Vega owners club

[MarkJohnson]

Thank you, that's the information I need.

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

This information should be coming from your monitor. Not the other way around.

Your monitor is telling the card to switch to 1080p @ 50Hz.

Your monitor should have an EDID information file to tell your device what to set for the monitor.

Maybe check your monitor's manufacturers site and see if they have a firmware update for your monitor.

But any modern system will want 1080p @ 60 Hz as it is the standard today. I am assuming your monitor is as old, or older than your Vega GPU.

 

[delshay]

This information should be coming from your monitor. Not the other way around.

Your monitor is telling the card to switch to 1080p @ 50Hz.

Your monitor should have an EDID information file to tell your device what to set for the monitor.

Maybe check your monitor's manufacturers site and see if they have a firmware update for your monitor.

But any modern system will want 1080p @ 60 Hz as it is the standard today. I am assuming your monitor is as old, or older than your Vega GPU.

Thanks, that's all the information I need for now. Just for the record I have two other non Vega cards both from AMD (R7 & R9) both output 1080p 50Hz default.

 

[Hellfire]

I have a dirty rotten confession. I am so sorry all, I did the dirty.... I cheated on you...

I'll soon no longer be one of you.

 

[GamerGuy]

@Hellfire That's a good kind of cheating, besides, you can always keep the Vega as a standby card. My PC Vega64 Red Devil is doing a fine job in my 2nd rig.....there's still more life left in that old gal.

 

[Hellfire]

@Hellfire That's a good kind of cheating, besides, you can always keep the Vega as a standby card. My PC Vega64 Red Devil is doing a fine job in my 2nd rig.....there's still more life left in that old gal.

I'll be honest, I sold them both (Crossfired Vegas... Big mistake) including the waterblocks, paid for half of the 6900XT

 

[Muck Muster]

Yo-ho! I'm surprised at what these Vega cards can do. Since installing a Raijintek Morpheus 2 with 2 Be Quiet 120mm fans, I've been happy not having to think about buying a new graphics card. It took a bit of patients to get the Vega64 cruising @ 1740fps, 1195mhz mem, 37mV, +50 Pwr Lmt, 85c temp lmt, @95 fans. 36c (Battlefield 5 WW2). I still sense that Vega56/64 can reach over 1800fps threshold but I don't play anything that demands that much horsepower. If anyone has a Vega56/64 reference (blower style graphics card), picking up an after market cooler (water, air or air conditioner) really improves it's performance.
I've been wanting to buy the RX 6800 xt but have been dkering around with that $1,200+ price point. Now I'm not thinking about it at all.

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?

Hello. I normally use Artic 5. I used a thermal glue (Gennel). to hold heatsinks on my vr modules/MOSFETs, etc. But it's only because I got rid of the stock cooling unit. I didn't want them to ever fall off.

 

[GamerGuy]

Just had something of a shock a couple of days back, I was transferring some large and very critical file on my 2nd rig (with the VEGA64 Red Devil aka my precious, and if you're wondering, my RX 6900 XT is the One), I'd thought I'd safely ejected one of my external HDD (though, thinking back, I'd noticed that there wasn't a sound/tone that usually accompanies a safely removed/ejected HDD/device).

Anyway, I unplugged the HDD which was attached to one of four USB3.0 ports up front and to my utter surprise, my monitor went off due to 'No Signal' being detected. Also, KB and mouse went off as well. So, okay, I simply have to restart and everything should be back to normal. Did that and zip, nada, my KB and mouse stayed off (no RGB) and my monitor stayed off as well.....had a sinking feeling I'd somehow killed my precious and quite possibly the USB ports as well. Tried restarting a couple more times, and my last attempt, my KB+mouse lit up, but the monitor stayed off...that sinking feeling got worse.

Took out my precious, and replaced it with my very ancient but still reliable PowerColor HD7970 and Lo, and behold! My rig started without issue, which only served to reinforced my belief that I'd kill my precious. Anyway, this morning, somehow guided by the Force, I decided to pop in my precious back into my 2nd rig (had it in its box for a couple of days while I was using the HD7970) and at first, the monitor came on, then went off, repeatedly. I was using the HDMI port on the monitor because my HD7970 does not have DP.

