Quote from: Trimegistus on August 07, 2017, 05:38:39 PM

Quote from: agtprvctr on August 07, 2017, 04:35:48 PM

Quote from: Claymore on July 30, 2017, 02:37:17 PM

Finally I can test and confirm that AMD has fixed the issue with slowdown at high DAG epochs for Vega/Polaris/Fiji cards. They are going to release new drivers in a few days.

Have you heard any new updates from AMD since? Wondering if they're having last minute issues with the release. I'd like to avoid using an unofficial user-modded driver.

Separately, I just assembled an AMD rig with 6x RX480, and I'm new to AMD, would folks mind educating me as to the following:

1) Is BIOS modding still the way to go for under-volting and optimizing memory timings? Or can a lot of that be achieved with the latest Wattman?
2a) If BIOS mods are still the way to go, I read that as of a certain Catalyst version it won't work with modified BIOS, so does that mean when the new Catalyst with DAG fix releases, it won't work with the BIOS mods? How will we be able to use the new driver with DAG fix AND run with modded BIOS?
2b) If Wattman can largely achieve power reduction and improved

Apologies in advance if this issue has been widely discussed, I didn't see directly relevant results with the preliminary Google searches I've done thus far.

1) Yes, BIOS modding is the way to go! But make sure you know what you are doing, ok?

2) With recent drivers, you'll need to patch to them otherwise they won't work with the modded BIOS. Check it out: https://www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-AMD-ATI-Pixel-Clock-Patcher

3) With current drivers, WattTool is the best choice to undervolt/underclock your rigs. Get it here: http://www.overclock.net/t/1609782/watttool-a-simple-tool-that-combines-overclocking-with-vrm-monitoring-tweaking-for-rx-400-series

4) WattMan sucks... Grin

Thank you guys so much!

agtprvctr

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