RX 480 Devil 8gb from PowerColor Terrible card!

[Mauricio G. B.]

So last Year i bought an RX 480 8GB Devil from Powercolor, and boy oh boy it was filled with troubles, Terrible cooling, despite having the largest aside the Strix version

in Short, the videocard had a Metal Backplate to act as "support" and was told by powercolor themselves not to remove it, turns out that shit traps heat radiating from the back of the hard overheating components
thus crashing (giving a black screen) even with the gpu die itself being at a healthy 70c

so well, i simply removed every fucking piece of metal aesthetic bs and the card dropped from 72 (with fans at 65%) to 60c! while gaming heavily in OC mode (1330mhz) i even ramped the fans down to 55% and it stays constatly at 70c,

Avoid Powercolor Cards, this isnt the first one ive seen like this,
i bought it new from amazon.com for 220$, and returned it once, recieved another shitty card performance is great, is just that the card/cooling is crap

[asus killer]

all tests i've seen show that the backplate do nothing in terms of the proposed cooling. But i've also never heard of a backplate that cooks the card, that difference of 12C is insane. Maybe a fan pointing to the backplate can help.

 

PS: dust the machine dude 

[Mauricio G. B.]

1 minute ago, asus killer said:

all tests i've seen saw that the backplate do nothing in terms of the proposed cooling. But i've also never heard of a backplate that cooks the card, that difference of 12C is insane. Maybe a fan pointing to the backplate can help.

 

PS: dust the machine dude 

is just dust on top of the PSU, theres no dust buildup in any heatsink, or fan whatsoever, but yea, aftere testing the pc for 2 days now, there are no more black screens and temps are great, im quoting powercolor here "the backplate is meant for structural support, please do not remove it as the card might bent and damate itself" , they too said that it was imposible that said backplate was coocking the card, but well, i cant afford a new card, amazon wouldnt let me sent it back (also i dont want to pay postage again) powercolor left me hanged when asking for warranty/answeres as i dont live in the us (so they dont give a fuck), so i had to try, i even swapped cased from a terrible NZXT S340 to this beatutifull HAF 932

[asus killer]

8 minutes ago, Mauricio G. B. said:

is just dust on top of the PSU, theres no dust buildup in any heatsink, or fan whatsoever, but yea, aftere testing the pc for 2 days now, there are no more black screens and temps are great, im quoting powercolor here "the backplate is meant for structural support, please do not remove it as the card might bent and damate itself" , they too said that it was imposible that said backplate was coocking the card, but well, i cant afford a new card, amazon wouldnt let me sent it back (also i dont want to pay postage again) powercolor left me hanged when asking for warranty/answeres as i dont live in the us (so they dont give a fuck), so i had to try, i even swapped cased from a terrible NZXT S340 to this beatutifull HAF 932

you should look if the card bends to much. You can support it or diy some holes in the backplate. good luck

[Mauricio G. B.]

1 minute ago, asus killer said:

you should look if the card bends to much. You can support it or diy some holes in the backplate. good luck

thats why i flipped the pci-e connector to "hold" the card, if it starts to bend ill 3d print a stand

[Streetguru]

37 minutes ago, Mauricio G. B. said:

Avoid Powercolor Cards,

Powercolor makes some great cards and some bad ones, much like everyone else, their golden sample 580s were some of the best for out of the box performance
https://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/powercolor_radeon_red_devil_rx580_8gb_golden_sample/

 

Though their Polaris cards had pretty bad VRMs on the low end.

Did you try just changing your thermal paste? The card shouldn't be that hot just from a backplate, your stock voltage may just be really high, should try undervolting it.
 

 

 

[Mauricio G. B.]

Just now, Streetguru said:

Powercolor makes some great cards and some bad ones, much like everyone else, their golden sample 580s were some of the best for out of the box performance
https://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/powercolor_radeon_red_devil_rx580_8gb_golden_sample/

 

Though their Polaris cards had pretty bad VRMs on the low end.

Did you try just changing your thermal paste? The card shouldn't be that hot just from a backplate, your stock voltage may just be really high, should try undervolting it.
 

 

 

this is the 4th powercolor card i have that has failed (6850, HD 7970 and an HD 7870), voltages are stock, it is undervolted slightly, because it is in its OC mode, Thermal paste was changed 2 weeks ago with MasterGel Maker stuff, i just reaplied it since i removed the heatsink

 

[Streetguru]

3 minutes ago, Mauricio G. B. said:

this is the 4th powercolor card i have that has failed (6850, HD 7970 and an HD 7870), voltages are stock, it is undervolted slightly, because it is in its OC mode, Thermal paste was changed 2 weeks ago with MasterGel Maker stuff, i just reaplied it since i removed the heatsink

 

Seems like you may have just picked a bad design each time...Like MSI's Armor brand, really bad overall, should only be bought as a last resort.

Though for AMD cards sapphire is usually a good bet.

Hell they had one of the most fun 390Xs around.
 

 

[Mauricio G. B.]

20 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Seems like you may have just picked a bad design each time...Like MSI's Armor brand, really bad overall, should only be bought as a last resort.

Though for AMD cards sapphire is usually a good bet.

Hell they had one of the most fun 390Xs around.

 

 

the HD 6850 was a regular FlowerStyle Cooler
the HD 7870 was a Regular flower style cooler
the HD7970 had a really Big twin fan cooler (was the ghz edition)
this RX 480, well was the "bulkiest and biggest cooler of the 480s aside from the Strix desing)
bought this, because, my GTX 970 died along my computer when my CS650m failed
got it because it was 220$ and the other RX 480s and 1060S where well past 400 where i live

Edited May 5, 2018 by Mauricio G. B.
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[Mauricio G. B.]

Also just running some benchmarks comparing it to the RX 580 "Golden Sample", my card falls arround 3-7 fps behind, lmao

[MadOver]

I had really good luck with PowerColor.

I had their Devil13 card and was absolutely the best card I've had in years back then, and killer looking.

Now I have a gaming PC for my son and runs on a Red Devil 580, that thing is super quiet and I did manage to overclock the GPU all the way to 1500Mhz. 

 

Very happy with them, even had a question on support on the Red Devil club (members only) and they replied in less than 24hrs.

[Princess Luna]

PowerColor is a bad brand on it's own to be honest... I have seen plenty of people not satisfied with PowerColor cards in here already, I usually avoid advising it.

[Morgan Everett]

I've got the Red Devil RX 580, and it's great.