The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

nashathedog · 14 Oct 2018 at 15:53

The only time I ever hear coil whine is if I'm in a menu with extremely high fps, There's no coil whine when gaming other than that. You all seem to have better HBM than me. Is it all from Samsung or have you chaps got different HBM?

Adrian Wujtowicz · 14 Oct 2018 at 17:44

Hi guys, does anyone here running a Vega 64 on ASUS RAMPAGE II EXTREME or any other non UEFI motherboards? I've got a Xeon X5675 4.6Ghz on it so I don't particularly need a new cpu but I will be getting a 32" 4K monitor with Freesync so Vega card would be nice :-)

Panos · 14 Oct 2018 at 18:31

Davedree said:
Have to say reference pcb's suffer with extreme coil buzz, my peasant v64 ("p64") and this lc64 both suffer exactly the same characteristics. I've tried 3 different psu's, i will try a different mboard just to rule out pcie slot power. I'd say that reference doesn't benefit any better over an aib pcb, but I do think that maybe reference have higher quality hbm modules, P64 manages 1150 and lc64 manages 1150 in gaming, or I was just lucky.

My p64 can actually clock higher than the lc64, so what I might do is swap the LC cooler onto the P64 pcb.

Like you say the only advantage to real water/aio is the quietness and low temps, with no clock step down due to not going over over 50c temp.

Liquid should clock higher. Check the other bios and check also that he hasn't flashed mining bios or the same bios to both

TonyTurbo78 · 14 Oct 2018 at 18:40

nashathedog said:
The only time I ever hear coil whine is if I'm in a menu with extremely high fps, There's no coil whine when gaming other than that. You all seem to have better HBM than me. Is it all from Samsung or have you chaps got different HBM?

Spot on here, but it's not all games. There is just one game in my whole library that gives me a buzzing, it's on a loading screen which gives me like 400fps.....Project Cars 2.

TonyTurbo78 · 14 Oct 2018 at 18:47

nashathedog said:
Cheers, I've never played around with gpu bio's before and I don't think I will, It's not really worth the risk.

Flashed an LC bios on to mine about 2 weeks after launch, but I did wait till after I put it in my custom loop before doing so. It's a painless process, really straight forward. It gave me about 100mhz extra on the clock before it crashed. I couldn't get past 1700mhz on the original bios and that was even with it in the loop. Flashed the lc bios onto it and got just shy of 1800mhz.

Davedree · 14 Oct 2018 at 20:30

Panos said:
Liquid should clock higher. Check the other bios and check also that he hasn't flashed mining bios or the same bios to both

Good point that, I'll need to check the bios and the bios's on each switch.

Davedree · 14 Oct 2018 at 20:33

TonyTurbo78 said:
Flashed an LC bios on to mine about 2 weeks after launch, but I did wait till after I put it in my custom loop before doing so. It's a painless process, really straight forward. It gave me about 100mhz extra on the clock before it crashed. I couldn't get past 1700mhz on the original bios and that was even with it in the loop. Flashed the lc bios onto it and got just shy of 1800mhz.

Just a query what are you highest clocks and how much voltage does your card hold when in real games ?

offitmassive · 14 Oct 2018 at 20:34

Just ordered myself an Asus Strix 64. Previously had a 1070 then upgraded to a 1080Ti...TBH the Ti was a bit of a disappointment. Think i was expecting THAT much more then the 1070. So ith the funds from the Ti, i got a strix 64 coming. I have a F Sync monitor anyway so all is not lost. Have seen vids of the thermal pad issue..have ordered some minus 8 3mm pads from OCUK an will change the TIM for some Kryonaut

Panos · 14 Oct 2018 at 20:35

offitmassive said:
Just ordered myself an Asus Strix 64. Previously had a 1070 then upgraded to a 1080Ti...TBH the Ti was a bit of a disappointment. Think i was expecting THAT much more then the 1070. So ith the funds from the Ti, i got a strix 64 coming. I have a F Sync monitor anyway so all is not lost. Have seen vids of the thermal pad issue..have ordered some minus 8 3mm pads from OCUK an will change the TIM for some Kryonaut

Cool stuff

offitmassive · 14 Oct 2018 at 20:39

TonyTurbo78 said:
Flashed an LC bios on to mine about 2 weeks after launch, but I did wait till after I put it in my custom loop before doing so. It's a painless process, really straight forward. It gave me about 100mhz extra on the clock before it crashed. I couldn't get past 1700mhz on the original bios and that was even with it in the loop. Flashed the lc bios onto it and got just shy of 1800mhz.

Can the LC bios be flashed to an air cooled vega?

Davedree · 14 Oct 2018 at 20:41

Only on the reference pcb's.
The aib's have different bios string, which stops the flash.

Panos · 14 Oct 2018 at 20:41

offitmassive said:
Can the LC bios be flashed to an air cooled vega?

If the card is reference board yes.
Not on the Strix :/ But Asus has a new Strix bios out improving the card.

offitmassive · 14 Oct 2018 at 20:43

Panos said:
If the card is reference board yes.
Not on the Strix :/ But Asus has a new Strix bios out improving the card.

Cool ok TY. I'll have a quick look

TonyTurbo78 · 14 Oct 2018 at 20:46

Davedree said:
Just a query what are you highest clocks and how much voltage does your card hold when in real games ?

I can set 1810mhz 1250mhz which hits around 1760mhz and pulled around 360w :eek:

(620w reading at the wall plug to measure total system wattage from my memory). It was scary high. It got through a couple benches at 1810/1120 about a year ago, but did have an issue where I thought they card went bang lol. That’s the main reason why I never ever push it past 1750mhz now, it scared the crap outta me haha. I didn’t go round posting to much or putting up the bench score as I didn’t want others to try it and have the same issues or possibly blowing the gpu.

