I am glad we have someone like you doing these videos because it helps the consumer know when deciding on a custom PCB about what they are ACTUALLY buying. Most people don't even know what's on the PCB and assume that they are all great or same just because it's non reference. However, you actually point out interesting points on the PCB that makes it stand out for overclocking which is a huge factor into purchasing a non-reference in the first place. Kudos to you sir and hope you do more! I am currently waiting for XFX, powercolor and Sapphire custom PCB before I decide. Maybe you should do a video to compare all of the PCB and rank them from best to worst?
Your channel caught my eye as it is so detailed and well made. Instant subscribe! Thanks for providing such informative videos. What do you think is the best RX 480 is (Price doesn't matter)?
Thanks for the analysis. It's pretty awesome the people will tear down a card and make a comment on the actual quality and potential limits of what you are buying in a card.
Marvellous, both card and breakdown. Perhaps if you'd like, consider switching markup color to bright yellow or blue. I think it makes for better contrast.
Great vid as always. Glad to see the AiB's fixed AMD's messy design. Very interesting that the AiB 480's are right up there next to the 1060's in price range by the way, almost identical.
Those 4 pin fan headers are trick for those of us with mini-itx cases. My FTZ-01 has two 120mm slots facing straight at the gpu intakes, but if I want the fans loud only under gpu load, currently it has to be done in bios. Granted I have an SSD and the extra time spent if I wanted to sit down for a good session and take a trip through BIOS first to set them to full is minimal. But you get the point.
5 years on and I got a dead RX 580 strix and it is the SAME PCB and cooler this vid is helping me on my journey to (hopefully) FIX my new card during GPU-apocalypse
Great PCB. The drawback of Asus is their cooler. They use the same cooler and the heat pipes don't go over the GPU like they should. If you want to change the cooler, go with LN2 or water, it's great. But to keep it on air, their cooler really is worse than many other brands.
Wow very informative video. I didnt know people do this type of technical breakdowns on youtube. You deserve more subs... way more than those green shills channels. Thank you so much for the info.
thanks for the layout information on these Asus Strix cards! I have a pair of these in Crossfire and they perform great and look great while doing it. at around 241.00 dollars they are to me a bargain on price too.
wil you do a PCB review of Sapphire Nitro+ RX 480? it's the most available one atm. but i understand if you don't have a nice pic of it yet. good channel btw.
@Actually Hardcore Overclocking Could you either point us to a guide or give us a little one on how to make use of those voltage adjustment points? I am assuming a multiturn potentiometer. Do we connect it from the voltage point on one side to ground on the other? Do we start with the potentiometer turned all the way to max resistance or lowest resistance when booting the card when using it for the first time? What kind of resistance do we want on the potentiometer? 1 kohm?
How bad do you see this hole "Asus slaps Nvidia Coolers on AMD cards" thing. Because the Heatpipes arent all touching the core because of the different orientation that gpu cores have from amd and nvidia and this does lower the max cooling ability for the cooler.
I think the heat-pipes can probably pass heat from one to another just fine. It would of course be better if they were all directly touching the core however I'm not sure if a copper heat-spreading plate would make things better or worse. In the past ASUS got a lot of flack for bad cooling on AMD cards especially the 390(X) and 290(X) however I don't believe that cooling performance was due to the heatpipes I think the heatsinks they put on the cards were just too small. The 290X Gaming from MSI has a similar cooler to ASUS DCUII 290X and gets worse temperatures with 41dB(79C) of noise vs the ASUS's 42dB(78C)(numbers from TechPowerUp reviews). No one ever moaned about MSI's cooler being crap even though it offers the same exact cooling performance as the ASUS. The Strix Fury is hotter than the Tri-X. However the Tri-X has a massive heatsink compared to the Strix Fury. ASUS only royally screwed up on some HD 7970 cards which needed a copper shim due to the metal brace around the core being taller than the core. On those card's ASUS's cooler literally didn't touch the core. Ultimately I would not judge a heat-sink based on how it looks. I would judge it on real world performance. If it gets the same temps at similar or lower noise levels it's a good heatsink. If it makes more noise and cools less it's a bad heatsink.
