Re:System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house
by unsigner on Thursday April 20, 2017 @08:13AM
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The 380x and 390x are HOT.
Newer Radeons are much better in that regard, and generally very decent cards - 470/480 and the recent rebrands/reclocks 570/580.
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Re:System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house
by speeder on Thursday April 20, 2017 @08:24AM
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MY 380x only get hot when using the default fan control, that is complete crap.
With my custom fan curve it starts to get limited in performance while still around 60c (and fan noise is still not 'perceptible' over the sound of a game for example), because it instead hit power limits.
The 380x has same power limit as 380, despite having more GPU power available and double the RAM, I have no idea why they made such crappy decision.
Is power problems are so severe, that undervolting the card make it MORE stable and faster, because it reduces total power usage, and triggers the power limits less often. (same thing apply to 480 by the way, people found out during the 'PCI slot melts' crisis that undervolting it made it behave much better).