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Yeah did they not add an extra layer or something because it wasn’t making full contact in the first place? By all likelihood this could fix his problem.
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The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread
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Soldato
I believe so. Or they used thicker pads, can’t remember which. I know that as soon as I changed mine to the thicker thermal grizzly pads the temp difference was huge, can’t remember exactly but it was in the 10-15 degrees range at least. And more on the hotspot. Think it was at least 20 degrees lower.
Soldato
Very interesting thanks, I did not know that. I did get my card late on in the game so perhaps also why it's been "OK" for me.
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Black screen, audio - if playing - will continue, system unresponsive, and gpu fans hit max. But it will happily stay in this state until manually power cycled.I must be lucky, I've never had any problems with my Asus Vega 64 Strix. Driver updates are always OK too. @PeegeeTips wonder what is causing your constant crashing? Your rig looks decent. X570 mobo etc. I'm on the older 470 mobo. Is your RAM stable? What PSU do you have? I had black screens and crashing and it wasn't the GPU it was actually my old PSU. Stuck in a 1200W Seasonic and rig has been fine. Perhaps the crashing is another component?
Happened on my old system too - X99 / 5820k / 16GB PC2400, and across multiple driver instalations.
Old system had a 750W Silvertsone Gold - new system has 650W Seasonic Prime Plat - and old system is now working fine using my old MSI Lightning 7970.
I ought to give it a try, but childish as it sounds I spent £550 on this card and the idea that I need to mod it to make it work reliably only makes me want to drop-kick it into a dumpster.
Soldato
Nothing childish about it. Only I knew I would eventually put a waterblock on mine it would have been going back. I’ve said this quite bit but pc enthusiasts only empower these manufacturers, this model should have been recalled when people started returning them ‘en mass’ but that’s not what happened (the returns) Instead we tweaked the cards, undervolted them etc to get them to work and the manufacturer got away with it. You say you don’t want to mod the card to get it to work reliably but you’ve already done that with the undervolt, it just so happens that mod is via software
The other option, if it’s within warranty then return it as it’s clearly faulty - which is really what we all should have done to begin with.
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That's what mine was doing before I replaced the PSU. Slowly got worse and worse.
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I also had exactly that problem recently, resolved also by changing the power supply.
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i'm doubtful it is the PSU in this case, as the same behaviour exhibits on two entirely different systems:
1. my old x99 with a 750w silverstone gold
2. my new x570 tomahawk with a 650w Seasonic Prime Platinum
and that old system continues to work fine with my old MSI Lightning 7970 card (which used a fair bit of power too!).
the vega64 was the only part carried across - because it cost a fortune and was only two years old. piece of cr@p.
1. my old x99 with a 750w silverstone gold
2. my new x570 tomahawk with a 650w Seasonic Prime Platinum
and that old system continues to work fine with my old MSI Lightning 7970 card (which used a fair bit of power too!).
the vega64 was the only part carried across - because it cost a fortune and was only two years old. piece of cr@p.
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Baffles me why you did not return it 
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it was a problem that only arose after about 18 months, and then it was an occasional problem that could have been attributed to any number of things on a 5y/o system.
it was only after two years that it became more frquent, and then continued on the new system. yay!
it was only after two years that it became more frquent, and then continued on the new system. yay!
Soldato
pretty sure there's a 3 year warranty on the strix - though good luck asus to honour it!
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is it still under warranty? a quick look suggests 3 yrs
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do you need to have registered the card to get the extended warranty?
i did check and couldn't find anything in my inbox from asus. i know, my fault.
i did check and couldn't find anything in my inbox from asus. i know, my fault.
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3yrs comes as standard, try where you bought it from and go from there
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cheers, i have already emailed asus support so will see what comes back.
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Upgraded my reference vega 64 with a morpheus 2 yesterday and two big noctua fans, It was not for the fainted hearted and took most of the day! Very pleased with the result!
Three sweaty tshirts later, I now have a quiet card with great cooling.
Three sweaty tshirts later, I now have a quiet card with great cooling.
Soldato
a work colleague also went down this route, he said he regretted doing so as it was some task lol
in the end he sold it on and got a 5700XT red devil, so kudos to you on doing it!
have you done any undervolting/overclocking?
Soldato
Mine has the same cooler. Compared to the abomination that is the reference cooler it’s night and day. The clock speeds automatically increased and stay stable during gameplay. No longer any throttling.
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No, I’ve just let it do its own thing really, on MS Flight Sim, on the setting below,ultra, something high? I’m getting temps of around 59 degrees steady, around 200w and 1442mhz clock. I might have switch set for the low power mode?
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