Thx for your reply ^^ I just had Sapphire cards for ages and now still running a Asus hd6970 wich is not bad at all. I will look into some tests about the different coolers then there avaiable and then just buy the one wich is the coolest at the lowest noise level possible. Altough i realy like to overclock things and this asus pcb looks super cool. But anyways thx for your quick answer m8 ;)
Just bought a 8gb version for a spare build with some older parts 3770k and a z77a msi g45 thunderbolt motherboard and 16gb 2133 ddr3. I think msi has the best 480 but not by much just like the look of the strix and its a case that shows the gpu vertical unstead of horizontal and the red of the msi cards has to hurt it sells. If they would just make it black it would go with most builds better. Hope the pcb not crap but i dont really care got my new main build. 6800k zotac 1070AE 64gb 3200mhz ddr4 asus x99 deluxe and a evga p2 750 psu. Using my old antec gamer 750 for my 480 build its been a great psu through 3 builds. But i should've got a 1060 but wanted to tinker woth polaris. Plus as those cards age i have a feeling polaris with age better and having 2gb vram doesnt hurt. Hell look at the 7970ghz vs 680 now the 7970 bitch slaps the 680 in most games.
Great coverage, thanks! I have a question: Would you know by any chance if the Asus strix rx480 8gb (non-oc) version has the same quality PCB and chips? I am getting a good deal on the strix non-oc version of this card.
2 questions. Based on your findings, which of these RX 480s should I buy for crossfire? Should I go with 2 crossfire RX 480s or just wait for the RX 490.
despite how the pcb looks my sapphire rx480 nitro+ can do a 1400mhz undervolted 60mv with a 2200mhz memory clock. I've got two other profiles that are set at 1420 and 1440mhz with solid stability. Undervolting saves power and reduces temperature so when I come out of gaming deus ex mankind divided on ultra settings my gpu has only displayed up to 45-50c however when I ran my tests with Furmark for stability I could hit 68-70c. But take into account Furmark is made to put tons of stress on the gpu while gaming is much easier.
"for gaming", as if it's not the obvious use for an RX 480.. LOL To answer the question, the XFX GTR is the best card for the price, the Asus Strix card has the best PCB for overclocking, but probably not worth the extra money.
hi buildzoid. i own this card. i've read that the asus 480 strix and 580 strix PCBs are identical. i bought a custom water block that's compatible with both(bykski). what i can't find is if the Asus strix rx 590 oc PCB is overall identical? if it has 2 6pin power connector? if so i may dremel cut the blocks plastic power spot a little wider on it. i don't own it but watching the price falls. 590 has a 1560 clock stable vs my 480s 1440hz oc gddr 8600hz oc. maybe could crossfire both 480 oc with 590 oc. Is Asus strix rx 590 oc PCB is overall identical?
alright, so I have been looking around for an rx 480 for a while now. I want to watercool my gpu and cpu and I'm (ofcource) going for a custom loop. But what rx 480 should I buy? The strix and xtr have the best pcb, so it is gonna be one of these two. I probebly won't be able to find waterblocks that will cool everything and not only the gpu itself so I need the strix version because it has cooler vrm. It shouldn't run to hot because the vrm can deliver twice as much power annyways. So is all above correct or do you think I should do something diffrend, or have something wrong?
Hi,How this PCB compared with the reference card? Are there any difference between the stuff used in this card and the reference one in terms of materials?
hi! Can you tell me what is tha small SMD next to the RAM chip (U2200) to the right on the middle of the board? It looks like a black one so maybe a 0ohm resistor, but my board has some ram failures on tserver and most games are frozen with it. There is some different surface area of PCB around that SMD on the board like some leakage of oil or something...
I see that the 2 extra chokes are difrent then the ones on the product page. Here are all the chokes those fancy things with a logo on the top but on the product page I see the 2 top chokes are different. Does this mean anything?
To anyone reading this: do you know what the power FETs are in this PCB (RX 470 Strix) (Warning 9mp image) www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/RX_470_STRIX_OC/images/front_full.jpg
ASUS Strix OC Edition or XFX GTR XXX Edition vs. Sapphire Nitro+ 1342MHz version. Which one should I pick? The XFX GTR Black Edition isn't available on Amazon.
Luka Stefanovic I got the Strix OC edition instead. The pricing on Amazon didn't make sense. A normal GTR being at the same price as the OC edition. So I decided to get the better binned card.
