Hello about 11 days ago I purchased the Radeon RX 460 2GB Factory OC'd [Sapphire] GPU.
since day-zero I experienced games crashing, and began troubleshooting. so far not much.
Here is the list of my actions:
-First thing I've done:
-Uninstalled the previous nvidia drivers,with DDU and even manually.
-Reinstalled windows using the windows 10 option,
-Formatting the whole windows using CD to make sure I delete everything and reinstall the windows.
-checked temps, about 60c
-checked bios, disabled intergrated graphics, made sure its on PEG/PCI
-tried multiple games, different options, fullscreen/windowed, graphics..
-benchmarking - using Heaven I didn't crash at all for some reason, using the Unreal engine 4 directx12 benchmark crashed instantly, few attempts caused a BSOD. (something about the GPU's drivers (had "ati" on its name))
-checked the PSU, 450wattage (zalman ZM450-GS)
** for some reason when I have the RX 460 GPU my boot is flickering (whole picture is ***'d up, and sometimes on safemode the screen is tripled, (see the same screen 3 times, plus the screen looks like glitched with cutt, [ like the no man's sky HUD when you see on the edges lines like in many games, makes it look cool])) with the intergrated graphics the boot looks good again, without flickering.
- tried to unplug the GPU out of the motherboard, PC works with it and without it fine.
-tried to reset bios by taking the battery out and back in
now the interesting part:
On the second day of my troubleshooting I tried to downclock the GPU, and I found out that decreasing by 100mhz, I could play for longer without any crash, and then I realized that If I downclock to 17.5% I'm not crashing at all. (Btw my default clock is 1210mhz)
I'm planning an RMA, but I thought maybe I should ask if it is actually faulty GPU, and make sure they won't scam me and blame it on me. I have a 3year warranty for any non-physical damage.
I asked AMD support, told me either ineduqate PSU or faulty GPU, but I got 450W PSU..
another thing, I thought I have to plug power connectors x6/x8/x4 pins, my PSU got them but I cant find anywhere to put it, not sure if I really need, the manual tells me to do so, but I got no connectors at all in my GPU, and cant find anything on my motherboard.
I had Nvidia GT630 1gb.about the voltage, I checked tons of sites, and posts nothing to really help, but some said to check for voltage, my GPU voltage won't move from 0.580V, while the Radeon Wattman (Radeon's tool for overclocking) shows different levels of voltage, up to 1125mV
Conclusion: I've tried anything I found to fix the problem, and nothing really fixed it,
I found out the only solution to play is to downclock the gpu,
now I want to RMA the GPU because I'm scared if this is actually a faulty GPU it might break down earlier.
If it is my PC's problem and not GPU's and I know for sure it won't damage the GPU, but it is just limiting it, I'm fine playing with 200mhz less clock, it doesn't do much to the performance, but I'm just worried that the GPU will die earlier.
Time for specifications:
CPU: Intel Core2quad Q8400 @2.66ghz
RAM: 4gb DDR2 Dual-Channel 5-5-5-15 @333mhz
GPU:Radeon RX 460 2GB Vram Factory Overclocked to 1209mhz memory is 1750mhz. from Sapphire
Motherboard: ASUSTek P5kpl-AM (socket 775)
HDD:232GB Western Digital WDC WD2500KS-00MJB0 ATA Device (SATA)
Screen: 24" MAG 1920x1080p RD24L 59hz DVI-D to DVI-D cable.
PSU: Zalman ZM450-GS switching PSU
I bet reading this post is a huge pain in the **, so I really appreciate any help.
Thanks.
since day-zero I experienced games crashing, and began troubleshooting. so far not much.
Here is the list of my actions:
-First thing I've done:
-Uninstalled the previous nvidia drivers,with DDU and even manually.
-Reinstalled windows using the windows 10 option,
-Formatting the whole windows using CD to make sure I delete everything and reinstall the windows.
-checked temps, about 60c
-checked bios, disabled intergrated graphics, made sure its on PEG/PCI
-tried multiple games, different options, fullscreen/windowed, graphics..
-benchmarking - using Heaven I didn't crash at all for some reason, using the Unreal engine 4 directx12 benchmark crashed instantly, few attempts caused a BSOD. (something about the GPU's drivers (had "ati" on its name))
-checked the PSU, 450wattage (zalman ZM450-GS)
** for some reason when I have the RX 460 GPU my boot is flickering (whole picture is ***'d up, and sometimes on safemode the screen is tripled, (see the same screen 3 times, plus the screen looks like glitched with cutt, [ like the no man's sky HUD when you see on the edges lines like in many games, makes it look cool])) with the intergrated graphics the boot looks good again, without flickering.
- tried to unplug the GPU out of the motherboard, PC works with it and without it fine.
-tried to reset bios by taking the battery out and back in
now the interesting part:
On the second day of my troubleshooting I tried to downclock the GPU, and I found out that decreasing by 100mhz, I could play for longer without any crash, and then I realized that If I downclock to 17.5% I'm not crashing at all. (Btw my default clock is 1210mhz)
I'm planning an RMA, but I thought maybe I should ask if it is actually faulty GPU, and make sure they won't scam me and blame it on me. I have a 3year warranty for any non-physical damage.
I asked AMD support, told me either ineduqate PSU or faulty GPU, but I got 450W PSU..
another thing, I thought I have to plug power connectors x6/x8/x4 pins, my PSU got them but I cant find anywhere to put it, not sure if I really need, the manual tells me to do so, but I got no connectors at all in my GPU, and cant find anything on my motherboard.
I had Nvidia GT630 1gb.about the voltage, I checked tons of sites, and posts nothing to really help, but some said to check for voltage, my GPU voltage won't move from 0.580V, while the Radeon Wattman (Radeon's tool for overclocking) shows different levels of voltage, up to 1125mV
Conclusion: I've tried anything I found to fix the problem, and nothing really fixed it,
I found out the only solution to play is to downclock the gpu,
now I want to RMA the GPU because I'm scared if this is actually a faulty GPU it might break down earlier.
If it is my PC's problem and not GPU's and I know for sure it won't damage the GPU, but it is just limiting it, I'm fine playing with 200mhz less clock, it doesn't do much to the performance, but I'm just worried that the GPU will die earlier.
Time for specifications:
CPU: Intel Core2quad Q8400 @2.66ghz
RAM: 4gb DDR2 Dual-Channel 5-5-5-15 @333mhz
GPU:Radeon RX 460 2GB Vram Factory Overclocked to 1209mhz memory is 1750mhz. from Sapphire
Motherboard: ASUSTek P5kpl-AM (socket 775)
HDD:232GB Western Digital WDC WD2500KS-00MJB0 ATA Device (SATA)
Screen: 24" MAG 1920x1080p RD24L 59hz DVI-D to DVI-D cable.
PSU: Zalman ZM450-GS switching PSU
I bet reading this post is a huge pain in the **, so I really appreciate any help.
Thanks.
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