The RX Vega 56 Owners Thread

Illuminist · 11 Oct 2017 at 08:44

Zophiel . It was rude of you. I looked long and googled much before asking here, I'm 36 , not a child and not lazy I did my research called 3 companies, the second link was in dollars, the rest were reviews.
You weren't helpful and you knew full well you were being obnoxious, or maybe just noxious.
But i forgive you.
Thank you to all the above that just helped by saying they are in stock now. Very kind.

ubersonic · 11 Oct 2017 at 08:54

Vince said:
Perhaps that's the problem, sorry if I have misinterpreted it - If I read what you wrote:

It implies that they have in fact had stock sitting there ready for us to order for the past two weeks.

You're confusing lunch with launch XD

Vince · 11 Oct 2017 at 09:11

ubersonic said:
You're confusing lunch with launch XD

I must be, reading fail... Look what you gone done. Now I'm hungry. Just got off the phone to that supplier. Looks like the stock was given to new orders not those of us who have been waiting weeks. Was not impressed when talking to them on the phone. My order goes back to the middle of Sept.

They tell me they will reallocate one to me. Doesn't seem fair on both the people who think they ordered one last night or those of us who have been waiting for weeks.

henson0115 · 11 Oct 2017 at 09:27

Vince said:
I must be, reading fail... Look what you gone done. Now I'm hungry. Just got off the phone to that supplier. Looks like the stock was given to new orders not those of us who have been waiting weeks. Was not impressed when talking to them on the phone. My order goes back to the middle of Sept.

They tell me they will reallocate one to me. Doesn't seem fair on both the people who think they ordered one last night or those of us who have been waiting for weeks.

thats bang out of order, but common practice for a lot of companies unfortunately.

Illuminist · 11 Oct 2017 at 09:41

I rang as soon as i read they were in stock, but they were sold out by the time the guy answered the phone...........................

( I very much wanted and needed one, these 56's are loud and hot as my girlfriends hairdryer. Sometimes she sticks her head in my case to dry her hair.
Eiswolf 240 I need you !!

Vince · 11 Oct 2017 at 09:52

Illuminist said:
I rang as soon as i read they were in stock, but they were sold out by the time the guy answered the phone...........................
( I very much wanted and needed one, these 56's are loud and hot as my girlfriends hairdryer. Sometimes she sticks her head in my case to dry her hair.
Eiswolf 240 I need you !!

Totally sucks. I do now have an email telling me that my order is clear for commissioning and will soon be packed and shipped. I don't get companies that do that, put all of them online and don't honor back orders. Now I have one that some poor fella who ordered yesterday thinks was on route to him. For what it is worth they got all of 16 units in yesterday of the 240.

henson0115 · 11 Oct 2017 at 10:12

Illuminist said:
I rang as soon as i read they were in stock, but they were sold out by the time the guy answered the phone...........................
( I very much wanted and needed one, these 56's are loud and hot as my girlfriends hairdryer. Sometimes she sticks her head in my case to dry her hair.
Eiswolf 240 I need you !!

turn the max fan speed up and undervolt if your worried about heat, Ive upped mine to 3800 and i cant hear it above case fans. granted it will probably be loud if you are accustomed to silence. but as a temp solution

most of the time fan speed is around 2800 whilst temps are 60-70, max temps are 72.

Vince · 11 Oct 2017 at 10:40

henson0115 said:
turn the max fan speed up and undervolt if your worried about heat, Ive upped mine to 3800 and i cant hear it above case fans. granted it will probably be loud if you are accustomed to silence. but as a temp solution
most of the time fan speed is around 2800 whilst temps are 60-70, max temps are 72.

At 3800 it sounds like a commercial airliner, at least it does to me! Probably because the only fans in my case are 6x120mm relatively silent fans.

henson0115 · 11 Oct 2017 at 10:44

Vince said:
At 3800 it sounds like a commercial airliner, at least it does to me! Probably because the only fans in my case are 6x120mm relatively silent fans.

no at 4900 it sounds like an airliner

, but yea if you can live with it as a temporary solution it keeps the heat down. i used 8 noctua industrial case fans though which boost up to 2k rpm when the gpu and or cpu hit 60 which is why i cant hear it over case fans.

Overlag · 11 Oct 2017 at 10:51

henson0115 said:
turn the max fan speed up and undervolt if your worried about heat, Ive upped mine to 3800 and i cant hear it above case fans. granted it will probably be loud if you are accustomed to silence. but as a temp solution
most of the time fan speed is around 2800 whilst temps are 60-70, max temps are 72.

wow 3800rpm is quieter than your case fans? damn you must need ear plugs for gaming

henson0115 · 11 Oct 2017 at 11:13

Overlag said:
wow 3800rpm is quieter than your case fans? damn you must need ear plugs for gaming

yea they are noctua industrial fans, i wear senny hd650's cant hear the fans at all at all. only keep it to 3800 rather than 4900 to stop the misses from getting annoyed

average speed is around 2800 anyway.

henson0115 · 11 Oct 2017 at 16:28

Vince said:
I must be, reading fail... Look what you gone done. Now I'm hungry. Just got off the phone to that supplier. Looks like the stock was given to new orders not those of us who have been waiting weeks. Was not impressed when talking to them on the phone. My order goes back to the middle of Sept.

