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The RX Vega 56 Owners Thread

Kei said:
Flashed the bios on mine to a 64 air and all good so far. Wattman is rather peculiar insofar as it doesn't seem to remember everything. Fresh boot this morning and it had forgotten the power target of +50 but remembered all of the clocks and voltages.

Folding performance is pretty impressive, getting just shy of 700K PPD.

I've uninstalled 3dmark and am reinstalling the newest version as I had 2.3 something and they are on 2.4 now. (update wouldn't work for whatever reason)
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AMDMatt said:
Try disabling fast startup, restarting, and then enabling it again.
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Kei said:
Windows fast start has never been enabled on mine and hibernation is also disabled. Do you think fast start in the bios would be the cause?
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AMDMatt said:
No.
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Mines the same, I turn on every morning and my voltage tweaks have all gone, It's getting annoying now as there's no profiles to load up either so I have to do it all from scratch, it doesn't take long but that's not the point.
 
Kei said:
Just looked back at my score with the old GTX 780 fitted and the current combined score is actually worse. https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/22324813 GFX score has massively improved.
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That's what i was saying, that's weird, the vega is weird, really weird....
I'm hoping the drivers are worked on soon so that some kind of normality is regained for the vega.
it's like in a movie when you have a guy that is really strong or fast and kills loads of bad guys to help his buddies but is completely crazy.
He's vega..
(not sf2)
 
nashathedog said:
Mines the same, I turn on every morning and my voltage tweaks have all gone, It's getting annoying now as there's no profiles to load up either so I have to do it all from scratch, it doesn't take long but that's not the point.
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Wattman keeps all my settings, every time I change a setting I hit apply instead of changing them all and applying once
 
nashathedog said:
Mines the same, I turn on every morning and my voltage tweaks have all gone, It's getting annoying now as there's no profiles to load up either so I have to do it all from scratch, it doesn't take long but that's not the point.
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This is ridiculous, it was happening way back in January/February with my Fury!! Was irritating then, to know it's not been fixed yet is insane.
 
JediFragger said:
This is ridiculous, it was happening way back in January/February with my Fury!! Was irritating then, to know it's not been fixed yet is insane.
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I don't recall any major issues with Fiji but, I had one of the overclocked Tri-x editions which ran both cool and silent on it's stock settings so I left it like that and it was the best card I've ever owned giving me 18 months of relatively hassle free gaming. Actually there was a bug where it would override the fan auto settings for no good reason, that got fixed and then returned with later driver updates a few times but it was quickly fixed each time.

old gamer said:
Can't remember but someone else mentioned it on one of the Vega threads
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I booted up this morning and again my gpu's reverted to the balanced setting so I applied each change one at a time so fingers crossed for tomorrow morning.

If I turn the PC off right now and then turn it back on in a a few minutes or so the tweaked gpu settings will still be there,
However, When I turn it off at night I also flip the switch at the back of the psu, and then the next day the gpu has reverted back to it's default settings,
That shouldn't be the culprit though should it?
 
nashathedog said:
I don't recall any major issues with Fiji but, I had one of the overclocked Tri-x editions which ran both cool and silent on it's stock settings so I left it like that and it was the best card I've ever owned giving me 18 months of relatively hassle free gaming. Actually there was a bug where it would override the fan auto settings for no good reason, that got fixed and then returned with later driver updates a few times but it was quickly fixed each time.



I booted up this morning and again my gpu's reverted to the balanced setting so I applied each change one at a time so fingers crossed for tomorrow morning.

If I turn the PC off right now and then turn it back on in a a few minutes or so the tweaked gpu settings will still be there,
However, When I turn it off at night I also flip the switch at the back of the psu, and then the next day the gpu has reverted back to it's default settings,
That shouldn't be the culprit though should it?
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perhaps try it one evening without powering off the psu? sounds like the gpu is going back to the hardcoded powerplay tables because of that. although i have issues with the settings not being remembered, i do not have them to your extent. frustrating as its only started in the last 2 driver releases for me..
 
nashathedog said:
I don't recall any major issues with Fiji but, I had one of the overclocked Tri-x editions which ran both cool and silent on it's stock settings so I left it like that and it was the best card I've ever owned giving me 18 months of relatively hassle free gaming. Actually there was a bug where it would override the fan auto settings for no good reason, that got fixed and then returned with later driver updates a few times but it was quickly fixed each time.



I booted up this morning and again my gpu's reverted to the balanced setting so I applied each change one at a time so fingers crossed for tomorrow morning.

If I turn the PC off right now and then turn it back on in a a few minutes or so the tweaked gpu settings will still be there,
However, When I turn it off at night I also flip the switch at the back of the psu, and then the next day the gpu has reverted back to it's default settings,
That shouldn't be the culprit though should it?
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It will loose the settings saved from the FastBoot Image.
Windows 8 and 10 added a feature called Fastboot it uses hibernation to create a image off all the Windows loaded settings so when you power on the PC you will start much faster.. When you pull the PSU switch you will reset all the Windows setting and even remove the fastboot image so Windows will fall back to the default settings.
I just tried it myself and it failed my Wattman settings.

@AMDMatt Add this also to the list for Wattman and fastboot.

If a user shutdowns Windows with Fastboot enabled, and then switches the PSU off next start up will fall back to default windows image and result in Wattman settings from failing.

This could explain why users on here are saying the wattman doesn't always remember settings after see do these guys power off the PSU!!!
 
Annoying standby lights. I don't do it anymore (pc in different place), but pc in bedroom with everything on a powerstrip=off at the mains because manufacturers keep sticking stupid lights everywhere that stay on in standy.
 
My GPU is R9 Fury Tri-X, unlock the SP to 3840, i can reach the stable frequency at 1040mhz.
Is it worth buying a RX Vega 56 to replace my R9 fury?

I read many posts, it seems we can flash Vega 64(Air or liquid?) BIOS to 56 and get the performance close to gtx 1080.
Is it right?

Not sure the reference cooler can reach the stable frequency after flashing Vega 64 liquid BIOS or should i wait for the non-reference card?

thanks.
 
Armadillo said:
Annoying standby lights. I don't do it anymore (pc in different place), but pc in bedroom with everything on a powerstrip=off at the mains because manufacturers keep sticking stupid lights everywhere that stay on in standy.
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Ah fair enough. It's been a while since i had a PC in a bedroom so i can see how that would be annoying.
 
nashathedog said:
I turn the power off out of habit as I had my home burn to the ground back in the 90's due to an electrical fire, Today my PC is one of 4 things that are plugged into an extension lead that I also turn off at the wall socket before going to bed.

Safety first.
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Well, i guess having that happen you would take extra precautions.
 
nashathedog said:
I turn the power off out of habit as I had my home burn to the ground back in the 90's due to an electrical fire, Today my PC is one of 4 things that are plugged into an extension lead that I also turn off at the wall socket before going to bed.

Safety first.
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I shut everything off, this is due to the Mrs monitoring all electronic use, even the router gets turned off due the the huge power draw well that's what she thinks
 
AMDMatt said:
Well, i guess having that happen you would take extra precautions.
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It does thankfully no-one died but the upstairs (were it started) was completely gutted.

old gamer said:
I shut everything off, this is due to the Mrs monitoring all electronic use, even the router gets turned off due the the huge power draw well that's what she thinks
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My other half was the same, Thankfully I'm single now but I've had her stand me in front of the electric meter so she could show me how fast the dial starts spinning when I turned my trust little electric heater on. :D
 
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