Fantastic price on R9 Fury (Newegg)

Lupine said:
Well, I bit. Been holding onto my pair of 270s too long. Gave myself an out, in case I get buyer's remorse, since I have a premier account (free return shipping, no restock).
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You won't regret it it's a great card. I've had the original Sapphire Fury Pro for over 12 months now and it's awesome. The only thing is it doesn't overclock for crap. Not worth the hassle.

To get the best out out of it set the power limit to -10, Target temp to 70 and max fan 100%. Runs brilliantly and is very quiet. The Sapphire cooler can easily handle this with no reduction in performance.

Enjoy!
 
The Mac said:
why -10 power?
i always crank mine up to +50...
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I posted in September last year re buying an Asus or Sapphire Card. This was a response I got from Crisler a Sapphire employee;

"..It's not so much using less power as giving less power potential.

Furmark is one of the worst as it will push everything on the card to the upper limits including the power draw. The setting for the Power Limit in the drivers will let you lower this potential and thus reduce the power drawn under those kinds of loads.

In truth during gaming the actual power drawn will change very little as the card just does not get pushed to draw to the limit of power.

The settings are fairly straight forward and easy to manipulate. I personally find that I like to setup the Tri-X for pretty much everyone at a Power Limit of -10%, Target Temp of 70C and Max Fan of 100%.

As I stated I have gone lower with my personal card, down to 60C with target temp and had no issues but I like to suggest people be conservative in order to make sure they stay stable. This will ensure cool, quiet and reliable operation..."

Obviously the tri-x cooler is a beast and can easily cool and stay very quiet at those settings without any detriment to performance. I tried a lot of benchmarks before I made the changes and can confirm there was no difference within a 1% margin of error so I thought what the hell I'd rather have a cooler and quieter card if it won't overclock. Simples.
 
:cry: Now I wished that I waited on the XFX Radeon R9 390x 8gb from newegg. It was priced at $279.00 with a $30.00 rebate. Which brought the price to $249.00. I could've had a Radeon R9 Fury Pro. :(
 
Arrived and installed today. Its almost as long as my R9 270s end to end lol. Been awhile since I had a full size card in this box. :lol:
 
Pr3tty F1y said:
Thanks for posting. Picked it up for $285.98 shipped.

Looking forward to replacing my aging 6950 2gb and finally trying out Doom and GTA V.

However, as crazy as it is, I'm assuming my 2011-era i5 2500k @ 4.4gz and 8gb of DDR3 will probably still hold up just fine (as long as the R9 Fury X doesn't blow my 2011-era power supply). Just a shame we haven't seen such big gains in CPU performance.
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LordHawking have exactly the CPU config except he has 32gb ram paired with Fury for 1 year or more so ask him some tips and tricks...Enjoy your card!
 
Played first game on the new card today ... Civ5. About 30min in, screens blanked out. Figured the system had crashed, but still no video on reboot. Was able to remote into the box w/o issue. Uninstalled latest cat drivers, and issue persists. Bad card?
 
Lupine said:
Played first game on the new card today ... Civ5. About 30min in, screens blanked out. Figured the system had crashed, but still no video on reboot. Was able to remote into the box w/o issue. Uninstalled latest cat drivers, and issue persists. Bad card?
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wow, that sucks.

double check monitor cables, make sure everything is in tight. re-seat GPU. let system idle overnight and see if it occurs during idle as well.

RMA time most likely :(
 
Nunz said:
wow, that sucks.

double check monitor cables, make sure everything is in tight. re-seat GPU. let system idle overnight and see if it occurs during idle as well.

