The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

Illuminist · 20 Oct 2018 at 13:26

TonyTurbo78 said:
I put little pads on the back of mine to draw the heat out of the PCB and hotspots

Any possible way you can show me where? lol

Panos · 20 Oct 2018 at 13:29

TonyTurbo78 said:
I've no issue with anyone beating my score, I'm really not that bothered as I'm not much of a benchmarker. I say do it, I wanna see Vega score as high as possible , I don't push it for my own personal epeen rating

Personally with the Vega 64 i see all this tweaking and sharing settings as fun. After a very long time having fun with a GPU like this, since the 9500non Pro, and the "pencil mode"

Got last night a reference V64 at £250 :eek:

(yeah made sure the guy hadn't sold another 100 V64s

) going to watercool it, but first I will try various things with the card for "science" purposes.

I will test it
a) with the blower as is.
b) With Cryonaut and Condactonaut
c) with liquid bios.
e) under water. (with predator 360).

All combinations.

If anyone interested let me know games you want to try. I do not have many current ones, but might grab couple next few weeks when on offer.
FYI they will be tested also with a 2920X or 2700X (after end of the month) alongside the 8600K @ 5.1Ghz.

eeii · 20 Oct 2018 at 14:14

Panos said:
Personally with the Vega 64 i see all this tweaking and sharing settings as fun. After a very long time having fun with a GPU like this, since the 9500non Pro, and the "pencil mode"

Got last night a reference V64 at £250 (yeah made sure the guy hadn't sold another 100 V64s ) going to watercool it, but first I will try various things with the card for "science" purposes.

I will test it
a) with the blower as is.
b) With Cryonaut and Condactonaut
c) with liquid bios.
e) under water. (with predator 360).

All combinations.

If anyone interested let me know games you want to try. I do not have many current ones, but might grab couple next few weeks when on offer.
FYI they will be tested also with a 2920X or 2700X (after end of the month) alongside the 8600K @ 5.1Ghz.

I'd be very interested in the water cooled bios under water as I have an alphacool water kit on my reference v64.
The reference cooler on my chip even when under volting meant instead of getting to 85c in 5 mins it took 6 mins and sounded like a jumbo taking off.
Please keep us updated.

BubbySoup · 20 Oct 2018 at 14:31

Panos said:
Personally with the Vega 64 i see all this tweaking and sharing settings as fun. After a very long time having fun with a GPU like this, since the 9500non Pro, and the "pencil mode"

Got last night a reference V64 at £250 (yeah made sure the guy hadn't sold another 100 V64s ) going to watercool it, but first I will try various things with the card for "science" purposes.

I will test it
a) with the blower as is.
b) With Cryonaut and Condactonaut
c) with liquid bios.
e) under water. (with predator 360).

All combinations.

If anyone interested let me know games you want to try. I do not have many current ones, but might grab couple next few weeks when on offer.
FYI they will be tested also with a 2920X or 2700X (after end of the month) alongside the 8600K @ 5.1Ghz.

I'd be interested, especially if you can run stuff at 3440 X 1440

Panos · 20 Oct 2018 at 15:05

eeii said:
I'd be very interested in the water cooled bios under water as I have an alphacool water kit on my reference v64.
The reference cooler on my chip even when under volting meant instead of getting to 85c in 5 mins it took 6 mins and sounded like a jumbo taking off.
Please keep us updated.

@TonyTurbo78 has watercooled reference with liquid bios. See his setting on previous pages

and what he achieved with it!

TonyTurbo78 · 20 Oct 2018 at 15:28

Illuminist said:
Any possible way you can show me where? lol

If I can remember sure, don’t really want to disturb anything to do with the card now it’s at the best I can get it.

Panos said:
Personally with the Vega 64 i see all this tweaking and sharing settings as fun. After a very long time having fun with a GPU like this, since the 9500non Pro, and the "pencil mode"

Got last night a reference V64 at £250 (yeah made sure the guy hadn't sold another 100 V64s ) going to watercool it, but first I will try various things with the card for "science" purposes.

I will test it
a) with the blower as is.
b) With Cryonaut and Condactonaut
c) with liquid bios.
e) under water. (with predator 360).

All combinations.

If anyone interested let me know games you want to try. I do not have many current ones, but might grab couple next few weeks when on offer.
FYI they will be tested also with a 2920X or 2700X (after end of the month) alongside the 8600K @ 5.1Ghz.

Amazing, look forward to that.

TrixX · 21 Oct 2018 at 03:07

Panos said:
Personally with the Vega 64 i see all this tweaking and sharing settings as fun. After a very long time having fun with a GPU like this, since the 9500non Pro, and the "pencil mode"

Got last night a reference V64 at £250 (yeah made sure the guy hadn't sold another 100 V64s ) going to watercool it, but first I will try various things with the card for "science" purposes.

