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R9 Nano or Rx 580 2048sp for CS2? I play at 720p. I own both of these already. Just a matter of testing them but I am waiting for parts.

Hello there. This is my first time I've seriously tinkered with graphics card settings past the Power Limit and Temperature threshholds. I've read before of ways to underclock graphics cards so that they run cooler, but often they required 3rd party applications such as MSI Afterburner, which may or may not affect certain functions on your card correctly, especially if you upgrade your driver, so I was hoping the WattMan feature, which was previously found on R9 480s, would make its way to other cards as I would not need to (continually) rely on a separate program to control such delicate settings. I have an i7-6700k running at stock clock (4.00GHz) with an ASUS R9 Nano White Edition, 32GB 1200MHz DDR4 RAM inside a Silverstone Raven RVZ02 HTPC case. I recently upgraded to the latest Crimson Drivers (16.12.1) to find I'm now able to use WattMan. The trouble is its such a departure going from this: ...to this... As you can see, I'm trying to get my card to run cooler despite hitting max frequencies (1000MHz). The R9 Nano has been known to throttle during huge loads, which could be offset by increasing its Power Limit% to 50, but would still need some finely tuned "fan service" (I let my GPU fan go all the way if needed be). However with Global WattMan, I can apparently set the voltage on a per-state basis by determining the amount in each state in the form of millivolts: ...which leads me to my first question: I'm not quite sure by what exact "degree" or "degrees" I should undervolt. I've heard something like -6mv increments, while others say -12mv or -24mv. I don't want to accidentally undervolt to the point it might damage my card. Another thing that I wanted to ask was how to treat each of these States and /or if State 7 is the only one that matters. I'm really inexperienced regarding the inner workings of how graphics cards adjust things on the fly. And finally, I've heard some people claim that I should run a GPU intensive program to test for reliability, but I wasn't quite sure if simply running a graphically demanding game would do. If it is a game, I was wonding which title I should run and how I should run it (load a particular level, command console tests, etc.).

Hi Guys, So I plan on water cooling my setup and I would like to keep everything the same brand. The problem is that EK have discontinued their water block for the R9 nano and I'm having a lot of difficulty finding it elsewhere. Any help would be very much appreciated, I don't mind paying extra if needs be. THANKS!

Sorry this is so long... Hi I have 2 systems, one a Ryzen 5 3600 on a Gigabyte Aorus Pro B450i motherboard, and a Radeon RX 5700xt. The second is a Ryzen 5 1600 on a MSI B450i Gaming Plus ac, and a Radeon R9 Nano. I just built both, first one is a friend's, the second is mine. All stock, using AMD 20.7.2 drivers. Whenever I run Unigine Heaven, or try to start say Final Fantasy XV, the computer black screens and restarts. All temps are good, and I can't find any information online. It started with the first system a few weeks ago when I built it, and thought maybe I got a bad 5700xt, but now that it has happened to a second system with different hardware, I'm at a loss and don't know where to turn. Please help if you can, let me know if there is anything I can provide to give you more context. I would also be willing to mail my system to you if it's something that might make good content. I'm desperate! Thank you and you're team for everything you all do for the Tech Community, and keep the videos coming!!!

Hello, I have FX 8370, 8GB DDR3 and very old HD3870 gpu. I am going to upgrade the gpu, because some games I would like to play (like Civ6) don't support dx10 gpus. I was thinking about R9 Nano or RX 580 4 GB. I can get each for same money, so I wan't to help with decision, which will be better for now and future. Now playing in 1920x1200, but thinking about 1440p or more. Thank you in advance.

Yo guys! I live in a Area where Electricity bills cost high and I am trying my best not to make my new gaming rig's power go over 700 Watts So this is what I got. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/yy4tcf What do you guys Think about it? btw I am also trying to save money so please give suggestions on parts Thanks!