RMA time most likely :(
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ShaidarHaran said:
Check GPU cooler seating as well. I once got an X800XL from MSI that shipped with the cooler largely detached.
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Everything looks fine. Not an idle issue, as the screen is blank 100% of the time, even during bootup. Pulled the card, replacing with one of the old 270 cards, and everything is running as it should. Will see if the Fury will fit in one of the kiddo rigs, just as a double-check, but doubt it will be functional. Wish there was a way to troubleshoot the actual card. :(
 
Lupine said:
Everything looks fine. Not an idle issue, as the screen is blank 100% of the time, even during bootup. Pulled the card, replacing with one of the old 270 cards, and everything is running as it should. Will see if the Fury will fit in one of the kiddo rigs, just as a double-check, but doubt it will be functional. Wish there was a way to troubleshoot the actual card. :(
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I've not super taxed mine, but I've thrown it through the Unigine Heaven benchmark, Paris Unreal Demo (UE4), and Lucid Arch Dream (another UE4) Demo along with Crysis (2007) vanilla maxed and nothing like what you've described happened.

However, I'm an emulator guy and the only reproducible crash I have is using Dolphin's (GameCube/Wii emulator) OGL driver. D3D11 driver is fine, but OGL driver always crashes out with latest catalyst.
 
Pr3tty F1y said:
I've not super taxed mine, but I've thrown it through the Unigine Heaven benchmark, Paris Unreal Demo (UE4), and Lucid Arch Dream (another UE4) Demo along with Crysis (2007) vanilla maxed and nothing like what you've described happened.

However, I'm an emulator guy and the only reproducible crash I have is using Dolphin's (GameCube/Wii emulator) OGL driver. D3D11 driver is fine, but OGL driver always crashes out with latest catalyst.
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Yeah, this isn't a driver thing. The card, at least the outputs, is just dead. :(

This is unusual, right? My PSU (see sig) should be more than up for the task, and Civ5 with high settings shouldn't be that high a load anyway. There was no noise, no pops, just monitors going to sleep without warning.

Went ahead and set up the RMA with Newegg, for a replacement, but am wary now.
 
Wasnt there a known black screen issue with AMD cards a couple drivers ago that still persists?

I remember reading about it on here and I think Treeck had issues with it as well :sherlock:
 
Lupine said:
Yeah, this isn't a driver thing. The card, at least the outputs, is just dead. :(

This is unusual, right? My PSU (see sig) should be more than up for the task, and Civ5 with high settings shouldn't be that high a load anyway. There was no noise, no pops, just monitors going to sleep without warning.

Went ahead and set up the RMA with Newegg, for a replacement, but am wary now.
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I've had my card for over 12 months and had absolutely no issues whatsoever. What monitor do you use and what input? I had a BenQ monitor that would not display if you used the displayport. I changed cables and everything but no output whatsoever. If I used HDMI it was fine which is what I did until I replaced it with my current monitor.

The strange thing was the computer would start but with no screen output I thought it had hung and initially this made me think it was a computer issue. BenQ finally admitted it was a known issue!

If you want to test the card put it into one of your kids machines and if it still exhibits the same behaviour you know it's a card issue. Also did you completely uninstall your previous drives using DDU. This gets rid of all the crap that builds up and gives you a better chance of a clean install.
 
This is a funny situation because most don't count that the monitor may have a "bug" hence he already initiated the RMA with newegg very quickly...
This is where console players slap PC fans ... :lol:
The eternall bizzarity of PC enviroment ... :D
If it is the monitor i will laugh big time ... One component may fire a chain of reactions for the need of other components to be replaced ... And also the troubleshooting, nerves, sending back and forth the packages and so on... I really hope Lupine will read your message before sending the card physically as he may cancel the RMA and actually consider the monitor may be the problem...
I remember my 2900x bought at launch for full price for DX10 and the card Killed the Thermatake 450Watt psu in a couple of months..The funny thing was when the PSU died it had less than a week until the warranty was out...My dad teased me how lucky i am with warranties.Components died weeks or days before the warranty wears off..

Later edit: OMG
Suppose this your card
http://www.sapphiretech.com/productdetial.asp?pid=186E1407-85D2-49A4-A7BD-D6D8727F67F1&lang=eng

LordHawkwind ..... now i checked...The card has no DVI output and my my monitor Eizo FS2434 has no DisplayPort support ... talking about the chain of reactions :))
The video outputs are 1x DVI-D and 2xHDMI
 
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Hahaha
HDMI connection has another kind of adventure ....

