The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

y3Lo · 21 Dec 2018 at 10:55

Simon D said:
How good is your air flow through the case, it will need to be good as the Vega will be pushing out lot of heat into the case?

You can check by taking of the side panel and see if the temps of your card/CPU comes down.

Your NZXT Kraken X52 AIO cooler, location roof or front?

Any other fans?

I think air flow is pretty good... 2 front mounted fans, one rear, AIO had to be mounted on roof.

Been monitoring temps last night and CPU barely went above 50 , so I don't know what was going on the other night when they hit 70..

Definitely going to plan a new case build in new year. Probably R6 and front mount the AIO.

Simon D · 21 Dec 2018 at 11:33

y3Lo said:
I think air flow is pretty good... 2 front mounted fans, one rear, AIO had to be mounted on roof.

Been monitoring temps last night and CPU barely went above 50 , so I don't know what was going on the other night when they hit 70..

Definitely going to plan a new case build in new year. Probably R6 and front mount the AIO.

You should have good air flow with all these fans in your case.

Maybe it was a software cooling fan profile problem that caused CPU to hit 70degC

Are your case/AIO fans linked to any software that controls them?

y3Lo · 21 Dec 2018 at 11:39

Simon D said:
You should have good air flow with all these fans in your case.

Maybe it was a software cooling fan profile problem that caused CPU to hit 70degC

Are your case/AIO fans linked to any software that controls them?

AIO fans are controlled by CAM software, have a custom profile setup for them...

Simon D · 21 Dec 2018 at 12:17

y3Lo said:
AIO fans are controlled by CAM software, have a custom profile setup for them...

How are the case fans controlled is it by the motherboard?

ALXAndy · 21 Dec 2018 at 14:26

Do I have to load and apply my Wattman profile every time I load Windows?

I've finally got my card running at 1600 in game (took a lot of buggering around, believe me, it wanted to run at 1100 all the time !) just wondering if I need to load up the profile all of the time, or can you get it to auto apply it?

Thekwango · 21 Dec 2018 at 14:33

ALXAndy said:
Do I have to load and apply my Wattman profile every time I load Windows?

I've finally got my card running at 1600 in game (took a lot of buggering around, believe me, it wanted to run at 1100 all the time !) just wondering if I need to load up the profile all of the time, or can you get it to auto apply it?

it should auto apply....but if your wattman is anything like mine it will occasionally 'forget' - i've tried some of the suggested fixes (turning off fast boot) which did help but i still randomly on switch on had to load my profile. msi afterburner has a button to 'load profiles' on windows start up which seems to work for me (as long as afterburner is set to load with windows)

Illuminist · 21 Dec 2018 at 19:17

I totally forgot that i originally was on the 56 thread ROH, so here after a long time is me joining the 64 !

Kaapstad · 22 Dec 2018 at 15:28

Illuminist said:
I totally forgot that i originally was on the 56 thread ROH, so here after a long time is me joining the 64 !

Which card do you have there please, I have put you on TROH as Reference Air.

The Roll of Honour.

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To get on the Roll of Honour all you have to do is post a pic with your user name on it of your Vega 64.

Illuminist · 22 Dec 2018 at 15:34

Kaapstad said:
Which card do you have there please.

Oh sorry Kaapstad, sapphire 64 reference, obviously with an ek fc water block theres no way of knowing whats underneath, my bad..
And thank you

Kaapstad · 22 Dec 2018 at 15:35

Illuminist said:
Oh sorry Kaapstad, sapphire 64 reference, obviously with an ek fc water block theres no way of knowing whats underneath, my bad..
And thank you

Thanks.

ALXAndy · 22 Dec 2018 at 15:36

OK so now my card is boosting to mid 1500s without me continually having to bugger with it. Cool beans

TrixX · 22 Dec 2018 at 16:32

ALXAndy said:
OK so now my card is boosting to mid 1500s without me continually having to bugger with it. Cool beans

From testing I can see 1600MHz actual boost under load in Superposition with Air cooling limits.

Core
P6 - 1702MHz 1000mV (if card is capable drop to 950mV)
P7 - 1750MHz 1055mV

HBM2
P3 - 1050MHz 950mV (adjust P3 MHz higher or lower depending on your cards abilities)

Settings should boost to core 1595MHz at 100% load, or higher as load decreases.

Disable all other's for this profile (intended for gaming). Should hit ~230W according to Afterburner which is under stock 240W power limit. Haven't found a game that's as challenging to GPU power draw so far. Though obviously mileage may vary. Set fan speeds to suit ones needs.

nlyh · 22 Dec 2018 at 16:51

@Kaapstad

Please could you add me to the Roll of Honour? Added couple of pictures as per https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/32368893/

pieman109 · 22 Dec 2018 at 16:52

ALXAndy said:
OK so now my card is boosting to mid 1500s without me continually having to bugger with it. Cool beans

Have you set the p7 frequency to 1697mhz? If you haven't, I'd try it. my Sapphire would be faffing around 1550mhz, until I raised the P7 state frequency to 1697 and voila, it now runs solid at 1630mhz + or - 15mhz

Illuminist · 22 Dec 2018 at 17:27

pieman109 said:
Have you set the p7 frequency to 1697mhz? If you haven't, I'd try it. my Sapphire would be faffing around 1550mhz, until I raised the P7 state frequency to 1697 and voila, it now runs solid at 1630mhz + or - 15mhz

Could some one with a Lc bios please help me, either A: My card is just a bit of potato or B: I use the wrong LC bios but..

