The Fury(X) Fiji Owners Thread

[Dygaza]

Nice one Kaap. Here's a fun fact for all your Fiji overclockers.

Fiji’s MCLK overdrives in discrete steps, so while various overclocking tools are increasing in 5Mhz steps the MCLK is actually only able to support 500.00/545.45/600.00/666.66MHz and right now it just rounds to the nearest step. If you are intending to overclock HBM on Fiji, then 545Mhz works well on all four of my Fury X cards. 600MHZ proved a step too far on each card and resulted in instability.

So for all those people setting their MCLK at 570Mhz, it's actually running at 545Mhz.

Nice info Matt. Anything similiar we should know about core clocks? Does gpu's have similiar fsb and multiplier combo in reaching desired clocks as cpu's do?

 

[Dave2150]

I currently have an AMD Radeon R9 270 (with a Xeon X5650 @ 4 GHz) and it's been perfect for the games I've played up until now (typically a few years old or CPU bound). Recently I've been playing Dying Light and I basically can't get 60 FPS even with all graphics settings on minimum (including draw distance). My friend has a GTX 960 and while she has better FPS, it's still nowhere near a smooth 60.

I've been looking at cards that supposedly allow very high or max settings at 1080p and medium settings at 1440p, and it basically seems to come down to the R9 390 and the GTX 970. From what I can tell, the R9 390 is faster than the GTX 970 in most games, has double the VRAM, and is also slightly cheaper. Is it a no brainer at this price point? Are there other cards that would provide better future proofing for not much more money?

Yep, 390 is indeed a no-brainer over the 970 at this point.

Cheaper, faster, over double the VRAM.

Make sure you have a decent 600W+ PSU and you'll be fine

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Frame limiter stops this, put it at 150FPS or something. its because the card is trying to kick out 800fps on the window.

390 whines like this too. Was shocked when I looked at the fps counter and was hitting 850+ in menus. I put on an fps limiter sharpish no more trouble there.

Afterburner stats server's fps limiter seems to interfere with Freesync though so use something else if you have that.

 

[FuryXGuy]

Guys, I created a poll asking if you could go back, would you buy the Fury X again below:

http://strawpoll.me/6515527/r

I also have a thread regarding this matter below:

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=29049562#post29049562

Please vote. I would also be interested to know why or why not you would buy the Fury X if you could do it all over again. So, state your reason here or better on the thread I started.

Thanks!

 

[FuryXGuy]

For those Fury X owners, were any of you able to hit the 1200/600 mark. For some reason. I read according to forum members on a different site where if you reach that mark the performance boost is insane.

It would be an interesting experiment to try for all those Fury X owners on this thread.

According to this.

One forum member got like 30+ boost in frames on Battlefront.

116 FPS on stock.
129 FPS 1100/550.
144 FPS 1175/560.
168 FPS 1200/600.
Battlefront at Ultra w/ 8XAA.

It would be an interesting test to try in Battlefront.

 

[FuryXGuy]

Overclockers UK internal poll has been created, this time to include the Fury and Fury X asking in hindsight would have brought the Fury/ Fury X below:

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=29076369&posted=1#post29076369

Please state your reason, why or why not would you buy the Fury/Fury X again if you could do it all over again.

 

[Boomzilla]

Mine does 1200/600 but i dont have Battlefront.

 

[Panos]

OK. After quite a few hours to install everything tonight, all seems well. Tomorrow I will overclock the lot and see how it copes.

Few things. EK Predator 360 and EK Prefilled Nano Block came together in just matter of seconds after they were fitted. I didn't lose a single drop of liquid with the QDC.
What took hours was the cleaning process of the CPU and especially the GPU. and it dead late atm.

Spoiler

After removing the HSF

Cleaned, (mirror)

and ready to put the waterblock

Block & backplate on (later not needed but is passive cooling the VRMs under)

And the original HSF

The Paste on the HSF had become almost as hard as "cement" and only having the card 3 weeks.

 

[Kaapstad]

OK. After quite a few hours to install everything tonight, all seems well. Tomorrow I will overclock the lot and see how it copes.

Few things. EK Predator 360 and EK Prefilled Nano Block came together in just matter of seconds after they were fitted. I didn't lose a single drop of liquid with the QDC.
What took hours was the cleaning process of the CPU and especially the GPU. and it dead late atm.

Spoiler

After removing the HSF

Cleaned, (mirror)

and ready to put the waterblock

Block & backplate on (later not needed but is passive cooling the VRMs under)

And the original HSF

The Paste on the HSF had become almost as hard as "cement" and only having the card 3 weeks.

Have you tried using a spreader like the one in the pic to put the paste on.



I find it very easy to get a even thickness using it.

 

[Panos]

No I haven't, however followed EK manual stating that have to use an X and put the rad on.

 

[BluD]

When you said it took hours cleaning, how were you going about it? Normally it only takes a few seconds removing paste with a cloth and some cleaning alchohol. Removing liquid pro takes a lot longer than normal paste though.

 

[Panos]

Had to do careful work taking my time.
and scratch my head why the cpu was reporting 6C with the predator instead of 30 while idle with the h100.

 

[Geeman1979]

Must have used your tongue for it to take as long as you took.

 

[Panos]

I do not believe there is sprint race.
so why the insults?

 

[Radox-0]

Nice one Kaap. Here's a fun fact for all your Fiji overclockers.

Fiji’s MCLK overdrives in discrete steps, so while various overclocking tools are increasing in 5Mhz steps the MCLK is actually only able to support 500.00/545.45/600.00/666.66MHz and right now it just rounds to the nearest step. If you are intending to overclock HBM on Fiji, then 545Mhz works well on all four of my Fury X cards. 600MHZ proved a step too far on each card and resulted in instability.

So for all those people setting their MCLK at 570Mhz, it's actually running at 545Mhz.

Oh that's very interesting. So out of curiosity when the in game OSD is reporting the memory at say 550 Mhz or whatever else I OC it to. Its really just a false reading?

 

[LtMatt]

Oh that's very interesting. So out of curiosity when the in game OSD is reporting the memory at say 550 Mhz or whatever else I OC it to. Its really just a false reading?

Correct.

 

[Boomzilla]

With the actual Crimson my FuryX is running on only 525Mhz when playing Witcher3 or StarCitizen. Is this the same for every FuryX or what could be the fault?

 

[Panos]

I have set my Nano to 1080/540 and works fine. And never exceeds now 30C on full load while benching.
(haven't tried to push for 1100 core)

 

[JediFragger]

I have set my Nano to 1080/540 and works fine. And never exceeds now 30C on full load while benching.
(haven't tried to push for 1100 core)

Nice!! The EK 360's reallllllllly seem like the business

I'll be grabbing one before Summer I think (along with a new gen card and pre-filled block)

 

[Panos]

Nice!! The EK 360's reallllllllly seem like the business

I'll be grabbing one before Summer I think (along with a new gen card and pre-filled block)

I am impressed with the cooling capacity of the Predator 360.

4.9ghz OC on the 4820K and 1080/540 the Nano and max temps are 38 and 30 respectively. Most of the time are bellow those marks.
While under normal (gaming) use, at 70% fan speed is sufficient, and silent