They tell me they will reallocate one to me. Doesn't seem fair on both the people who think they ordered one last night or those of us who have been waiting for weeks.

i ordered when in stock and im not getting one as i contacted them, so i told them to cancel it as i don't really deal with unknown as a delivery date. was on the fence to get one or not anyway to be fair. il just wait till its in stock again and re-order.
so if its my one you got enjoy it

Vince · 11 Oct 2017 at 17:23

henson0115 said:
i ordered when in stock and im not getting one as i contacted them, so i told them to cancel it as i don't really deal with unknown as a delivery date. was on the fence to get one or not anyway to be fair. il just wait till its in stock again and re-order.
so if its my one you got enjoy it

Sad times. Well at least you know that it's gone to a good home, a home that will molest it before it even gets close to my card. It's ugly as sin so some changes to the back plate and first cooling fin are in order before it goes in the case. I still don't have a shipping email though so perhaps other customers decided to have a little moan and have jumped up the queue.

This literally looks like a classic case of he who shouts loudest will be heard.

henson0115 · 11 Oct 2017 at 18:16

Vince said:
Sad times. Well at least you know that it's gone to a good home, a home that will molest it before it even gets close to my card. It's ugly as sin so some changes to the back plate and first cooling fin are in order before it goes in the case. I still don't have a shipping email though so perhaps other customers decided to have a little moan and have jumped up the queue.

This literally looks like a classic case of he who shouts loudest will be heard.

indeed, i don't mind waiting to be fair, please put some pics up of the modded version though will be interested to see what you can do with it

never know you might get another one to mod

Vince · 11 Oct 2017 at 18:20

henson0115 said:
indeed, i don't mind waiting to be fair, please put some pics up of the modded version though will be interested to see what you can do with it never know you might get another one to mod

It's going a different colour. Blue is the new black my friend. Perhaps a lil vega logo might also be in order.

henson0115 · 11 Oct 2017 at 19:58

Vince said:
It's going a different colour. Blue is the new black my friend. Perhaps a lil vega logo might also be in order.

mark me down for a red one

look forward to seeing it.

Illuminist · 12 Oct 2017 at 08:41

So yesterday using my 56, with 64 bios something really strange was happening, although it was perfect with the bios before.
I was playing pubg with just a mild OC and the hbm in wattman and in game gpu details was showing as 197 and the core as 577, so i reset the pc.
Then when i played the next time with a 1100,1100 p6 and p7 2% core and 1000 hbm i noticed the temperature was 83.c although i had set the limit to 75, also the fan was stuck at 4333 and not going up to the full 100%
I checked in Gpuz and the hotspot was 103! the hbm and core were in the mid to late 80's
I forced the fan to 100% and it didnt change, i underclocked the card with no memory or core OC at all and it was still at 75.c and 93 hotspot.

Worried, seeking advice as to why both these things happened.....

Overlag · 12 Oct 2017 at 09:46

Illuminist said:
So yesterday using my 56, with 64 bios something really strange was happening, although it was perfect with the bios before.
I was playing pubg with just a mild OC and the hbm in wattman and in game gpu details was showing as 197 and the core as 577, so i reset the pc.
Then when i played the next time with a 1100,1100 p6 and p7 2% core and 1000 hbm i noticed the temperature was 83.c although i had set the limit to 75, also the fan was stuck at 4333 and not going up to the full 100%
I checked in Gpuz and the hotspot was 103! the hbm and core were in the mid to late 80's
I forced the fan to 100% and it didnt change, i underclocked the card with no memory or core OC at all and it was still at 75.c and 93 hotspot.

Worried, seeking advice as to why both these things happened.....

HBM voltage goes up with the Vega64 bios, and the HBM voltage setting isn't the voltage for HBM, so changing that pretty much does nothing. That may be why the temps were higher.

Illuminist · 12 Oct 2017 at 19:13

Overlag said:
HBM voltage goes up with the Vega64 bios, and the HBM voltage setting isn't the voltage for HBM, so changing that pretty much does nothing. That may be why the temps were higher.

It was the p6 and p7 of the core i was refering to.
Well since then i have used DDu in safe mode to remove the drivers, but......

Now when i try to install an amd driver, it refused to let me choose express or custom and carry on with the install.
Windows has installed a 2006 Microsoft basic display driver.
And im at a loss as to what to do..
please can someone help?

henson0115 · 12 Oct 2017 at 22:25

Illuminist said:
It was the p6 and p7 of the core i was refering to.
Well since then i have used DDu in safe mode to remove the drivers, but......

Now when i try to install an amd driver, it refused to let me choose express or custom and carry on with the install.
Windows has installed a 2006 Microsoft basic display driver.
And im at a loss as to what to do..
please can someone help?

Sounds like a registry issue.
You could try a repair install Windows and then try installing the driver, nothing to loose but time.
To do a repair install boot into Windows, insert windows media, cd or USB. Navigate to the exe file and run it.
Install windows, all files and programs will be kept.
Worth taking a backup first though if you are worried about losing anything.