Vega owners club

[laitauriz]

Thanks for the answers. Do you have any advices guys for repasting my card ? ( vega 64 nitro+ ), and maybe redo the pads? I'm totally noob about this. I just saw one video online. What paste and pads do you recommend?

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Thanks for the answers. Do you have any advices guys for repasting my card ? ( vega 64 nitro+ ), and maybe redo the pads? I'm totally noob about this. I just saw one video online. What paste and pads do you recommend?

Your going to need to tell us exactly what card you have for anyone to have a chance helping you.

Dohh, sorry I am off to get more coffee .

 

[redatak]

Thanks for the answers. Do you have any advices guys for repasting my card ? ( vega 64 nitro+ ), and maybe redo the pads? I'm totally noob about this. I just saw one video online. What paste and pads do you recommend?

I dont think you can use the old pads. Sorry i dont know thickness of pads you will need.

 

[Atomic77]

Theres a Radeon Vega Graphics in my laptop I think its part of my Ryzen 5 3500u cpu.

 

[dragontamer5788]

So I love programming my Vega64. Except last night, I discovered that its not doing hipMemcpy correctly for sizes larger than 1GB. I'm wondering if there's a PCIe bug in my system somehow, or if my Vega64 is somehow defective. I rented an instance from GPUEater.com, and the GPUEater.com instance of Vega56 runs my code correctly (same ROCm drivers and everything).

This is a bad time to figure out a hardware error as a AMD GPU-programming fan. Navi doesn't work in ROCm reliably yet, while Navi2x isn't released yet.

It could be the motherboard though (ASRock Taichi x399), because hipMemcpy is a PCIe 3.0 traversal. Or it could be the card itself. I don't think its my CPU or RAM, because those parts have survived a suite of other tests already.

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I probably can continue to make small test programs on my home computer, then rent out GPUEater.com instances whenever I'm doing a "production run", since they charge per-second of instance time. So its not a big deal to spin up instances for a few minutes and shut them down.

I figured out the problem. I didn't install ROCm 3.8 correctly. I uninstalled the older version of ROCm, reinstalled the 5.4 Linux kernel, then reinstalled ROCm 3.8 from scratch and it is all working now.

I don't know what caused the issue: maybe there was a mismatch between the kernel driver and the ROCm software (maybe the kernel level was 3.0 or whatever I had installed before the 3.8 update).

 

[_HellHound]

Hey guys, not sure if this has been asked, searching did not yield any results. My issue is the front fan on the gpu(Gigabyte vega56 gaming oc) is not spinning, it does sense rpm if you spin it by hand but it just doesn't do anything. Temperatures get out of hand real quick and the poor back fan is screaming like a jet engine, just tought to ask here before sending the card on an RMA journey, cheers for any replys in advance.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Hey guys, not sure if this has been asked, searching did not yield any results. My issue is the front fan on the gpu(Gigabyte vega56 gaming oc) is not spinning, it does sense rpm if you spin it by hand but it just doesn't do anything. Temperatures get out of hand real quick and the poor back fan is screaming like a jet engine, just tought to ask here before sending the card on an RMA journey, cheers for any replys in advance.

Sounds like a dead fan, it's not impossible to replace just tricky.

 

[_HellHound]

Hmmm without voiding the warranty? Might be easier just to send it back and get a replacement?

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Hmmm without voiding the warranty? Might be easier just to send it back and get a replacement?

Oh hell yeah, if the warranty is sound, but then again if postage etc is more expensive fan swaps are not bad most shrouds are easily removed.

 

[_HellHound]

The RMA info slip said that i dont have to pay anything to send it back, only if they deem its not something i've done, witch i havent. Got to send it back then, alltho 3 weeks without gaming might have some negative side effects lol.

 

[JustAnEngineer]

I did a terrible job of replacing the dried-out thermal pads on my Vega64 and it went from crashing once or twice an hour to crashing after 20 seconds. I bought a better thermal pad kit, but I haven't tried re-doing it yet.

 

[Muck Muster]

this is from last time i opened the card. if it helps...

I installed an after market air cooler on my Vega64. Applying thermo mud, it's hard to judge how much you actually need. At first, I used very little. That didn't pan out well. It wasn't the same as putting it on a cpu which has a cover. It needed to be coated over the whole surface of the gpu/hbm. That's were life gets sloppy.

 

[Aquinus]

I installed an after market air cooler on my Vega64. Applying thermo mud, it's hard to judge how much you actually need. At first, I used very little. That didn't pan out well. It wasn't the same as putting it on a cpu which has a cover. It needed to be coated over the whole surface of the gpu/hbm. That's were life gets sloppy.

Why not two tiny dots on the HBM stacks and one bigger one for the GPU?

 

[Muck Muster]

Why not two tiny dots on the HBM stacks and one bigger one for the GPU?

I first tried two small dots on the HBM. For some reason the idle temps where up 39c+. Game temps for CoD WW2 were 68c (which wasn't bad considering my clock settings were up 1660mhz). So I began putting a little more mud on. I notice a drop to 35c, game temps to 60c. So I thought what the heck, I'm gonna coat the GPU and HBM from corner to corner and see what happens. Now idle temps are 27/28c sometimes to 26c. And the game temps are 46/52c@1675mhz for CoD WW2. How can I be unhappy?
I reckon it's not the same as applying dab on the CPU which has a cover over it. The GPU and HBMs are bare naked chips. therefore needing a coat from corner to corner. I may be wrong but I can't explain it by any other reason.

