Yeah the 7850 was small. I like the extra wide cards. Adds a very decent amount of surface area to the heatsink.
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The Polaris RX 480 Owners Thread.
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1440p supwerwide with a 480 will be a struggle...But its doable on tweaking certains settings in game.
Superwide is amazing and onece you game at 21.9 16:9 feels antiquated
Soldato
Hey guys,
I bought the 8gb Powercolor Devil but the fans never want to ramp up above 400rpm on auto mode which causes it to reach it's throttle limit. I can manually set the fans min speed but I'd rather not if I don't have to. Any ideas?
I bought the 8gb Powercolor Devil but the fans never want to ramp up above 400rpm on auto mode which causes it to reach it's throttle limit. I can manually set the fans min speed but I'd rather not if I don't have to. Any ideas?
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Playing games or benching?
i have not heard of that, but they did have a bios update on their website a while ago that was suppose to fix a few issues.
Soldato
As far as I can tell I'm on the latest bios version (015.050.000.000).
have you used display driver uninstaller and re installed drivers when you changed to the new card?
Soldato
It's a new build so nothing has been installed previously.
My black Friday card arrived today. Looks massive compared with the good old HD7850
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Is the fan staying at 400 rpm all the time no matter the load and how long?
I noticed when first testing my nitro that it can take a long time for the fan to ramp up if you immediately give it a high load from a benchmark. It then temp throttles and the fan never quite catches up. I just set a high min rpm for testing. Generally under games its ok as the load takes a while to build.
Does the rpm vary once you set a min rpm?
A driver uninstall reinstall might not be a bad idea - ddu probably not needed if its a clean install
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Soldato
My son was playing minecraft (didn't realise it was so taxing haha) and it was lagging (he was not playing online) so I opened up wattman. The GPU fans were running at 400rpm and I could see the card constantly throttling and hitting 80 degrees.
Now I do have some issues with airflow in my case (which I've ordered some case fans for) so I was expecting some mild throttling until then but it seems the card didn't want to ramp up the fans at all to help itself.
I've manually set the min rpm to 1400 (left the max at default) and the fans will drop to about 1000rpm so maybe it's not the end of the world but it is very strange that auto mode doesn't want to automatically adjust the fan speed.
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Do the fans go above 1400 or just move between 1000 and 1400?
Soldato
They went all the way from 1000 up to around 1800 which I also found strange (dropping below the min setting).
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Whats the max on the devils by default?
Soldato
I'll have to check when I get home. It's around 2250 though.
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Reset wattman (either uninstall reinstall if you haven't already or just reset it using option in wattman screen)
Make sure your temp target is set to 80 and power limit to +50 to rule out power throttle
Make sure power efficency is off in global settings
Set fans to something daft like 2000 min 2300 max make sure it spins up and sounds loud under load and that it can be kept below 80 with fans like that
If it can't then you really do have serious airflow issues or the cooler itself is faulty
Assuming stage 7 defaults to 1150....
Try undervoling stage 7 to 1080 and 1300 mhz which should be stable but you can start at 1100 if you wish see if that helps
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Make sure your temp target is set to 80 and power limit to +50 to rule out power throttle
Make sure power efficency is off in global settings
Set fans to something daft like 2000 min 2300 max make sure it spins up and sounds loud under load and that it can be kept below 80 with fans like that
If it can't then you really do have serious airflow issues or the cooler itself is faulty
Assuming stage 7 defaults to 1150....
Try undervoling stage 7 to 1080 and 1300 mhz which should be stable but you can start at 1100 if you wish see if that helps
Giz
Soldato
Thanks for this. I did not have the time to follow all of these steps last night but I did reset Wattman (just with the button).
It didn't make any difference, the card would still rather throttle itself than ramp up its fans.
With the fan speed set to manual the default is min - 1330 (it won't go any lower), max - 2800. If I leave it like this (but at manual), it seems to work as it should. Fans turn off when they are not needed and ramp up to cool (they got up to about 2300 when I was playing wow with no throttling).
I will follow the other steps tonight.
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No need to undervolt if it works on manual but do the power limit and power efficiency changes
We'd need another red devil owner to confirm but I think the problem may be related to it not allowing a min rpm less than 1330. I don't think that should be the case.
The card is probably saying oooh its getting a bit toasty lets ramp up to 1000rpm and the drivers are saying nope sorry can't do it.
There are some new drivers out yesterday so download them , fully uninstall current ones and install new ones.
What software are you using to test with?
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We'd need another red devil owner to confirm but I think the problem may be related to it not allowing a min rpm less than 1330. I don't think that should be the case.
The card is probably saying oooh its getting a bit toasty lets ramp up to 1000rpm and the drivers are saying nope sorry can't do it.
There are some new drivers out yesterday so download them , fully uninstall current ones and install new ones.
What software are you using to test with?
Giz
Soldato
I will make the changes tonight (and download the newest drivers)!
Minecraft/WOW, I haven't tried any benching so it should be barely taxing the card.
Is there a chance the card could be faulty or do you think it's a driver issue?
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What speed does the gpu run at whilst playing those?
Hopefully its a driver glitch - the only other thing other than an actual fault I can think of is that its able to run those games at such low speed that you aren't passing the min acoustic limit enough to turn the fans on but they are generating enough heat in the gpu that it still overheats
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Hopefully its a driver glitch - the only other thing other than an actual fault I can think of is that its able to run those games at such low speed that you aren't passing the min acoustic limit enough to turn the fans on but they are generating enough heat in the gpu that it still overheats
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