Anyway, I attached my DP cable to the card and monitor and restarted and everything worked! Booted as normal to desktop and my precious performed as if nothing had happened! I guess I'm overjoyed, hence this rather long post. And to show that sometimes, hardware can behave rather strangely, and the solution can be found with the Force.

 

[Muck Muster]

Yo-ho! I'm surprised at what these Vega cards can do. Since installing a Raijintek Morpheus 2 with 2 Be Quiet 120mm fans, I've been happy not having to think about buying a new graphics card. It took a bit of patients to get the Vega64 cruising @ 1740fps, 1195mhz mem, 37mV, +50 Pwr Lmt, 85c temp lmt, @95 fans. 36c (Battlefield 5 WW2). I still sense that Vega56/64 can reach over 1800fps threshold but I don't play anything that demands that much horsepower. If anyone has a Vega56/64 reference (blower style graphics card), picking up an after market cooler (water, air or air conditioner) really improves it's performance.
I've been wanting to buy the RX 6800 xt but have been dkering around with that $1,200+ price point. Now I'm not thinking about it at all.


Hello. I normally use Artic 5. I used a thermal glue (Gennel). to hold heatsinks on my vr modules/MOSFETs, etc. But it's only because I got rid of the stock cooling unit. I didn't want them to ever fall off.

Just had something of a shock a couple of days back, I was transferring some large and very critical file on my 2nd rig (with the VEGA64 Red Devil aka my precious, and if you're wondering, my RX 6900 XT is the One), I'd thought I'd safely ejected one of my external HDD (though, thinking back, I'd noticed that there wasn't a sound/tone that usually accompanies a safely removed/ejected HDD/device).

Anyway, I unplugged the HDD which was attached to one of four USB3.0 ports up front and to my utter surprise, my monitor went off due to 'No Signal' being detected. Also, KB and mouse went off as well. So, okay, I simply have to restart and everything should be back to normal. Did that and zip, nada, my KB and mouse stayed off (no RGB) and my monitor stayed off as well.....had a sinking feeling I'd somehow killed my precious and quite possibly the USB ports as well. Tried restarting a couple more times, and my last attempt, my KB+mouse lit up, but the monitor stayed off...that sinking feeling got worse.

Took out my precious, and replaced it with my very ancient but still reliable PowerColor HD7970 and Lo, and behold! My rig started without issue, which only served to reinforced my belief that I'd kill my precious. Anyway, this morning, somehow guided by the Force, I decided to pop in my precious back into my 2nd rig (had it in its box for a couple of days while I was using the HD7970) and at first, the monitor came on, then went off, repeatedly. I was using the HDMI port on the monitor because my HD7970 does not have DP.

Anyway, I attached my DP cable to the card and monitor and restarted and everything worked! Booted as normal to desktop and my precious performed as if nothing had happened! I guess I'm overjoyed, hence this rather long post. And to show that sometimes, hardware can behave rather strangely, and the solution can be found with the Force.

Last time I had weird issues like that, my power supply fried my pc. It started with a game crash and message. Then a restart and it was fine. It just progressed and would crash within minutes of walking away. Then came total black screens and shut offs. Turned out that Corsair had a recalled certain serial numbers of the RM750 and I just happen to have one. I fried up my XFX HD 7950 and I was pretty frustrated with the event. Never used the replacement they sent back. Replaced it with a XFX XTR 750w gold which brought me great comfort. Weak power does all kinds of weird stuff.
From then on, I always purchased gold or platinum edition PSUs. Seasonic, EVGA, SuperFlower or XFX (which is made by Seasonic). It's the heart of the system, won't settle for less.

 

[GamerGuy]

Last time I had weird issues like that, my power supply fried my pc. It started with a game crash and message. Then a restart and it was fine. It just progressed and would crash within minutes of walking away. Then came total black screens and shut offs. Turned out that Corsair had a recalled certain serial numbers of the RM750 and I just happen to have one. I fried up my XFX HD 7950 and I was pretty frustrated with the event. Never used the replacement they sent back. Replaced it with a XFX XTR 750w gold which brought me great comfort. Weak power does all kinds of weird stuff.
From then on, I always purchased gold or platinum edition PSUs. Seasonic, EVGA, SuperFlower or XFX (which is made by Seasonic). It's the heart of the system, won't settle for less.

