The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

Dicehunter · 26 Sep 2017 at 20:53

shankly1985 said:
I was going to do a custom watercool but now am thinking buying this instead

The Alphacool Eiswolf 240 GPX-Pro

Sweeeet, I didn't know this even existed, HUGE thank you, Will buy one next week then post up some pics

Nemesis.ie · 26 Sep 2017 at 21:09

We'll need an Eiswolf owner's thread at this rate!

chaosophy · 27 Sep 2017 at 00:21

Nemesis.ie said:
We'll need an Eiswolf owner's thread at this rate!

If you - or someone - did start one in here or the cooling section I'd be interested.

Still probs going to get an Eiswolf, just not sure if to stick with the 120, try and squeeze in a 240 or replace my Corsair 240 CPU AIO with an Eisbaer and go for a 360 rad with both.

Perfect_Chaos · 27 Sep 2017 at 00:37

Dicehunter said:
Sweeeet, I didn't know this even existed, HUGE thank you, Will buy one next week then post up some pics

Good luck is all i can say, one of those killed my 1080Ti. I'm not the only one to have had problems with it either. Seems you need to be careful of air being in the block, which is hard to even tell if there is any anyway.

sharmanov · 27 Sep 2017 at 02:03

OK so im new to this forum but SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!! :eek:

I was able to snatch Powercolor AMD RX Vega 64 black for 499.99 and not paying attention to all the haters i am VERY satisfied with its 1080 performance and ESPECIALLY its 4K gaming performance. With that being said, for the life of me i cannot get this card to work in ANY DirectX 11 TITLE WITHOUT RESETTING WITHIN FEW MINUTES SOMETIMES EVEN SECONDS OF THE TITLE BEING LAUNCHED. OpenGL works GREAT! DirectX 12 works PHENOMENAL!!! but the minute my DirectX 11 title launches my machine REBOOTS....ARRRG :mad:

I can run Heaven Benchmark in OpenGL API all day, but God forbid i try to run it in DirectX11
I have set my bios to defaults, uninstalled and reinstalled Drivers and every version of them, i even removed the secondary GTX 960 card and ran DDU to clean from nvidia drivers and still the same. The only breakthrough i had was downgrading to the RX launch drivers that came out on the day RX Vega 64 was released, which allowed me to play some of my DX11 titles like Bioshock Infinite, Crysis 3 and so on but i tried upgrading to the 17.9.2 and my pc is taking a S*&!T on every DX11 title. it becoming very frustrating. Is anyone else having this issue or maybe have a some sort of walkaround, or is there a BIOS anyone can recommend i can flash on this bad boy :confused:

PLEASE HELP!!!!
My system configuration is as follows

MSI X370 KRAIT GAMING AM4 AMD X370
AMD RYZEN 7 1700 8-Core 3.0 GHz (3.7 GHz Turbo)
G.SKILL TridentZ Series 16GB 3200 (2 x 8GB) 14-14-14-34
PowerColor Radeon RX VEGA 64
Corsair XH850 Power Supply

Thanks in advance guys n gals

LtMatt · 27 Sep 2017 at 05:51

sharmanov said:
OK so im new to this forum but SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!!
I was able to snatch Powercolor AMD RX Vega 64 black for 499.99 and not paying attention to all the haters i am VERY satisfied with its 1080 performance and ESPECIALLY its 4K gaming performance. With that being said, for the life of me i cannot get this card to work in ANY DirectX 11 TITLE WITHOUT RESETTING WITHIN FEW MINUTES SOMETIMES EVEN SECONDS OF THE TITLE BEING LAUNCHED. OpenGL works GREAT! DirectX 12 works PHENOMENAL!!! but the minute my DirectX 11 title launches my machine REBOOTS....ARRRG
I can run Heaven Benchmark in OpenGL API all day, but God forbid i try to run it in DirectX11
I have set my bios to defaults, uninstalled and reinstalled Drivers and every version of them, i even removed the secondary GTX 960 card and ran DDU to clean from nvidia drivers and still the same. The only breakthrough i had was downgrading to the RX launch drivers that came out on the day RX Vega 64 was released, which allowed me to play some of my DX11 titles like Bioshock Infinite, Crysis 3 and so on but i tried upgrading to the 17.9.2 and my pc is taking a S*&!T on every DX11 title. it becoming very frustrating. Is anyone else having this issue or maybe have a some sort of walkaround, or is there a BIOS anyone can recommend i can flash on this bad boy PLEASE HELP!!!!
My system configuration is as follows

MSI X370 KRAIT GAMING AM4 AMD X370
AMD RYZEN 7 1700 8-Core 3.0 GHz (3.7 GHz Turbo)
G.SKILL TridentZ Series 16GB 3200 (2 x 8GB) 14-14-14-34
PowerColor Radeon RX VEGA 64
Corsair XH850 Power Supply

Thanks in advance guys n gals

Sounds like an odd OS/compatibility issue. Update Motherboard bios. Clean install Windows, fully update Windows, install Chipset/GPU drivers. Test.

ashmath · 27 Sep 2017 at 11:52

Perfect_Chaos said:
Good luck is all i can say, one of those killed my 1080Ti. I'm not the only one to have had problems with it either. Seems you need to be careful of air being in the block, which is hard to even tell if there is any anyway.

