A question, lads. What's a /g/ approved vendor for RX480's

>>58528523
X F X
F
X

I have msi and it work fine. Quiet.

What a fucking meme card.

I swear the only reason /g/ buys this garbage is they want to be contrarian and go against what clearly the better choice is. For the same price you can buy a 1060 and actually have a card from a good manufacturer. Or, you know, you can spend a little more money and get a 1070 or 1080 and have something that'll suit your gaming needs for years to come instead of having to upgrade again soon.

>>58528523
RX 480 hardly overclocks at all on air so just forget about it.

Sapphire is your best bet for any AMD card really. The Powercolor 480 might get higher clocks but it will fail because Powercolor is shit and uses shit components.

If you absolutely want to overclock you'd get a reference card and put a water block on it.
Or buy two cards for crossfire.

>>58528623
The 1070 is the minmum for nvidia. No point getting the 1060 when The 480 and even 470 will beat it in the long run.

>>58528523
All 480 overclock like shit. /g/ loves to claim that a 1400 clock on something like Sapphire or XFX is amazing but those cards get a 1338/1350 boost clock out of the box. I'd be surprised if you saw a 3 fps increase on avg. You have to understand the card had to be pushed to its limits in order to compete with stock 1060 gtx, it still fails behind the moron proof OCing of 1000 series where you get 10% performance gains while not being able to touch voltage.

>>58528642
>Using a meme "fine wine" technology that isn't even known to AMD as an argument for every future AMD release.

You know why 200 series aged well? Because AMD kept releasing and optimizing same cards for last 5 years.

>>58528601
Are xfx good?Its the cheapest of the 8gb ones in my country
For amd I always went saphire

>>58528642
>it'll be good in the future
everytime lol

>>58528642
>in the long run
The 480 is already unironically better than the 1060.

>>58528623
>Nvidia
>Suit your needs for years to come

Things that aren't true: The Post

>>58528689
>Both cards are still shittier than my 980

Feels good man.

>>58528641
>RX 480 hardly overclocks at all on air so just forget about it.

right

>Sapphire is your best bet for any AMD card really.

wrong

>The Powercolor 480 might get higher clocks but it will fail because Powercolor is shit and uses shit components.

wrong

xfx and msi are good for the 400 series, but it depends very much on the price as well.

>>58528717
>my 980 was $220 brand new
Nope.

>>58528725
Yea my card also wasn't released in Q3 of 2016 poorfag.

Asus Strix.
With all the BS ROG ads and gaymin references aside.
Pleasant aesthetics and generally trustful of Asus high end products.

>>58528752
I thought Asus and MSI are literally worst cards you can buy when it comes to AMD? Asus has terrible appliance of thermal paste and MSI's 200 cards had a failure rate of 30% (probably cuz of miners but still).

>>58528729
I don't even own a 480, you fucking dunce. Just pointing out how retarded it is to state that your high end graphics card is better than some midrange cards of the next generation. (It probably isn't in some games already lmao)

Why are Nvidiots so stupid?

XFX has that gaming edition card, forgot the name of it. It's meant to be top tier even outside of the golden example they sent Jayz2cents

>>58528776
Buttmad AMD drone detected. Enjoy your 2 years old performance.

>>58528623

Nigga the 480 is currently beating it. Even when both are overclocked.

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>>58528729
>my more expensive card is faster

>>58528802
>Enjoy your 2 years old performance.
This dude legit can't read.

>>58528645

Bullshit tho. Amd MHz is better than Nvidia. That's why clock for clock amd is better. And they do oc around 150mhz plus. The same as Nvidia. Boost to occur is around 100mhz higher.

>>58528523
The 480 Nitro is as good as it gets, though I wouldn't recommend buying the 8gb nitro, when you actually need the 8gb 3 years the 480 wouldn't have enough power and you'd be in for an upgrade anyways.

Same thing can be said for the 1060.

You shouldn't expect "futureproofing" on a sub $300 GPU.

Get the 480 4GB nitro, and drop another 200~300 on something new 3 years down the line.

Game companies are businesses, they target their games for the widest range of audiences available, and steam reports that like 80% of games have a 2GB GPU, hell they are still selling 2GB GPUs in 2017, by 2020 maybe, they will only be selling 3/4gb gpus and even then the masses won't have GPUs with more than 4GB

A huge percentage of people still game at 720P on IGP/APUs on fucking laptops.

>>58528771

Yeah that was because of miners lol. I alone bricked 30 280x

>>58528717

Bullshit.

My 290x is better than a 980 and the 480 is better than my 290x

>>58528862
290x is barely faster than a 970

>>58528771
you are probably talking about asus direct touch "technology" which is kind of stupid, but this has nothing to do with TIM appliance

when did vram become such a meme?