Just hope mine isn't the same as yours, I do have a Seasonic X-1250, but it's pretty old....about 8-9 years old. I do have a spare PSU, an Enermax MAX REVO 1500W, that I could replace it with. Honestly though, I'm in something of a lazy rut.....besides, my 2nd rig seems fine now, no inexplicable crash, lock, freeze, blank screen thus far.

 

[delshay]

Just a quick update.

There's a REDDIT post that say's Vega cards are not compatible with PCIe Gen 2. This is false & I was wrong too as the screenshot below shows it is compatible with some motherboards. The idea of buying this motherboard is to look at the BIOS Programming as to find out why Vega cards are not working on some motherboards even thou some motherboards have practically the same Northbridge/Southbridge.

I have lots to do to understand Vega Nano card setup "undervolting" & looking at a range of motherboards understanding how the BIOS is config. The motherboard below has a TPM module header & is selectable in the BIOS. The manual even goes into great detail how a TPM module is wired, so it maybe possible to run windows 11.

Screenshot preliminary not final.

 

[eidairaman1]

Just hope mine isn't the same as yours, I do have a Seasonic X-1250, but it's pretty old....about 8-9 years old. I do have a spare PSU, an Enermax MAX REVO 1500W, that I could replace it with. Honestly though, I'm in something of a lazy rut.....besides, my 2nd rig seems fine now, no inexplicable crash, lock, freeze, blank screen thus far.

Check the voltage outputs on the X1250, is it the XM2 based unit?

 

[Flyordie]

Check the voltage outputs on the X1250, is it the XM2 based unit?

If its anything like my X series it should be around 12.33V (12.25V @ 40% load)

And yes, folks.. still in the club..

 

[eidairaman1]

If its anything like my X series it should be around 12.33V (12.25V @ 40% load)

And yes, folks.. still in the club..

ATX spec is +5% or -5% on each rail.

If its anything like my X series it should be around 12.33V (12.25V @ 40% load)

And yes, folks.. still in the club..

Mine isa X2 (XM2 based-newer design)

 

[Flyordie]

ATX spec is +5% or -5% on each rail.

Yep. Every Seasonic I've had has been 12.2V or higher. Better to be slightly higher than slightly lower. Less amperage going through the wires. lol

Ah, mine is KM3. Doesn't have those capacitors on the cables like the KM2 version did.

 

[Muck Muster]

Yep. Every Seasonic I've had has been 12.2V or higher. Better to be slightly higher than slightly lower. Less amperage going through the wires. lol

Ah, mine is KM3. Doesn't have those capacitors on the cables like the KM2 version did.

Seasonic has a great reputation. I bought a 650w 'G' series psu way back in 2012 and I still use it my daily workhorse. They also made XFX back in the day. I gave away a 750w XFX to a friend and he still using it.

 

[Muck Muster]

Sending my Vega64 to the closet. I kept screwing around with everything and broke it. Bios, cooling, different mud. Was having just a good time modding it and finally broke off the top of a VRM (voltage regulator module) clean-off. Wow. What a bummer. I was trying to separate an aluminum heatsink from it and *snap* the top came off. The object here was to replace the aluminum headsinks with copper fins for better cooling. Not to fear, I went ahead and glued it together and it worked. Bad side is I can't remove the overheating aluminum sinks and it now runs 15c hotter when overclocked gaming. It'll probably get hotter once the thermal glue cures. Phifft. Wow. What a sour moment.
Called a friend and he sold me a triple fan 2080. Which was sorta the luck of the draw. He's reputable, done a few months of mining on it but I'm not worried about that. I guess I was in love modding the Vega64. I hate retiring it. For just the fun of it I clocked up to1820 mhz. Ram was past 1100. My best game clock was 1790 at 55c fan 95% Who cares about fan noise? It was fast and smooth. I hate starting over. I loved the joy ride.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Sending my Vega64 to the closet. I kept screwing around with everything and broke it. Bios, cooling, different mud. Was having just a good time modding it and finally broke off the top of a VRM (voltage regulator module) clean-off. Wow. What a bummer. I was trying to separate an aluminum heatsink from it and *snap* the top came off. The object here was to replace the aluminum headsinks with copper fins for better cooling. Not to fear, I went ahead and glued it together and it worked. Bad side is I can't remove the overheating aluminum sinks and it now runs 15c hotter when overclocked gaming. It'll probably get hotter once the thermal glue cures. Phifft. Wow. What a sour moment.
Called a friend and he sold me a triple fan 2080. Which was sorta the luck of the draw. He's reputable, done a few months of mining on it but I'm not worried about that. I guess I was in love modding the Vega64. I hate retiring it. For just the fun of it I clocked up to1820 mhz. Ram was past 1100. My best game clock was 1790 at 55c fan 95% Who cares about fan noise? It was fast and smooth. I hate starting over. I loved the joy ride.

