RX Vega Owners Thread

I have coil whine, but it's not any worse than any other GPU I've owned. Definitely not a screamer, and completely inaudible when the water temp gets high enough and my fans spin up a bit.
 
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Well I guess I can post here now. Have a Vega 64 LC coming. Looking forward to it.
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loving my WC Vega so far. Hoping to get time to work on OCing using your state thread and undervolting this vega a tad.
 
JustReason said:
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loving my WC Vega so far. Hoping to get time to work on OCing using your state thread and undervolting this vega a tad.
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I have to reconfigure my Intel system for her, since all custom made it should be fun. First I will try with 600w power supply. Have a 1000w one coming for mining rig but could use as well if needed. She will be used on the Freesync 4K monitor. Plus will try out the Vive as well. The Nano will go in the mining rig. Fun times this year has been!
 
So I went to bed last night not happy with the result of my LED backlight as it wasn't as bright as I would like as I'm only using three 3mm so I decided to work on Revision 2 this morning while I wait for my package with my accessories to install on the motherboard to arrive today.

I took a LED strip and removed the epoxy coating on the top and removed the adhesive on the rear. Cut them up to one a piece to align the LED's up with each letter of the decal. Then dremelled out the backplate so the LEDs could sit in the hole with black tape holding it in place until it is screwed back on to the waterblock.




I did install a LED for the EK logo and was going to set it as blue, but it needed more dremeling and I decided to leave it for now.


In bright or dark, no hotspots or dimmed lettering.




Finally in my PC!





Just did some valley benchmark for temps. I set my overclock at 50% power, 1702 GPU, and 1005 for HBM2. Clocks were running at 1675 (still fluctuates here and there) and memory ran fine at 1005. Temps were 36C max.

Eventually I need to do more tweaking, but for now its to mount this Samsung CF791 on the wall and clean up this damn room!
 
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ontariotl said:
So I went to bed last night not happy with the result of my LED backlight as it wasn't as bright as I would like as I'm only using three 3mm so I decided to work on Revision 2 this morning while I wait for my package with my accessories to install on the motherboard to arrive today.

I took a LED strip and removed the epoxy coating on the top and removed the adhesive on the rear. Cut them up to one a piece to align the LED's up with each letter of the decal. Then dremelled out the backplate so the LEDs could sit in the hole with black tape holding it in place until it is screwed back on to the waterblock.




I did install a LED for the EK logo and was going to set it as blue, but it needed more dremeling and I decided to leave it for now.


In bright or dark, no hotspots or dimmed lettering.




Finally in my PC!





Just did some valley benchmark for temps. I set my overclock at 50% power, 1702 GPU, and 1005 for HBM2. Clocks were running at 1675 (still fluctuates here and there) and memory ran fine at 1005. Temps were 36C max.

Eventually I need to do more tweaking, but for now its to mount this Samsung CF791 on the wall and clean up this damn room!
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Firestrike scores please! :) Looking good.
 
I started messing with WattMan, I think I got better performance.

Power Limit at 50%, Mem at 1000Mhz, fan at 1200/3800, target temp 82.

Messing with GPU frequency caused instant crashing, so I left it alone.

This gets in-game clocks around 1400 MHz, give or take. This is much better than default, which was throttling heavy to around 600 - 800 after things heated up.

In terms of performance gain, I would say it's between 10 to 15% boost, which is not bad. Sadly, it's still shy of hitting 4K60, but it got me from around 45FPS to more in the 50 - 55FPS range. So close.
 
cybereality said:
I started messing with WattMan, I think I got better performance.

Power Limit at 50%, Mem at 1000Mhz, fan at 1200/3800, target temp 82.

Messing with GPU frequency caused instant crashing, so I left it alone.

This gets in-game clocks around 1400 MHz, give or take. This is much better than default, which was throttling heavy to around 600 - 800 after things heated up.

In terms of performance gain, I would say it's between 10 to 15% boost, which is not bad. Sadly, it's still shy of hitting 4K60, but it got me from around 45FPS to more in the 50 - 55FPS range. So close.
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Did you try afterburner instead, I have noticed Wattman tends to be a bit more finicky.
 
Not sure exactly where to put the rad, but for right now it's just mounted on the reservoir bracket and I reversed the fan to suck up from below, and placed an old school 120mm grill on it to hide the ugly back sticker of the fan.

The Radeon logo is a deep red that matches the fan. Not so in the picture, but it does in person.

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Not sure exactly where to put the rad, but for right now it's just mounted on the reservoir bracket and I reversed the fan to suck up from below, and placed an old school 120mm grill on it to hide the ugly back sticker of the fan.

The Radeon logo is a deep red that matches the fan. Not so in the picture, but it does in person.

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Damn dude very clean
 
cybereality said:
I started messing with WattMan, I think I got better performance.

Power Limit at 50%, Mem at 1000Mhz, fan at 1200/3800, target temp 82.

Messing with GPU frequency caused instant crashing, so I left it alone.

This gets in-game clocks around 1400 MHz, give or take. This is much better than default, which was throttling heavy to around 600 - 800 after things heated up.

