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

Boomstick777 said:
Haha, sounds like a hard guy to please.
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Yeah, wouldn't want to hear the pump whine

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no_1_dave said:
You are right.
1-2% of the time it will be something else
98% of the time it will be lack of vram.

For example, I have a 780 and game at 2k
If I put GTA 5 on max settings I get the odd stutter and hitch when new textures/areas need to be loaded.

Since the days of the first Half Life it's been the same. Put settings too high so that it uses more graphics card memory then you have available and you will get the odd stutter and hitch. That is a fact, a plain, black & white fact. If it wasn't the case you than you wouldn't need any VRAM on graphic cards...
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Sometimes it can be down to the CPU not being beefy enough and even not enough system ram.
 
"The Fury X is a quiet card," Roy said. "However, the pump is noisy. This is a good design because we were able to add water cooling for Fury X and our engineers can keep temperatures lower."
However, this was failed to be properly communicated to the company's internal marketing teams (as well as externally to reviewers at launch), leading to confusion and, on many users parts, anger. Rather than viewing the Fury's design as a step up from noisy air cooling it was seen as a failure to deliver on the promise of no pump noise.
"We won’t let this happen again," Roy said. "We’ll do a better job next time."

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"GTX 970 is a 4GB card," Huang said. "However, the upper 512MB of the additional 1GB is segmented and has reduced bandwidth. This is a good design because we were able to add an additional 1GB for GTX 970 and our software engineers can keep less frequently used data in the 512MB segment."
However, this was failed to be properly communicated to the company's internal marketing teams (as well as externally to reviewers at launch), leading to confusion and, on many users parts, anger. Rather than viewing the 970's segmented design as a step up from 3GB, it was seen as a failure to deliver on the promise of 4GB.
"We won’t let this happen again," Huang said. "We’ll do a better job next time."

:)
 
Orangey said:
They can't be trusted though.
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Lets face it, the pump noise is an issue, amd stated it wasn't something that would affect retail cards and so far it is. Wouldn't matter if nvidia sent them a unit with a gimpy pump or not, theres plenty of talk about it across numerous tech forums and videos. With amd effectively burying their head in the sand about the issue they need a kick in the arse to tell people what the craic is.
 
Gerard said:
Lets face it, the pump noise is an issue, amd stated it wasn't something that would affect retail cards and so far it is. Wouldn't matter if nvidia sent them a unit with a gimpy pump or not, theres plenty of talk about it across numerous tech forums and videos. With amd effectively burying their head in the sand about the issue they need a kick in the arse to tell people what the craic is.
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Most people have no problem, you're making it out to be 1000x worse tbh which is unfair.
 
Orangey said:
Most people have no problem, you're making it out to be 1000x worse tbh which is unfair.
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It IS an issue because some etailers are refusing to replace them because of this. If it was just a simple case of "get a dodgy one we'll swap it out" then its really no big deal. But the fact that ocuk and probably others are refusing to replace a £650 card for something that has been called an issue by amd is laughable. And amd effectively burying their head in the sand on the issue doesn't exactly help matters either.
 
Has anybody checked to see if they have a sticker or an etched in logo on their pump?

Etched in means newer revision (Whine free)

Sticker means first revision (Possibly whiny)

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The Anandtech review is finally up.

It appears Fury Nano is a full Fiji chip!!

Unlike the R9 Fury, AMD has announced the bulk of the specs for the R9 Nano. This card will feature a fully enabled Fiji GPU, and given AMD’s goals I suspect this is where we’re going to see the lowest leakage bins end up. What separates R9 Nano from R9 Fury X is the power target, and as a result the expected sustained clockspeeds and performance. The R9 Nano will be a 175W card, 100W less than the R9 Fury X, and even with heavy binning it’s a safe bet that it will not be able to hit/sustain R9 Fury X’s 1050MHz clockspeed. However with that said, because clockspeeds, voltages, and power consumption have a non-linear effect, at this point in time it is reasonable to assume that AMD is going to be able to hit and sustain relatively high clockspeeds even at 175W just by backing off on load voltage. AMD is not giving us any expectations for clockspeeds at this time, though on a personal note based on the kind of clockspeed scaling we see on other 28nm GPUs, I would be surprised if a 175W Fiji could not sustain 800MHz or better in games at 175W, assuming the cooler is capable of dissipating that much heat.
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Orangey said:
Most people have no problem, you're making it out to be 1000x worse tbh which is unfair.
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Considering how few owners we have in the thread (myself included) it's far more common than you are suggesting.

I've had to RMA mine, as have many others in the thread already.
 
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