 

[fullinfusion]

I first tried two small dots on the HBM. For some reason the idle temps where up 39c+. Game temps for CoD WW2 were 68c (which wasn't bad considering my clock settings were up 1660mhz). So I began putting a little more mud on. I notice a drop to 35c, game temps to 60c. So I thought what the heck, I'm gonna coat the GPU and HBM from corner to corner and see what happens. Now idle temps are 27/28c sometimes to 26c. And the game temps are 46/52c@1675mhz for CoD WW2. How can I be unhappy?
I reckon it's not the same as applying dab on the CPU which has a cover over it. The GPU and HBMs are bare naked chips. therefore needing a coat from corner to corner. I may be wrong but I can't explain it by any other reason.

I do an X pattern over the die and hbm and have idle temp's at 21-22c.. gaming is at 50ish C and that's with a slight fan curve. (reference card)

I also do a complete cooler and die clean using Artic clean part one and two a few times to be sure nothing is left behind. I still over a year or more still have them temps, and if anything I'm lazy and should pull the shroud and dust off the fan, but it's still solid so I'm just leaving it. TG paste is what I use.. even my 7700K delidded runs in the 20's at idle.. If I run AIDA 64 Extreme stressing the FPU which is the hardest I only hit the mid 50's @5Ghz

 

[Muck Muster]

I do an X pattern over the die and hbm and have idle temp's at 21-22c.. gaming is at 50ish C and that's with a slight fan curve. (reference card)

I also do a complete cooler and die clean using Artic clean part one and two a few times to be sure nothing is left behind. I still over a year or more still have them temps, and if anything I'm lazy and should pull the shroud and dust off the fan, but it's still solid so I'm just leaving it. TG paste is what I use.. even my 7700K delidded runs in the 20's at idle.. If I run AIDA 64 Extreme stressing the FPU which is the hardest I only hit the mid 50's @5Ghz

Wow. 21-22c. That's great. Room temperature.

 

[delshay]

Calling Vega Owners need help, I need the following information.

When you go to the boot menu while using the HDMI cable what is your default screenmode 1080p 50Hz or 1080p 60Hz?

I'm more interested in those users that live in Europe.

EDIT: It will be interesting if anyone is seeing 1080p 50Hz at the boot menu (default settings)

 

[bobbybluz]

My 16GB Vega Frontier Edition arrived last Monday. Haven't had time to try much on it yet.

 

[delshay]

My 16GB Vega Frontier Edition arrived last Monday. Haven't had time to try much on it yet.

What I'm asking from my last post is important. It's got something to do with compatibility with PCIe GEN 2 or if you have IGP. I'm not 100% sure if it's a hardware config or firmware. All I'm asking for is for someone to connect card to TV via a HDMI cable, get to the motherboard BIOS menu & post the default screenmode/frequency. You don't even need a bootable drive connected.

EDIT: It also effects PCIe bus overclocking on a very small number of old motherboards.
EDIT 2: It also effects Radeon software install on a very small number of motherboards.
EDIT 3: updated what's needed/clarification.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

What I'm asking from my last post is important. It's got something to do with compatibility with PCIe GEN 2 or if you have IGP. I'm not 100% sure if it's a hardware config or firmware. All I'm asking for is for someone to connect card to TV via a HDMI cable, get to the boot screen & post the default screenmode/frequency. You don't even need a bootable drive connected.

Always been 1080p 60Hz when I did it.

 

[delshay]

Always been 1080p 60Hz when I did it.

Thank you, that's the information I need.

Now has anyone out there able to get 1080p 50Hz? (default settings)

 

[bobbybluz]

What I'm asking from my last post is important. It's got something to do with compatibility with PCIe GEN 2 or if you have IGP. I'm not 100% sure if it's a hardware config or firmware. All I'm asking for is for someone to connect card to TV via a HDMI cable, get to the boot screen & post the default screenmode/frequency. You don't even need a bootable drive connected.

EDIT: It also effects PCIe bus overclocking on a very small number of old motherboards.
EDIT 2: It also effects Radeon software install on a very small number of motherboards.

So far I have it at 4K 30hz 10 bit color depth on a 2020 Vizio M-series 50" UHD TV. I'll have more time to play with it next week, have a PC build in progress that requires Dremel work on the case to finish first. I'm using the latest Radeon Pro drivers. The BLCK is set at 103.4 for the E5 2699 V4.

 

[delshay]

So far I have it at 4K 30hz 10 bit color depth on a 2020 Vizio M-series 50" UHD TV. I'll have more time to play with it next week, have a PC build in progress that requires Dremel work on the case to finish first. I'm using the latest Radeon Pro drivers. The BLCK is set at 103.4 for the E5 2699 V4.

I only need information what Vega cards are doing by default at the bootscreen, ie "BIOS menu". It's mostly to do with the frequency. I'm not 100% sure what's going on but there seems to be somekind of conflict with all I have said at post #469.

Just get to the motherboard BIOS menu & post default screenmode/frequency.

 

[Stephen1R2]

Very late to the party it seems. Got it in 2018 or so.
My Sapphire Pulse Vega 56: Not its best showing but mostly OK.
Settings are a 50-75mV undervolt across the board and +33% power target.
Monitor 1: AOC U34G2G4R3 1440p@ 100Hz 10-bit
Monitor 2: Planar GX2MP 1200x1600 @60Hz attached to a WX4100

2nd GPU is to mitigate the Flicker at different refresh rate "known issue"

Automatic install used the Pro drivers and it all works.

 

[mama]

Have my Asus ROG Vega 64 connected to my Mac Mini via a Razor enclosure. Works great.