>>58528523
A friend got Sapphire Nitro+ RX 480 8gb and I have to say it works very well. Due to his small case there were some issues with fitting and air flow but we fixed that and now it works as expected. Card is relatively cool but fans can be a bit loud. It depends on a person. I for one didn't notice it while he had complained a bit. I heared MSI is quieter.
Games like The Witcher 3 and GTA 5 both work on maximum settings.

http://sapphirenitro.sapphiretech.com/en/480-8.html

If you are buying 480 make sure your PSU is at least 550W

>>58528947
>If you are buying 480 make sure your PSU is at least 550W

why is this board filled with memes?

>>58528993
I don't frequent this board. What am I missing?

>>58528947
Oh yeah another thing this post reminds me of is AMD cards are SO fucking loud. It's like you're in a wind tunnel.

My 1080 is super quiet. Most of the time that fans are completely silent. Even playing very demanding games the fans never go past 50% of max speed and are still hardly audible.

>>58529014
>550 Watt
>1 (That is One) 6 pin connector

>>58529014
you will barely surpass 300W with one of these cards, let alone 500.

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>>58528905
Cuz self appointed "Gaming Enthusiasts" say so while they wank over their 8~12gb GPUs.
While the majority of the market where AMD and Nvidia makes their money is rocking 2GB

65.82% of people run GPUs under 4GB
Hell 7.05% of people run GPUs with 512MB and 33.66% of people run GPUs with 1GB

Only 3.39% of people run an 8GB GPU.

Companies aren't stupid, they aren't going to make 8GB requirement games and alienate 96% of their market.

84.27% of people have 4GB or less, it's a good bet that within the next 3 years the majority of the people will still have 4GB or less.

Unless Amd and Nvidia stop selling 2GB cards for the mainstream you can bet that most game companies will still support 2GB cards too.

It's 2017 and they've finally mostly cleared out the 1GB 750TIs.

>>58529053
Not him but some like the msi card uses 8pins. Im running the rx480 4gb msi with 430watt supply and it works fine. I dont overclock though so if you do you might need a higher one.

>>58529051
Dunno what amd card you had before but the msi card dont make a sound on ultra in witcher 3 unless you overclock (which i dont).

>>58529053
>what is 6+2

>>58529156
Wow 75 Watts more, that's like 225 Watts total. And even a 110W CPU, let's say 5 fans additionally - 30 Watts, 2 Drives - 6 Watts and other - 20 Watts for whatever. This won't be anywhere near danger-zone in a 500 Watt power supply even.

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>>58529128
That's because MSI slaps the GTX 1080 cooler on all their cards from the GTX 1080 all the way down the the RX-470 4G

Fucking lazy manufacturers being lazy cunts slapping the same cooler on everything and hiking up the mainstream cards.

>>58529103
You'd think that there'd be 4.7% of people rocking 3584MB of VRAM going by this picture but noo, it's even listed.

>>58528623
disgusting old bait

>>58529210
Isn't that a good thing? I mean it works so dont break what's not broken right?

Heard good things about xfx gtr blacked edition but cant find a reliable review

>>58528771
Well I've been having pretty good experience with my Strix RX 480 since I ditched my EVGA GTX 970 that I RMA'd twice after it shit itself a year after release. Didn't know Asus had a bias. But MSI cards look like shit so and I want a good card that looks good too.

>>58528674
Xfx and sapphire are godtier

Msi and Asus are crap
I dont know about Power color though

>>58528623
The RX 480 killed the 1050 and 1060 in benchmarks even the r9 390x is almost on par with the 1070 gtfo Nvidia fag

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>>58529202
You forget that the market is full of retards and chink powersupplies that go BANG long before reaching 500W.

The reason manufacturers recommend 500W PSUs is to accommodate the non 80+ PSUs the no brand PSUs, and people running FX-8000 non E CPUs, heavens forbid overclocked. Older 7200RPM SATA harddrives can take up to 25watts to spin up and 7~10 watts to idle.

A kitted out system with the
FX-8350 @ stock
4*8GB DDR3
RX 480
2* SATA 7200 RPM HDD
1 SSD
1 DVD-RW
5 case fans, (2 for CPU or 1 for CPU 1 for top, 2 front fans, 1 exhaust fan.)
no other ricing shit like LEDs and expansion cards takes 407W at full load.

Asus or XFX, everything else is literal dogshit

Didn't read the thread, because the usual retards will spit out shit.

GTX1060 OC > RX480

Both in terms of performance and efficiency.

Not bothered to post all the links to the reviews, that show these facts.
Search for yourself.

However both products are pretty fail desu.
Just a bit faster in some than the GTX970.

Either go for a RX470 or directly jump to a GTX1070 for less than 400 bucks.

>>58528609

>>58528523
Powercolor

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>>58529264
It's over engineered, it's also too large to fit into a lot of cases, especially budgets and prebuilts which is the main selling market for these cards.

