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Don't come here often but came here after seeing the video to say this. It's likely that the device has a bios which does not work with UEFI (UEFI and BIOS are different things), there should be an option to enable legacy support for devices with non-uefi compatible firmware. Secure boot must also be disabled for this. PCIe spec shouldn't matter, it should be forward/backward compatible without any changes to either devices firmware.

This guy gets it ^^ It not really about direction, but having your air intake at the hottest parts first, rather than last. Liquid cooling rads benefit somewhat from intaking cold air directly to the rad, so one would think intaking cold air directly to the hot bits would help at least somewhat.

(Ignoring blower type GPU's) I mean it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me why you would want to intake air furthest away from the components that produce the most heat as is done with front-to-rear setups. Wouldn't running cooling from rear-to-front ensure that the hottest components get the coolest air?

Think I found the issue here, not power target, but overall mv. Not sure if this is something to do with msi afterburner or how the gpu clocks in general, but whenever I set a higher voltage in msi afterburner its affecting the lower clocks aswell. Somehow its not an issue when the gpu is ramping up, but when the gpu finishes that first pass of firestrike and ramps back down. Its overvolting the lower clocks like crazy and somehow crashing the gpu.

Sorry, I just set it to +50 and forgot about it.

I have the RX 480 Nitro+ (1342 Mhz Edition) This card has been driving me absolutely insane, as I cant get it to hold any kind of stable overclock. At bare stock settings. Core Clock: 1342 Mhz Core Volts: 1150 mv Mem Clock: 2000 Mhz Idle Temps: Mid 40's Load Temps: High 60's At bare stock with change of thermal paste (Changed to Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut) Core Clock: 1342 Mhz Core Volts: 1150 mv Mem Clock: 2000 Mhz Idle Temps: Low 40's Load Temps: Low 60's Next I wanted to see how low i could get the core voltage at stock settings Core Clock: 1342 Mhz Core Volts: 1129 mv (-21) Mem Clock: 2000 Mhz Idle Temps: Low 40's Load Temps: High 50's/Low 60's Now I start off with a mild overclock. (this is the only one that is stable) Core Clock: 1375 Mhz Core Volts: 1150 mv Mem Clock: 2000 Mhz Idle Temps: Low 40's Load Temps: Low 60's The problems start when the system uses anything above the stock vcore. 1375 is about the max i can manage to have stable on the stock 1150mv vcore. It might be able to use a little more (at my current 1375 settings it will sometimes stutter) but adding the minimum amount of vcore (+6), makes it unstable. For any clocks that require additional vcore the result is the same, I get maybe about 30 seconds (I can get almost through the first pass of firestrike) and then the system freezes up, and has to be reset. It doesnt matter if im at 1400 and +20 or at 1475 and +100. It will seemingly run fine for ~30 seconds then freezes the system up. Its possible that i got a turd chip, but I think there might be another issue with the card thats keeping me from hitting higher speeds. Any ideas are appreciated