EK-FC R9 Fury X a AMD Radeon R9 FURY (X) Full Cover water block

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/26/2015 09:14 AM | source: | 46 comment(s)

EK is showing a preliminary model of how they feel what liquid cooling should look like on the Radeon R9 Fury X with their EK-FC R9 Fury X water block.

There you go, first sneak peak:

Will come with single-slot bracket included and in all four versions (but no CSQ this time)
All five backplates available (black, nickel, red, blue, gold/yellow)
Single-slot height compliant!

First batch will be ready and distributed worldwide before you will have your card in hands.

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Darkest
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#5108157 Posted on: 06/26/2015 04:11 PM

Why is everyone saying its not overclockable? The core is overclockable, the memory isnt which doesnt matter.. The card has plenty of memory bandwidth, overclocking the memory will reap zero benefits.

Probably due to the lack of voltage control, which is a massive gaffe on AMD's end.

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#5108184 Posted on: 06/26/2015 04:41 PM

Probably due to the lack of voltage control, which is a massive gaffe on AMD's end.

Yeah but past AMD cards have shown voltage OC is a hit or a miss, usually the latter in my experience.

Because +75 MHz on default clock it`s not really overclocking.

Just shows this card is running near max clocks out of the box

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#5108192 Posted on: 06/26/2015 04:49 PM

The reviewers can overclock it up to the limits of CCC's native overclocking implementation. CCC does not expose voltage control to the user on any card. When reviewers are adjusting voltages they use a program like MSI Afterburner. Being a third party program, AMD has no involvement in its development. Fury has a new voltage controller. Once the 3rd party programs are updated to know how to control the controller, overclocking should be a lot more potent.

I would say they are going to be able to overclock further, but the power consumption is likely to go thru the roof.
I'll be happily surprised if the clocks go way higher, I just don't expect more than 1300, maybe stable for a lot of Fury X's, with extra Voltage.

Look at all the 390/X overclocks in the reviews. The power consumption goes up by quite a lot. Fury/X is the same fab process, larger chip, more shaders, same speed.

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#5108197 Posted on: 06/26/2015 04:54 PM

Was CCC used in OCing in review? I would think since the Voltage control is new, third party software may not function properly ....needing updates.

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#5108204 Posted on: 06/26/2015 05:04 PM

I dont consider it an overclock until that voltage had been ramped up, there's very little overclock headroom at stock voltages.

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