It makes the cards needlessly heavy so GPU sag and even PCIE slot damage can become an issue.

It also hikes up the prices way above MSRP for no fucking reason while not providing any noticeable improvements a regular well cooled card.

The Gaming X cooler was designed for overclocking the 980TI which is a 250W stock TDP chip, that's slapping a 300W cooler on a card that is 120W TDP, a waste of money, the chips are cool running to begin with and you'll hit voltage issues long before thermal issues on these mainstream cards.

>>58529346
thats simply not true for the current generation.
i thought you guys were only memeing in these fanboys threads but you actually believe what you are typing.
>>58529432
good post. id like to add that you usually wont reach full load while gaming.
>>58529462
GTX1060 OC > RX480
really depends on where you live and how much the cards cost there. i got my PC rx 480 in november for 240€ while aftermarket 1060s were around the 300€ mark.

>>58528523

Buy a Nitro or GTR. Good luck for search a high ASIC GPU.

>>58529432
407, even 457 is nowhere near 550.

And every powersupply is rated to what it outputs to the system, not the power draw from the wall. Even 15k SATA drives max out at around 15-16 watts.
The CPU fan is included in the CPU power draw.
Whoever buys 32 gigs of ram at this point is a tool. Same applied for optical drive. You have seem to have added a lot of unnecessary shit, just to bloat the numbers up, and still this is nowhere near the 550 Watt figure.

>>58529523
Xfx and sapphire never let me down or a friend.
Cant say that for msi or Asus.

Would like to have some input for Power color

>>58528601
>>58528674
>>58528786
>>58529282
>>58529346
>>58529438
>>58529659
XFX has two versions of the card, their own RX (the cheap one) that is made out of components even worse than what the reference card has and the GTR (the more expensive), a rebranded HIS card, which is actually pretty good card

>>58529749
>RS
not rx...

>>58529103
>counting a mass collection of statistics that includes my 05 thinkpad that I ran tf2 on till I got old enough to get a job

>>58529659
>Would like to have some input for Power color

works like a charm. i got lucky with my gpu as i can undervolt it to 1V, and thats only as far as i have tested. cooling is really quiet even with stock voltages, the only downside so far is the coil whining that is louder that is definitely audible, at least with an open case

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Is it worth replacing my 970 with one of these? I've been considering either this or a 1070 when I have enough but idk if it would be worth replacing the 970 yet.

>>58529790
Which model do you have?
Temps?
Thx for input

>>58529898
Both 480 and 1060 are faster than 970, but not enough to consider replacing. I'd wait for Vega and go for either 1070 or Vega.

>>58529659
Power color is badass and quiet. I would have gone for the Sapphire but I heard it's loud.
I get about 50C on idle (pretty sure fans don't start until 60). Haven't seen it go above 75.

>>58529908
i got the rx 480 red devil. its a bit tricky with the temps since you can adjust them quiet well in the new wattman. idle temps are around 40° C, fans start spinning at 50° upwards. i got the maximum temperature currently locked at 75° which is next to silent, at least in my fractal design XL. with the gpu being undervolted, i barely touch the temp target under load, though.

>>58528523
there are none.
it's entirely random.

best bet is to buy some secondhand high ASIC% if you want a high overclock.

anyone who isnt' a stupid faggot should already know this shit when it comes to buying a gpu

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>>58529790
>>58529948
>>58529979

Thanks guys.
That helped me alot.

>>58529640
People actually still buy DVDs
As for the ram I personally use 32gbs because I hit the mid 20gbs editing things.

Running PSUs at near max output is bad for the PSU, and bad because of efficiency curves.

Plenty of PSUs die long before their rated watts, and the market is filled with them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6snWfd1v7M

>>58530075
>cheap chink no name PSU dies before it hits rated load

wew, who would have thought

>>58529772
Kids without jobs also buy games, or at least their parents buys games, and that's part of the market.

Regardless, 1GB/2GB stats are far too high to be disregarded.

>>58530106
Read the original post

>You forget that the market is full of retards and chink powersupplies that go BANG long before reaching 500W.

>The reason manufacturers recommend 500W PSUs is to accommodate the non 80+ PSUs the no brand PSUs, and people running FX-8000 non E CPUs, heavens forbid overclocked. Older 7200RPM SATA harddrives can take up to 25watts to spin up and 7~10 watts to idle.

>>58528654
And they are still going to do so. AMD's not rich enough to maintain more than one GPU architecture at the time.

>>58530375
TeraScale coexisted with GCN in the HD 7000 gen (and longer if you could low-end OEM models in the R5 200 range).

GCN/Polaris has a very strong chance of hanging around in the low end of the RX 500 series.

>>58528523
>Sapphire
>XFX
>Asus Strix