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The RX Vega 56 Owners Thread
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I went for the Air Boost. It's a good deal, and the blower isn't unbearably loud either. Not the most popular choice out of the two, but I think it's a solid offering.
Definitely worth £30 more for the better cooler. I will never use a blower/reference card again after getting a reference 7950 because it was £20 cheaper than AIB.
You can mess about with fan profiles but it will still be audible, I like silent cards now. Pulse at 35% fan speed is silent and stays below 65-70c.
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Generally I would tend to agree, my last reference style card was a GeForce 9800 GX2, and those things sounded like a 747 on take off! However, a Vega 56 for less than £250 is - in my opinion - a really good deal, regardless of the type of cooling.
Mine sits between 36-44 degrees for general desktop work, and has not yet exceeded 75 degrees under load, with stock settings. The blower isn't silent of course, but those using a headset will likely not hear it at all. It's certainly not as bad as some have made out, and it does it's job well enough.
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Wattman keeps losing my settings, driving me a little nuts. Gonna try OverdriveNTool, see if it holds.
@LtMatt afaik this is a reallllllllllllllly old bug with Wattman, any chance of flagging it again with relevant peeps? Thanks.
@LtMatt afaik this is a reallllllllllllllly old bug with Wattman, any chance of flagging it again with relevant peeps? Thanks.
Thanks for that info, wattman loses my settings constantly, it's very very annoying! Gonna give that program a try, nice one.
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Seems straight-forward but a couple of walk-throughs on YT if needed
@$ilent might be useful if you get the same problem.
edit - Copied these settings and tweaked accordingly, doesn't seem to be able to control the Pulse fans though but AB should do that;
https://imgur.com/gallery/EtFyaLr
Retains settings when closed too, which is nice. Maybe AMD could take some tips @LtMatt
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Put a new build together last night with a Pulse, when it booted into Windows for the first time a couple of minutes after I connected to the internet so potentially a generic driver issue I got the strangest blue screen I've ever seen, it was white, blue and black stripes down the screen, looked like curtains
I managed to install the AMD drivers and it didnt happen again for the next 30 minutes so hopefully its sorted, anyone seen this before and can confirm it was a driver issue?
Thanks
I managed to install the AMD drivers and it didnt happen again for the next 30 minutes so hopefully its sorted, anyone seen this before and can confirm it was a driver issue?
Thanks
I did have this initially when i had the card installed, it was like green/blue dots on the screen. It had something to do with the voltage on the card, it was really low when I received it for some reason, reset to default and haven't had it since.
Seems straight-forward but a couple of walk-throughs on YT if needed
@$ilent might be useful if you get the same problem.
edit - Copied these settings and tweaked accordingly, doesn't seem to be able to control the Pulse fans though but AB should do that;
https://imgur.com/gallery/EtFyaLr
Retains settings when closed too, which is nice. Maybe AMD could take some tips @LtMatt
Nice one mat gonna give it a shot when home!
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Two things to try. Disable Fastboot from Windows power button settings. If that doesn't work, reset all Wattman settings to default, redo them all and save as a new profile.
Seems straight-forward but a couple of walk-throughs on YT if needed
@$ilent might be useful if you get the same problem.
edit - Copied these settings and tweaked accordingly, doesn't seem to be able to control the Pulse fans though but AB should do that;
https://imgur.com/gallery/EtFyaLr
Retains settings when closed too, which is nice. Maybe AMD could take some tips @LtMatt
I've had no issues with wattman losing my settings or not allowing control over the fans. I used DDU before I installed the vega then downloaded the latest adrenalin driver with wattman.
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Fresh windows install for me, so it should be fine but isn't.
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Doesn´t make so much sense i think .. I´ve tryed it by myself ..in Crysis 3 for example clock shows 1560Mhz on Core and 950Mhz on Ram but gpu utilization shows only 40%.
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Hey @Relentless81 - I can't confirm, for sure, that this was a driver issue but (like yourself) i've done enough builds that the initial boot will sometimes produce what appears to be a potential terminal problem only for it to inexplicably disappear once the system either has a couple of reboots to 'orientate' itself with its new hardware or after a applying latest dedicated drivers etc...
If it's still running smoothly today and continues to perform normally after benching etc i would chalk it up to an 'initial boot quirk'.
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Yeah thats what I'm hoping, I'm itching to get home and spend some more time with it, I've still got driver installs to do then I'll try some benches and hopefully its solid
