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The RX Vega 56 Owners Thread

I have owned many cwrds from both sides since the 8800 back in the day. I own a Vega card as I was sick of nvidias antics. The Vega 56 card is a great card and I upgraded to a freesync monitor. Flash a Vega 64 bios in to it and use the iChill feature in the settings and enjoy Forza in full flow. The 56 is a very capable card. With freesync you'll see no difference over a 1070Ti card.
 
MSTRBKR said:
Well I bought the Vega 56 Airboost. Will post a photo when it arrives so I can be added to roll call! Had my R9 290 for nearly 4 years now, and I haven't had any other card since then. Exciting :)
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If you have space in the itx box, put a fan pushing air towards the fan cooler. it will help a lot in tight conditions.
 
Hi guys, I've joined the club.

Question - before removing my RX 570 is there a 'proper' way on installed the new Vega card i.e. do I have to uninstall the RX (even though they use the same driver)?

I have Googled it, but information is varied and conflicting!
 
Oh dear.

Well I ran the official AMD driver removal tool. Shutdown. Remove 570. Installed Vega. Installed driver

Now pc won't boot past bios ...what the?
 
Ryzen 2700x, Asus ROG Crosshair vii.

Bios 0601 x64 04/19/18

It now boots to a blue screen saying it can't repair.

Did the driver corrupt windows10?
 
Bleek said:
Ryzen 2700x, Asus ROG Crosshair vii.

It now boots to a blue screen saying it can't repair.

Did the driver corrupt windows10?
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System restore in safe mode, if you can get to that.

No need to run anything other than the regular driver uninstaller that you use to install/uninstall the drivers.
 
Okay, so this is weird - it reported an error file on E:\windows which doesn't exist, so I've uplugged my 2 SSDs and it now boots.

OS is on my M2E and that was set to boot device.

So, I'm in... but I have no idea what just happened!
 
Don't feel bad, I'm back and working now, weird how unplugging drives fixed Windows.

I've since plugged them back in and all okay.

Now, what's the best way to undervolt is it still WattTool or is Wattman fully stable to do so?
 
MSTRBKR said:
I am about to go through the very same process with my new Vega 56. Feel a bit bad as I suggested the AMD driver cleaner! I will do the AMD driver cleaner as well in the interest of fairness :p
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GZ:) I used DDU when I switched from my RX 480 to Vega 56 with no probs.

Now, what's the best way to undervolt is it still WattTool or is Wattman fully stable to do so?
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I have no probs with Wattman. Sometimes it reverts to balanced but it's easy to save a profile. OverdriveNtool is popular too.
 
This card is good.

I've undervolted to 1v (1000), stock fan settings, core at 1550 (stock OC) and ram at 950 (stock volts).

Just hit 23572 in 3dmark and stable.

Overlay shows power down at 193-221w.

I'm happy, after the earlier mishap!

Edit: watts are lower than expected, isn't stock like 300?

I haven't overclocked the core as I don't want high watt/heat.
 
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Ah, the factory overclock is closer to 300w.

Still, I'm very happy. This seems like a pretty underrated card to me.
 
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