Hey, how's it going? Dave2D here. So this is the second AMD rig
I've ever built in my life. The first one was in like the year 2000. It was an AMD Athlon Thunderbird or something like this.
15 ,16 years later... no, 17 years later
I have this, the AMD Ryzen-7. So, running a Ryzen 7 1700X and a liquid-cooled
Vega 64 and I put it all into this ITX case because I'm all about smaller cases and
the liquid-cooled Vega 64 actually fit inside this thing. The case is a shift from Phanteks.
It has a volume of around 20 litres,
so it's not like the smallest ITX case ever, but I think it looks really nice, and I wanted something that looked stealth,
but could cool an 8-core CPU with a powerful GPU. In terms of the other components,
it's running 32 gigs of RAM from Corsair.
It's running out of stock 21:33 and a 600-watt power supply. A
Samsung 950 pro NVme and I'll drop links for all this stuff down below, but none of this stuff is overclocked.
It's all running at stock right now, and I'm still tweaking things, so don't laugh at my award-winning cable management, but yeah
I built a fully AMD rig
I just want to share some thoughts with you. So first let's start with the GPU, the water-cooled Vega 64
It's a silver casing, red accents. AMD sent this thing out for me to take a look at earlier
So I'm still running beta drivers, but the performance is good
It's a stronger performer than a reference GTX 1080, so right out of the box without any kind of overclocking, it
benchmarks better and it performs better in most games. It's a very powerful GPU. I had mine connected to a 1440p
144 Hertz FreeSync panel
And the gaming experience is phenomenal. Super buttery visuals with graphics quality cranked up. I did have hiccups in a couple of games
but I'm just going to chalk it up to immature drivers that will get resolved. I ran some benchmarks for Crypto mining
And I don't know, these numbers felt really low. It could be a driver issue, or maybe it's just a mining client issue
I'm not sure, but these are some numbers in case you're curious
I want to talk about power consumption for a bit
The liquid-cooled Vega 64 uses a lot of juice, more than a 1080, more than even a 1080 Ti
You can reduce the power consumption through the catalyst software, and there's even a physical switch on the card for low-power mode
But performance is reduced if you do that
It's about a 20% drop in performance to go to Power saver mode
And it's only a little bit of an increase in performance to go up to turbo mode
but it uses quite a bit more energy so balanced mode is probably the sweet spot. Now the liquid cooled Vega 64 is clocked a
Bit faster and the Rad fits perfectly into this Itx case, so I gave it a shot. Now
I tried all three of these cards with the GTX 1080, a 1080 Ti and the liquid cooled Vega 64. The 1080Ti is
a little bit of a tight squeeze
But all three of them fit. In terms of performance the liquid cooled Vega 64 sits right in the middle
The 1080 Ti is quite a bit faster
Now this rig was built for video editing and looking at Premiere the lead that Vega
64 normally has over the reference 1080, it disappears. It might be something with the drivers or maybe Adobe needs to optimize premiere to work
With Vega, but the 1080 is slightly faster and as usual the 1080 Ti is in the lead
The Vega 64 is nice and a halt but really the heart of this Rig is the Ryzen
1700 X so this thing is awesome after years of building pricier intel systems
Having access to an 8 core CPU at this price point is so weird the performance is really good for the money
the fan noise of the liquid-cooled Vega 64 never gets super loud or anything even when you're playing games and the temperatures stay comfortable as
well They do a really good job with thermal management
and pricing for the liquid Vegas 64 starts at
$599 the air-cooled version goes for $499 and at this pricing the dollar to performance ratio is not bad
I mean, it's not a door crashing deal. It's fair, but if crypto miners want these cards again
it's going to screw with the pricing and I think these cards will not be appropriately priced for gamers to purchase
If Crypto miners get their hands on these things. Overall
I think it's a solid card it has the same GPU tachometer as the fury x
Performance is strong and as long as AMD continues to improve on their software
I think vega is a good option for a lot of people as for me personally for this particular build I feel like the vega
GPU is a little bit too hot and a little bit too high power consumption for
This particular case size 300 watts is pushing this case size and the power supply
600 Watt Power supply a lot of that is taken by the video card
And I just think that I should go for a lower TDP for this system
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