Have you seen the XFX cards PCB? It uses basicly the same VRM components as the Fury X. At least the same IR MOSFETs. Picture: cdn.videocardz.com/1/2016/07/XFX-Radeon-RX-480-DD-5_VC.jpg
Can you go over what all these specs mean? I love watching these videos but get lost in the details. Where would one learn this? Just wikipedia and random information here and there?
Hallo.. thank you for your videos and great work! I need your help plz..I have bought this video card (strix rx480 but the "oc" version).. my problem is that when i run furmark 1080 preset (or any test) my core clock is 880-920 mhz.. i use stock gaming mode 1310 mhz in asus gpu tweakii.. i only manage to get 1100 mhz in furmark if i raise power target to 150%.. temperatures are really low 60c max.. any idea whats wrong here?? maybe my corsar cx430 (31amps 12v).. ofc i will buy soon better psu but ill really need your opinion.. sorry for my english Edit: Also i finish rise of tomb raider with no lags.. but on this game my clocks droped down to 1000 sometimes.. more specs cpu:i5 4690k not oced with 212evo cooler 1 ssd 1 hdd MB:z97x asrock fatality killer motherboard
Hello people and buildzoid :) I need litle help? Frst black cube driver(pu38) left from gpu was burned out and i cant see whats the serial on him to replace it ,i would be grateful if somebody can read it from yours card,it starting with (up...) and i cant read numbers :( Thanks in advance
I really want to LN2 the card but I'm not sure if I will yet. If I want scores I pretty much need to run it on my X99 system and we all know how I feel about doing that.
Please, can you tell me something about PowerColor RX 480 Devil and XFX RX 480 GTR Black Edition? Good or bad? I can't decide which card to buy... Thank you in advance!
they both look like slightly upgraded versions of the reference card. They almost certainly re-arranged the power distribution on both. The XFX seems to have the stronger PCB since it's using the 6894 and 6811 FETs but the Powercolor probably has better cooling. The Polaris chips are pretty temperature sensitive so I would go for the Powercolor
anyone might know if the rx 580 strix has the exact same layout as this one? just want to know if the rx 480 strix water block would fit in the rx 580. thanks in advance if somebody can help
Hi. So if I am not overclocking GPUs on water or anything more than that (OC only on stock cooler), without modyfying PCB and using LM2. is it necesary to get Strix? In Poland it is ~1500and MSI Gaming X is ~1350. Is MSI going to be enaugh for "softcore" overclocking?
The Strix and other super high quality PCBs are only really useful if you plan to run 1.3V+ with custom power limits. Basically they are only worth it when running settings that aren't safe for daily usage due to degrading the silicon
So if strix will be on sale for this same price - I should go for it. If not - it is not worth to spend the money on that, right? You should definitely start to make videos like this about MB and power supplies. PSU is a difficult choice. I heard of PSUS made even by good manufacturers that after a year or 2 started to make some coil noises and instability issues. WATTS are not everything. Power quality is important too and only You can tell us what PSUs are good 😊. Thanks for your work!
i hace an r9 270 from powercolor, is the turboduo, it has 4+2 phases do you think it is enough for 150w, i can overclock it 220mhz on the core and 500mhz on the memory
which rx 480 you recomend for oc? but like kinda a cheap one i saw the gtr video of jaystwocent's video of the xfx gtr and i blowed me away (the RS is supposed to be the samething but only a 4 gb card wich what i want)
when i go to the newegg page it says that the RS has the hard swap fans and the 40% improved cooling and all the features that the gtr is supossed to have , the thing is that the gtr is 8 gb like 260$ and the rs is 4 gb and it's 210-220$
Ok so if i can get an asus strixx rx 480 for the same price as the sapphire nitro rx 480, should i buy it ? they both look good have leds ect.. but if i want to go the highest over clocks would the strixx be a better gpu over the sapphire?
ok, the strixx has a 20$ mail in rebate right now so it places it right on the nitro and they both have battlefield 1 game code. side note i absolutely love what you are doing. alot of people don't understand that not all gpus of the same architecture are the same or equal. you've helped me make a very well informed decision and I am sure you've helped more people with the same. keep it up man.
