The Polaris RX 480 Owners Thread.

Phixsator · 1 Aug 2017 at 09:28

FoxEye said:
So I have the 4GB Sapphire Nitro+ model.

Since buying it I've mostly been playing non-taxing indie 2D games (a ton of them!).

Yesterday I played "Gone Home", the first 3D game. The Sapphire was loud - very loud - louder in fact than my old Xbox 360 (which was loud!).

Loud, loud, LOUD! LOTS OF NOISE! LOUDER THAN LOUD!

Bloody loud, in fact.

Have taken a brief look at Wattmann, trying to decipher it. Looks complicated.

Does anyone else have the Sapphire Nitro+ LOUD LOUD LOUD edition? Did you manage to fix the noise? Or do you just live with it? I'm sorry I can't hear you over the noise of the GPU in my system. PLEASE SHOUT YOUR ANSWER!

The temp target is all wrong in wattman. Its set to 65 degrees if i remember correctly instead of 75. Change it and you will get a clear reduction in fan noise.

zophiel · 1 Aug 2017 at 12:56

dont seem to have any trouble with noise on the 8gb version from sapphire

FoxEye · 1 Aug 2017 at 12:59

Phixsator said:
The temp target is all wrong in wattman. Its set to 65 degrees if i remember correctly instead of 75. Change it and you will get a clear reduction in fan noise.

Target temp is set to default = 75.

zophiel said:
dont seem to have any trouble with noise on the 8gb version from sapphire

There must be something wrong with mine.

Currently downloading Wolfenstein - all 45GB of it on my 10Mb broadband. I'll update with my results sometime next year.

Phixsator · 1 Aug 2017 at 23:17

FoxEye said:
Target temp is set to default = 75.

Did you set it yourself or did you just look? ive had issues where the target would be set to 75 but it wouldnt be applied correctly. Had to change it to something else and then back. But if this is not the issue perhaps you could use a 3rd party program like afterburner to set the fan curve yourself, just watch the temps since if something is wrong the heat will build up fast. On a side note, i dont know if you already have mentioned this but, how is your airflow setup?

FoxEye · 1 Aug 2017 at 23:28

Phixsator said:
Did you set it yourself or did you just look? ive had issues where the target would be set to 75 but it wouldnt be applied correctly. Had to change it to something else and then back. But if this is not the issue perhaps you could use a 3rd party program like afterburner to set the fan curve yourself, just watch the temps since if something is wrong the heat will build up fast. On a side note, i dont know if you already have mentioned this but, how is your airflow setup?

Seems part of the problem is my 180mm intake fan (Silverstone Air Penetrator, oo-er) has packed up. For some reason the BIOS stopped sounding the alarm for case fan 0 RPM. Going to need to check it out tomorrow, see if its the fan or the header. I just read that Silverstone fans only last 12 months typically (about as long as I've had this case). Stupidly 180mm is not a standard size, making replacing it difficult.

Kidge · 3 Aug 2017 at 11:39

Does anyone have a link or any tips for undervolting/overclocking my MSI gaming x card it regularly hits 85c in PUBG and has hit 88c after 2 hours!

Jumper118 · 11 Sep 2017 at 22:35

lol

Overlag · 11 Sep 2017 at 23:05

Nice, you should start mining on those haha

Vince · 11 Sep 2017 at 23:46

Jumper118 said:
snip...

lol

All you need to do now is buy a genuine copy of windows man.

D1craig · 11 Sep 2017 at 23:54

FoxEye said:
Target temp is set to default = 75.

There must be something wrong with mine.

Currently downloading Wolfenstein - all 45GB of it on my 10Mb broadband. I'll update with my results sometime next year.

Have you tried messing with the chill setting? It's pretty good. Reduced temps and volts at times not so busy in-game when you wont notice them.

Jumper118 · 12 Sep 2017 at 00:46

Overlag said:
Nice, you should start mining on those haha

I am just thought I'd bench them

Vince said:
All you need to do now is buy a genuine copy of windows man.

lol it was genuine but I cba activating it any more. There is 0 point.