In terms of performance gain, I would say it's between 10 to 15% boost, which is not bad. Sadly, it's still shy of hitting 4K60, but it got me from around 45FPS to more in the 50 - 55FPS range. So close.
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latest drivers? I've had better luck with 15% than higher on air, been averaging in the 1500s in games.

Here's firestrike on ryzen 5 at 3800Mhz and memory at 2933. Vega at 1050 and 1100 for voltage (no idea if working) with 15% power limit.
 

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Is anyone else getting little strange pauses where your mouse locks up for say 3 seconds when you are on a website with a video link?
(I think I've narrowed it down to that???)

I didn't reformat after I went from 1080TI to Vega. Maybe I need to do so - but I was hoping otherwise with Windows 10. I've uninstalled Nvidia drivers, and have the newest Vega drivers. Nothing else seems weird so far (besides the bezel correction bug that is noted in the patch notes). Just the random occasional mouse pause when web browsing. Doesn't happen in games, doesn't happen with anything I can tell, but web browsing.
 
I had the same issue (earlier in the thread). The solution for now is to disable Hardware Acceleration in your web browser. The bug may be specific to Chrome, as I haven't seen this in Firefox yet.
 
Yeah get the same video chrome issue occasionally, rebooting clears issue. I'll try disabling HW acceleration.
 
Archaea said:
Not sure exactly where to put the rad, but for right now it's just mounted on the reservoir bracket and I reversed the fan to suck up from below, and placed an old school 120mm grill on it to hide the ugly back sticker of the fan.

The Radeon logo is a deep red that matches the fan. Not so in the picture, but it does in person.

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Triggered by the plastic on the radiator.
 
Armenius said:
Triggered by the plastic on the radiator.
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Hehe. Just waiting to pull of the protective plastic peel coating until I determine the final resting place. I think ideally the 120mm radiator would be above the card so any bubbles in the line would be in the radiator and not in the pump, but without changing CPU rads I'm not sure where I can put it.
 
So I decided to flash my Air card to an AIO bios to see if I can get better results now that my Vega 64 is cooled by the EK waterblock now. I'm hoping I can hit the speeds (1750Mhz) that the AIO Vega has and the power values. Yes power consumption is insane, but I really don't care. It's about time my province stop making so much power with these wind turbine farms that the province has to sell the electricity to outsiders at a reduced cost. I'm keeping that power here where I live thanks to Vega!

A little more testing and I can confirm with the 17.8.2 drivers I just can't hit 1750 with the AIO bios. It's not a total loss though as before with the Air bios I couldn't have the HBM2 speed more than 1005 before the speed would drop to 500-800Mhz in benchmarking or games. With the AIO bios I can have the HBM2 at 1105 without it dropping to 500 to 800 during test runs.

It looks like 1730Mhz is my ceiling. I've set my P6@1702 and P7@1732 and it seems to be ok, but need further testing. In Firestike, the highest clock I witnessed was 1729 without crashing. In games, witcher 3 hovers between 1669 to 1691, and Rise of the Tomb Raider is around 1704-1711. So each application pushes it further or less than the capped speed.

Here is my old FSultra benchmark with my Air bios.



And now with the AIO bios with the settings mentioned above.

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I am kinda bummed it wont reach 1750, but considering what the bios has done to help me I guess I can't complain. Plus the full EK wb is a lot quieter with either air or the AIO with the 120 rad/fan combo.
 
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What are temps like with the ekwb? What's the radiator setup? I have a ekwb in my cart on Amazon that is tempting me.
 
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So I decided to flash my Air card to an AIO bios to see if I can get better results now that my Vega 64 is cooled by the EK waterblock now. I'm hoping I can hit the speeds (1750Mhz) that the AIO Vega has and the power values. Yes power consumption is insane, but I really don't care. It's about time my province stop making so much power with these wind turbine farms that the province has to sell the electricity to outsiders at a reduced cost. I'm keeping that power here where I live thanks to Vega!

A little more testing and I can confirm with the 17.8.2 drivers I just can't hit 1750 with the AIO bios. It's not a total loss though as before with the Air bios I couldn't have the HBM2 speed more than 1005 before the speed would drop to 500-800Mhz in benchmarking or games. With the AIO bios I can have the HBM2 at 1105 without it dropping to 500 to 800 during test runs.

It looks like 1730Mhz is my ceiling. I've set my P6@1702 and P7@1732 and it seems to be ok, but need further testing. In Firestike, the highest clock I witnessed was 1729 without crashing. In games, witcher 3 hovers between 1669 to 1691, and Rise of the Tomb Raider is around 1704-1711. So each application pushes it further or less than the capped speed.

Here is my old FSultra benchmark with my Air bios.



And now with the AIO bios with the settings mentioned above.

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I am kinda bummed it wont reach 1750, but considering what the bios has done to help me I guess I can't complain. Plus the full EK wb is a lot quieter with either air or the AIO with the 120 rad/fan combo.
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I am gonna attempt the wattman thing this weekend on my WC AIO Vega64. When you adjust the clocks are you adjusting voltages for each step?
 
Damn, your score ontariotl is way better than mine.