I'm wondering if the R9 Nano would work in the x51? Me and My friend are both dumb and went with an Alienware product. We both have the X51, I had mine for over 2 years now, so it the X51 R1, while my friend got his less than a year ago the R2. I got a I5-2320, and He's got a i7- 4470, we both have 240w for now, but if its worth getting we'll be getting the 330w psu. If the R9 Nano won't work we will probably just get a GTX 960 or something or not. PS I'll probably be build my own system later on, that may or may not involve the R9 Nano. So don't worry if it would be a waste of money. EDIT: 330w is the the highest psu the x51 can get.

I need help and suggestions on a video card to use in a new build. I have an iStar 3u industrial rack case, model D-313SE-MATX. I have assembled the majorityof the parts needed to build this machine. Asus Maximums VIII gene motherboard, i5 6600k orocessor, 2x16gb corsair dominator ddr4 memory, 256 gb m.2 Samsung SSD for boot,128 gb Pextor m.2 ssd on pcie adapter,4 WD Red 1TB hard drives in raid 0 for bulk storage, Hauppauge Colossus video capture card. Processor is cooled with a Silverstone TD0-3 Lite wit 2 corsair sp120 fans in push pull and the rest of the fans are all Noctua. Power supply havent decided on yet. Due to case constraints the only card I can seem to find that will fit well is the R9 Nano. Issue is not length, although that can be an issue with some cards, the location of the auxillary PCIe power connectors is more of the issue. With a 3u case I cannot use a card that has the power connectors on the outside facing edge of the card. Need more suggestions of what to look at in the under 600 dollar category. A normal length card is ok my EVGA GTX 960 ssc ACX2.0 card fits but the power connector is the issue here. Any suggestions on cards with end mounted aux PCIe power connectors with at least 4 GB memory, standard length and heigth, or mini ITX comaptible will be appreciated. Do all nVidia cards have their power connectors on top?

AMD R9 Nano Amazon: http://geni.us/2xmZ NCIX: http://bit.ly/1W6VlZ5 ASUS GTX 970 Mini Amazon: http://geni.us/1vEs NCIX: http://bit.ly/1Wr4KhD We have used the Nano pretty extensively since its release, and quite frankly, we think it's pretty darn awesome. But is it perfect for every situation?

Hey guys, I'm planing on custom watercooling my 2nd baby; Toothless (Radeon R9 Nano, i5 4790k, Silverstone SG-13) My quandry is simple, is a single 120mm rad is enough to cool the both of them? Of course I already have an NF-F12 already in there, and airflow will be negative pressure and the psu will be pulling from inside the case and is semi-modular. I have no experience and little knowledge in custom water cooling loops and thought I would ask you guys for the first time, so, whats your opinion? (Apart from the fact that I'm crazy to watercool in an sg13) Photos attached

So the gtx980 costs about the same als the r9 nano but the nano is better, so if I wait for the pascal gpu how will the compare, will the new 970 be as strong as the r9 nano ore the 980? I know that we don't know a lot of specs but looking at growth in the past you could figure something out

Greetings. Ever since the price on the R9 Nano dropped to $450-$500 last year, I've been very interested in the GPU as an upgrade option. Currently, I'm running a Seasonic ECO-430 which only has one 6+2-pin PCI-e power connector. This means that I'll need to spend an additional $75 on a power supply if I'm to upgrade to something like an R9 390, and assuming I can get one for $300 ($375 for both), I'll only be spending $75 more to get a substantially more powerful R9 Nano instead, which will also run just fine on my 430w power supply due to its low TDP, and it only needs the one 6+2-pin PCI-e power connector. However, despite the price drop, its $450 pricetag was still a little too far out of my range, but is still among the best upgrade options available to me. I was wondering whether I can expect its price to drop even further with the release of AMD's new Polaris GPUs later this year, and if it does, how much can I expect it to drop by? Thank you for your time. Regards, Aereldor.