"I'd say DVI or VGA, HDMI usuallyy over saturates colours and usually needs better quality leads to get the same results a cheap DVI or VGA lead will give. I have 3 monitors as my display and running all 3 side by side and switching leads on each monitor I get the same results. I have tried all 3 hd7970's in my system and they all do the same, I have even tried multiple leads and even the high end HDMI leads I have which cost me £40 (reduced from £80) and are 1.4+ leads, barely match my £3 VGA and DVI leads (I have my display now connected to 3 DVI, 1 by mini display port adapter). For an all in one HDMI is handy but for an ultra gaming rig you will likely have a separate sound system anyway. In order of preference I go DVI, VGA, Component, HDMI."

A reply to this post:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1775127/dvi-vga-hdmi-ultra-gaming.html
 
badsykes said:
Hahaha
HDMI connection has another kind of adventure ....

"I'd say DVI or VGA, HDMI usuallyy over saturates colours and usually needs better quality leads to get the same results a cheap DVI or VGA lead will give. I have 3 monitors as my display and running all 3 side by side and switching leads on each monitor I get the same results. I have tried all 3 hd7970's in my system and they all do the same, I have even tried multiple leads and even the high end HDMI leads I have which cost me £40 (reduced from £80) and are 1.4+ leads, barely match my £3 VGA and DVI leads (I have my display now connected to 3 DVI, 1 by mini display port adapter). For an all in one HDMI is handy but for an ultra gaming rig you will likely have a separate sound system anyway. In order of preference I go DVI, VGA, Component, HDMI."

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http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1775127/dvi-vga-hdmi-ultra-gaming.html
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Badsykes that quote is 3 years old and VGA will only do 1920x1080 as well as being an analogue signal. Most high end monitors don't include them anymore. Also DVI comes in two distinct forms, DVI-I which only does 1920x1080 and DVI-D which goes to 2560x1440. IIRC DVI-D won't do 4K so another reason monitor manufacturers are beginning to drop it. Also HDMI is HDCP compliant whereas DVI isn't.

If you need to there are a lot of cheap dongles you can buy for HDMI to DVI so that's not really an issue. Most people would agree that there is little graphical difference between HDMI and DVI and a lot will depend on personal preference and connectors available. I currently use DisplayPort for my connection because it's the only way I get freesync although AMD are working on freesync with HDMI.
 
Have never used HDMI for myself.THe only time when i used HDMI was when my dad connected the laptop to the smart tv.I already have hdmi cable actually from the 6950.
Makes sense...They promoted Fury line as very high end so no wonder it lacks the DVI completely...They consider if you buy fury you already have high end monitor.Funny that MSI with their gtx 980 didn't thought so.On the other hand it seems that reference rx480 is also lacking dvi so is AMD trend for DVI discontinuation.The 3rd party did put DVI on rx480...Subtetly they want to promote the Freesync or move users away from DVI that doesn't support Freesync...In this way they may force users to upgrade their monitor too....
 
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badsykes said:
Have never used HDMI for myself.THe only time when i used HDMI was when my dad connected the laptop to the smart tv.I already have hdmi cable actually from the 6950.
Makes sense...They promoted Fury line as very high end so no wonder it lacks the DVI completely...They consider if you buy fury you already have high end monitor.Funny that MSI with their gtx 980 didn't thought so.On the other hand it seems that reference rx480 is also lacking dvi so is AMD trend for DVI discontinuation.The 3rd party did put DVI on rx480...Subtetly they want to promote the Freesync or move users away from DVI that doesn't support Freesync...In this way they may force users to upgrade their monitor too....
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I just think that AMD regard DVI as "old technology" and therefore not worth supporting now that HDMI and DisplayPort are both mainstream connections. It also reduces the need to support three different outputs and hence lower the cost.
 
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