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I'm having no luck OCing the GPU freq. Even modest changes crash my system. Not sure I want to bother to keep trying, may just wait for Crossfire support.
 
sabrewolf732 said:
What are temps like with the ekwb? What's the radiator setup? I have a ekwb in my cart on Amazon that is tempting me.
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I'm getting a max of 37C when running valley benchmark for 30 mins. This is with a triple and quad rad setup that is pumped into another room. Others I have read that have either a dual or triple rad get about 40 - 46C. It really likes to be water cooled.

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I am gonna attempt the wattman thing this weekend on my WC AIO Vega64. When you adjust the clocks are you adjusting voltages for each step?
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No, I leave the voltages at default or Auto which I believe is 1150 mV and 1200mV for P6 and P7 respectively. I just checked my setup and noticed when I take auto off both my P states are 1200 mV. However during my overclocking testing, I have seen 1150mV on the P6 state. No idea why it keeps changing.
See if you can get your setting like this guy did with his Vega 64 AIO

 
Main page has links for aircooled vega 64 for 700$ through newegg. I got my son one for 500 and can't believe gamers are paying 700$ for those. Watch for a flood of cheap Wolfenstein2017 and Prey keys incoming from miners online.
 
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Was able to eek out 18k with my ryzen 5 at 4Ghz. Don't think I'm going to be able to go any higher on stock cooler/600 watt power supply. T

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Main page has links for aircooled vega 64 for 700$ through newegg. I got my son one for 500 and can't believe gamers are paying 700$ for those. Watch for a flood of cheap Wolfenstein2017 and Prey keys incoming from miners online.
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I paid $600 for mine with the wolfenstein and prey keys. I feel okay about it. I'm looking forward to wolfenstein. It's faster than my 1070s and they're going for $400+.
 
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So I am now a VEGA owner. Just snagged a 56 from NE and got the shipping notification. Sucks it had to be a holiday weekend lol but I have a big poker tournament to play anyway. Any idea when anyone other then EK will have their blocks out? I just had such bad luck with the EK copper blocks I ha before and the there was the infamous nickel plating issue...
 
Swiftech is estimating Sept 15 ship date and Aquacomputer is listed as item in production with similar lead time.
 
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I paid $600 for mine with the wolfenstein and prey keys. I feel okay about it. I'm looking forward to wolfenstein. It's faster than my 1070s and they're going for $400+.
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I might have gone up to 600 if I couldn't find one for less this week.

I wanted to get him a vega card to go with his TR chip in hopes of it continuing to improve in tandem for rendering and other cpu/gpu intensive tasks. Mostly video and some audio, and now that he's looking into 4k sources I wanted to keep it fairly future proofed. I just didn't know if there would be any availability in the next few months and I wanted to finish this build before school got back in session.

He's coming from a 2600k with a 970 so it's a pretty crazy upgrade in terms of rendering times. He still can't believe how cool the screen looks when you open task manager and it takes the whole screen to display the cores.
 
Interesting read about how adding a water block to a Vega card can boost performance. Of course this is coming from a water block manufacturer, but looking at the numbers above in this thread it might be plausible. ;)
https://www.ekwb.com/blog/can-water-block-really-boost-gpu-performance/

Performance-PCS has those EKWB in stock.
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=radeon+vega

I wonder if the 10% off on Labor Day works on them? Spend over $50 get 10% off: "LABOR17-10"
http://mailchi.mp/performance-pcs/happy-labor-day-from-ppcs-coupons-new-products-2440317
 
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Would be interested in seeing the results of a RX Vega 56 that has had a full-cover water block installed, the BIOS flashed to the RX Vega 64 BIOS, and an undervolted overclock applied...!
 
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Not bad for first run at lowering voltage and upping the memory. Set the clock for GPU at 1752 and it seems to run 1735-1745 if monitoring is accurate. Doing all my OCing and undervolting tonight for awhile at least.
 
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Ok raised the top clock to 1770 (changed to 1772 for some reason) and saw consistently from the second test onward 1750-1758. Oh and forgot to mention earlier that temps never exceeded 45C ( I have an air-conditioned case set to roughly 75F so not indicative results for everyone).
 
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Are you on the WC version, JustReason ? That's a nice OC.
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Yes. And with 1180mV (down from 1200mV) 1780 or something was a no go. Maybe with stock volts ie:1200mV maybe I could hit higher, but I may wait till I break this in a bit. Just set the memory to 1000 and haven't tried much more. On my 1800X CPU I did another run on Firestrike upping my clock from 4.0 to 4.1Ghz and got 10 more points on extreme but that was not stable apparently as it quickly rebooted when trying a stress test.
 
LOL. Was running that older Kombuster with the Kmark (PhysX) test and I ran the X-score (1920x1080) And my clocks showed 1794Mhz. That was certainly unexpected.
 
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LOL. Was running that older Kombuster with the Kmark (PhysX) test and I ran the X-score (1920x1080) And my clocks showed 1794Mhz. That was certainly unexpected.
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how it does in firestrike ultra stability test? lol IF it passes that its pretty much good!
 
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