Well one day I thought it would be cool to build a mini itx pc with an r9 nano. Shortly after that Kyle made a video of his itx pc in a node 202 with a 6700k and an R9 nano. After this I gave in and ordered all the parts. i5 4570T, shitty gigabyte h81 motherboard, 16gb ram, Sapphire R9 nano, 480gb ssd. After I build the PC I benchmarked it to find out it's slower then my 380 because of the CPU bottleneck, so I got an i7 4790 used with scratches on Ebay for $250. I got the CPU did not test my PC again since I was busy working on my main PC. Then one day I thought why the fuck not custom watercool this tiny ITX computer? I found all the parts I needed to watercool it from PerformancePCs I picked out a waterblock for my R9 nano, a custom ROG EK supremacist EVO and I was going to get a EK SE 240 rad but it was out of stock so I got a magic cool rad instead which was only 1mm thicker. Then I found some slim 120mm fans on Amazon and I got 2 of those. Long story short I got all the stuff I needed and started building. \ I started with installing the waterblock, I ended up breaking the fan header on the PCB because the stock cooler fan wire would not come out. I started putting the tubes in place, I ended up not having enough tubing for the PC so I had to reuse some much larger tubing from my main PC making the tubing in my computer all different sizes. And my large tubing would not sit tightly over the pump so I tried to use zip ties to hold it, rookie mistake, the PC had a huge leak the second I tried to fill the loop. It took a lot of paper towels to clean up. Fast forward my PC is still leaking at the pump but I got the loop filled and am now using iron clamps to hold the tubing. The PC works but has not been benchmarked yet. Close up of the ROG CPU block the sex appeal is real. From this side you can see how everything fits, this setup is only possible with a single slot graphics card for everything to fit. You could use a Nvidia card however I highly don't recommend doing that, first you would have to cut off the DVI port on the card to make it single slot. Also due to the cards length, the fans would be struggling for air in my setup only one fan is choking for air, but if the card stretched over both fans the airflow would be highly reduced. I also don't recommend a Fury X or regular Fury because as I will show later the performance is the same but the Fury would take far more power for the same performance. Not to mention the Nano is cheaper I got mine for $480 on Newegg from Sapphire. And final picture of the PC I will be uploading more photos when I cut the cover panel of the case to actually fit over this as the fittings of the GPU block it from closing all the way down. I forgot to mention as suggested to me by a couple super helpful members I am using a sata to molex adapter to power my pump as this power supply does not have any molex power cables. The leak has been fixxed for now I am still waiting to see if it will leak or not after I added 2 iron clamps to each pump output/input. This build is a work in progress feel free to leave any feedback or suggestions! The firestrike score is 12648 with everything stock. This score using my 4790 actually beats my old score of 12382 when I had a 5820k and a Fury X in my main computer. Temps are as following: 60C at load on the CPU and 48C at load on the GPU.

Hi all, I am experiencing very poor performance on my Linux machine. CS:CZ runs smoothly, Unigine Valley runs at a lower FPS, but at least it gives me 30 fps, despite it gives my 70 fps on Windows. However, the 2 Source engine games I tried, HL2 and L4D2, run very sluggish. All animations are so so, but not too bad. Whenever I move my mouse or keyboard, it starts to freeze. In the meanwhile, FPS remains >=60. I know I am running on a particularly awful CPU, but on the same CPU using Windows, I get super smooth experience on both games. I can even run HL2 smoothly on iGPU (i5-4250U) even under Linux. I highly suspect it is due to bad GPU driver. Can anyone confirm that AMD driver is sluggish even with not very demanding games like HL2 or L4D2? So far I've tried fglrx in 15.10 repo, Crimson 15 from binary and AMDGPU in 16.04 kernel, and the latter one is worse, but both 3 suck. Here is the hardware list: ASRock X99E ITX ac Xeon E5-2603V3 (I use this CPU before E5V4 BIOS releases, I have a 2696V4 on my hand, but I do not want to risk frying it) AMD R9 nano 32GB ECC 2400 RDIMM*2 (derated to 1600 due to limitation of CPU) Once again, can anyone confirm that Source engine is not compatible with AMD drivers in Linux? Thanks, Bo

