The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

[TrixX]

Imho straight SATA are better since you aren't restricted otherwise and extensions are cheaper.
Also there are aleways plastic covers to hide cabling.

Not really in a Glass Paneled InWin 909

 

[Panos]

Not really in a Glass Paneled InWin 909

That's the reason 3D printers or plasticard exist
Plus a lot of paint....

Also there are cables looking like those...

 

[Lokken86]

An advice...
Turn the HDDs to the rear and connect them from the back. That way all cables will go out and from behind to the bottom. It helps to use SATA extensions here also shall you wish (around £2.5-3 each).

There. Turned the drives on the right around and fed the SATA's around the back. It's a lot better now

Thanks for the suggestion Panos.

 

[Thekwango]

There. Turned the drives on the right around and fed the SATA's around the back. It's a lot better now

Thanks for the suggestion Panos.

thank **** for that....I never slept a wink last night after seeing your pics!!

 

[Ree]

am not twitching now

looks much better

 

[Distracted]

thank **** for that....I never slept a wink last night after seeing your pics!!

There's a couple of ways that sentence could be interpreted...

 

[Thekwango]

There's a couple of ways that sentence could be interpreted...

Was about to say, ‘don’t get what you mean’ then re read my post lololol

 

[Shiari]

gosh yeah that looks a lot better

 

[Distracted]

Was about to say, ‘don’t get what you mean’ then re read my post lololol

 

[Panos]

There. Turned the drives on the right around and fed the SATA's around the back. It's a lot better now

Thanks for the suggestion Panos.

Huzzah you are welcome mate.

Potential improvements

Step 2
Disconnect all cables from PSU. Connect all the ones going to HDD on the back end slots, near the rear end, and work your way forward. Keep the 2 cables for the GPU at the front sockets. (as we see the PSU on the pic).

thank **** for that....I never slept a wink last night after seeing your pics!!

What's going on outside this forum????

am not twitching now

(if I am gone for few days, probably the forum has issues with animated GIF and got banned again).

 

[BubbySoup]

Hrmm, so have the chance of picking up a Powercolor reference model, unknown origin/age for £300 or 2 of them for £550. I can test them before purchase, anyone have any thoughts on what's best to run on them for a quick and dirty test? Obviously I can't sit there for 24 hours stressing them

I'm tempted to grab both at this price and try out some crossfire just for fun if testing goes well.

 

[TrixX]

Superposition with HBCC enabled is a good one. You'll see memory artifacts very quickly if it doesn't like it.

 

[Lokken86]

Superposition with HBCC enabled is a good one. You'll see memory artifacts very quickly if it doesn't like it.

I didn't see any performance uplift with HBCC turned on at all. Score at 1080p extreme was 4960 or something.

 

[TrixX]

I didn't see any performance uplift with HBCC turned on at all. Score at 1080p extreme was 4960 or something.

Around 200 point uplift for me and it was repeatable though for lower voltages the uplift was as much as 600points back in Oct of last year

 

[Panos]

Hrmm, so have the chance of picking up a Powercolor reference model, unknown origin/age for £300 or 2 of them for £550. I can test them before purchase, anyone have any thoughts on what's best to run on them for a quick and dirty test? Obviously I can't sit there for 24 hours stressing them

I'm tempted to grab both at this price and try out some crossfire just for fun if testing goes well.

After HBCC ON and Superposition have a look here how it should perform approximately on Firestrike

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/32219331/

 

[BubbySoup]

Cheers for the info. Need to have a think now about going for both cards lol

 

[Panos]

Cheers for the info. Need to have a think now about going for both cards lol

Imho get 1 and then watercool it. The Watercool Heatkiller IV is also absolute superb block, and personally truly impressed as it better than the EK and Bykski ones if you go custom. Otherwise buy a 240mm MLC and a prefilled EK block. It will serve you very well.

You don't need 2 GPUs tbh except if you are going down the route of Tensorflow etc.
Where the Vega 64 shines.

 

[Thekwango]

So, finally got round to installing the strix vega64 last night and made the noob (knob!) mistake of not removing the drivers for my 380x. Turned on the pc and cue bsod’s and all manner of heartache. Finally threw the head up and reinstalled windows. Had a very basic/quick play about at 2am and the first thing I noticed was how quiet it was. Fully expected it to be louder than the 380x but it’s not even close. Did notice a tiny bit of coil whine but I don’t think it’ll be an issue once the side panel is on (could be my 650w psu causing that I guess)

 

[Panos]

So, finally got round to installing the strix vega64 last night and made the noob (knob!) mistake of not removing the drivers for my 380x. Turned on the pc and cue bsod’s and all manner of heartache. Finally threw the head up and reinstalled windows. Had a very basic/quick play about at 2am and the first thing I noticed was how quiet it was. Fully expected it to be louder than the 380x but it’s not even close. Did notice a tiny bit of coil whine but I don’t think it’ll be an issue once the side panel is on (could be my 650w psu causing that I guess)

Remove the backplate and see if coil whine persists.

 

[Thekwango]

Remove the backplate and see if coil whine persists.

really? how does the back plate affect the coil whine?!