which vega?

[bigfoot4616]

planning on replacing my GTX970 and had initially decided on the powercolor 56 after reading on here its the one to go for out of the 56's. looking now though i see that for an extra £50 i could get the gigabyte 64.
had a quick read in the forums and some saying its not that good with cooling, some saying ok.

the sapphire 64 is preorder and i also don't want to spend over £400.
am i better of sticking with my original choice of the powercolor 56 or going with the gigabyte 64 and hope the cooling isn't an issue?
no plans to overclock it and i have a 1440 monitor at 60hz.

 

[StevieP]

What PSU do you have? Also, would the Vega 64 be bottlenecked by your CPU?

 

[Kelt]

If your system can handle it, get the 64.

 

[bigfoot4616]

PSU was replaced a while ago with a evga 750GQ so no problems there. i'm guessing both will be held back a little by my CPU, a 3570k at 4.2 but i am planning an upgrade probably to ryzen earlyish next year so that doesn't really matter.
i am edging towards spending the extra and getting the 64

 

[eeii]

The gigabyte card runs hot. 64s will throttle once they get to a certain temp which for the one I have was 85c. Which is now underwater. Its swings and roundabouts but I would spend the extra. However the vega 56 is still cracking value.

 

[old gamer]

The 56 is a pretty decent card for 1400p

 

[bigfoot4616]

the 64 is on its way to me for tomorrow.

 

[henson0115]

first thing to do once you get it is undervolt it, try 1050 on p6 and 1080 on p7 check stability and repeat

 

[bigfoot4616]

try 1050 on p6 and 1080 on p7 check stability and repeat

not got a clue what that is, think a bit of research is needed

 

[DoneADougalOnSofa]

It's easy with the Radeon software. Pop back here once you've got the beast plugged in and either myself or someone else will take you through it!
I have the Powercolor Red Devil, undervolted it and it never throttles. Cracking card.

 

[bigfoot4616]

cheers, will do. typically i'm working late all week so probably wont get chance to plug it in before the weekend.