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Thanks again!

I do like landfill, but it is good that the card can be used for someone

My Recycling bin on my PC is renamed to Toxic Landfill because I'm not letting Windows propagate me into thinking such an amazing species as us, is a virus

Pretty much the R9 390x, RX480, RX580, RX590... as long as similar VRAM amounts I know the 480 you could get either 4 or 8G VRAM. all performed similar.

590 is when amd was going to a new node. Again same core.

@@rartolak And more power.

4gb vram to 8gb vram

You need a 'reference clocks ' 480 (blower) sorta card to get down to 150 watts, or undervolt a good silicon lottery example at slightly higher clocks. . 1120 baseclock -1266 'boostclock' is reference.. The rx 4000 gpu chips started out as a laptop design. The rx 580's were sold with physically bigger coolers. Past 'reference' Mhz they ALL hit the exponential power wall problem (who would sell a desktop gpu chip clocked further below that issue?) - a 10% frequency increase requires a 10% V bump, = 20% more watts and only results in 5% more frames per second. They get thirsty past reference clocks. Fast. I run an rx 480 nitro I bought new (still fine for star trek online) and I clocked it as far as 1380 Mhz.. Running benchmarks the noise was a joke, the watts was around 220 .. for fxck all. Tweaking the vram improved minimums by 20%. I dont remember a 'reference clocks' or blower style rx 580. I know there are specs at ~ 1340 Mhz but the cherry picked 580 gpu chip cards were running 1400+Mhz . 230 watts. . It says something about global foundries (even with the bigger metal coolers) there are so many of the cards still running.. (it also says something about radeon, because of the RX 590, you will likely get driver and software updates for another year or so on a 2016 rx 480.)

Awesome, thank you!

Thank you too!

yeah, thanks !

Thanks 👍

If it works

Oh, it works ;) Playing some Cyberpunk. New parts don't arrive till tomorrow. Just curious if this card is even in demand anymore. It is capable. Just starting to lag for the "latest" titles.

By the way, love the videos. I just got into trace repair. Working on repairing old consoles and other electronics. Maybe I'll get into repairing GFX cards at some point. Dunno.

Mind if I save your profile picture it's making me LOL

@@nicekeyboardalan6972 go ahead, its all yours you can save it if you want to

Good idea. Can we agree that it costs you at least one workday (8h, lets be socialists!:P) to find out how to set up that system[1]? Lets be generous and assume 5m for reinstalling the needed graphics driver suite (empty test systems are fast at installing and rebooting, as we have seen ourselves!). So practically it is equal to set up a second system or switch drivers (480 minutes / 5 minutes = 96 times) around 100 times. Hmmm ... And now you have two systems. New graphic cards come to market, tests are updated, operating systems want to be updated. Who does maintain the second system? And why only two ("dual")? With NVidia there are several driver suites alone (consumer RTX, older generations Gxx, professional cards, A.I. accelerators, you get it). There are other manufacturers than AMD and NVIDIA ... so who does maintain all of those systems? Do the calculations, then your idea doesn't look that good and is debatable, or? My apologies for being a spoilsport:P But reality and especially math+business is a b*tch! [1] I'm working with Linux since 1995, before Unix and CP/M ... Yeah this is anecdotal evidence and can just mean that I am bad at setting up multi-boot systems ... ,BUT if you are doing this for the first time, ONE day is a generous estimation. Also that you most likely make things worse, a.k.a. erasing something or making the whole system unbootable than that magically everything goes great. Or?:) Be honest! Edit: Just an addition. Testing-systems are really unproblematic to boot from USB stick(In the meaning of every graphics driver related system on ONE separate stick), which are fast nowadays. There is no need for big data. If you wanna get fancy?: SSDs in a switchable/hotswap tray. The problem with operating system/software maintenance stays! Really, The reason I avoid dual-booting production-critical (or repair) systems like the devil holy water is that they are so fragile. Don't tell me that grub updates always run smoothly ... or that you not have to be an expert and often RTFM with some updates. That is time intensive! Or worse: WINDOZE is known for effing up bootsectors, boot-orders, dual boot setups, etc. like a boss. That is OUT OF OUR CONTROL! I don't want that to happen ... I want instead to begin with the work and don't mess around with the system.

@@dieSpinnt I've been with linux since 1991, I look for efficiencies wherever I can. If the test rig is not on the internet, who cares about updating, or you can update on an off day. You're acting like he's gong to daily driver both OSes at the same time. It takes more than 5 min to do clean installs of AMD and NVIDIA drivers, you aren't pulling my leg on that one. Anyways, you comment noted and while you raise good points, you shoot the entire thing down with extra garbage that can be eliminated in order to prove your point (socialist much?)

@@ChrisFaulkner Thanks, Lori.

I found the MSI and XFX versions were very rugged. I mined on those 470s and 580s for 4 years. I sold them to someone else when mining profits petered out. They are still working today. The only thing ever changed on them was the fans, a rear heat sink added with thermal pads to the rear plate. "It's Tandy Tough!"

I wish!

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That's a good idea!

@@northwestrepair If you could be so kind, do you happen to know how nVidia (PCI-E) VBIOS are packed? I can't locate the bitmap font, prob because it has been compressed. I don't want to change clocks, volts, or fans, just swap font from CP437 to CP866. Thank you.

yeah the one i made ?

@@northwestrepair yep..

ill live

Discord

Furmark less demanding than what ?

First off, is the card bought new or used? If it was used there's a chance that different sized thermal pads were installed, hence the heatsink not making proper contact with the GPU core. If it was new, you'd probably need to re-paste the GPU core.

Discord

900 cards not worth shipping, let alone fixing

If you even slightly too many pads, you will bow the card. The cooler still clamps with the same amount of pressure, forcing the board down. But the built up pads doesn't let the rest of the board bottom out. Leading to a curved pcb. Rarely does anyone who stacks pads know the actual clearance numbers. Plastic feeler gauges are cheap and usually help.

I have the 4080, hopefully it lasts as long as your 580mate

No I moved

It's the best way to get vitamin D from your screen though

yeah why not. Ill do my best but make no promises. If there is nothing to fix, there is nothing to make video about if you know what i mean. You can contact me by following links in the description. Thanks !

@@northwestrepair I will. I know you’re honest guy and if a video worth to be made you’ll make it definitely. Thanks for the reply.

Much appreciated