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The Polaris RX 480 Owners Thread.

Bantu said:
Your motherboard and CPU is fine. The only component that i could see with potential to cause problems is the PSU. It is more than big enough to cope with the power demands, but depending on quality may cause the card to be noisy when in use (known as coil whine).
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OK thanks will keep an eye on it, think i do have a spare PSU somewhere, so worse case scenario i will try that.
 
Just to put in my 2p.

I received my Powercolor 480 8GB Devil this week but not had much of a chance to play around properly with it however the initial signs are pretty good. (I was too impatient on my previous thread to wait to hear about the MSI verdict and thought that if I didn't hit the button then I would get cold feet and do nothing :p)

Anyway, I moved from the 5870 and the jump in performance is staggering, even from a very quick benchmark point of view. A quick run in Firestrike pretty much quadrupled my score (haven't got the exact numbers as I'm not at my PC) and playing Overwatch at 1600x1200 (my new monitor hasn't arrived yet) is lovely, everything defaulting to Ultra settings.

I'm using a reasonably old Corsair 620W modular PSU and not noticed any noise at all from the card so far, however I haven't really been able to fully stretch its legs as I really haven't had the time this week.

Hopefully I'll be able to report back with some more info over the weekend regarding performance and heat output but I'm really pleased with the card (awaits flaming for not getting the MSI with 20% cashback).
 
khevolution said:
Looking at a few more reports on the Gigabyte card, ive been seeing that they tend to like running hot, dont want to be keeping an eye on my temps all the time so now looking at the XFX designed card, so far that looks like the top contender for my money.



Good to see somebody with a similar spec PC seeing good gains, my only concern at the moment is whether my motherboard will like it.
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reason why it has higher temps is that all components are cooled directly by the heatsink unlike MSI where its just the Chip, the mem and VRMs just have a plate over the top and are passive .
True the Gigabyte cooler is small, specially when its actively cooling 3 components and hind site should have been bigger!
Rep post with a video of all the cards taken apart.

Ordered one for a client build. Hope to down volt and add some better bigger thermal pads to the card plate to help manage the extra heat
 
Do you have the video of the disassembled MSI one? Didn't realise that the VRMs and Memory are passively cooled. I suppose it doesn't make a massive difference, but perhaps it reduces the headroom on the memory overclock?
 
Is coil whine actually related to the PSU then? Well TIL. My PSU is nothing special, one of the BeQuiet semi-modular base models, haven't noticed any whine from the MSI 480 though!
 
My Nitro OC is doing alright at 1350/2155, though Trixx tends to report the clock speed as 1349 after gaming. Should I be lowering the clock? Performance has been fine, no crashes on the Dishonoured 2 beta patches yet.
 
Is there any chance you guys could do me a favour, could you watch this 3dmark video and tell me if you see artifacting (although it's kind of hard to tell at youtube quality).

Generally the whole thing seems to have white spots at the edge of objects (but I'm not sure if it's to do with the lack of AA).

Also:

At 22 seconds as the mirror sweeps past the tank.
28 seconds above the left/centre balcony.

Maybe I'm just being paranoid but I also can't undervolt to 1100 (which every card seems to be able to do) because it will crash 3dmark and games.

Here's the vid:

https://youtu.be/OxR7rjjXVNM

This is at completely default everything no overclocking/undervolting etc.

Thanks
 
Hi... Did you sort the fan issues?

I can't see anything but I'm pretty bad at spotting things like that. Certainly nothing obvious. If it helps firestrike sometimes looks a bit glitchy to me as well as it sweeps through the canyon no matter what settings I use. Try running at 1250 MHz though see if that helps. Also get hwInfo and check for memory errors in the sensors screen but you should be OK at stock.

Are you trying to do 1330mhz at 1100mv ? Not every card can do that you're fine.

Giz
 
Not exactly. I've just been setting it to the default manual settings and leaving it, it just seems to run like auto mode anyway. When I do that and set power to +5 it barely throttles (unlike the video above which was set to auto).

Yes, I was trying to do 1330 (default) at 1100. It seems to be okay at 1125.
 
Boost or stage 7 in wattman

It's not really a boost I would say it's just so that AMD could try and market it as being below a certain wattage by making it power throttle by default and then it will bounce between stage 6 and 7 making it look like a boost.

Giz
 
Hi all, I haven't got round to putting it in yet but I have got a 480 8gb to replace my 7850 1gb but I've heard before that it may be worth deleting the old drivers before installing the new card. Is this really beneficial or should I install the card then delete old drivers and install new ones or simply just install card and driver's and not worry about deleting old ones.
 
fuzzylogic said:
I meant is that Trixx reporting incorrectly or is it hitting some thermal limit, which I expect is bad for the card?
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no. its fine 1mhz could mean its running at 1349.4mhz, so it may just be rounding error in the software. Also hitting a thermal limit is not bad for a card. thats why its set at that limit :p
 
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So would that mean after uninstalling old drivers that I should boot back in with HDMI in motherboard rather than new GPU?
 
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