No way sorry to hear. Got one of these installed on my vega 64 right now, temp are between 50 and 60 on turbo mode. Can 100% say there is some air in my radiator, can hear it when you tilt it. Will this cause Me problems?

henson0115 · 27 Sep 2017 at 12:09

Perfect_Chaos said:
Good luck is all i can say, one of those killed my 1080Ti. I'm not the only one to have had problems with it either. Seems you need to be careful of air being in the block, which is hard to even tell if there is any anyway.

i presume the card wasn't covered by alphacool? was going to get one of these but got doubts now.

zophiel · 27 Sep 2017 at 12:29

you can say the same about any aio they all have the problem of possible air in the loop, its not just the alphacool

orbitalwalsh · 27 Sep 2017 at 13:56

henson0115 said:
i presume the card wasn't covered by alphacool? was going to get one of these but got doubts now.

use a ton of alphacool stuff. if you want to be 100%, get the unit and then buy a res, rad and do the tubings/fittings yourself ! sorted

most might find they dont have space for 240 rad so will do their own 120 rad version .
and yes.... the pump is the quietest on the market so is hard to tell when its on... so get a flow wheel to go with it haha

henson0115 · 27 Sep 2017 at 14:20

orbitalwalsh said:
use a ton of alphacool stuff. if you want to be 100%, get the unit and then buy a res, rad and do the tubings/fittings yourself ! sorted
most might find they dont have space for 240 rad so will do their own 120 rad version .
and yes.... the pump is the quietest on the market so is hard to tell when its on... so get a flow wheel to go with it haha

cba with a custom loop to be fair, that was the point of the aio :-D

doubt anybody else will make an aio for it, although it appears ekb may have something on the go.

sharmanov · 27 Sep 2017 at 18:14

AMDMatt said:
Sounds like an odd OS/compatibility issue. Update Motherboard bios. Clean install Windows, fully update Windows, install Chipset/GPU drivers. Test.

You know i kind of had that in mind also. i had a few suggestions on guru3d forums about reinstilling directX and VCRedist 2005 up to 2015 as well as maybe down-clocking my core as boost sometimes could cause crashes with amd cards in dx11. I was trying to avoid formatting my drive and going through the pain of reinstalling win 10 and all my games and stuff but I'm leaning more and more towards that option. My motherboard bios was already updated to latest available version.

Thank You

henson0115 · 27 Sep 2017 at 18:16

sharmanov said:
You know i kind of had that in mind also. i had a few suggestions on guru3d forums about reinstilling directX and VCRedist 2005 up to 2015 as well as maybe down-clocking my core as boost sometimes could cause crashes with amd cards in dx11. I was trying to avoid formatting my drive and going through the pain of reinstalling win 10 and all my games and stuff but I'm leaning more and more towards that option. My motherboard bios was already updated to latest available version.

Thank You

you could try a repair install first, install the os from the exe whilst booted and inside windows. if it does work great if not you'd only loose a bit time.

sharmanov · 27 Sep 2017 at 18:30

henson0115 said:
you could try a repair install first, install the os from the exe whilst booted and inside windows. if it does work great if not you'd only loose a bit time.

like as an Upgrade while keeping all my programs?

henson0115 · 27 Sep 2017 at 18:32

sharmanov said:
like as an Upgrade while keeping all my programs?

yea exactly

sharmanov · 27 Sep 2017 at 18:52

henson0115 said:
yea exactly

I dont know, i think if im going to spend some time on re-installing windows 10 i might as well do it the clean install way formatting the drive and all... you know? That way there will be no room for speculations. Thank you for the suggestion though

henson0115 · 27 Sep 2017 at 19:07

sharmanov said:
I dont know, i think if im going to spend some time on re-installing windows 10 i might as well do it the clean install way formatting the drive and all... you know? That way there will be no room for speculations. Thank you for the suggestion though

no worries, just another option. let us know how you get on.

mattyc123 · 27 Sep 2017 at 19:12

Has anyone seen Tom's hardware news about gigabyte not making custom cards?

mickyflinn · 27 Sep 2017 at 19:22

mattyc123 said:
Has anyone seen Tom's hardware news about gigabyte not making custom cards?

Ignore just seen the latest article , apolgies.

007Joe · 27 Sep 2017 at 19:37

Hi there - wondering if someone can help - sorry if this is a silly question but how do i make the overclock stick.

I use custom > set HBM2 to 1075 > set GPU to 2% > set power to 100% and apply. Works fine but when i reboot it goes back to defaults - any advice appreciated...

Many thanks
Joe