MSI Gaming Radeon RX 580 256-bit 8GB GDRR5 DirectX 12 VR Ready CFX Graphics Card (RX 580 8G V1)

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That's 5star shipping .msi RX 570 Armor 8g OC ( generation 2 )newer boards have 2 HDMI , 2 DP , 1 DVI-D( BIOS March 2018 )One 8 pin power connector . board length 10.6 inches .about 2 pounds ( 892 grams )2048 Stream precesses ( half that of the new RX 5700 )224 Gig Bytes of memory bandwidth RX 570 .448 Gig Bytes of memory bandwidth RX 5700 .RX 570 170RX 5700 350RX 570 half price for half the performance , at about the same power .Below details setup and game use :quiet fans , 5 watts when on desk top .runs at a max temperature of about 74 C under full load .Temperature can be less when making custom wattman profiles .room temperture plays a factor with GPU temperature .Max power is about 106 watts under full load usingdefault voltage values .When under-Volting , max power is about 96 wattsunder full load .How to keep it cool :Back Plate radiates a lot of heat .to keep the case inside cool , a fan ( 3 inches or so ) can beset on top of the GPU Back Plate , with the Fan blowing\ventingstraight out to room environment . Cass temperature is nownormal . Mother board and video card have temperatures as expected .The card has massive ( 2 fans and heatsink ) but no venting tooutside of case ( You must find a way to Fan Vent the case )Stays cool best when the Fans have direct access to ambient airintake , while Fan venting the case to ambient room .( Shrouds might help , not using shrouds here )Back Plate can get warm . Keep ALL cables OFF the back plate .Heat will eventually soften the rubber sheething and ruin the cables.custom wattman profiles :GPU 1165 Mhz at 900 mV , Memory 1750 Mhz at 900 mV( Under-clocked and under-volted , 60 watts at 60 C , ( this is my main use game profile )orGPU 1400 Mhz at 1100 mV , Memory 1400 Mhz at 765 mV( overclocked , 85 watts at 71 C )orGPU 1400 Mhz at 1100 mV , Memory 2100 Mhz at 1000 mV( overclocked , 96 watts at 74 C )orGPU 300 Mhz at 750 mV , Memory 300 Mhz at 750 mV( desktop use , 5 watts fans OFF , at 30 C to 39 C )oruse their "Default" : auto ramps GPU from 300 Mhz to 1286 Mhz .Note :all of my custom profiles set GPU "State 1" min = maxall of my custom profiles set Memory "State 2" min = maxThus ALL frequencies operate at "Fixed Frequency" No ramp up\down .( CPU has very little impact on GPU fps performance )Fan curve :25 C at 31 %50 C at 31 %60 C at 60 %70 C at 70 %85 C at 90 %ReLive recordings :4k at 30 fps2k at 60 fpspress Ctrl-Shift-R anytime to start\stop recording .only have a 1080p monitor\TV ? you can still record in 4k .use SVR ( Super Virtual Resolution )( if you have a 4k monitor\TV , SVR has No purpose )When using SVR with your 1080p monitor\TV ,turn SVR On in Radeon "Display" Tab Settings .( i recommend a reboot after SVR is turned ON\OFF )when in game menu , you now have 3840 x 2160 resolution choice .all GPU processing occurs at 3840 x 2160 , then the output to theFrame Buffer is down scaled to 1080p for your 1080p monitor\TV .When pressing Ctrl-Shift-R , the game will now record using theGPU internal 4k processing .you can game at 4k and record at 4k , while using a 1080p monitor .oryou can choose to stay at 1920 x 1080 game resolution and record at 1080p .processing still occurs at 4k inside GPU . Something of a hardware Super-Sampling mode .orkeep SVR OFF , and ( play and record ) at 1080p , on your 1080p monitor\TV .Recordings are ( h.264 or h.265 ) to .mp4 your choice . Audio has perfect sync .bit rate slider max at 100 Mbps .Recommend using AMD HDMI audio sound device when recording ..mp4 imports into Vegas 14 or newer for HEVC h.265 .Want to record the desk top at 4k , on your 1080p monitor\TV ?yes you can . With SVR ON , now go into window' Settings andand set Display properites to 3840 x 2160 . All desk top processingnow occurs at 4k inside the GPU , while the desk top is scaled down to 1080p .Screen captures and recordings are Full Quality 4k .The desk top fonts may take on a slight fuzz because of the down samplingto 1080p however , the desktop 4k recordings come from the GPU at Full quality 4k .Whenever windows display resolution is set to 4k\2k , i recommend a reboot .Radeon Overlay :Radeon Settings , click "Preferences" Tab at bottom of Home Screen ,click "Show Overlay" . Overlay is now available but NOT yet visible .Now press ALT-R to show the full overlay Menu .orpress Ctrl_Shift-o , to view GPU stats .Dying Light does NOT like the showing GPU stats( overlay )when in SVR using 4k in game menu . the AMD driver will crash .( for normal gaming , keep ALL overlays OFF , "Show Overlay" OFF )passive Speed boost performance smoothness increase ."Shadow Map" in game setting :do NOT use AA .Blur is ok to have ON .Moti0n Blur is the Continious Bluring as you move ( i keep this OFF )Dying Light , reduce Shadow Map from "Very High" to "High"All remaining settings can be ON to the max , includingNvidia post processing . runs nice at 1080p ."Witcher 3" , reduce Shadow Map from "Ultra" to "High"panning is now smooth at 1080p .DOOM 2016 with Vulkan API , does NOT seem to haveShadow Map size issues .thus Shadow Map "Nightmare" works just fine at 1080p .8 gig VRAM is plenty to access max Shadow Map size ,but , causes too much pixel processing on the GPUto determine which pixels are found to be "in shadow"and than to paint each pixel that were found to be"in shadow" to black\gray value .

