The RX Vega 64 Owners Thread

[disi]

Can you not use the standard backplate, even as a stop-gap?

They did also send the original air cooler, need to check that

Tada:

 

[Chewie]

Hi Guys,

Some news on my end with my Liquid Edition, which I'm afraid are not good. While playing more and benching less over the last two days I had a lot of black screen/no signal/crash issues. Benchmarks have never been a problem but games definitely trigger the problem almost immediately (Forza Horizon 3 is a good example, always occurs after 5-10mins).

Since I have quite a "heavy" rig I started to wonder if it wasn't my Seasonic Prime 850W which is struggling to feed the card while under load so I've ordered a Prime 1000W to confirm (arriving tomorrow).

Note that undervolting the card made no difference, actually in game it seems to make things even worse.

I'm really hoping it's the PSU as I don't want to have to send the card back and wait for a replacement to be available

If you have any other suggestions, I'm all ears

Update on my story and sad news I'm afraid, the cards appears to be faulty

I've tried everything I could think of, including replacing my Seasonic Prime 850W by a new Prime 1000W and I get the exact same results. Impossible to play games due to black screen crash.

I've contacted OC UK to trigger the RMA process and ideally I would just like a replacement (bought less than 14 days ago) but I'm pretty sure they don't have any in stock at the moment

 

[LtMatt]

Update on my story and sad news I'm afraid, the cards appears to be faulty

I've tried everything I could think of, including replacing my Seasonic Prime 850W by a new Prime 1000W and I get the exact same results. Impossible to play games due to black screen crash.

I've contacted OC UK to trigger the RMA process and ideally I would just like a replacement (bought less than 14 days ago) but I'm pretty sure they don't have any in stock at the moment

Sounds faulty, my 1st card showed exactly the same behaviour.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Update on my story and sad news I'm afraid, the cards appears to be faulty

I've tried everything I could think of, including replacing my Seasonic Prime 850W by a new Prime 1000W and I get the exact same results. Impossible to play games due to black screen crash.

I've contacted OC UK to trigger the RMA process and ideally I would just like a replacement (bought less than 14 days ago) but I'm pretty sure they don't have any in stock at the moment

'another one bites the dust, another one bites the dust, and another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust!'

 

[nashathedog]

Update on my story and sad news I'm afraid, the cards appears to be faulty

I've tried everything I could think of, including replacing my Seasonic Prime 850W by a new Prime 1000W and I get the exact same results. Impossible to play games due to black screen crash.

I've contacted OC UK to trigger the RMA process and ideally I would just like a replacement (bought less than 14 days ago) but I'm pretty sure they don't have any in stock at the moment

Sounds faulty, my 1st card showed exactly the same behaviour.

Same here, In a way I'm glad as £780 was too much anyway, I got the 'Your refund is being processed' e-mail today so I'm keeping an eye out for either a Strix or a Tri-x when they release, I considered not buying another but this GTX 1060 isn't cutting it at 3440x1440.

 

[nashathedog]

'another one bites the dust, another one bites the dust, and another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust!'

You missed one

 

[LoadsaMoney]

You missed one

Dropping like flies!

 

[JediFragger]

Dropping like flies!

For our current sample, I'd say it was a bit concerning. Hopefully it's just down to early production issues.

 

[TonyTurbo78]

Well guys, Vega64 is now under water with my EK goodies. Spent the day today taking the old loop apart, draining etc. Redid all the PETG tubing, was only able to keep just the one pipe from the existing custom loop, but nice to put in new anyway. Been leak testing for about 5 hours downstairs, just brought it upstairs were I'm happy to say it all seems to be working excellent, temps are amazing

Took some pics of the PCB, Vega die, the waterblocks and some pics of the build for curiosity if anyone wants to know what it looks like under the hood, and the almost finished article. Just need to put the back cover on the case, and do some small colour coding, but fairly happy with it. Was going to put all 6 Vardars in push/pull but think i'll only need 4. I've a spare one in the base of the case that I can always move to the rad to pull air through if I need more cooling. At 21c idle on desktop and 37c running benchmarks, I don't think it will be needed though.

Spoiler: A collection of closeups, PCB, die, blocks etc

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Very nice Tony

 

[Nemesis.ie]

Very nice and it looks like one of the top-spec, level, full epoxy chips you have there too.

 

[AmateurExpert]

Thanks Tony - looks great!

 

[shankly1985]

Well guys, Vega64 is now under water with my EK goodies. Spent the day today taking the old loop apart, draining etc. Redid all the PETG tubing, was only able to keep just the one pipe from the existing custom loop, but nice to put in new anyway. Been leak testing for about 5 hours downstairs, just brought it upstairs were I'm happy to say it all seems to be working excellent, temps are amazing

Took some pics of the PCB, Vega die, the waterblocks and some pics of the build for curiosity if anyone wants to know what it looks like under the hood, and the almost finished article. Just need to put the back cover on the case, and do some small colour coding, but fairly happy with it. Was going to put all 6 Vardars in push/pull but think i'll only need 4. I've a spare one in the base of the case that I can always move to the rad to pull air through if I need more cooling. At 21c idle on desktop and 37c running benchmarks, I don't think it will be needed though.

