rx 480 RX 480 8gb stability issues

[DaniPani]

Hi, I've been having issues with my radeon RX 480 8gb grapics card made by sapphire being unstable in high loads. This includes beamng drive, PC building simulator and more loads of similar size. In beamng drive it's making the physics slow down with uneven spaces and if I have too many particles my pc crashes, in the form of my monitors going black and not coming on again unless I restart the system. When it's crashing the fan on the card ramps up almost like it's thermal throttling, this leads me to believe it's a cooling issue in my case. then you might say to add more fans, but I can't really since it's filled already. It's not filled in that sense, but at least it has two fans, there are three open slots, these slotss are either covered or I'm saving them since my plan for the future is to water cool some part of my system, Leading me to: if it's a cooling issue I'd like to water cool it and since I fist saw it it was my dream to water cool my gpu, and I thought it looked really cool  Now here's the juice: if I'd water cool it I definetley want a cusrtom soft line soluton issue: It's really expensive, so if anyone knows a place where I can get cheap, reliable water cooling gear, please tip me. 

 

-Daniel

[iRileyx]

Use MSI Afterburner and monitor your temps, then you'll know if its a temp issue.

 

From you saying that the physics slow down on beamng drive it could also be a CPU issue, as the physics side of things are done by the CPU.

[DaniPani]

thank's I'll do that

 

[Ryujin2003]

I've had similar issues in the past, and it was always a driver issue or corruption. I'd remove with DDU then reinstall from the AMD Radeon website.

[DaniPani]

If the temps are ok I'll do thet too

 

[DaniPani]

I've now established that it's not cooling, it doesn't go over 89, but now it's not crashing under the same load

[DaniPani]

It was a driver issue, thank's for the help peeps

 

[Ryujin2003]

39 minutes ago, DaniPani said:

It was a driver issue, thank's for the help peeps

 

You're welcome! If you want to mark one of the posts as the answer, that help close this thread. I'm glad you're back up and running. If you have further issues, please don't hesitate to ask!

[-rascal-]

6 hours ago, DaniPani said:

I've now established that it's not cooling, it doesn't go over 89, but now it's not crashing under the same load

 

89*C is still under the thermal throttling threshold, but it is getting on the hotter side.

Keep an eye on it -- create a custom fan control profile if you need (either through MSi Afterburner, or Sapphire TriXX).

 

I personally keep my GPUs under 70*C ~ 75*C.

Example... ** Keep in mind, I have a different set of Sapphire GPUs than you**

[O9B0666]

8 hours ago, DaniPani said:

Hi, I've been having issues with my radeon RX 480 8gb grapics card made by sapphire being unstable in high loads. This includes beamng drive, PC building simulator and more loads of similar size. In beamng drive it's making the physics slow down with uneven spaces and if I have too many particles my pc crashes, in the form of my monitors going black and not coming on again unless I restart the system. When it's crashing the fan on the card ramps up almost like it's thermal throttling, this leads me to believe it's a cooling issue in my case. then you might say to add more fans, but I can't really since it's filled already. It's not filled in that sense, but at least it has two fans, there are three open slots, these slotss are either covered or I'm saving them since my plan for the future is to water cool some part of my system, Leading me to: if it's a cooling issue I'd like to water cool it and since I fist saw it it was my dream to water cool my gpu, and I thought it looked really cool  Now here's the juice: if I'd water cool it I definetley want a cusrtom soft line soluton issue: It's really expensive, so if anyone knows a place where I can get cheap, reliable water cooling gear, please tip me. 

 

-Daniel

I have a aio on my main rx470 and it only shaved 3-5c off not really worth it. What I've found better was replacing the stock fans with 80 m high end fans worked better for dropping Temps. I was still able to keep the side shroud on so looking into my tower you can't tell theirs a mod. Now I under load gaming I'm right around 70c constant.