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Radeon RX 480 "Polaris" Launched at $199

Sapphire said in that stream that the PCB has been modified and he pointed out that it's the same size as 380x - which makes it slightly longer I think. That means the the 2fan cooler will cover entire PCB rather than be oversized.
 
Bonjour said:
I quite like the XFX DD cards. Minimalist, decent cooler design.
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Disagree. My 290 (XFX DD) is stupidly hot, and it's in a decent case. Even at stock speeds and Vsync on so it doesn't max out all the time. Definitely won't be looking to XFX for my next card. It looks like a good cooler, but it isn't.
 
Finners said:
Looks fake or xfx are reusing the cooler from the 380x

http://xfxforce.com/en-us/products/...radeon-r9-380x-4gb-black-edition-r9-380x-45e5
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In that video with the Sapphire guy, one of the other guys says that this is a feature coming with a soon to be released XFX 480. I don't think the feature itself is fake.

fastboy said:
yea I had one of the DD 7970's..man that thing was hot,ended up putting a £30 gelid icy cooler on it and ran sooo cool.
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I always thought the fans were way too small on the XFX DD stuff. I wouldn't buy them if there was another option at the time.
 
BTW... you think other places are bad, I'm looking at one US website... and all the normal priced cards get sold out, and all that remains is the priced gouged versions with a $100 increase in price. So $349 for a 480. And the joke here is, they are just drop-shipped by that same company a lot of the time. I hope people are voting with their feet and buying elsewhere.

Amazing.
 
easyrider said:
The 480 looks like a bit of a Flump....
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:D

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akarypid said:
I still don't get it. So far, I think the info we got is:

1) The RX 480 exceeds PCIe power draw when overclocked

2) More or less any card will do so when overclocked

3) Tom's Hardware identified this when running overclocked at 4K

...yet AMD admit to some problem that will be rectified with a driver update?

What do they intend to do? Lower the power draw? Up to what? I mean, how many spikes are an 'acceptable level' for this? And what about other cards that draw more power when overclocked?

This just keeps making no sense...
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the spikes it's something they cannot remove, it's part of the circuitry for any card, so does nvidia cards, over drawing is not an issue also because thats something common to most cards when OC and stressed if specific situations.
what AMD is gonna fixe probably is the overdraw going through PSU cable instead of PCI-e slot.
but i still think they should undervolt it and cut the clock a bit, they made a 150tdp cooler, the shouldn't give you a 150watt card at stock but lower.
 
MSTRBKR said:
Disagree. My 290 (XFX DD) is stupidly hot, and it's in a decent case. Even at stock speeds and Vsync on so it doesn't max out all the time. Definitely won't be looking to XFX for my next card. It looks like a good cooler, but it isn't.
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I've not had a 290 variant. The 280X in my brother's PC is decent.
 
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