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The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

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LoadsaMoney said:
Have the FreeSync owners who say they can't go Nvidia because of it, ever thought, that they could sell their FreeSync screen as well, so they can go Nvidia, and G.

People can happily sell one vendors card for another, can't see why monitors would be different.
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So sell a £600 freesync monitor for £300, to buy the same monitor in gsync for £750 then sell a £500 GPU for a loss to buy a more expensive Nvidia gpu for a slight improvement in frames to make the use of a tech we already had :eek: :rolleyes::p:D

I'll stick with my vega64, freesync and running games at ultra at 1440p. I'm loving it.

Project Cars 2 is running very close to ultra settings, 1440p, full grid and averages around 100fps in races, around 70fps on replays, there's zero reason to change or need better than that. Did this vid last night, game is incredible. 105% AI difficulty and 90% aggression is the Sweet spot at the moment, it's so much fun.

 
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TonyTurbo78 said:
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So sell a £600 freesync monitor for £300, to buy the same monitor in gsync for £750 then sell a £500 GPU for a loss to buy a more expensive Nvidia gpu for a slight improvement in frames to make the use of a tech we already had :eek: :rolleyes::p:D

I'll stick with my vega64, freesync and running games at ultra at 1440p. I'm loving it.

Project Cars 2 is running very close to ultra settings, 1440p, full grid and averages around 100fps in races, around 70fps on replays, there's zero reason to change or need better than that. Did this vid last night, game is incredible.

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Agreed, am really enjoying the performance I getting with Vega and I believe it will only get better.
Haters just love to hate ;)
 
Yup why not, you sell other stuff, and put the extra towards something else, everyone does it.

Theres loads on here that have sold their old 2/390s, 4/580s etc..., any card for that matter, and put the extra towards a newer card, wether it be from AMD or Nvidia.
 
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nashathedog said:
It's a real shame as a lot of us will have to figure a new PSU into the cost and a decent 1000 watter is North of £150.



I did the same thing but the truth is the only time the memory was an issue was when you had games like ROTTR with texture settings that literally added nothing extra except ram usage, Oh and you're quite right 4gb's is 4gb's :)

The only difference between these two shots is one uses the lower texture setting and one uses the highest texture setting which takes the ram usage over 4gb's at 1080p, which do you think is which?
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I've been sorta lucky since 2015, in that I've been able to snag hardware as open/box or new on some promo/plus cashback, etc. So I was able to sell Hawaii at no loss, I added approx what a waterblock for say Hawaii would have cost to the pot to go Fury X. So the sale of Fury X was again like Hawaii to make sure I lost minimal. Fury X was excellent in that aspect of price/performance as I had yet to go full WC.

Right after I sold Hawaii, just few months later they plummeted, again how I sold my i5 4690K was similar process, sold just after R7 release and prior to R5.

I can not tell the difference in screenshots, that is true. My reason for selling is above. Also don't know if your aware but AMD/nVidia drivers do not expose actual VRAM usage, but an allocation. You can see in this post a link to an article that I used as a question to Martin Malik (aka Mumak) on OCN, he is registered as dev with AMD/nVidia so does have access to material, etc that some would not.

LoadsaMoney said:
Have the FreeSync owners who say they can't go Nvidia because of it, ever thought, that they could sell their FreeSync screen as well, so they can go Nvidia, and G.

People can happily sell one vendors card for another, can't see why monitors would be different.
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True, they could. I'm ruling out how much more choice there is for FreeSync monitors vs G-Sync. Let's rule out swapping as an existing owner of xyz. The premium that G-Sync has as cost IMO does cover say leccy for extra power draw that AMD has :p .

I paid £355 for MG279Q, again open box, now same place ~£455, PG279Q is ~£611 currently, ~£155 pounds difference.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Yup why not, you sell other stuff, and put the extra towards something else, everyone does it.

Theres loads on here that have sold their old 2/390s, 4/580s etc..., any card for that matter, and put the extra towards a newer card, wether it be from AMD or Nvidia.
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surprised you Havn't given up already to be fair, seen you go on and on about nvidia for god knows how long and pretty much no one is listening to you :-D nothing like beating a dead drum over and over again.

in all seriousness why would someone sell a 600 quid monitor for less than half its value, to by a more expensive one to assist a gfx card change. in my opinion both vendors are as bad as each other with the monitor sync tech. i am pretty sure nvidia make more from gpu sales than they do gsync monitor sales, which means if they had enabled support for adaptive sync before the vega launch they could have probably have cleaned up all of the people with freesync stuck on a 290 pre vega.
saying all of that, running a 56 with freesync is super smooth 400 quid(amd) vs 400 + god knows how much for a new monitor(nvidia), ill stick with the £400 for vega 56 thanks (lets not get into the price rise..).
 
So.... I just want to THANK EVERYONE who helped me with my Vega 64 taking a Poo and crash rebooting my pc every time i try to run a game or benchmark. Never would i have thought to replace my Corsair HX850 PSU as it is the root of the problem. My Rig is now running fine with a spare back up Corsair GS700 (i thought it was a 750) which now isnt surprising as i was explained that just because it sais 850 doesnt mean it will output a clean steady flow of current/amps needed by Vega cards. I am so relieved and exited that i i don't have to RMA and just have to get a beefier and better built PSU. :D:D:D

now i can do some real gaming and benchmarks and once i get my prime series SeaSonic 1200 PSU even push this card to its limits.:cool:
 
first official benchmark

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sharmanov said:
So.... I just want to THANK EVERYONE who helped me with my Vega 64 taking a Poo and crash rebooting my pc every time i try to run a game or benchmark. Never would i have thought to replace my Corsair HX850 PSU as it is the root of the problem. My Rig is now running fine with a spare back up Corsair GS700 (i thought it was a 750) which now isnt surprising as i was explained that just because it sais 850 doesnt mean it will output a clean steady flow of current/amps needed by Vega cards. I am so relieved and exited that i i don't have to RMA and just have to get a beefier and better built PSU. :D:D:D

now i can do some real gaming and benchmarks and once i get my prime series SeaSonic 1200 PSU even push this card to its limits.:cool:
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Surprised your 850 couldn't handle it, still, its fixed now, thats the main thing :)
 
chaosophy said:
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.
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I'd better get it hooked up so I can report back so! I plan to add a 280mm Eisbaer and ideally another wolf for the 2nd card, so that should be enough rads ... well the case won't take any more. :)
 
sharmanov said:
So.... I just want to THANK EVERYONE who helped me with my Vega 64 taking a Poo and crash rebooting my pc every time i try to run a game or benchmark. Never would i have thought to replace my Corsair HX850 PSU as it is the root of the problem. My Rig is now running fine with a spare back up Corsair GS700 (i thought it was a 750) which now isnt surprising as i was explained that just because it sais 850 doesnt mean it will output a clean steady flow of current/amps needed by Vega cards. I am so relieved and exited that i i don't have to RMA and just have to get a beefier and better built PSU. :D:D:D

now i can do some real gaming and benchmarks and once i get my prime series SeaSonic 1200 PSU even push this card to its limits.:cool:
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Glad you got it sorted dude! :)
 
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