Greetings. Ever since the price slash on the R9 Nano, I thought it was an incredible deal, as you're essentially getting about 90% of the performance of a Fury X for 75% the price, and it just got better. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150754 The XFX version of the card is currently going for $455 on Newegg after a 10% discount code- a deal that expires on the 10th of this month, and puts it at 69% the price of a regular Fury X (Although it's worth mentioning that the Sapphire Fury X is down to 600 at Micro Center as well). If you're considering an upgrade for a small form-factor case and don't want to upgrade your power supply to keep something like an R9 390x fed, you can't go wrong here. Regards, Aereldor.

Hi guys. I am working with 1500 USD will settle for 1080p but would love to play at 1440p. I imagine atleast 60 FPS for 2-3 years. I am not going to overclock anything and I can't reuse anything from old PC because I will be giving it to my girlfriend, neither do I need OS. I would like a new monitor. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($194.99 @ SuperBiiz) Motherboard: MSI B150M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Micro Center) Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($64.49 @ Newegg) Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($87.77 @ OutletPC) Storage: Western Digital Blue 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($74.74 @ SuperBiiz) Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 390 8GB Video Card ($329.98 @ SuperBiiz) Case: Corsair Air 240 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($89.90 @ Amazon) Power Supply: SeaSonic 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($89.99 @ Newegg) Monitor: Dell S2716DG 144Hz 27.0" Monitor ($529.99 @ Amazon) Total: $1521.84 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-10 09:48 EDT-0400 Let me know what you think. Thanks for any suggestions!

Hello LTT forum! After an extensive amount of web browsing for info, components and retailers. I (think atleast) have my final form for my new PC. If you have any tips, opinions or criticism weather it's positive or negative towards my parts feel free to say so but please state why. Here it is http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/lelo08/saved/6QJJ7P . (Also a quick apology for my broken English ) I will use this build for general computing but mostly heavy gaming and little recording. The price of the build here in Sweden would actually be more closer to 3 300 dollar with shipping (from Swedish retailers). Time for some explanation! I chose the 240mm rad version of the h100i GTX simply because that will fit on top for the M1.0 case, it won't impact cooling much and it also slightly cheaper. As for the two sapphire radeon r9 nanos they recently went down in price quite a lot and they certainly do pack quite the punch. And maybe in the future when I have money for it i can set up a third nano. I like the aesthetics of it except for the little red detail that clashes against my build theme (maybe paint it?). As for the MOBO and the CPU it's quite easily explained with the compatibility of 2 or three GPU's. ''The main difference between the 5930K and the Core i7-5820K used in our $2,500 Build comes down to PCIe lanes. The 5930K enables 40 lanes (x16, x16, x8), versus the 28 lanes (x16, x8, x4) provided by the 5820K. For one video card, that doesn't matter, but if you want the option to run multiple ultra-high-end cards, it definitely does.'' -TBG website. As for the question: Why don't you just run a custom water loop? I am not nearly enough experienced to do a custom loop nor wanting the higher risk of leaking. So please say what you think about the rig and I will probably order all of the components in about two weeks from now. Or for your convenience here is the Pcpartpickers http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/lelo08/saved/6QJJ7P Edit: Instead of the two r9 nano I will instead go with two Sapphire radeon r9 fury x. Thanks for all the help guys!

Greetings. I've been using my GTX 960 2GB for about 6 months now, and while I had no plan to upgrade, I've found a couple of prospective buyers and might be able to pay the extra for a GPU upgrade. However, there are a few setbacks. My power supply is a relatively low-tier 430w Seasonic ECO-Series PSU with a single 6+2-pin PCIe power connector, which makes the R9 Nano the furthest I can go without upgrading it. Keep in mind that I quite like my 1080p monitor and will likely be using it for the forseeable future, and am not likely to upgrade my display unless I purchase the Oculus Rift once it has aged a little. Thus, my options for an upgrade are- Buy the R9 Nano and keep my power supply Get an R9 390/390x and upgrade my power supply Wait until Pascal GPUs hit the market and see what they have to offer in terms of performance. I appreciate any recommendations you have to offer Regards, Aereldor.

