Radeon RX 480 Cards Can Successfully be Flashed to RX 580 | TechPowerUp
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Has anyone looked at the temps compared to the 4xx series to see how they match up?
Since itās a rebrand of 480 with higher clocks it uses more power so I would expect it to run hotter
No they wont install I tried and I cannot get the zec miner to run on the 580ās it crashes immediately
one of the 480s i got back from sapphire on an RMA is like that, just crashes when running any miner, otherwise its fine, will play games and run furmark etc
with the 580 and 570, i have had serious problems getting either to work alongside 5x480 8g cards, windows just doesnt want to use more than 4 cards no matter what I try, and when i tried to mix them in with my 295x2, windows would see all 5GPUs (4x 290x and a 570) but the miner would crash the second it started hashingā¦ would load dags for eth etcā¦ but would not mine a single hashā¦and zcash crash on hash also.
so i bought a cheap used 4 slot board to stick them onā¦cost me like 25$ for the boardā¦ i would imagine after some driver updates things might be different
but im tired of fooling around with 500 series cards when the 400 series cards are so easy and hassell free (except for the fact those damn nitros melted the thermal tape between the backplate and the PCB and I had to RMA every single nitro 400 series cardā¦ that was horribleā¦ and from the ones i got back, 3 of them have issues - as stated above with one of themā¦ another has wrong OC clock settings ā¦ and another just crashes on boot when on silent biosā¦ sapphire wtf) dont buy sapphire anymoreā¦ i will only buy xfx and other brands now, dataland/powercolor, etc. xfx first thoughā¦ my xfx 400 cards have run the best since i got them last year
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I have 10 nitro+OC and have not came across this issue yet @cryptomined although I have had one just stop working after 3 months thankfully Overclockers uk replaced it with no hassle for me,I will agree about the XFX 480 I have both models aftermarket and they run cool,silent and are just a great card all round,my favourite no doubt.
Got the 580 to run ethminer but thats the only miner that works 17.4.3 driver and only on crossfire
check your rx400 Nitro+ hottest card, remove the backplate and see if the black thermal tape has melted at all, if there is any grease around it, on it, etc.
its been such a waste of my time and downtime for my cardsā¦ my cards were working fine and then they send me back 3 that dont work properlyā¦ one wont mineā¦ one wont even boot on silent biosā¦ one has the wrong OC core clock set in to biosā¦ did they send me badly refurbished cards back??? i sent in 13 perfectly working cardsā¦ they just had grease leaking from some of themā¦ all of them somewhat melted thermal tapeā¦ and I get back 10 perfectly working ones and 3 not perfectā¦ and then the guy at sapphire who was responsible for the RMA of the 13 melted thermal tape cards is screwing me around on changing the 3 messed up ones they sent me!
damnā¦ from 13 to 10ā¦ and its been 2 weeks that I should have already sent the 3 bad ones back and they just give me the run around and lies
even worse is that grease is incredibly difficult to get off of anythingā¦ i still have stains of it on 2 motherboards and 1 PSUā¦
not only has it been a total pain in the assā¦ it damaged other hardwareā¦
its something that all nitro users should watch out for, especially in the summer if there is no AC runningā¦ it makes a messā¦not only of the cards, but whatever is under them.
what kind of incompetant company puts thermal tape that melts on a GPU that is known to be used for mining? my XFX dont have this kind of thermal tapeā¦
so now they have switched to a different thermal tape on the 500 seriesā¦ maybe partially thanks to me? but i will never buy another sapphire again
@cryptomined thanks for the explanation and I will check cards this week,been meaning to get rid of the dust this years mining has accumulated,itās very disappointing since we payed a premium for these cards and I would have expected a faster turn around for miners with this issue or any other issue to be honest,they are making good money from us
yup and dont try to build a 6 GPU rig with 500 series cards, no one i know can get it to work
drivers are messed up
So, has anybody tried the RX 570 4gb cards? whast the hasrate aprox.? 280sol/s?
AMD RX 480 Can Be Upgraded To RX 580 With A BIOS Flash
Thatās right, you can upgrade your AMD Radeon RX 480 graphics card to an RX 580 with a flick of a switch as one Sapphire RX 480 graphics card owner from the TPU forums has discovered. All you need to do is download the BIOS of an RX 580 card and then commence the BIOS flash and enjoy your new RX 580.
TBH I think this doesnāt make sense due to the increase in power usage.
My 2 580s will not run zcash at all crashes building kernal onthing I can run is ethminer.
MSI RX 570 4G
@ 1140/2050 i get ~280 sols
@ 1230/2050 i get ~300 sols
@ 1250/2050 i get ~310 sols
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BTW this is with claymore 12.4
How stable? Also did you get 6 working on a single rig? Those are some nice speeds.
I only ordered 3 rx 570 to test. I have 3 more coming to complete the rig. I have them mixed with rx 470s now running 6 gpus.
Iām using same core/mem/strap on 570 as I did on 470, and my 470s get same speeds I quoted above, and I have rig uptimes of 14 and 23 days right nowā¦ and thats even with coin profitability switching. I dont mine zec/zcl 24/7 if its not most profitable.
