Y's cooler either doesn't advance enough or goes backwards and Team X get a new reference cooler. Team X are then talking up how it's so good to have a cool and quiet reference cooler (apparently GPU now aren't supposed to run hot and people have stopped wearing headphones?) while Team Y are fan speeds can be adjusted and there are 3rd party coolers on the way...
Also Team X/Y will have someone with watercooled cards that solve all the issues anyway...

I'm sure there are, or will be, similar arguments with regards to display connectors and power efficiency too.

I realise without these arguments the GPU sub-forum would be almost inactive, but does anyone else look forward to when there's something else to discuss? Maybe we'll have VR soon?

We could argue about APIs soon, although that's sorta been done already...


TL;DR - Do we have to keep arguing about the same things? As with most 'discussions' nobody ever seems to change their mind.
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
What I love on this forum is the cyclic nature of the arguments. By that I mean the way the same arguments keep coming up, often flipped between red and green teams.

First it'll be drivers. Team X is going through a good patch and Team Y isn't so Team X will bring up drivers a lot. Then it all switches and Team X goes quiet on drivers and Team Y becomes more vocal.

Then there's VRAM. When Team X has more VRAM than Team Y, Team X is always on about how A isn't enough VRAM for this resolution and you need at least B amount, which is what Team X has on their cards. Team Y dispute the fact and we get graphs flung back and forth. Then Team Y get cards with more VRAM and suddenly decide that that's how much VRAM you need for said resolution while Team X argue that's it's not because of blah...

Then there's reference coolers. Team X has a hot and noisy cooler while Team Y has cooler quieter cooler. Team X argue that GPU are fine to run hot it doesn't matter, plus fan speeds can be adjusted and they play games with headphones on. Plus 3rd party coolers will fix both issues (that apparently didn't matter anyway). Then Team Y's cooler either doesn't advance enough or goes backwards and Team X get a new reference cooler. Team X are then talking up how it's so good to have a cool and quiet reference cooler (apparently GPU now aren't supposed to run hot and people have stopped wearing headphones?) while Team Y are fan speeds can be adjusted and there are 3rd party coolers on the way...
Also Team X/Y will have someone with watercooled cards that solve all the issues anyway...

I'm sure there are, or will be, similar arguments with regards to display connectors and power efficiency too.

I realise without these arguments the GPU sub-forum would be almost inactive, but does anyone else look forward to when there's something else to discuss? Maybe we'll have VR soon?

We could argue about APIs soon, although that's sorta been done already...


TL;DR - Do we have to keep arguing about the same things? As with most 'discussions' nobody ever seems to change their mind.
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What your saying is it's about time both sides built a card that does everything well and around the same speed so there is no more arguments lol. Drivers have to be good all around as well :D:D:D:D:D
 
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GoogalyMoogaly said:
TL;DR - Do we have to keep arguing about the same things? As with most 'discussions' nobody ever seems to change their mind.
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But my choice of expensive consumer electronics is objectively the best, and I won't rest until everybody else knows it, admits they were wrong and bows down at my feet.

;)
 
All points aside, who the hell cares about the 390x lol. That's not strictly fair as it obviously has its place but GM204 in full fat is such a great card, it just needs a bit more of a price slash.
 
stoney101 said:
Haven't really been following this thread but thought I would post up my experience with Fury X.
Purchased one on launch day (not from here, no way was I going to pay the £650 they wanted)
Received it and installed in my PC yesterday (Friday 26th)
Today, this morning I have emailed the retailer telling them I wish to return it for a refund.

There is one major reason I cannot keep this card and that is the noise. It makes a horrible high pitched screeching sound constantly. My ears are very sensitive to any high pitched noises so this was extremely irritating for me. Now I have read that the retail cards were meant to have had this problem fixed so maybe I just got unlucky but that's not a chance I'm willing to take again so have now gone back to my GTX 970 for the time being.

Just in case you're wondering I did try to game on it yesterday evening but the noise completely ruined the experience for me. As I mentioned above I am very sensitive to this kind of noise so it may be a non issue for other people.

Edit: for anyone wondering what sort of noise it is producing take a look at this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKoNa1OXnQA
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Be as well rma'ing it, according to reviewers that was supposedly fixed for retail versions. Not really sure how that wasn't identified earlier on and sorted out before sending cards out for review, not as if its unnoticeable.

This is the official amd statement from legit reviews on the pump whine.

As far as the high-pitched whine, AMD received feedback that during open bench testing some cards emit a mild “whining” noise. This is normal for most high speed liquid cooling pumps; Usually the end user cannot hear the noise as the pumps are installed in the chassis, and the radiator fan is louder than the pump. Since the AMD Radeon™ R9 FuryX radiator fan is near silent, this pump noise is more noticeable.
The issue is limited to a very small batch of initial production samples and we have worked with the manufacturer to improve the acoustic profile of the pump. This problem has been resolved and a fix added to production parts and is not an issue.” – AMD PR
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Seems they need to kick coolermaster in the ass as its clear that noisy pumps in retail cards are doing the rounds.
 
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Gerard said:
Seems they need to kick coolermaster in the ass as its clear that noisy pumps in retail cards are doing the rounds.
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I kid you not i have a Coolermaster CPU cooler sitting right next to me boxed up waiting to be collected for RMA. Where the ---- is he?

I'll give you 3 guesses as to whats wrong with it.
 
Gerard said:
Fan control, not pump control though.
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the pump is just a 3pin header tho?
must be some way to control it lol
i guess ur saying not thru their software yet?
so would need to h4x it and plug it thru the motherboard or something crazy?

i was just wondering if some1 could test turning it down if it does make a difference to the sound or its just a faulty pump...
 
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