AMD fixes R9 Fury X Whining Noises

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/02/2015 07:38 AM | source: | 17 comment(s)

One of the smaller problems of the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X is that the cooler is making some noises alongside a tiny bit of whine. We noted that in our review already. However AMD seems to have tackled the problem.

We already indicated that the noises we hear mostly (also let me state it's not a big deal) are actually the pump that resides in the cooling block seated on the GPU. AMD already mentioned they would have this fixed fore the retail versions of the product, and that seems to be the case as some photos just appeared on the web showing the Fury X with a new Cooler Master LCS block.

If you experience the issue, you can RMA the unit of course. If you are about to purchase a unuit, there's no real way of telling if it has the new pump though.

However if you open up the card and see a multicolor sticker, you got the old one, see this example from our review:

The newmodel cooler is all chrome, see below. You can open up the front-plate covering the card without breaking any warranties.

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mR Yellow
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#5112689 Posted on: 07/02/2015 09:39 AM

Thanks Hilbert.

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#5112711 Posted on: 07/02/2015 10:08 AM

Guess the annoying thing is how do you know what you got when you purchase the card?. Would be interesting to see if there can be another review with this new one (it's hard to tell, a part of me says they did change the pump, while the other think it's just a cosmetic change)

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#5112715 Posted on: 07/02/2015 10:12 AM

They should have gone with the ASETEK pump solution.
It has better performance and less noise.

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#5112740 Posted on: 07/02/2015 10:44 AM

Does opening the card like that to check which one it is void the warranty?

Wouldn't there be an easier way to tell, like a revision number on the box/sticker?

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#5112741 Posted on: 07/02/2015 10:45 AM

Does opening the card like that to check which one it is void the warranty?

Wouldn't there be an easier way to tell, like a revision number on the box/sticker?

If you read the articles it says no. You just removing a cover.

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#5112794 Posted on: 07/02/2015 12:03 PM

If you read the articles it says no. You just removing a cover.

And you still get an RMA for that or does it void the warranty and you're SOL?

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#5112802 Posted on: 07/02/2015 12:20 PM

And you still get an RMA for that or does it void the warranty and you're SOL?

No it doesn't void the warranty.

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#5112867 Posted on: 07/02/2015 02:14 PM

So, with Etailers saying this is not an RMA worthy issue, were does this put us? Do we know if you have a pre-order at the moment, (my ETA for stock in UK is 17/7/15, will it have the newer version pump?

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#5112951 Posted on: 07/02/2015 04:22 PM

AMD fixes R9 Fury X Whining Noises

This thread title makes me want to giggle.

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#5112966 Posted on: 07/02/2015 04:36 PM

I had massive coil wine from my R9 295x2 for a few months but seems to have gradually dissapeared (unless my hearing has got used to it.)

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#5112970 Posted on: 07/02/2015 04:40 PM

This thread title makes me want to giggle.

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#5112978 Posted on: 07/02/2015 04:49 PM

Fury X whining I believe there was also moaning as well as whining.....

Pleased (hope) they fixed this nothing worse when you have a new toy and its doing things it shouldn't. All the fury X need is overclocking software and we will see what its capable off.

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