Not really, the reference card is a 6 pin only. SO if you are about to use max performance of your card or ethereum mine with it, the 6 pin is not enough and it will take power from motherboard and pcie express and might burn you pcie or your motherboard.
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Not really, the reference card is a 6 pin only. SO if you are about to use max performance of your card or ethereum mine with it, the 6 pin is not enough and it will take power from motherboard and pcie express and might burn you pcie or your motherboard.
That's not a problem anymore after the driver update, even before that I think it was more of a storm in a tea cup, I haven't seen or heard of any actual motherboards being fried, it has been the case with some previous generation gpu's as well but there was no fuss about it.
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Can that work?
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Check the reply dates, the post was made before the fix, he just keeps going back and re editing it which on that forum keeps the post date newer, if you look at the actual reply dates to that post you can see how old it is.
Its also just one of a couple saying they had this problem, all of them on 5 year old and low cost AMD Motherboards.
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That's what a handful of cards out of how many 1000's sold? Must be a lot. The problem is we'll never know if those motherboards had a problem to begin with (which they likely did). And it's a redundant issue now since drivers have corrected the 'issue'.
The first one, it was just the first slot that broke (didn't bother reading too much) and the card is currently working quite happily in another slot and OCed.
The second one, they had an old mobo that clearly wasn't up to the job.
Science studio also had an old mobo that wouldn't (boot?, it wouldn't work properly) with the reference 480 installed. Once the comparability mode came out he had no problems with it.
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I saw someone making a similar claim at a major e-tailer review section where they were saying that reference card fried their PC .It was of course false claim as he was running FX 8350 with 16GB DDR3 with £16 PSU from fleabay , and when he added RX480 into the mix and started gaming smoke came out , silly person .Pays £££££ for components and buys £16 PSU
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Cancel my order. Need my money. Gl.
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Mines fine too, 4gb model. Which is more than I can say for my new EVGA 1080 FTW. Coil whine was squealing like a demon in TW3. I though sod it, went out for a bit, fired it up again and this time its gone. Not a peep out of it. Wierd.
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Schrodingers GPU, they is both a shipment and no shipment today
I don't know what to believe anymore
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Did they get a delivery yesterday?
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I saw someone making a similar claim at a major e-tailer review section where they were saying that reference card fried their PC .It was of course false claim as he was running FX 8350 with 16GB DDR3 with £16 PSU from fleabay , and when he added RX480 into the mix and started gaming smoke came out , silly person .Pays £££££ for components and buys £16 PSU
lol £16 PSU, good grief what sort of jumble of electrical components do they think they are getting for the cost of a 120mm case fan?
I am really tempted to switch to one of these, they're in-stock so I should get the card a bit sooner. I thought I was happy to wait, but local retailers are going to have the card before I do so it's not exactly a 'word first' release IMHO:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/xfx-...s-graphics-card-with-backplate-gx-238-xf.html
Thoughts? The only reason I've shone away from the reference was the power draw issues. Are they completely a non-issue now? The blower style cooler will actually work better in my small case but I'm a bit concerned about noise - the Sapphire will be silent at idle which will be really important while I'm working instead of gaming...
EDIT: I forgot, the XFX advertises it is 25.4cm long while other reference cards are 24cm long. Can anyone who actually has an XFX RX 480 reference card do me a huge favor and measure it for me to see if it's actually different? 24cm is perfect, 25.4 is too long.
I'm measuring from the very back of the card to the front where the PCI I/O shield starts, I'm not measuring to the end of the lip at the top where you secure it in using a screw. Please help!
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/xfx-...s-graphics-card-with-backplate-gx-238-xf.html
Thoughts? The only reason I've shone away from the reference was the power draw issues. Are they completely a non-issue now? The blower style cooler will actually work better in my small case but I'm a bit concerned about noise - the Sapphire will be silent at idle which will be really important while I'm working instead of gaming...
EDIT: I forgot, the XFX advertises it is 25.4cm long while other reference cards are 24cm long. Can anyone who actually has an XFX RX 480 reference card do me a huge favor and measure it for me to see if it's actually different? 24cm is perfect, 25.4 is too long.
I'm measuring from the very back of the card to the front where the PCI I/O shield starts, I'm not measuring to the end of the lip at the top where you secure it in using a screw. Please help!
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Schrodingers GPU, they is both a shipment and no shipment today
haha
Over the weeks I have seen a lot of criticism of AMD and Overclockers about the 480. Some of this is justified, but I would like those making the criticism to let us know their areas of expertise in running international electronics companies or large retail businesses.
Yes – the reference cards overheated and drew too much power and yes the board partners were far too slow releasing aftermarket cards. Demand far exceeds the supply at the same time manufacturers were also having trouble with the even greater demand for the Nvidia pascal cards.
AMD must have seen this, and I think they may have asked Sapphire, Asus and others not to let the same thing happen with the rest of the Polaris launches.
I think they switched production lines to the 470 gpu to get cards out to reviewers and in the hands of sellers in plenty of time to avoid a paper launch. I am now seeing leaked reports of the 460 prior to Monday’s launch and I would expect production was also switched to cover for this.
I would hope that manufacturing has now resumed for the 480 and the next delivery of the Nitro will go a long way to satisfy the Pre Orders.
Well at least I can hope.
Yes – the reference cards overheated and drew too much power and yes the board partners were far too slow releasing aftermarket cards. Demand far exceeds the supply at the same time manufacturers were also having trouble with the even greater demand for the Nvidia pascal cards.
AMD must have seen this, and I think they may have asked Sapphire, Asus and others not to let the same thing happen with the rest of the Polaris launches.
I think they switched production lines to the 470 gpu to get cards out to reviewers and in the hands of sellers in plenty of time to avoid a paper launch. I am now seeing leaked reports of the 460 prior to Monday’s launch and I would expect production was also switched to cover for this.
I would hope that manufacturing has now resumed for the 480 and the next delivery of the Nitro will go a long way to satisfy the Pre Orders.
Well at least I can hope.