I went back through my videos to try and find one with an overlay. Got this one but I don’t think the voltage was recording correct readings via hwinfo back then.

EDIT. Actually Dave, looking at that video again, looks like core was hitting 1780mhz at times but I’m sure I was in a competition with ltmatt then to see who could hit a higher core, I might have tried 1830mhz or something stupid haha.

offitmassive · 14 Oct 2018 at 20:50

Panos said:
If the card is reference board yes.
Not on the Strix :/ But Asus has a new Strix bios out improving the card.[/QUOTEJust had a quick look on asus' website - nowt is showing. CAn i be rude and ask you to point me the way please?! Just had a look at their warranty ruling too - says if the card has been tampered with no warranty will stand. I thought the tampering had to be seen as the cause of a warranty repair ? But stuff like TIM/pad change would be deemed ok like with EVGA?

Panos said:
If the card is reference board yes.
Not on the Strix :/ But Asus has a new Strix bios out improving the card.

Can i be rude and ask you to point me the way please?! Just had a look at their warranty ruling too - says if the card has been tampered with no warranty will stand. I thought the tampering had to be seen as the cause of a warranty repair ? But stuff like TIM/pad change would be deemed ok like with EVGA?

Panos · 14 Oct 2018 at 20:56

offitmassive said:
Can i be rude and ask you to point me the way please?! Just had a look at their warranty ruling too - says if the card has been tampered with no warranty will stand. I thought the tampering had to be seen as the cause of a warranty repair ? But stuff like TIM/pad change would be deemed ok like with EVGA?

Btw why you got strix a not red devil?

TonyTurbo78 · 14 Oct 2018 at 20:59

offitmassive said:
Can the LC bios be flashed to an air cooled vega?

Yes needs to be reference though

offitmassive · 14 Oct 2018 at 20:59

Panos said:
Btw why you got strix a not red devil?

The strix came up on ebay at a low price which caught my eye. I wanted a LC version but that was out my price range. I would have had a red devil if the price was right

TonyTurbo78 said:
Yes needs to be reference though

OK thank you

Davedree · 14 Oct 2018 at 21:55

TonyTurbo78 said:
I can set 1810mhz 1250mhz which hits around 1760mhz and pulled around 360w (620w reading at the wall plug to measure total system wattage from my memory). It was scary high. It got through a couple benches at 1810/1120 about a year ago, but did have an issue where I thought they card went bang lol. That’s the main reason why I never ever push it past 1750mhz now, it scared the crap outta me haha. I didn’t go round posting to much or putting up the bench score as I didn’t want others to try it and have the same issues or possibly blowing the gpu.

I went back through my videos to try and find one with an overlay. Got this one but I don’t think the voltage was recording correct readings via hwinfo back then.

EDIT. Actually Dave, looking at that video again, looks like core was hitting 1780mhz at times but I’m sure I was in a competition with ltmatt then to see who could hit a higher core, I might have tried 1830mhz or something stupid haha.

That's impressive Tony, to hold around 1780 is seriously good. In your video it seems to hold 1.15v and the temps are around 36-38c.
I wonder if it's because you are on real cooling that the frequency can scale so well as the temps are so low.

My ref v64 will hold 1600-1620 @ 1.050v. For benching it can hold 1680-1690 fan full pelt.
I bought an Lc64 the other day and I have mixed feelings about it. Maybe I need more time with it, but maybe I was too ambitious in hoping for a true held 1750mhz with maybe some undervolting, but this card literally has a brick wall at 1710mhz held. I'm running 18.9.3driver, not psu limited and not power limited, Temps get around the mid 40's on the core and hbm.
I can run Forza 4 benchmark in kaaps bench at 1440p it holds 1695-1705mhz 1150hbm2 and I only get 76fps which is only 1fps better than my refv64. Firestrike I'm at 26979 gscore which seems ok but not brilliant.

On the plus side the Lc64 runs so quiet It's basically the same as my refv64 but without the fan noise.

TonyTurbo78 · 14 Oct 2018 at 22:02

Davedree said:
That's impressive Tony, to hold around 1780 is seriously good. In your video it seems to hold 1.15v and the temps are around 36-38c.
I wonder if it's because you are on real cooling that the frequency can scale so well as the temps are so low.

My ref v64 will hold 1600-1620 @ 1.050v. For benching it can hold 1680-1690 fan full pelt.
I bought an Lc64 the other day and I have mixed feelings about it. Maybe I need more time with it, but maybe I was too ambitious in hoping for a true held 1750mhz with maybe some undervolting, but this card literally has a brick wall at 1710mhz held. I'm running 18.9.3driver, not psu limited and not power limited, Temps get around the mid 40's on the core and hbm.
I can run Forza 4 benchmark in kaaps bench at 1440p it holds 1695-1705mhz 1150hbm2 and I only get 76fps which is only 1fps better than my refv64. Firestrike I'm at 26979 gscore which seems ok but not brilliant.

On the plus side the Lc64 runs so quiet It's basically the same as my refv64 but without the fan noise.

I wouldn’t read to much into the voltage reading. I’m sure that was set to 1250mv but hwinfo had a known issue back then reading correctly until newer versions got released to fix it.

And yeah, If you look at rig in sig, you can see the custom loop on the gpu. Ive a 360mm predator with 6 vardars in push/pull so it gets tons of cooling potential. When I game I run them at 1200rpm, when I bench I run them at 1800rpm, bloody noisy that though. I very rarely see my core or hbm temps push past 40c when I game. Like I said start of page, im happy with 1700/1100 with real low voltage and real low temps.

Anything over 26k is a monster GFX Score to be fair mate. Wait, 26979? Post it, that’s the highest GFX Score for Vega.