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Sapphire Radeon Fury TriX 4GB - $783.85 AUD Delivered @ Newegg
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In the past when I've experienced coil whine (predominantly with budget vendor GPUs like Sapphire, Galaxy, PowerColor, Inno3D, Leadtek, Zotac, Palit, HIS, etc), 9 times out of 10 it was rectified by forcing V-Sync to be always on in the driver control panel.
Coil Whine tends to be most noticeable on those GPUs that suffer from it whenever the GPU is rendering something with no frame limit and particularly when it suddenly transitions from a low FPS to a high or vice-versa (jumping from 20 to 120 for example), like switching to a pause menu or an overlay which often refresh at 200FPS or higher; generally the pitch and intensity gets higher, the higher the FPS is. Another prominent example I've noticed is how Photoshop CS6 causes my 7970 to create bizarre bursts of coil whine for a second or two only when something is actually being drawn or an image is being moved in a document; the moment I release left-click and stop drawing/moving, it stops.
In practice though if you're playing your games with high settings and all the eye candy turned on, you're not going to be generating a high enough FPS to hear coil whine and in any cases where you do, it seemed that turning on V-Sync to keep things at 60FPS sorted it out.
V-Sync is all well and good but can reduce performance sometimes, fair enough if your panel is 60hz and you V-Sync it to that refresh rate but when you're aiming for the highest FPS above 60fps when you've got a 120 or 144hz monitor, V-Sync doesn't fix everything.
Coil whine shouldn't happen when paying a premium for a product
Coil whine shouldn't happen when paying a premium for a product
Coil whine can happen with any card. Any regular user who doesn't void their warranty can send it in for an RMA.
I purchased a GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming about a month ago and it has coil whine when in high FPS scenarios, should I RMA it? I figured paying $1,090 for a piece of equipment that you'd hope that it worked flawlessly.
Does coil whine actually effect the card in any way vs a card without whine or is it just the audible nuisance of the whiney card which is the difference?
This is my first coil whine experience. I had a G1 GTX 970 previously with no coil whine.
It's just noise, AFAIK, no detriment to performance. If it bothers you that much, you can email Gigabyte and see what they can do about it. Otherwise, just turn your volume up I guess.
Does coil whine actually effect the card in any way vs a card without whine or is it just the audible nuisance of the whiney card which is the difference?
No, like Prospective said, it is just a trait of certain types of cheaper circuity that can be found on the PCBs used by budget vendor GPUs.
It is annoying and can sound alarming at times, but I've had coil whine on a number of cards in the past and all of them worked without issue for years.
In fact my current 7970 that whines like a b*tch I've OC'ed about 220Mhz above stock clocks and it's still perfectly stable and even has a very ASIC score to boot.
Good deal I guess.. I'm searching for r9 390, hopefully will get something soon..
FYI, retail for the Fury is US$550 which is ~AU$760 according to Google atm.
Not sure if the Sapphire Tri-X is worth a slight preilmium (is usually is)…
But this seems just like retail + reasonable shipping.
retail + reasonable shipping
US retail + reasonable shipping is a bargain compared to Aus pricing.
So its $989 in australia now, how much would an equivalent specced graphics card cost in 2 years time?
Well everything will drop price in time, does it mean you should never buy a graphic card since the similar spec card will be cheaper in a few years?
Well it's just something to consider. there might be a sweeter price point that allows for more frequent upgrades and thus better performance sooner.
Like, would it be better to buy a $1000 graphics card and not upgrade for 6 years? or would it be better to buy a $333 card every 2 years?
edit: or $600 graphics card every 4 years vs $300 every 2 years.
I think the question you are asking is, 'am i better off buying something for half the price with marginally less performance?' …the answer is yes.
Love the review someone gave on the deal page hahahah:
Pros:
Cons:
Coil whine so bad that local religious groups thought it was signaling the apocalypse. I've never heard anything like this, and I've owned more than 400 graphics cards at this point. In some games, the frequency is so low it sounds like a diesel truck is idling on my desk, in others it can get so high and sharp my dog starts barking at it. Completely unacceptable on a $550 USD GPU, but this is a reference card so Sapphire didn't really have a hand in that, my custom PCB Nitro R9 380 is as silent as can be,
Other Thoughts:
Straight talk here, I bought this thing to void the warranty and push it as hard as it would go. If you think this thing competes with a 980ti, you might want to re-evaluate your opinion based on fact instead of fiction. My card had the worst application of thermal paste I've ever seen on a GPU (an extra ration of junk to go with my coil whine) and thermal pads on the VRM made of concrete that crumbled to dust. Some Noctua NT-H1 and Fujipoly extreme solved that problem, and allowed me an 1140mhz core clock with 560mhz HBM. I have also unlocked 4 of the 8 disabled CU's (yes, it is possible. Google it).
With all of that, this card is barely able to beat an average AIB 1450-1500mhz GTX 980 and even then only in 4k, it gets completely crushed in 1080p and made to look silly in 1440p as well. Will this improve with more mature drivers? Who knows.
The facts remain, this is an overpriced product for what it delivers at launch, although certainly not a bad card. If it came in at $100 cheaper it would be a real hit I suspect, much like every review on the planet has said. AMD took the gamble on HBM and I hope it doesn't come back to bite them later, they really needed a home-run success.