Recent content by Iceshot

Disney sucks. They are the EA of the movie world and just like EA, it's where great studio's go to die. I was disgusted when I heard the purchase of all of Fox's movie IP's was approved by the DOJ. Antitrust / Monopoly laws in the United States are a bad joke and are seldom / very selectively...

No way would I risk bricking a new $700 graphics card. If the FP64 performance can be enabled in the bios, it will be because someone modified the Radeon VII bios to unlock the extra performance. I strongly suspect the MI50 bios is far too different to work on the Radeon VII (without a ton of work).

Heads up. Big flaw in the Radeon VII bios. Updated bios issued by Asrock, but should work with all Radeon VII cards seeing as they are all the same reference cards. Read /download fix here.... https://www.techpowerup.com/252476/amd-radeon-vii-has-no-uefi-support

Well spoken. These notions were not lost on me when I purchased my Radeon VII. The only caveat I would add is AMD's margins on the Radeon VII are quite thin. Many different hardware reviewers have said given AMD's costs on the Radeon VII, they could not sell it for less than $700 without loosing...

More than a few threads discussing undervolting on the Radeon VII. From what I've seen (at this very early point) many are reporting success with a 150mv drop. A "few" have reported 220-250ish drops and safe to say hit the jackpot in the silicone lottery. So the 15-25% is a loose aggregate and...

Funny how you partially quote me while omitting my supporting context. My reasoning and opinions are well defined and plainly stated. If this.... is what you took away from what I said, it is clear any further discussion with you would simply be a waste of time.

Would not assume to say selling or keeping the Radeon VII is the right move for you. Personally, I feel at this point I'll leverage / see more value out of the Radeon VII extra memory and 1TB bandwidth than I would with a RTX 2080 and Ray Tracing and DLSS over the next 2-3 years before I upgrade...

What time zone? I assume you paid extra for prioritized shipping? I took standard ground as the card ships out of Minnesota (live 70 miles away from shipper). My card wont get here until Monday. Time Stamp on my first email (Order Submitted) was 8:24am CST.

Yes, I ordered mine off AMD.com within minutes of it being available for purchase. Got my tracking email from AMD yesterday evening. Check you AMD.com order detail emails, there is a link to check order status on AMD's website

Undervolting definitely works and just like with Vega, the Radeon VII has a lot of extra voltage pumped in that in "most" cases is not needed (silicone lottery). The extra voltage is done across the board to simply get better yields out of a die and throwaway (wa$te) less GPU's. Reports are most...

The story is, the first 10 purchases on the Radeon VII off AMD.com will have a hand written note from Lisa Su. Out of curiosity, whats the time stamp on the first email you received from AMD.com on your order?

True, but as with most things in life it's not that simple. FAR more often than not, it is a major PITA / time consuming ordeal to argue with a vendor the "legality" of their Corporate written warranty rules. Companies still frequently get away with denying a warranty because they know a...

Managed to snag one off AMD's website within minutes of it being available to purchase (stayed up all night playing the F5 game). Newegg sold out very fast (approx 5 mins after being listed in stock). I'm glad AMD decided to sell the Radeon VII directly with a limit of 1 per person. Gave the...

Sold Out...

AMD.com is a little "Cheaper" than Newegg. Shipping is Free (Newegg charges $7) and AMD's shipping is faster (Fedex ground) than Newegg's (Fedex Smartpost).