Spoiler: A collection of closeups, PCB, die, blocks etc

Very nice clean build. Wish I had the balls to fully water cool a pc. Just can't bring myself to trying it.

 

[TonyTurbo78]

thanks guys.

@ Shanks.....It's a nice little project if you ever decide to give it a go.

20 minute temp test, just pausing at a Firestrike scene. Only dropped core voltage to 1080mv for a quick test, and a +1% frequency overclock. 34c seems a little low, I wonder if the temp sensors are off??

 

[schneeb]

damn that is one nice block, think i'm going to pull the trigger as this blower is driving me mad!

whats up with all these AIOs dying? ocuk only had 30 odd iirc so that is going on for 20% failures? crazy.

 

[old gamer]

Looks great tony, wish I could do it but I just know I would eff it up leak and blow my PC up

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

Well guys, Vega64 is now under water with my EK goodies. Spent the day today taking the old loop apart, draining etc. Redid all the PETG tubing, was only able to keep just the one pipe from the existing custom loop, but nice to put in new anyway. Been leak testing for about 5 hours downstairs, just brought it upstairs were I'm happy to say it all seems to be working excellent, temps are amazing

Took some pics of the PCB, Vega die, the waterblocks and some pics of the build for curiosity if anyone wants to know what it looks like under the hood, and the almost finished article. Just need to put the back cover on the case, and do some small colour coding, but fairly happy with it. Was going to put all 6 Vardars in push/pull but think i'll only need 4. I've a spare one in the base of the case that I can always move to the rad to pull air through if I need more cooling. At 21c idle on desktop and 37c running benchmarks, I don't think it will be needed though.

Spoiler: A collection of closeups, PCB, die, blocks etc

That's a really nice build, the hard tubing build look nice as everything looks very deliberate. Pity the CPU isn't in the loop too.
The Vega is quite a 'sexy' PCB when you strip it down and get rid of the fugly (IMO) reference cooler, lots of 'spare' space and the GPU core and HBM2 looks nice.

Very nice clean build. Wish I had the balls to fully water cool a pc. Just can't bring myself to trying it.

You'd be fine. If I can manage it you certainly could. Hard tubing might be trickier, I've not tried that, I can't plan far enough in advance for that.
I would like to WC again. I quite like building it, but the thought of having to drain the system any time I want to replace anything always puts me off, although my builds have been much more stable of late.

 

[TonyTurbo78]

That's a really nice build, the hard tubing build look nice as everything looks very deliberate. Pity the CPU isn't in the loop too.

yep waiting on next build to do the CPU loop Googaly, probs be a Zen+ build and want to go for a nice UV look next time.

Was definitely thinking about it this time around though, but this will do for now. Just wanted to get this Vega 64 sorted ASAP, it's no fun with that ref blower.

 

[Gregster]

Well guys, Vega64 is now under water with my EK goodies. Spent the day today taking the old loop apart, draining etc. Redid all the PETG tubing, was only able to keep just the one pipe from the existing custom loop, but nice to put in new anyway. Been leak testing for about 5 hours downstairs, just brought it upstairs were I'm happy to say it all seems to be working excellent, temps are amazing

Took some pics of the PCB, Vega die, the waterblocks and some pics of the build for curiosity if anyone wants to know what it looks like under the hood, and the almost finished article. Just need to put the back cover on the case, and do some small colour coding, but fairly happy with it. Was going to put all 6 Vardars in push/pull but think i'll only need 4. I've a spare one in the base of the case that I can always move to the rad to pull air through if I need more cooling. At 21c idle on desktop and 37c running benchmarks, I don't think it will be needed though.

Spoiler: A collection of closeups, PCB, die, blocks etc

Awesome build bud. Looks fantastic

 

[Chewie]

Well guys, Vega64 is now under water with my EK goodies. Spent the day today taking the old loop apart, draining etc. Redid all the PETG tubing, was only able to keep just the one pipe from the existing custom loop, but nice to put in new anyway. Been leak testing for about 5 hours downstairs, just brought it upstairs were I'm happy to say it all seems to be working excellent, temps are amazing

Took some pics of the PCB, Vega die, the waterblocks and some pics of the build for curiosity if anyone wants to know what it looks like under the hood, and the almost finished article. Just need to put the back cover on the case, and do some small colour coding, but fairly happy with it. Was going to put all 6 Vardars in push/pull but think i'll only need 4. I've a spare one in the base of the case that I can always move to the rad to pull air through if I need more cooling. At 21c idle on desktop and 37c running benchmarks, I don't think it will be needed though.

Spoiler: A collection of closeups, PCB, die, blocks etc

Very nice build Tony!

I am gutted indeed regarding my Vega Liquid Edition, was very happy with it initially and coming from a Fury Pro it was making such a huge difference for me playing my games (playing in 1440p)