Hi Linus Community, I am a new member on this website and I don't really know where to post this question. So the thing goes; I was searching random videos on YouTube and I clicked into one titled "Raspberry Pi Cluster". I just wanted to ask (because I cant find solution on YouTube) if anyone can take low end PC hardware, build 3 rigs and then make a cluster than can handle multitasking such as high end gaming or video editing using the processing power of the 3 rigs.

Intel i5 4590 with r9 Nano. Will this CPU create a huge bottleneck for the R9 nano?

so i want to get a new card ONLY FOR 1080p 60 FPS..... but i dont know what is better for my money. My limit is 550$. So my choices are the 390 8gb for about 350$ or the nano for about 489$. all i want is a solid 60 fps in 1080p. i do not care about anything above 60fps or 4k. i use my 60inch vizio tv as a monitor so i cant go higher then that anyway. so what do you think is best for that? the card i have atm is a amd 7850 2gb.

Recently AMD R9 Nano just got price drop From 649$ to 499$ so can we just strap a CPU water Cooler (something like a 60$ corsair H60) and OC the nano so we can get somewhat same performance as the R9 FuryX? but the question is will it cool enough? can it be possible? will other components beside the GPU chip get overheat?

Would this be possible? PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($369.90 @ B&H) Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard ($186.98 @ Newegg) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($264.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Samsung 850 PRO 2TB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($887.57 @ Amazon) Storage: Samsung 850 PRO 2TB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($887.57 @ Amazon) Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 Nano 4GB Video Card ($649.99 @ SuperBiiz) Case: Lian-Li PC-TU100B Mini ITX Tower Case ($96.99 @ SuperBiiz) Power Supply: Silverstone 600W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular SFX Power Supply ($110.99 @ NCIX US) Case Fan: Noctua NF-F12 industrialPPC-3000 PWM 109.9 CFM 120mm Fan ($23.75 @ OutletPC) Other: EK Supremacy EVO ($96.99) Other: Kryographics for R9 NANO ($141.16) Other: Alphacool NexXxoS 120mm Radiator ($79.99) Other: Alphacool DC-LT Pump + Reservoir ($76.99) Other: Enzotech Barb Fitting - 1/4" 90° ($8.99) Other: Enzotech Barb Fitting - 1/4" 90° ($8.99) Other: Enzotech Barb Fitting - 1/4" 90° ($8.99) Other: Enzotech Barb Fitting - 1/4" ($2.99) Other: Enzotech Barb Fitting - 1/4" ($2.99) Other: Enzotech Barb Fitting - 1/4" ($2.99) Other: EKG 1/4" Plug ($3.99) Other: Tygon E-3603 1/4" Tubing - 3' Length ($6.00) Total: $3919.79 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-18 09:55 EDT-0400 I have no plans to build this, but after looking at completed builds inside the TU100 (http://pcpartpicker.com/b/Jtr7YJ) I decided to see if it is possible to get a custom loop inside a case this small powerful enough for the R9 Nano and 6700k. The pump + reservoir combo takes up about 5cm x 5cm x 10cm, which is actually about the size of most m-ITX heatsinks. Of course you'd need some sort of support to mount the pump + reservoir onto but in the end I think there's enough raw volume to do this.

Been doing some research but can't seem to find anything. Can someone maybe tell me the height x width x length of the card (in metric if possible). Also maybe someone knows the dimensions without the stock cooler. Thanks already for any answers.

Looks like AMD are sending out the review samples of their new Fiji based card out into the wild. PCWorld got their hands on a sample and did a size comparison. Boy the nano is small. Also here is how the R9 nano was born Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2979831/components-graphics/first-look-amd-radeon-r9-nano-compared-to-the-fury-a-tiny-gtx-970-and-a-pencil.html