I will test it
a) with the blower as is.
b) With Cryonaut and Condactonaut
c) with liquid bios.
e) under water. (with predator 360).

All combinations.

If anyone interested let me know games you want to try. I do not have many current ones, but might grab couple next few weeks when on offer.
FYI they will be tested also with a 2920X or 2700X (after end of the month) alongside the 8600K @ 5.1Ghz.

It's an interesting test actually. Did that with mine at launch. Know a lot more about it now though so a revisit would be pretty cool.

I did find that with the blower I needed to keep the core around the 1550MHz mark or it'd overheat and anything over 1050MHz on mem would cause problems. Switch to Water with Hydronaut and I didn't get much better performance to be blunt. Could go to 1580 on core and 1050 still on HBM and I thought I had done something wrong. Switched to Conductonaut and boom 1700MHz+ stable and 1100MHz stable on HBM. Something there to be said about temp removal speed

EDIT: I won't use Hydronaut going forward either. Every attempt to use it has had it dry out really badly within 2 weeks. Will switch to something else instead as it just didn't ever work. Could be old stock or something though. Could reach out to Grizzly and ask them direct.

scotty63 · 21 Oct 2018 at 08:58

@Panos Ive just got a Red dragon 56 and was wondering if there's any reason the 64 tweaks in this thread wouldn't be beneficial on the 56? Cheers.

Panos · 21 Oct 2018 at 09:09

scotty63 said:
@Panos Ive just got a Red dragon 56 and was wondering if there's any reason the 64 tweaks in this thread wouldn't be beneficial on the 56? Cheers.

Try them

offitmassive · 21 Oct 2018 at 09:19

Morning guys. So it seems that strix 64 I'd won was a bit underpriced and the seller sent me an empty padded envelope . All tracked mind. After a massive appeal case Inc the action fraud police.. I've got a refund. So.. Think I'll grab the red dragon 56 now.

JediFragger · 21 Oct 2018 at 09:56

offitmassive said:
Morning guys. So it seems that strix 64 I'd won was a bit underpriced and the seller sent me an empty padded envelope . All tracked mind. After a massive appeal case Inc the action fraud police.. I've got a refund. So.. Think I'll grab the red dragon 56 now.

Glad it all got sorted, and yeah that 56 is a good buy!

offitmassive · 21 Oct 2018 at 10:06

JediFragger said:
Glad it all got sorted, and yeah that 56 is a good buy!

I can't find anything as good a deal as that red dragon. I'm still looking for a sapphire flavoured deal. Was tempted by the strix 64 but Its £100 more . Hey ho!

JediFragger · 21 Oct 2018 at 10:10

offitmassive said:
I can't find anything as good a deal as that red dragon. I'm still looking for a sapphire flavoured deal. Was tempted by the strix 64 but Its £100 more . Hey ho!

Yeah, but you'll actually get it this time too

offitmassive · 21 Oct 2018 at 10:17

JediFragger said:
Yeah, but you'll actually get it this time too

Haha true.. But the strix 64 is on at ocuk for £449...
The strix 64 I won on ebay was £383 . No reserve.. :rolleyes:

JediFragger · 21 Oct 2018 at 10:20

offitmassive said:
Haha true.. But the strix 64 is on at ocuk for £449...
The strix 64 I won on ebay was £383 . No reserve..

So effectively it's £67 for an actual Strix 64, bargainous

offitmassive · 21 Oct 2018 at 10:24

JediFragger said:
So effectively it's £67 for an actual Strix 64, bargainous

stop it! Is the strix 64 worth the extra monies over the red dragon 56? I got a 1440p 144hz fsync monitor

Bloot · 21 Oct 2018 at 10:30

With that monitor you'll want the extra power the 64 has

JediFragger · 21 Oct 2018 at 10:30

offitmassive said:
stop it! Is the strix 64 worth the extra monies over the red dragon 56? I got a 1440p 144hz fsync monitor

Not for the extra 10/15% performance, no. Get the Dragon and enjoy

Nasher · 21 Oct 2018 at 10:57

offitmassive said:
stop it! Is the strix 64 worth the extra monies over the red dragon 56? I got a 1440p 144hz fsync monitor

The Red Dragon is a better card, so no. The extra is purely because Asus think they are a "premium" brand

offitmassive · 21 Oct 2018 at 11:00

JediFragger said:
Not for the extra 10/15% performance, no. Get the Dragon and enjoy

OK Thank you

Nasher said:
The Red Dragon is a better card, so no. The extra is purely because Asus think they are a "premium" brand

The extra is due to it being a 64 over the 56 surely? I was close to getting the strix 64 but red dragon it is then...top work guys. Thank you