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The Fury(X) Fiji Owners Thread

whyscotty said:
So an i5 won't bottleneck two high end cards at 1080 - yeah ok
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Show me some benchmarks proving me wrong and I will believe you, everything I have ever seen shows i7's are pretty pointless for gaming.
Also we were talking about single cards, not multiple cards. Even with multiple cards though my point still stands (albeit, has some problems)

DX11 has a single rendering thread, each graphics adapter means another rendering thread. Thats why DX12 is going to be so changing to games, it allows multiple rendering threads per adapter. Since i7's have absolutely no single threaded advantage over i5's, all that happens is that an i7 has 2 cores + 4 HT's to offload none main-threaded tasks onto, while an i5 has 2 cores. Given the combined offloading is rarely more than the single threads workload, the 2 cores on the i5 will most likely handle the work fine. Exceptions being very CPU heavy games.
 
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Depends on the games too, bf3/4 and crysis 3 being ones of note. Really struggled with those with sli and a 3570k. Ended up replacing it with a 3770k. Which even when clocked lower handled them better than the i5.
 
Very much down to the workload. If you are just gaming, the premium over the 4690K for the i7 K just isn't worth it. My sample does 4.4 at just 1.15v. For a single GPU box this is ample. At 1080p you may well see slightly lower minimums but 1080p is dead to me :D.

If however I came in and said, hey guys check these frames - and I was running three Fury X off a 4690K, people would have fair grounds for a point lol.
 
Well a big online retailer received a dozen of Sapphire cards today (all gone now), tried my luck and ordered one.

Fingers crossed that it's not a noisy one...wish me luck! :o
 
Looks like i should have my first card tomorrow. Talk about doing the rounds. :eek:

Newtownabbey, United Kingdom 07/06/2015 7:21 P.M. Destination Scan
07/06/2015 7:20 P.M. Arrival Scan
Tamworth, United Kingdom 07/06/2015 9:40 A.M. Departure Scan
Tamworth, United Kingdom 07/05/2015 10:03 P.M. Arrival Scan
Barking, United Kingdom 07/05/2015 11:46 A.M. Departure Scan
Barking, United Kingdom 07/04/2015 4:20 P.M. Arrival Scan
Brussels, Belgium 07/03/2015 9:10 A.M. Departure Scan
07/03/2015 7:53 A.M. Arrival Scan
06/30/2015 8:00 A.M. An emergency situation or severe weather condition has delayed delivery. / Your delivery has been rescheduled for the next business day.
Brussels, Belgium 06/30/2015 1:10 A.M. Departure Scan
Brussels, Belgium 06/29/2015 6:50 P.M. Arrival Scan
Herne-Boernig, Germany 06/29/2015 2:25 P.M. Departure Scan
Herne-Boernig, Germany 06/27/2015 4:24 A.M. Arrival Scan
Berlin, Germany 06/26/2015 8:24 P.M. Departure Scan
06/26/2015 6:50 P.M. Origin Scan
Germany 06/26/2015 11:58 A.M. Order Processed: Ready for UPS
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It thought brussels was so nice it went there thrice. :mad:
 
Eyes, open them.

Ferrari100 said:
They are OK accepting that people have a choice.

The amount of pre-orders for Fury has surpassed what AMD thought.
Therefore losing one person who is impatient and not understanding of a defect from coolermaster that has already been addressed is not a issue.
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Can't believe I'm wasting my time and forum space replying but you got some issues.
Having waited months and spent £650 to get one the same week as release, to realise it's poor quality and return it, and you call me impatient. WTF. What's impatient about returning a shoddy product and getting a better one? Such a fan boy.
For me and no doubt many others, the buck stops with AMD, regardless of who makes the individual components!? My old 5770 CF and current 280x CF are quality products, the Fury X (I got) was not so it got returned. End of story. Move along.
 
Better late than never i suppose..

AMD Statement On Fury X Pump Noise
AMD has released a statement today regarding the pump noise of the Fury X line of video cards. The full statement reads as follows:

We have received feedback that during open bench testing a small number of Fury X cards emit a sound from the high speed liquid cooling pump that, while not loud, is bothersome to some users. While the vast majority of initial Fury X owners report remarkably quiet operation, we take this feedback seriously, as AMD’s mission is to always deliver the best possible experience to our Radeon customers.

AMD Radeon R9 Fury X customers demand and deserve the best, so adjustments in the sound baffling adhesive compound were applied in the assembly of the high speed cooling pump to address the specific sound a few end users experienced as problematic. This improved the acoustic profile of the pump, and repeat testing shows the specific pitch/sound in question was largely reduced through adjustments to the sound-baffling adhesive compound in the pump.

AMD will work with its graphic card partners to ensure the satisfaction of the small number of initial customers who observed this specific sound and experienced it as bothersome. AMD is confident that on-going production of Radeon R9 Fury X product reduces the specific sound in question, but this is also a highly subjective matter with wide differences in PC case builds and room acoustics.

The AMD Radeon™ R9 Fury X radiator fan is near silent, and this makes any sound from the high-speed pump more noticeable to some end users, especially during open bench testing. Thus although the overall sound levels are remarkably low for an enthusiast product, AMD has worked to reduce the specific sound that some customers report as bothersome.
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http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/07/06/amd_statement_on_fury_x_pump_noise#.VZsFDvlVhws

So presumably the part i've put in bold means they will accept rma for the whine noise.
 
Meladath said:
Pretty much every game you can test shows very little difference increase using an equally clocked i7 over an i5. Some of them do have decent increases, Metro LL for example, but the VAST, VAST majority gain very little advantage, if any.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbq5LNYgMJM

Bare in mind thats with stock clocks and 4790 turbos to 4GHz whereas 4690 turbos to 3.9, not a massive difference but still a difference. The majority of games don't really benefit.
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You're on a K so an i7 k is the one that matters and the 4790k starts at 4ghz and boosts to 4.4.

I think there's plenty of titles that show increases in fps, Forget rubbish like 3Dmark you don't play those but actual games there is quite a few and even just a 5 frame increase can make all the difference sometimes. People pay an extra hundred for a gpu that overclocks slightly better than a reference overclocks and often gets no more than that so if you're willing to pay the extra there why not pay a little more for another way to get a little more,

I moved from i5 to i7 and I'm glad I did, I don't use the PC for work just gaming and general use but I've still found the difference to be well worth the money.
 
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