That's actually hard to do because GPU manufactures might have agreements directly with the component makers in which case the parts can be much cheaper than what you can find on the internet. The IR 3555 for example is 2.5eur a piece in a batch of 3000 according to my basic google search but I doubt that ASUS actually pays that much for them since they could probably order everything direct from IR.
Ok, (i was a little bit shocked ) It just seems to me as though the vias connect that plane to the 8 pin power. Also it would make no sense putting them at the top if they were connected to the pci power on the bottom, dont you think?
The thing is you can clearly see solder pads that aren't used that would connect the 12V plane of the Vmem/Vaux VRM to the 8pin. Also the location of the two minor VRMs is probably mostly aesthetic.
I'm gonna share this guy's channel in my country's gaming groups! I just want this guy to afford more stuff so that he can review for us.
Wow memory can go OVER 9000 !!!
it's listed different in gpuz it'll be 2000-2500 which is still impressive.
Times 4 though thanks to quad pumped memory
I know this is old, however I cannot get the memory in my Strix that high and stable , I can get close though
Just ordered this with one day shipping... and I still can't friggin wait!
Why dislike? I don't get it. Thx for explaining this stuff.
My guess is "AHO" said he brought an rx480 and is going to buy Zen hence triggered some nvidiots.
+Paskek Ya that can actually be true.
+Paskek zen will put a hurt on skylake, it won't be amazingly better but it should be at that level for a smaller price.
I am glad we have someone like you doing these videos because it helps the consumer know when deciding on a custom PCB about what they are ACTUALLY buying. Most people don't even know what's on the PCB and assume that they are all great or same just because it's non reference. However, you actually point out interesting points on the PCB that makes it stand out for overclocking which is a huge factor into purchasing a non-reference in the first place. Kudos to you sir and hope you do more! I am currently waiting for XFX, powercolor and Sapphire custom PCB before I decide. Maybe you should do a video to compare all of the PCB and rank them from best to worst?
Your channel caught my eye as it is so detailed and well made. Instant subscribe! Thanks for providing such informative videos. What do you think is the best RX 480 is (Price doesn't matter)?
Thanks for the analysis. It's pretty awesome the people will tear down a card and make a comment on the actual quality and potential limits of what you are buying in a card.
Marvellous, both card and breakdown.
Perhaps if you'd like, consider switching markup color to bright yellow or blue. I think it makes for better contrast.
Need to make mouse more visible. I lost it
yeah me too, can't see most times.
Its called a cursor, not the "mouse".
AllYourBase are belong to us
Great vid as always. Glad to see the AiB's fixed AMD's messy design. Very interesting that the AiB 480's are right up there next to the 1060's in price range by the way, almost identical.
Those 4 pin fan headers are trick for those of us with mini-itx cases. My FTZ-01 has two 120mm slots facing straight at the gpu intakes, but if I want the fans loud only under gpu load, currently it has to be done in bios. Granted I have an SSD and the extra time spent if I wanted to sit down for a good session and take a trip through BIOS first to set them to full is minimal. But you get the point.
Good job man, I hoped to see you do a PCB Breakdown on this card and here you are! I'm probably going to buy this one if it will fit my Kraken G10.
your vids are really helpful as a buying guide, thanks
I had a Asus R9 290 once and it overclocked like crazy!
...and then hit 95C and went right down to 700MHz everytime.
did you set fans to like 55% or something like that ?
DerisiveLaughter No the heatpipes don't touch the GPU on this piece of shit. :)
5 years on and I got a dead RX 580 strix and it is the SAME PCB and cooler
this vid is helping me on my journey to (hopefully) FIX my new card during GPU-apocalypse
thanks for making this! Really want nitro+ breakdown too ;)
Спасибо за видео!
Ждём выхода PowerColor AXRX 480 8GBD5-3DH/OC
I agree 100% about the RGB lighting crap... I like regular fan headers on cards... saves me a bit of work
Great PCB. The drawback of Asus is their cooler. They use the same cooler and the heat pipes don't go over the GPU like they should. If you want to change the cooler, go with LN2 or water, it's great. But to keep it on air, their cooler really is worse than many other brands.
I just hope, Gigabyte, MSI, ASRock send tis guy free motherboards to review!! Man! This guy has awesome content!!
