Best Vega 56 variants

[Yiannis15]

Hello my brother saw a sale on Amazon for an Asus Vega 56 strix for 355euros. Is it a good variants all other versions are over 400 euros

[Vejnemojnen]

other strix cards generally feature great cooling, and relatively quiet operation. Would be a reasonable choice IMHO

[pstarlord]

Sapphire Nitro+ or the Asus Strix are the two best. 

[NORCALSC]

Nitro vega 56 is the best hands down, powercolor and asus follow it up

[ch3w2oy]

Whichever is the cheapest, not including blower style ones. I had the strix 56 and didn't have a problem with it before I upgraded to the 64. It is known that some strix Vega cards have temperature/thermal problems. 

 

If they were all similar in terms of pricing it would go, Nitro+/Red Devil>Saphire Pulse>Strix>Red Dragon

[Yiannis15]

I saw that the strix Vega 56 has some vrm heat problems. Does it makes a difference if the environment temperature is high? Because in summer in my country the temperatures hit 40C

[Yiannis15]

10 hours ago, ChewToy! said:

Whichever is the cheapest, not including blower style ones. I had the strix 56 and didn't have a problem with it before I upgraded to the 64. It is known that some strix Vega cards have temperature/thermal problems. 

 

If they were all similar in terms of pricing it would go, Nitro+/Red Devil>Saphire Pulse>Strix>Red Dragon

 

11 hours ago, Normanbates4 said:

Nitro vega 56 is the best hands down, powercolor and asus follow it up

 

14 hours ago, pstarlord said:

Sapphire Nitro+ or the Asus Strix are the two best. 

I saw that the strix card has very high vrm temps. Can that cause thermal throttling and crashes? Will it make the experience worse? How bad is it

[Quadriplegic]

Nitro+ is absolutely best Vega 56 card. If size is an issue, then Pulse. 
Strix isn't bad, as long as thermal pads are applied correctly.

Overclockers.co.uk sells Pulse for 299 pounds from time to time.Also, some retailers in France/Spain are selling it for around €330. Just keep in mind that they tend to have coil whine under high load 

[ch3w2oy]

29 minutes ago, Yiannis15 said:

 

 

I saw that the strix card has very high vrm temps. Can that cause thermal throttling and crashes? Will it make the experience worse? How bad is it

Strix should be just fine. Mine have me no problems. If the price is right, there's no reason to spend more on a similar card. Worse comes to worse you can always apply a thermal pad to GPU. 

[Yiannis15]

28 minutes ago, Quadriplegic said:

Nitro+ is absolutely best Vega 56 card. If size is an issue, then Pulse. 
Strix isn't bad, as long as thermal pads are applied correctly.

Overclockers.co.uk sells Pulse for 299 pounds from time to time.Also, some retailers in France/Spain are selling it for around €330. Just keep in mind that they tend to have coil whine under high load 

I just saw the pulse is 300 pounds. Should I get it from there is over lockers.co.uk safe site to buy hardware?

[ch3w2oy]

41 minutes ago, Yiannis15 said:

I just saw the pulse is 300 pounds. Should I get it from there is over lockers.co.uk safe site to buy hardware?

The Pulse is just fine.

[Quadriplegic]

1 hour ago, Yiannis15 said:

I just saw the pulse is 300 pounds. Should I get it from there is over lockers.co.uk safe site to buy hardware?

It's just regular PC hardware store, completely safe to buy stuff from it

[Yiannis15]

Bought the pulse

[Xkillerpn]

for vegas powercolor and sapphire, forget the strix

[Yiannis15]

1 hour ago, Xkillerpn said:

for vegas powercolor and sapphire, forget the strix

Yeah I bought the sapphire pulse for 390 with the 3 free games