When i use a Lc bios (i am watercooled ek-fc custom- temps at 50.c max) it crashes, also when on a 64 bios (maybe i could do with someones help to find the best one) and i set the p7 to 1697 as mentioned above ... it crashes.

If someone kind could help me so I can run this max that i can considering i spent so much on cooling it, that would be very christmassy and kind.

TrixX · 22 Dec 2018 at 17:39

Illuminist said:
Could some one with a Lc bios please help me, either A: My card is just a bit of potato or B: I use the wrong LC bios but..

When i use a Lc bios (i am watercooled ek-fc custom- temps at 50.c max) it crashes, also when on a 64 bios (maybe i could do with someones help to find the best one) and i set the p7 to 1697 as mentioned above ... it crashes.

If someone kind could help me so I can run this max that i can considering i spent so much on cooling it, that would be very christmassy and kind.

Try the latest 64 BIOS rather than the LC BIOS then. Seems like only some cards like the LC BIOS, mine being one of them, however if I use the stock 64 BIOS for my card or one of the new ones, it craps out hard. Sounds like your card is a 64 BIOS card which will likely respond to the latest 64 BIOS better than the LC.

Could also be your card doesn't like high frequencies. Mine doesn't like anything above 1760MHz if I set it to that. I know it can run as high as 1800, but if I set 1800 it crashes instantly.

Illuminist · 22 Dec 2018 at 17:43

TrixX said:
Try the latest 64 BIOS rather than the LC BIOS then. Seems like only some cards like the LC BIOS, mine being one of them, however if I use the stock 64 BIOS for my card or one of the new ones, it craps out hard. Sounds like your card is a 64 BIOS card which will likely respond to the latest 64 BIOS better than the LC.

Could also be your card doesn't like high frequencies. Mine doesn't like anything above 1760MHz if I set it to that. I know it can run as high as 1800, but if I set 1800 it crashes instantly.

So the latest reference bios or someother one?

I had a reference 56 , bought from here last september and that one was amazing, i flashed it to the lc bios and it would happily run at 1750 but obviously was too hot to do so, this is why i waterblocked this 64 but it wont perform anywhere near as well.
Which LC bios should i use precisely, which works for you? (do you have a reference 64?)
if not, which 64 bios should I use , from your experience as the best one?

flea.rider · 22 Dec 2018 at 17:46

Illuminist said:
So the latest reference bios or someother one?

I had a reference 56 , bought from here last september and that one was amazing, i flashed it to the lc bios and it would happily run at 1750 but obviously was too hot to do so, this is why i waterblocked this 64 but it wont perform anywhere near as well.
Which LC bios should i use precisely, which works for you? (do you have a reference 64?)
if not, which 64 bios should I use , from your experience as the best one?

what are your temps on the 64 at what max your getting ? and what paste are you using ?

Illuminist · 22 Dec 2018 at 18:23

flea.rider said:
what are your temps on the 64 at what max your getting ? and what paste are you using ?

Hey,
So I run it at 1632 and it gets about 1590-1600mhz at probably 55.C max undervolted and hbm 1050mhz and 1000mv , i've tried different undervolts of 1050 , 1100, or 1070, 1120 but still cannot get the core to OC when set to 1697 or 1675 ...
I use thermal grizzly kyronaut

TrixX · 22 Dec 2018 at 18:34

Illuminist said:
So the latest reference bios or someother one?

I had a reference 56 , bought from here last september and that one was amazing, i flashed it to the lc bios and it would happily run at 1750 but obviously was too hot to do so, this is why i waterblocked this 64 but it wont perform anywhere near as well.
Which LC bios should i use precisely, which works for you? (do you have a reference 64?)
if not, which 64 bios should I use , from your experience as the best one?

I have a reference V64 (HIS) and use the 8774 BIOS. Again it works for me, but I've noticed that the majority of V64 ref cards don't like the LC BIOS, so in some ways I was lucky as I was waterblocking anyway, in others had I stayed with stock BIOS I would have been lamenting a lemon as it only performed ok if the fan was on max.

On Techpowerup there's an 8892 BIOS in the unverified BIOS section. It may suit your needs. It may not. Not sure if the LC BIOS will fix the core setting issue. I know I can set to 1750MHz and 1055mV will hit ~1595MHz under load in Superposition though.

Only reason I see for LC BIOS is instability with stock BIOS or a desire to hit 1250mV on Core