Wow very informative video. I didnt know people do this type of technical breakdowns on youtube.
You deserve more subs... way more than those green shills channels.
Thank you so much for the info.
subscribed! keep on the good breakdown bro! thanks a lot!
ASUS You can always see the quality.
Good explanation a bit draggy but good.
someone send this guy a strix 480. fucking good review. THANKS
Hoping for a PCB review of the non-reference XFX Radeon RX 480
I'm still waiting for decent pictures of it. The largest one I've found is like 400px tall.
+Actually Hardcore Overclocking Awesome can't wait. Has the ASUS been the nicest pcb you have seen for the 480s?
pretty much.
thanks for the layout information on these Asus Strix cards! I have a pair of these in Crossfire and they perform great and look great while doing it. at around 241.00 dollars they are to me a bargain on price too.
wil you do a PCB review of Sapphire Nitro+ RX 480? it's the most available one atm. but i understand if you don't have a nice pic of it yet. good channel btw.
thanks for the amazing work. Making mouse more visible would be helpful
@Actually Hardcore Overclocking
Could you either point us to a guide or give us a little one on how to make use of those voltage adjustment points?
I am assuming a multiturn potentiometer. Do we connect it from the voltage point on one side to ground on the other? Do we start with the potentiometer turned all the way to max resistance or lowest resistance when booting the card when using it for the first time? What kind of resistance do we want on the potentiometer? 1 kohm?
That outro was very LTTish. Great video!
This is the one I was going to get... but I got sick of waiting and ordered an MSI 980 Gaming for $225.
How bad do you see this hole "Asus slaps Nvidia Coolers on AMD cards" thing. Because the Heatpipes arent all touching the core because of the different orientation that gpu cores have from amd and nvidia and this does lower the max cooling ability for the cooler.
I think the heat-pipes can probably pass heat from one to another just fine. It would of course be better if they were all directly touching the core however I'm not sure if a copper heat-spreading plate would make things better or worse. In the past ASUS got a lot of flack for bad cooling on AMD cards especially the 390(X) and 290(X) however I don't believe that cooling performance was due to the heatpipes I think the heatsinks they put on the cards were just too small. The 290X Gaming from MSI has a similar cooler to ASUS DCUII 290X and gets worse temperatures with 41dB(79C) of noise vs the ASUS's 42dB(78C)(numbers from TechPowerUp reviews). No one ever moaned about MSI's cooler being crap even though it offers the same exact cooling performance as the ASUS. The Strix Fury is hotter than the Tri-X. However the Tri-X has a massive heatsink compared to the Strix Fury. ASUS only royally screwed up on some HD 7970 cards which needed a copper shim due to the metal brace around the core being taller than the core. On those card's ASUS's cooler literally didn't touch the core.
Ultimately I would not judge a heat-sink based on how it looks. I would judge it on real world performance. If it gets the same temps at similar or lower noise levels it's a good heatsink. If it makes more noise and cools less it's a bad heatsink.
Thx for your reply ^^ I just had Sapphire cards for ages and now still running a Asus hd6970 wich is not bad at all. I will look into some tests about the different coolers then there avaiable and then just buy the one wich is the coolest at the lowest noise level possible. Altough i realy like to overclock things and this asus pcb looks super cool. But anyways thx for your quick answer m8 ;)
Just bought a 8gb version for a spare build with some older parts 3770k and a z77a msi g45 thunderbolt motherboard and 16gb 2133 ddr3. I think msi has the best 480 but not by much just like the look of the strix and its a case that shows the gpu vertical unstead of horizontal and the red of the msi cards has to hurt it sells. If they would just make it black it would go with most builds better. Hope the pcb not crap but i dont really care got my new main build. 6800k zotac 1070AE 64gb 3200mhz ddr4 asus x99 deluxe and a evga p2 750 psu. Using my old antec gamer 750 for my 480 build its been a great psu through 3 builds. But i should've got a 1060 but wanted to tinker woth polaris. Plus as those cards age i have a feeling polaris with age better and having 2gb vram doesnt hurt. Hell look at the 7970ghz vs 680 now the 7970 bitch slaps the 680 in most games.
Great coverage, thanks! I have a question: Would you know by any chance if the Asus strix rx480 8gb (non-oc) version has the same quality PCB and chips? I am getting a good deal on the strix non-oc version of this card.