Vince · 12 Sep 2017 at 00:49

Jumper118 said:
I am just thought I'd bench them
lol it was genuine but I cba activating it any more. There is 0 point.

Not even the countdown to log in, the constant popups, disabled features etc. That would do my head in.

Jumper118 · 12 Sep 2017 at 06:43

Vince said:
Not even the countdown to log in, the constant popups, disabled features etc. That would do my head in.

Its a benching rig it's gets wipe like every week XD activating it every week would do my head in

also all the popups are disable and the only thing which doesn't work is the wallpaper

Idk what the countdown logged in is.

Overlag · 12 Sep 2017 at 08:06

not much point activating windows 7 when it isn't supported anymore anyway?

ubersonic · 12 Sep 2017 at 09:03

Overlag said:
not much point activating windows 7 when it isn't supported anymore anyway?

It's supported until 2020, you may be thinking of Vista which went out of support in April.

Vince · 12 Sep 2017 at 10:26

Jumper118 said:
Its a benching rig it's gets wipe like every week XD activating it every week would do my head in also all the popups are disable and the only thing which doesn't work is the wallpaper

Idk what the countdown logged in is.

A friend of mine has a windows 7 (shoddy copy) that has a little 30 second countdown with some not genuine stuff before it allows you to log in. I thought this was standard but my google foo seems to be failing me.

Jumper118 · 12 Sep 2017 at 10:27

Vince said:
A friend of mine has a windows 7 (shoddy copy) that has a little 30 second countdown with some not genuine stuff before it allows you to log in. I thought this was standard but my google foo seems to be failing me.

I see. I don't have a log on and password so maybe I don't see it

Ross Thomson · 7 Nov 2017 at 16:20

wondering if anyone has used the OcUK Tech Labs 240mm Kraken Extreme VGA Cooling Upgrade Bundle? Thinking about using it on my msi gaming X

gianluca p · 26 Jan 2018 at 17:10

Hi guys, I have a problem and maybe someone here can help me.
I have a Sapphire RX480 Nitro+ OC 4GB. I was using the boost profile (the card has dual bios, silent and boost) and I noticed that the card wasn't reaching the regular 1306 MHz clock at load, but something like 1230. I tried everything (restart and switching the bios, then restart and switch to boost again, uninstalled and reinstalled the driver, uninstalled MSI AB). I then decided to flash the bios using the one of an identical card, downloaded from techpowerup.
I used atiwinflash and the flash went fine, restarted the pc and started furmark, but the problem was still there. The case is very cool inside, so I don't understand what caused that.
I then decided to flash the bios with the one of a Sapphire Nitro+ 4GB RX580. This is something that I was curious to do anyway, so I did it, unfortunally.
The procedure went fine apparently. But at the restart I had no video signal, no bios post and the monitor didn't turn on.
I guess I've corrupted the bios (the boost one).
I switched to the silent bios and the gpu works.

Now, in the past I modded the bios of some nvidia cards with a single bios, but I did the flash via boot, using nvflash. So I wasn't new to this stuff.
I think that the corrupted bios can be recovered with another flash, but it seems that with this card I was supposed to flash the Silent bios and not the Boost one, in order to be able to fix the problem.
Is that right?
What can I do to fix the Boost bios without bricking also the working one?
I have a cpu and a motherboard that don't have an integrated gpu and I don't have a second gpu to use for the procedure, but only the 480.

docsonic · 26 Jan 2018 at 18:46

Kidge said:
Does anyone have a link or any tips for undervolting/overclocking my MSI gaming x card it regularly hits 85c in PUBG and has hit 88c after 2 hours!

Those cards have a nice cooler. I know my 480 gaming x 8gb never went above it's temp target during gaming sessions (75c iirc). How is your case cooling?

*just checked the date of your post hope you got it sorted