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Wondering How To Get A Job As A Gaming Scientist? Ask Richard Huddy from AMD!

RichardHuddy said:
Oh my! Such scepticism!

Well... I guess we could do a test of some sort...

How about you ask AMDMatt? You might have noticed that he's listed as a friend of mine here...

Or I guess you could tell me a 4 digit number, then I could write it down on a piece of paper and include it in a selfie?

Or I suppose I could ask for the "Rep" tag. But the maverick in me likes not bothering about it...
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How about a 4 letter word? :D
 
Well seeing as Richard Huddy is here why don't I ask the obvious. When are amd going to get the thumb out and design reference coolers that work quietly and efficiently?

We've had essentially the same type of whiney cooler for years now and its got beyond a joke, people have been complaining about the coolers since the x1800 series yet little if anything seems to have been done to address this. Its like the cooler is an afterthought and just gets bunged on the card without proper testing. Its seriously like the same recycled heatsink over and over and clearly isn't upto the task.

6990 was meant to run cool and quiet (according to amd's own promo video with the most vaunted phase changing TIM), sounded like a jet engine.

7990 was meant to run cool and quiet, review samples did but retail boards for the most part mysteriously behaved almost nothing lik the review samples. Routinely hitting 90c+ and sounding like a jet engine when most reviews claimed 65-70 c load temps with quiet operation. I've heard of cherry picking review samples but that was ridiculous.

And I've just had to send back a 295x2 because it was thermally throttling, and I could be upto 28 days without a card as it has to be returned to sapphire. This is the second time this year I've had to endure not having a gpu when my 7990 earlier in the year was routinely hitting over 100c and had to go back to asus. So potentially 8 weeks plus because 2 amd "flagship" cards can't do what they're meant to.
 
Orangey said:
How the hell are you throttling a liquid cooled board.
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Quite simply the cooler isn't upto it, on my card at least. Tried multiple installations and orientations and it still throttles in eyefinity mode in games like bf4, sniper elite 3 etc. I had the rad directly behind a 140mm intake on the front of my case and still it throttled, ocuk tested it and found it to be faulty so its been sent back to sapphire. Have a look in the 295 thread. Now upto 28 working days to wait with no games :(
 
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Ayahuasca said:
You're not the only one to experience throttling on them either Gerard.
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Yup, I'm at a loss as to how this is meant to be a "4k" card for games like crysis 3 when its throttling at a lesser res (5760x1080) on much less demanding games. Maybe I just got a lemon but as you say others are getting the same thing.
 
If a gpu is faulty then it won't matter if it's water cooled or air.
A friend of mine owns a 295x and his never passes 65c he games at 1440p with a 1080p also connected.
 
shankly1985 said:
If a gpu is faulty then it won't matter if it's water cooled or air.
A friend of mine owns a 295x and his never passes 65c he games at 1440p with a 1080p also connected.
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But is it technically faulty or were the gpu's used on it just too hot for the aio to handle? Just have to look at the old 7990 thread to see loads of people having to mess with bios and voltages to get those cards running under 90c yet reviewers seemed to all have cards that ran in the 65-70c region. Musta been an assload of faulty 7990's for that to occur, or more likely that's just how most of the retail boards ran and from looking around online it certainly seemed to be the case. I'm undecided currently about the 295x2 but im guessing its likely more of the same. Anyway should get this back on track.

:)
 
The heat load from two full fat Hawaii cores on a single 120mm radiator is a big ask, I'm actually impressed they get the temps they do. In future I'd like to see something either modular or of the Asus Poseidon design, with a full on air cooler and some g1/4 ports for easy custom loop drop in.
 
So the questions (and there were very few of them) that were answered weren't actually really technical at all like Matt suggested at the start of the thread...

The answer was basically a long winded "here's our super high level / no-details plan about APIs going into the future".

Where's the interesting technical stuff about linux and hlsl compatibility? How about stuff about low level API and supporting architecture changes etc.

Again I thought this was supposed to be an in-depth technical talk with concrete answers for some issues. But I guess if the last 12 months has taught us anything it's that AMD marketing is as vague as possible with no clear answers anywhere.
 
Ask him when it is scheduled to come out of BETA, or do they plan to keep it there indefinitely so that they have an excuse for when inevitable low level bugs occur and so that they can continue to refuse other vendors like Intel access on the ground that it's not finished.
 
Morning fellow enthusiasts. The third installment of the Huddy videos is ready, this time it's totally trivial. :)

While we’d like to think that the OcUK Forum was full to the brim with questions analysing the quantum gravitational effects of electron movement inside a Radeon graphics card – we got more questions about Richard’s right to be bald and a Chief Gaming Scientist at the same time. In our next session, we go in pursuit of the trivial.
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http://www.kitguru.net/site-news/an...tally-trival-responses-to-ocuk-forum-members/
 
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