2 questions. Based on your findings, which of these RX 480s should I buy for crossfire? Should I go with 2 crossfire RX 480s or just wait for the RX 490.
despite how the pcb looks my sapphire rx480 nitro+ can do a 1400mhz undervolted 60mv with a 2200mhz memory clock. I've got two other profiles that are set at 1420 and 1440mhz with solid stability. Undervolting saves power and reduces temperature so when I come out of gaming deus ex mankind divided on ultra settings my gpu has only displayed up to 45-50c however when I ran my tests with Furmark for stability I could hit 68-70c. But take into account Furmark is made to put tons of stress on the gpu while gaming is much easier.
Which RX 480 would you recommend for gaming ? I'm currently thinking between the ASUS and the XFX GTR.
"for gaming", as if it's not the obvious use for an RX 480.. LOL
To answer the question, the XFX GTR is the best card for the price, the Asus Strix card has the best PCB for overclocking, but probably not worth the extra money.
" and if you do then how do you like feed yourself cause you'd probably miss your own mouth" - Buildzoid XD
OK, I think this means I can safely use this card with my old ASRock H61-M HVS (socket 1155) motherboard. Thanks.
dude what you do is awesome! can you do this with rx 470's ?
what about the sapphire nitro + rx 480 pcb ^^
I'll do it if I find it
MSI one... cdn.videocardz.com/1/2016/07/MSI-Radeon-RX-480-PCB.jpg
Already in the works
nice!
Did they really just cut 2 phases out of the VCore VRM?
Of course. The silliest PCB and cooler for a RX 480.
Looking forward to a Sapphire breakdown, just need a PCB shot :p
hexus.net/media/uploaded/2016/7/cc271805-f416-4a84-80b8-0bdd91bf294c.jpg
www.bitsandchips.it/images/2016/08/05/480_nitro/fotine/IMG_3484.jpg
hwready.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160727_154759.jpg
www.bitsandchips.it/images/2016/08/05/480_nitro/features/chocke.jpg
hope you find them useful
you should do a powercolor devil 13 pcb review and do you think that there will be custom water-cooled rx 480?
Different colour for maker please, like green maybe as it's easier to see :)
i dont know what they did wrong to the pricing, but the 970 is the same price as the 480.......
ITS OVER 9000!!!!
hi buildzoid. i own this card. i've read that the asus 480 strix and 580 strix PCBs are identical. i bought a custom water block that's compatible with both(bykski). what i can't find is if the Asus strix rx 590 oc PCB is overall identical? if it has 2 6pin power connector? if so i may dremel cut the blocks plastic power spot a little wider on it. i don't own it but watching the price falls. 590 has a 1560 clock stable vs my 480s 1440hz oc gddr 8600hz oc. maybe could crossfire both 480 oc with 590 oc. Is Asus strix rx 590 oc PCB is overall identical?
I'm need a rx 480 8 gb what do you recommend I was going to go with nitro but xfx don't look bad or is it the hype
alright, so I have been looking around for an rx 480 for a while now. I want to watercool my gpu and cpu and I'm (ofcource) going for a custom loop. But what rx 480 should I buy? The strix and xtr have the best pcb, so it is gonna be one of these two. I probebly won't be able to find waterblocks that will cool everything and not only the gpu itself so I need the strix version because it has cooler vrm. It shouldn't run to hot because the vrm can deliver twice as much power annyways.
So is all above correct or do you think I should do something diffrend, or have something wrong?
Hi,How this PCB compared with the reference card? Are there any difference between the stuff used in this card and the reference one in terms of materials?
So, the Strix has the best PCB? Does that make it superior to other RX 480s?
the memory and Aux VRMs are not exactly the same, look closer buddy !
i'm also saving for zen,but damn ,when will they be out,i heard about february or march 2017?
How will you compare Nvidia Pascal design with Amd Polarish .Which one would last more
hi! Can you tell me what is tha small SMD next to the RAM chip (U2200) to the right on the middle of the board?
It looks like a black one so maybe a 0ohm resistor, but my board has some ram failures on tserver and most games are frozen with it. There is some different surface area of PCB around that SMD on the board like some leakage of oil or something...
