Im running mine on a 1440/144hz panel, it handles things absolutely fine. Had to turn down the odd setting in the division2 for example, but i was still well above the 60fps.
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The RX Vega 56 Owners Thread
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Im running mine on a 1440/144hz panel, it handles things absolutely fine. Had to turn down the odd setting in the division2 for example, but i was still well above the 60fps.
Cool, thank you
Intention would be to get a Freesync 75Hz panel so that sounds like should be fine. Obviously you have a "bit" more grunt with your monster 3900x lol
I got Lucky with the 3900x and got it for a ridiculously low price.
The Vega56 will be fine for quite some time yet, i do want an upgrade just to give me that more oomph when playing FPS games as you want to get close to the 144fps.
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No you need to download power play mods to get upto that level or performance, more info if interested
Not really worth modding the card, draws way too much power. Just overclocking the core/memory to say 1600~ and 950~ and undervolting close to 1v will give stock 64/1080/2060+ performance at 180-200w. Good enough for me at 1440p 144hz, most games I can run at a mix of ultra/high with 100 or so fps.
That's what I needed to hear, cheers. I am around 1570- 1600 boost clock under load and the memory will do 950mhz happily as it's reference with Samsung HBM. From memory the voltage is 1080mv at present on my Undervolted settings
If that's enough that's good with me
If that's enough that's good with me
i've got mine running three 1080p monitors in portrait mode and it runs them pretty well, gears I was getting around 55-62 frames per second. I've not played it this week so need to spend some time to fiddle with it a bit to get it stable, but I'm happy with the results.
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So following on from this story. I just changed the VRM thermal pad for a grizzly 3mm thick one and for some reason the card now works absolutely faultlessly. Just ran 15 mins of Heaven at 870mhz HBM. I don't really understand what has happened, my thermals were decent in the first place and the VRM only reaching 70 odd degrees C. They now sit at 60-65 degrees C. Maybe i just bent the card in the right way putting it back together
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So following on from this story. I just changed the VRM thermal pad for a grizzly 3mm thick one and for some reason the card now works absolutely faultlessly. Just ran 15 mins of Heaven at 870mhz HBM. I don't really understand what has happened, my thermals were decent in the first place and the VRM only reaching 70 odd degrees C. They now sit at 60-65 degrees C. Maybe i just bent the card in the right way putting it back together
Well done and congrats. Could it be the card throttled itself when reaching 70c at certain speeds and cut out as a fail safety measure? And now you've changed the thermal pads it's fixed?
I hope I never have this situation as I don't think I'm technical enough to do what you've managed
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I think it was sheer blind luck as i have killed as many cards as repaired them
Im never going to open it up again now haha. I've run more stress tests this morning and completed a firestrike run with a 22000 score. Just need to play some games now.
I've got it set at 3240 x 1920 in eyefinity, and it works well enough for me
- I'll have to check the res in game, but it could be that, or even higher! :S
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Now I've had chance to play with the Asus Strix I must say I am pleased in comparison to the previous Gigabyte version I owned. I have now manage to OC the HBM to 955mhz on the asus card compared to 860mhz on the Gigabyte. Other positives include the lack of coil whine and also the absence of any 100% fan black screen crashes which plagued me for a year with the gigabyte version.
In defence of the gigabyte card I believe the cooling solution is superior. Not only do you not have to buy 3rd party heatpads to make the card work, but the fans are quieter at the same RPM in general. Also I think overall the card also ran cooler.
I like the RGB on the asus card, its really the only bling i have. Though there doesnt seem to be a option to turn it off beyond unplugging the connector.
In defence of the gigabyte card I believe the cooling solution is superior. Not only do you not have to buy 3rd party heatpads to make the card work, but the fans are quieter at the same RPM in general. Also I think overall the card also ran cooler.
I like the RGB on the asus card, its really the only bling i have. Though there doesnt seem to be a option to turn it off beyond unplugging the connector.
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Can anyone advise if the intermittent black screens with Freesync enabled issue has been fixed yet? The monitor will go black and takes 5-10 seconds to start displaying again. Happens randomly across all three screens at different times. Cables have been swapped etc.
I've got a launch day Vega 56 which I pulled out of the rig back in April for a couple of reasons :
1) The black screens episodes. When you're playing an online racing sim and the centre screen goes off it's a problem.
2) AMD driver issues. Took AMD and the game developer 6 months to fix a game breaking bug.
I bought a 1070 as a get me by card for some endurance racing ... and it's still in. If the Freesync issues are fixed then I'll look at putting the Vega back in, otherwise it's getting sold on.
I've got a launch day Vega 56 which I pulled out of the rig back in April for a couple of reasons :
1) The black screens episodes. When you're playing an online racing sim and the centre screen goes off it's a problem.
2) AMD driver issues. Took AMD and the game developer 6 months to fix a game breaking bug.
I bought a 1070 as a get me by card for some endurance racing ... and it's still in. If the Freesync issues are fixed then I'll look at putting the Vega back in, otherwise it's getting sold on.