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Your Welcome. I have two FE's, both behave almost the same limited by the cooler mostly. Keep the HBM2 cool as in less than 70c and you can OC it past 1050mhz pretty easily, I can go up to 1100mhz with something like 1.1v, don't remember now. Best way to OC is keeping it as cool as possible, Undervolt and HBM memory speeds, then up the power limit. Pushing the GPU clock is almost pointless until you get the other three and then you will find your limited by the cooler. If you cannot maintain the HBM2 speed, meaning keeping those suckers cool, you will be memory limited and additional clocks gives very little to games, just adds heat so to speak. Card is very quiet at stock settings, can be quiet enough at moderate settings giving about +10% performance increase and noisy when really pushed giving about +15% boost. If you water cool it, I suspect you will be able to get 20% boost out of them on a decent card and still be quiet. Then you will hit a power wall (rather quickly I might add), power mods would then be required I would think to drive it past +20%.
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Best results is to use your usage load for adjusting the OC, HBM2 or GCN may have to do more with latency than bandwidth but probably really depends on what is being done. For games in general their is a definitely a wall if HBM2 is not increase in speed, not sure about compute loads which may also depends on what exactly is being done (as in large data sets etc.). These are great cards, stock to stock they are a little bit faster in gaming over a 1080, can be OC with a significant performance increase. I have a Vega 64 LC as well but it is in the box, I should sell it. The FE's are faster as a note, mainly because the HBM2 on the 64 LC is more limiting.
