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The Polaris RX 480 Owners Thread.

Burr said:
Nope the logo was upside down on my card. There's also no star on the backplate. These things really don't bother me TBH, heck i prefer it without the star.
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The star wouldn't bother me either. However the card will be going into my work PC so looking at the upside down logo all day would really p*** me off :D

I guess I'll just hang on until they get it sorted :rolleyes:
 
benjii said:
That sort of behaviour happens all the time on a well known auction site. They don't actually have it in stock, but if anyone is stupid enough to order it and follow through with payment, then they'll bend over backwards to get one at any cost and sell it to you.
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yeah they do that when they can't get hold of stock but don't want to take the listing down and then re-list later when they get stock in. If someone actually does want to pay those prices who are they to turn down their business?!
 
Kaapstad said:
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Trixx!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally here! :eek:
 
MattyD242 said:
I've got a similar gripe - the fans don't come on while the card is not under load, but when they do come on, they stay on for far too long once the temp has dropped. When I quit Doom the fans often stay at high speeds until the card core temp reaches the low 20s, which is lower than my normal idle temp, but they still keep going for a long time.

Another quirk I've noticed is when you're idling, you still get a fan speed being reported (600-700rpms in Wattman, 19% in GPU-Z) when they are visibly not moving. I know this is intentional for noise reasons but it sort of suggests that the card is reporting false fan speeds to keep the software happy, which makes me doubt whether I'm ever getting a true fan speed reading.

I'm not entirely sure how much of this is down to drivers more than the card. And despite these quirks I am really happy with the card in every way. It's definitely worth the extra tenner over the Sapphire IMO.
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I have the same experience too with my XFX - the fans are still, 0 RPM in GPU-Z yet fan speed is reported as 19% - is this really intentional?

Quirks aside I do like this card but I'm getting some horrible coil whine so think I'm going to have to send it back as it hasn't gone away..
 
Sorry if this has already been answered, but has anyone with the XFX RX 480 8GB Black Edition (reference design) managed to get it to sustain its stock-factory overclock boost of 1328Mhz indefinitely?

I love this card, and I don't think it thermal throttles in real games, but in bench-testing it definitely does. I've been tinkering with my WattMan settings and have it boosting to max 90% of the time now in Fire Strike which is great, but the fans are set to 3500+ so pretty loud. I'd be interested to hear from someone with the same card and what their settings were in WattMan?

Also I have another question for those smarter then me, in WattMan I understand the Max Temperature is the point where the card will do everything it can to cool down including max fans + throttling the processor. I have this set to max (90) so it doesn't happen often. However I just wanted to confirm, the TARGET temperature - is that just controlling the fans? Or does it also adjust power and/or have an effect on throttling?

I ask because if it's only fans I'll set it much lower (60 degrees) so it kicks in nice and early to keep the card cool. However if this also restricts power or results in earlier thermal-throttling then I may be doing myself a disservice?

I've done a bit of a Google but am probably using the wrong search terms to find my answer :)
 
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docsonic said:
I have the same experience too with my XFX - the fans are still, 0 RPM in GPU-Z yet fan speed is reported as 19% - is this really intentional?

Quirks aside I do like this card but I'm getting some horrible coil whine so think I'm going to have to send it back as it hasn't gone away..
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I have a bit of coil whine too but it's really not that bad and I play with headphones so I'm not really bothered. I honestly think it's only noticeable because the card is open, not shrouded, and the fans don't spin up until you reach a high load.
 
If someone was to crossfire 2 of these would it be better with the blower cards or AIB like the gaming x

I ask because reference blowers run very hot on this card
 
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I just noticed that they are 2 POWERCOLOR RADEON RX 480 DEVIL cards one with 3DHV2/OC ( Boost Clock 1290 MHz) and faster one 3DH/OC (Boost Clock 1330 MHz) one that overclockers sell
 
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