Can you replace the up 2 vrams? I bought this card that I will fix it but I found that someone unplugged those 6 black squares at the top
Can you do a pcb breakdown on the strix 580?
I see that the 2 extra chokes are difrent then the ones on the product page. Here are all the chokes those fancy things with a logo on the top but on the product page I see the 2 top chokes are different. Does this mean anything?
To anyone reading this: do you know what the power FETs are in this PCB (RX 470 Strix) (Warning 9mp image)
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/RX_470_STRIX_OC/images/front_full.jpg
Can the single 8 pin even deliver as much power as the vrm can handle?
will you be doing the gaming x 480 pcb?
Asus Strix or MSI gaming X, which PCB is better?
ASUS Strix OC Edition or XFX GTR XXX Edition vs. Sapphire Nitro+ 1342MHz version. Which one should I pick? The XFX GTR Black Edition isn't available on Amazon.
which one did u buy?
Luka Stefanovic I got the Strix OC edition instead. The pricing on Amazon didn't make sense. A normal GTR being at the same price as the OC edition. So I decided to get the better binned card.
Have you seen the XFX cards PCB? It uses basicly the same VRM components as the Fury X. At least the same IR MOSFETs.
Picture: cdn.videocardz.com/1/2016/07/XFX-Radeon-RX-480-DD-5_VC.jpg
Yeah I've seen it.
Can you go over what all these specs mean? I love watching these videos but get lost in the details.
Where would one learn this? Just wikipedia and random information here and there?
I plan to do a VRM explanation video soon which should cover most things.
+Actually Hardcore Overclocking ah sweet, thanks in advance
Want to try to add voltage to mem chips with "OVM". How it should be done?
Over 9000?? PogChamp
Hallo.. thank you for your videos and great work!
I need your help plz..I have bought this video card (strix rx480 but the "oc" version).. my problem is that when i run furmark 1080 preset (or any test) my core clock is 880-920 mhz.. i use stock gaming mode 1310 mhz in asus gpu tweakii.. i only manage to get 1100 mhz in furmark if i raise power target to 150%.. temperatures are really low 60c max.. any idea whats wrong here?? maybe my corsar cx430 (31amps 12v).. ofc i will buy soon better psu but ill really need your opinion.. sorry for my english
Edit: Also i finish rise of tomb raider with no lags.. but on this game my clocks droped down to 1000 sometimes..
more specs
cpu:i5 4690k not oced with 212evo cooler
1 ssd 1 hdd
MB:z97x asrock fatality killer motherboard
Bought RX 480 O8G edition,and there is some annoying coil whine,disappointed,Asus,kinda expensive one,and looks nice,but...
would you say this card is worth $10 more than the xfx gtr?
Sometimes I get lost because of the small pointer
Hello people and buildzoid :)
I need litle help?
Frst black cube driver(pu38) left from gpu was burned out and i cant see whats the serial on him to replace it ,i would be grateful if somebody can read it from yours card,it starting with (up...) and i cant read numbers :(
Thanks in advance
Has the below 0C slow bug been fixed yet?
Elmor put out an LN2 BIOS that disables temperature readings. That removes the cold slow.
Awesome, since you got some LN2 now is there going to be an RX480 @ LN2 stream?
I really want to LN2 the card but I'm not sure if I will yet. If I want scores I pretty much need to run it on my X99 system and we all know how I feel about doing that.
Please, can you tell me something about PowerColor RX 480 Devil and XFX RX 480 GTR Black Edition? Good or bad? I can't decide which card to buy... Thank you in advance!
they both look like slightly upgraded versions of the reference card. They almost certainly re-arranged the power distribution on both. The XFX seems to have the stronger PCB since it's using the 6894 and 6811 FETs but the Powercolor probably has better cooling. The Polaris chips are pretty temperature sensitive so I would go for the Powercolor
Thank you very much for your prompt reply!
anyone might know if the rx 580 strix has the exact same layout as this one? just want to know if the rx 480 strix water block would fit in the rx 580. thanks in advance if somebody can help
Hi. So if I am not overclocking GPUs on water or anything more than that (OC only on stock cooler), without modyfying PCB and using LM2. is it necesary to get Strix? In Poland it is ~1500and MSI Gaming X is ~1350. Is MSI going to be enaugh for "softcore" overclocking?
