Soldato
He said the card though so taking it out and blowing or compressed air will shift a lot of dust..
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The RX Vega 56 Owners Thread
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I had a Sapphire Vega 56 Pulse delivered the other day from OCUK and I'm curious about the amount of noise anyone here experiences as the buzzing noises that come off this card are crazy. I was messing about in Witcher 3 and the only way I could get it to shut up was to put the game at 30 FPS.
I tested it in Kingdom Come Deliverance and it's even worse. The volume of this buzzing goes up and down depending on what's happening on screen, so if I look at the ground in game it's loud but if look up at a horizon with vegetation, smoke and NPCs walking about it's crazy loud. As I'm moving around in first person all manner of different tones come from the card and it's like an electrical musical.
If I alt-tab from a game and open up Radeon settings, whenever I hover over buttons in the UI such as Gaming, Video, ReLive etc the noise peaks for a second in a screeching/scraping sound then goes back to loud buzzing, the closest thing I could compare it to is an old school mechanical HDD that was working in short bursts but way louder.
It's been four years since I last bought a GPU and I've been reading that some cards just do this now but it's driving me nuts. I've been given an RMA by OCUK for capacitor whine but before I make myself gameless for the weekend I just wanted to know if anyone else experiences this and if it's normal or not. If the replacement is going to make the same level noise then I may as well learn to live with this one.
Cheers
I tested it in Kingdom Come Deliverance and it's even worse. The volume of this buzzing goes up and down depending on what's happening on screen, so if I look at the ground in game it's loud but if look up at a horizon with vegetation, smoke and NPCs walking about it's crazy loud. As I'm moving around in first person all manner of different tones come from the card and it's like an electrical musical.
If I alt-tab from a game and open up Radeon settings, whenever I hover over buttons in the UI such as Gaming, Video, ReLive etc the noise peaks for a second in a screeching/scraping sound then goes back to loud buzzing, the closest thing I could compare it to is an old school mechanical HDD that was working in short bursts but way louder.
It's been four years since I last bought a GPU and I've been reading that some cards just do this now but it's driving me nuts. I've been given an RMA by OCUK for capacitor whine but before I make myself gameless for the weekend I just wanted to know if anyone else experiences this and if it's normal or not. If the replacement is going to make the same level noise then I may as well learn to live with this one.
Cheers
Sounds like coil whine. What power supply do you have? My Pulse does not produce any whine.
My previous R9 390X whined horrendously when I first got it, but the problem was not the card, it was my power supply. While it was a known brand (Antec), and was suitably above the maximum possible current draw for the system, it was only 80+ Bronze rated and probably wasn't providing the cleanest power which was causing the whine. Upgrading to a Corsair HX850i (80+ platinum) solved the issue - I'm still using that power supply.
My previous R9 390X whined horrendously when I first got it, but the problem was not the card, it was my power supply. While it was a known brand (Antec), and was suitably above the maximum possible current draw for the system, it was only 80+ Bronze rated and probably wasn't providing the cleanest power which was causing the whine. Upgrading to a Corsair HX850i (80+ platinum) solved the issue - I'm still using that power supply.
I hope it's not the PSU as I only just bought it! It was powering a Sapphire R9 380X Nitro until recently and that card was completely silent. It's a Gigabyte B700 - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/gigabyte-b700h-80-bronze-700w-modular-power-supply-ca-039-gi.html
I'm guessing OCUK will test the card and send it back with a delivery charge if it's not faulty? At least I'll know what to look in to though, cheers
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I haven't tried. So far I haven't used canned air - I do have a air compressor for an airbrush - can I use that to try and blow the dust out? Also so far I haven't tried taking the case off. Presumably there are some small screws somewhere.
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I seem to remembering reading OcUK terms that they recommend a good quality PSU (like a gold seasonic, superflower, EVGA) with regards to coil whine.
How old is your PSU (you say its new?). I had a kolink 600w bronze that's only lasted 3.5yrs before starting to have boot problems with an OC FX 8 core (recently buying a gold 750W EVGA has solved the booting issue when the OC profile was employed).
That'll be a question for OCUK's team, I don't know what their process is for this.
In my experience 80+ Bronze PSU's are more likely to produce coil whine than higher tiers with high power draw cards like Vega.
How long ago is "just bought it"? Just wondering if a return is possible. Its not too much more to get a decent 80+ Gold or higher in the 700W range. Sticking to Gigabyte for example - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...plus-gold-modular-power-supply-ca-03c-gi.html
This tier list on LTT forums is a good starting point too - https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1045610-new-psu-tier-list/
Anything from A+ or A should not give you coil whine if it is indeed a PSU issue, not a graphics card issue.
I bought it brand new and it's barely two weeks out of its box. OcUK have been great they haven't asked any questions about the PSU, I sent a web note at something like 2am and woke up to an RMA number this morning.
I just looked at the invoice and it's just over three weeks old, could have sworn it had only been two weeks. Either way they won't accept a return. I guess worse case if it's not a faulty GPU I'll stick the PSU on eBay for £40 or something, sell the R9 for what I can and buy a new PSU with the money, learn a lesson and live happily ever after. Might do that anyway even if the card does turn out to be faulty!
Soldato
Remove the card. Go outside, fill lungs with air, blow!
Put back into rig after cleaning inside of rig out.
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I'm the new owner of one of these, Sapphire Pulse Vega 56 cards.
I went for a 750W Seasonic Focus Plus Gold PSU. Things seem relatively quiet to me, certainly no buzzing noises.
Can't seem to figure out the best way to benchmark the card, what software do you guys prefer?
I went for a 750W Seasonic Focus Plus Gold PSU. Things seem relatively quiet to me, certainly no buzzing noises.
Can't seem to figure out the best way to benchmark the card, what software do you guys prefer?
3dmark firestrike/timespy and superposition are the usual suspects. The first two have tests in them that are more cpu heavy as well, but that won't skew the end result too much, so you'll still be able to compare to what other people post and determine if your card is running ok or faulty.
I've been reading lots about people solving coil whine with a different PSU ever since my new Vega 56 noisily came in to my life so decided I'm going to wait on using the RMA. Ordered a Seasonic Snow Silent 750W Platinum from OcUK that's getting delivered Tuesday and I'm hoping that'll do the trick.
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Thanks, will download both and will post my results. Would be interested to hear thoughts.
Great deal on that PSU fairplay.
Great deal on that PSU fairplay.
Nice might get one then.. but i have heard mixed things about the cards? some say they can get really noisy some say their fine? I usually go with sapphire but the powercolour card has 3 fans seems like might offer better cooling? any thing i should look out for? which card might have Samsung memory?
For the purpose of calibrating an overclock always go with a game (Dx12 preferably) imo. You can download Shadow of the Tomb Raider demo for free on steam, and has the benchmark included, for example.
my sapphire pulse has samsung memory. sound wise its silent with a heavy undervolt to 1.0v on p7 with 1520/950 clocks (max temp 71-72c with 30-33% fan speed, silent). I had it on 1600/950 at 1.06v for a while but the fan would ramp up to 40-45% speed especially with this weather which was audible but not loud, I just prefer silence so im sticking to the 1v undervolt. it also went from 220w to 170w in GPU-Z so theres that. 50-60W more and higher fan speed doesnt seem worth it to me for 80mhz more, 56 gains more performance from the memory overclock anyway (around 10% more performance going from 800mhz to 950, pretty much on par with stock 64)