I still have mine in use, It's an oft maligned card but has been as good as gold for me , I would upgrade in a heartbeat for the right price though.
Then again I can still 4k 60hz just fine in most games.

 

[Muck Muster]

I still have mine in use, It's an oft maligned card but has been as good as gold for me , I would upgrade in a heartbeat for the right price though.
Then again I can still 4k 60hz just fine in most games.

Take good care of it. Vega64 will probably last 3 or 4 more years (if not more). I was relaxing, cruisin' about. And then I can see this light on the window sill! News is trickling in, the gpu prices are going down. Well, I thought, a year or 2 and I'll buy a new AMD 7000 series card.
Then "BANG" I broke it. After running the card, I thought the VRM was fine. Started up fine and for hours, ran the desktop/videos. But alas, in gaming, it puttered out with this "Get this device off" window. 5 maybe 6 times. Called my mining friend and he said "Sure I can help you out but it's Nvidia. You good with that?"
He thinks crypto's crapping out. Buck Fiden's wrecking the economy.. . maybe with a war.. . ? Had to look out my window to see if there were atom bombs blasting. He popped the 2080 out of one of his mining rigs, hee-hawed a moment at my $450 offer and took it. Lol. What more could I offer? I'm still in shock I phked up my card Lol.
But I am gonna keep my Vega64. Maybe I can find someone who's sells MOSFETs, semiconductors and solder some new VRMs in (long hope). In all my days of screwing around with hardware, I never found a card like Vega64. High core clocks, memory, very low temps. I never pushed it to the limit. It just wanted to go higher (I was afraid of that). All the mods I did worked, and got better.. . like it was happy to be with me. Lol!

 

[Muck Muster]

I still have mine in use, It's an oft maligned card but has been as good as gold for me , I would upgrade in a heartbeat for the right price though.
Then again I can still 4k 60hz just fine in most games.

I'd thought I'd show you my Vega64. My pride and toy till I broke it. Everything I did made it work better.. . that is till I snapped the top of one of the VRM modules. That big thing is the Raijintek Morpheus 2 heatsink with two Be Quiet 120mm fans. It easily reached 1770mhz stable and probably would've gone to the 1800 mhz.. . . Now I'll never know. Sorta lost interest in finishing this rig. The 2080 I replaced it with works pretty good but gets hot (60c+). The Vega64 never got hot (40c/50c) but filled 4 pci slots. Never finish building this machine.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

I'd thought I'd show you my Vega64. My pride and toy till I broke it. Everything I did made it work better.. . that is till I snapped the top of one of the VRM modules. That big thing is the Raijintek Morpheus 2 heatsink with two Be Quiet 120mm fans. It easily reached 1770mhz stable and probably would've gone to the 1800 mhz.. . . Now I'll never know. Sorta lost interest in finishing this rig. The 2080 I replaced it with works pretty good but gets hot (60c+). The Vega64 never got hot (40c/50c) but filled 4 pci slots. Never finish building this machine.

Well it's not impossible to fix , try looking up electronics board repairs online , I don't mess with mine now it's too precious and I am too skint, a 2080 is as good though better in many cases.

