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Who bought/is buying a Radeon RX 480?

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XFX did a good job on their custom cards this generation. The "hard swap" fans and the 3+2 year warranty are great differentiators. I'm quite pleased with my two.
 
Picked up 2 MSI 480s, noticed they are outta stock again at Memory Express. One for a new system I built for someone else and one for me to put in my backup computer. Still waiting for big Vega.
 
I got a MSI RX480 Gaming X on the way, but im really gona miss having NVENC, PowerDirector does not support VCE, and there is something equivalent to ShadowPlay for AMD using the VCE?
 
Amazon has the NITRO+ RX 480 8GB OC in stock for the retail $279. So, I cancelled my July 27th order of the non-OC version, ordered the OC version with my $50 gift card credit applied, and now I have a card arriving in 5-7 business days. Yeah me!
 
daperl said:
Amazon has the NITRO+ RX 480 8GB OC in stock for the retail $279. So, I cancelled my July 27th order of the non-OC version, ordered the OC version with my $50 gift card credit applied, and now I have a card arriving in 5-7 business days. Yeah me!
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Its worth the wait, i love my MSI gaming X 480. although im sure anything would have been a improvement on a GTX 460....... lol.
 
I'm pretty impressed with my MSI Gaming X 480. The cooler strikes the right balance between size / noise / heat disposal. No throttling out of the box. Not sure about OC capabilities...

FYI I tried the new MSI Afterburner for my reference 480's. It's missing the ability to set VRAM VDDC or disable turbo boost. So kind of useless for miners (unfortunately) but may be good for overclocking as it allows you to push past the VDDC GPU core limits in Wattman.

Hopefully they address these limits as Wattman is such a pain to use with multiple cards.
 
IEC said:
XFX did a good job on their custom cards this generation. The "hard swap" fans and the 3+2 year warranty are great differentiators. I'm quite pleased with my two.
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The XFX was my second choice to the MSI due to MSI producing less noise I may still pick one up to play with as the idea of replaceable fans would be great for resale value.
 
Madpacket said:
I'm pretty impressed with my MSI Gaming X 480. The cooler strikes the right balance between size / noise / heat disposal. No throttling out of the box. Not sure about OC capabilities...

FYI I tried the new MSI Afterburner for my reference 480's. It's missing the ability to set VRAM VDDC or disable turbo boost. So kind of useless for miners (unfortunately) but may be good for overclocking as it allows you to push past the VDDC GPU core limits in Wattman.

Hopefully they address these limits as Wattman is such a pain to use with multiple cards.
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mine will only hit 1370Mhz stable at stock voltage, have not tried upping it yet.
 
Rifter said:
Its worth the wait, i love my MSI gaming X 480. although im sure anything would have been a improvement on a GTX 460....... lol.
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Yeah, I'm hoping the RX 480 has a little more oomph than the GTX 760 I'm currently using. I'm also looking forward to the 0db under light load mode.
 
So, not that impressed with my new Sapphire Nitro, noise wise. I'm using Sapphires TriX beta program. The auto settings has the fan turned off until 50C or so it appears. It should just keep it at 500-600 rpm all the time, prevent the card getting beyond 35-40C. Overall its quieter (than the sapphire 7870 it replaced) but at full load (which it hit in BF 1 beta) it topped out at 76C at around 40%-60% fan speed on average.

Also, anyone noticed an odd sound (gears changing) from the card when manually setting the fan curve?
 
Rifter said:
not even sure what that is, does gpuZ tell me if so ill look when i get home.
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ASIC ratings are but tricky to explain. GPU-Z will give a brief explanation when you look it up. To find your ASIC rating right click on the GPU-Z title bar, and select "Read ASIC quality..."

You should get a popup with the percentage listed. My MSI 480 Gaming X has a rating of 73.6%.
 
Madpacket said:
ASIC ratings are but tricky to explain. GPU-Z will give a brief explanation when you look it up. To find your ASIC rating right click on the GPU-Z title bar, and select "Read ASIC quality..."

You should get a popup with the percentage listed. My MSI 480 Gaming X has a rating of 73.6%.
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did a quick google search, am so confused now. some people say higher is better but if ocing then lower is better, and some think its irreverent to ocing.... so confused. either way ill look it up when im home from work tonight.
 
79.5% on a MSI RX480 Gaming X

So, lets say i got figured out stable OC clocks, and i want to flash them intro bios to ged rid of OC software, there are flashing/bios edit programs already?
 
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