For Folks Looking for a Vega 64 Card and Willing to Deal with Newegg Aus

N1NJ4W4RR10R on 27/02/2019 - 15:01
Last edited 27/02/2019 - 15:06

Just letting folks looking for this card know it's on sale at Newegg. Comes to just under $700 GST inc with shipping (doesn't appear to be free), so better then the strix card. Is generally considered better then that card cooling wise.

https://m.newegg.com/global/au-en/product/N82E16814202321

Unfortunately the site's Newegg, but seeing as this card is absurdly overpriced in Aus it's the only real option for the card.

*Figured if I'm showing off Vega deals from Newegg, may as well throw this one in as well.

https://m.newegg.com/global/au-en/product/N82E16814131740

Vega 56 powercolor. Comes in at $600~ post shipping…Aus is absolutely awful for vega cards.

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  • dcep on 27/02/2019 - 15:12

    I'd wait for USD$279 Vega56 to appear

  • scrimshaw on 27/02/2019 - 15:15

    isn't the RTX 2070 better value for the $700 price point? Time Spy, BF1 and Rise of TombRaider DX12 benchmarks put the RTX 2070 ahead of the Vega 64, and it's also more power efficient.

    I bought the Vega 64 for $639 on eBay (less 10% with discounted giftcards), was a good price for late 2018 but at this point, anything above that is actually overpaying for it's performance. If I had held off longer I would buy the RTX card for it's better efficiency / feature set.

    • N1NJ4W4RR10R on 27/02/2019 - 19:35

      If you can find one at that, but I've seen them pretty commonly at north of the $700 price point (only one I could name south of that is the one from the ebay coupon).

      Even then, the v64 can absolutely compete performance wise (bar Nvidia biased games), it's just when it comes to power draw that it's at a disadvantage.

      Unless you wanted DLSS/Ray tracing I suppose.

      • FickleRick on 27/02/2019 - 20:47

        I had a reference Vega 64 and then a strix 64. Vega is just HOT and fiddling in wattman to get the most out of them is painful. The strix cooler didn't help much as the hbm would heat up worse than the GPU core, they are just too close together.

        As soon as Nvidia gave in to freesync I changed to a 2070

        • N1NJ4W4RR10R on 27/02/2019 - 21:01

          Yeah, the strix card had very sub par cooling.

          Undervolting can be fiddly, but I believe they've got an Auto undervolt option now, though that apparently doesn't always work.

          But yeah, unfortunately rtx prices have jumped a decent bit over vega pricing. The 2070's generally about a hundred bucks more according to pc part picker (bar great deals like the 2070 one on ebay).

          If you can find them at even ish prices though I can see why you'd go for the rtx card. Newer, more efficient, and doesn't require playing around in menues.

          • FickleRick on 27/02/2019 - 21:18

            @N1NJ4W4RR10R: Just remember 600 bucks is a lot to spend on a gfx card, any flaws will really bug you. Spend an extra 100 on the 2070 and you will be a lot happier ;)

            I learnt the hard way!

  • the Unforgiven on 28/02/2019 - 11:19

    I had a Vega 64 LC & I swapped it for a 27" 2K 165Hz IPS anti-glare gaming monitor, we are both happy with the deal :)
    What card do I have now, I hear you ask, I have a 1080ti KiNGPiN :)

  • follow on 28/02/2019 - 16:04

    $588 with cashback

    https://www.amazon.com.au/MSI-RX-64-AIR-8G/dp/B07DH7S1X1/

    • N1NJ4W4RR10R on 28/02/2019 - 17:14

      If you're fine with the noise that's a hell of a deal.

  • Cave Fire on 28/02/2019 - 20:18

    yeah… was about to make another post. Strix vega 64 has gone up at every computer place I checked besides Umart. Umart has a few left at $699. Scorptec is the next cheapest at $729 without shipping. Some cards had vrm issues. There's mods that are meant to help.

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