 

[Muck Muster]

True! I just didn't want to invest the time. I guess I could've fix it myself but I'm working to get 4 heatsinks off 4 VRM modules. Plus, I'm not sure I wanna pay for a board tech the hours it takes to remove and install new ones on if he can't get the heatsinks off (the other 3 without breaking them). Then comes finding the VRMs and waiting for them to arrive. That would take a little time.
I was in luck to have a friend who had a used card sitting around so I paid a little coin and scooped it up. He used the 2080 card for a while so I ran a simple memory test. Usually, only moving parts like the fans wear out but electronics get weak. Using MSI Afterburner I turned up the memory to 350mhz to see if it crashes. That way I'm insured at least to have that much headroom to overclock.
Most people wont' buy used graphics cards but I like them if they're fairly new and taken care of (or if they have a return policy like Ebay). This way I know I'm reasonably safe and I can get a refund. The 'burn in' period in which new electronics are known to go bad is 3 weeks to 1 month.
About used graphic cards? Yeah, I grumbled and he-haw about a lot of use parts but I try to ask the questions that makes the art of the deal safe.
On graphic cards. -Has it been overclocked, the brand and PSU tier (bronze, gold) in the computer the GPU was taken from, was it used for mining, did the seller use a UPS unit, power strip or none at all.
But like everyone else, I'm waiting to score a good gpu in the future.
I'll never doubt the potential of the Vega64. Comparing to the 2080, there's not a big difference. The reviews never served it justice and I don't trust writers who review packs of new GPU cards that come out. Sometimes they don't know 5h!t. They don't talk about changing the bios, new software, underclocking and fanning the heatsink and how much difference it'll make on the new card they're reviewing. AMD cards usually get better after new software applications come out. They don't testify aftermarket application spec and if questioned, they leave it to 'user quest'.
Finding answers to computer problems almost has to be a democracy. You need about ten computer repair guys and ten tech engineers to fully understand computer assets. One thing I like about Youtube computer guys like Gamer Nxus, Jay2cents, Linus and Paul's Hardware is they know they don't always get it right and do encourage their viewer base to watch other reviewers.

And now I have great information. Lol. If anyone who looking for a glue to hold down heatsinks to their AIO graphics cards, Gennel 109 is the brand. Lol!

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

2017, FFS I need to get saving money for a new GPU at this rate I'll be the last guy using a 64, still for useful longevity it was a win to me.

 

[Muck Muster]

VEGA56/64 is still a viable gaming card! I've had mine since Oct 2017. It's been too much fun. The longer I owned it, the faster and cooler it became. I moved to Montana a year ago and was still beating opponents in multiplayer games with bad ping and latency.
I play FPS, mostly multiplayer games and the best players are ruthlessly fast. It fact, they are brutal but not indestructible. VEGA64 was my best weapon. It was so fast, clear and smooth it absolutely amazed me. I kept learning what machines I was beating and that put stars on my chest!
Course, Team Deathmatch and Free-for-all is rather mindless and requires some skill to get over good players. Aside from that, l beat opponents with 1070ti to 3080s, Vega VII to 6700xt. Sure I lost a my share but It was more that a fair match. When I'm fresh and about my senses, I pummeled them all. I can't say enough about *VEGA64*.

 

[delshay]

Some of you wanted to see the inside of my "Vega Nano", so I took it apart as it stopped working, but it seems to be working again. After fitting 820uf 3 mohms ESR capacitors on the the side you can now see my input filtering capacitors for the first time.

TOP ROW: 4x 220uf 25 mohms ESR Tantalum. (yellow capacitors)

RIGHT SIDE: 5x 220uf 50 mohms ESR Tantalum. (yellow capacitors)

The reason why the capacitor on the right are not the same as the top row is the capacitors on the top row are too tall for the cooling plate, in other words the capacitors on the right are of a lower height..


HEATSINK FLAW:

There are two photos of the cooling plate below. Vega Nano users pay strong attention to highlighted red box in last photo. You can see one of the MOSFETS is not not completely covered. This is a heatsink design flaw & can't be fixed. So be very careful if you remove or change the thermal pads. Speaking of thermal pads, you can see Fujipoly 17W m/k thermal pads at work here. You can see it's starting to break-up.. Theses pads are design never to be disturbed, it's a lifetime pads & card should never be taken apart after the pads have hardened. All remaining pads in photo are dead & must be replaced with fresh pads. I hope some of you now begin to understand why Ultra High End Thermal Pads must never under all circumstances must never ever be disturbed. Performance will drop off every single time you disturb them.

 

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