The Strix and other super high quality PCBs are only really useful if you plan to run 1.3V+ with custom power limits. Basically they are only worth it when running settings that aren't safe for daily usage due to degrading the silicon
So if strix will be on sale for this same price - I should go for it. If not - it is not worth to spend the money on that, right?
You should definitely start to make videos like this about MB and power supplies. PSU is a difficult choice. I heard of PSUS made even by good manufacturers that after a year or 2 started to make some coil noises and instability issues. WATTS are not everything. Power quality is important too and only You can tell us what PSUs are good 😊. Thanks for your work!
how close is the rx 470 strix pcb to the rx 480 strix pcb?
Can someone help with a rx580 strix? Its the same pcb like this in the video...the gpu is not heating and has no power
I hope there can be a quick word on the PCB design in the description, for us the fools.
Nah 'right of the bat this is an awesome PCB' 2 dumb, didn't read.
Please do video for asus strix rx 580, thank you
No fuses on 12v rail. Crap. Needs DIY soldering rework just out from the box.
i hace an r9 270 from powercolor, is the turboduo, it has 4+2 phases do you think it is enough for 150w, i can overclock it 220mhz on the core and 500mhz on the memory
on stock voltages at 77c on furmark, without oc is at 66
which rx 480 you recomend for oc? but like kinda a cheap one i saw the gtr video of jaystwocent's video of the xfx gtr and i blowed me away (the RS is supposed to be the samething but only a 4 gb card wich what i want)
The RS is not even remotely similar to the GTR
when i go to the newegg page it says that the RS has the hard swap fans and the 40% improved cooling and all the features that the gtr is supossed to have , the thing is that the gtr is 8 gb like 260$ and the rs is 4 gb and it's 210-220$
The RS has a completely different PCB.
ok
THEwed123wet The RS can be had in 8GB, but I've read it's 4 phase instead of 6 like the GTR.
Correct or not, I can't confirm.
Ok so if i can get an asus strixx rx 480 for the same price as the sapphire nitro rx 480, should i buy it ? they both look good have leds ect.. but if i want to go the highest over clocks would the strixx be a better gpu over the sapphire?
I'd get the Strix over the Nitro if they are the same price.
ok, the strixx has a 20$ mail in rebate right now so it places it right on the nitro and they both have battlefield 1 game code. side note i absolutely love what you are doing. alot of people don't understand that not all gpus of the same architecture are the same or equal. you've helped me make a very well informed decision and I am sure you've helped more people with the same. keep it up man.
what about MSI RX470/480 good sir? :)
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how do u decide if a pcb is good or bad?
Love_the_channel!_Could_you_give_some_estimate_about_component_prices_in_a_vid.
That's actually hard to do because GPU manufactures might have agreements directly with the component makers in which case the parts can be much cheaper than what you can find on the internet. The IR 3555 for example is 2.5eur a piece in a batch of 3000 according to my basic google search but I doubt that ASUS actually pays that much for them since they could probably order everything direct from IR.
Hi, does anyone know if the rx 570 4gb asus strix has a similar pcb?
Can you put some words on asus rx 470?
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over 9000 !!!
ITE 8915FN What does it do
I overclocked my geforce 9300 GE to 694 mhz
hard to follow your marks. use yellow in future videos.
i killed a choke on a 5450 and soldered another one on can you bless my card pls
blessing granted I guess?
Hi , do you think zotac mini 1060 can add ram? I saw this in reddit i.imgur.com/92MA4Ls.jpg
what is lm2?
Is it just me or does he not know there are more than 2 layers 4:05 ? or did i miss something here?
I'm fully aware that most GPUs have 4+ layers.
Ok, (i was a little bit shocked )
It just seems to me as though the vias connect that plane to the 8 pin power. Also it would make no sense putting them at the top if they were connected to the pci power on the bottom, dont you think?
The thing is you can clearly see solder pads that aren't used that would connect the 12V plane of the Vmem/Vaux VRM to the 8pin. Also the location of the two minor VRMs is probably mostly aesthetic.
Yeah, maybe. The only way to figure that out would be an xray of that card.
That also makes me wonder where the vias on the Vcore 12v plane lead to..
or poking the card with a DMM would also show the 12V split.
8:33 over 9000