MSI Radeon RX-580 8GB Graphics AdapterHDMi audio clipping problem solved!Apparently, according to the GPU or graphics display adapter industry, the only reason to purchase a costly display graphics adapter, or video card, for a desktop PC is because one plans on becoming a mindless video gaming zombie, like my adult neighbor, who I believe has given up real life for gaming. What if somebody does not play video games, and has no plans to do so, but still needs a good GPU? Take someone like myself. I use a self-made powerful AMD Quad Core 4 GHZ home theater PC as my music and video server in my home theater room. In it I have loaded my entire music library in lossless audio – thousands of albums and collections in just about all musical categories. I also keep my music video and film libraries in same server. In order to enjoy all of this, one needs solid video and sound performance from a PC video card with HDMI output in the 1080P (Blu-ray) and 4K (2160 x 3840) resolution ranges. The video card has to also output at least 8 channels of high definition audio up to 24 bit 192 kHz for surround sound music (such as a Blu-ray audio disc) or Blu-ray movie running Dolby Digital Plus, DTS, or HD Master Audio. The HDMI video and audio combined signals are then fed into an audio processor with HDMI inputs – like a Yamaha CX-A5000 or any receiver with HDMI inputs for BD players or other playback devices.The problem I experienced playing music through my older NVidia GeForce 210 4gb HDMI card was that when playing music in random mode, where one audio track follows the next without fading effect or pause, the beginning of each song got clipped by as much as 2 seconds. This issue also occurred when manually playing one track at a time – you press play or enter on a track and the first second or two of the track would get clipped. As you might expect, this issue was unsettling. After hundreds of hours researching this peculiar issue, I learned that others in audiophile land were experiencing similar issues when playing music from a PC via a GPU with HDMI going into a receiver or processor. One solution I learned from a Foobar 2000 user (the audio media player of choice for audiophiles) was to insert digital silence into the HDMI audio stream to fool the receiver, or processor, to detect audio and not cut out the streaming signal from the PC to the processor. I was given to understand that the PC GPU apparently does not naturally send out a digital silence signal that would keep the HDMI audio stream open between each device long enough to not clip the beginning of each song. The net effect is that the HDMI “handshake” between the PC and processor was dropped thereby causing the audio cut out problem. That is, every time a new song starts, the “handshake” has to reinitialize, thereby leading to the clipping problem. The silent one to two second gap in between songs was effectively interpreted by the GPU as no signal at all, thereby dropping the HDMI handshake –if only for a few milliseconds.I know! Exhausting, right? Henceforth, enter my new MSI Radeon RX580 GPU with 8 GB of RAM with its rather fast processor even at default settings without overclocking. This seemed like overkill for my purposes, music listening and watching movies on a PC. However, as I predicted, it solved the audio clipping issue! Bank! Over and done! Now songs playing at random play flawlessly from one to the next without clipping. The way I figure it, is that the RX580 GPU simply works faster, much, much faster, than my older video card in terms of how it processes audio and video.Luckily, the Foobar 2000 community is creative and a user created a fix, or patch, to at least solve the audio clipping issue while operating inside the Foobar environment through the older NVidia GPU. And, indeed the patch works fine. However, if one were to play a song using, say, VLC Media player, then the clipping problem persisted.The MSI RX580 has effectively corrected the Sound clipping problem. I am unsure whether the issue is corrected in real time or whether it is merely the fact that this new GPU is superior in every way to my previous NVidia 210 GeForce 4gb card. Moreover, connected via HDMi to my Yamaha CX-A5000 11 channel processor the RX580 Radeon card renders glorious HD audio performance. Music of any sort, classical, jazz, rock, comes to life regardless whether I play it in stereo through a Dolby Pro Logic II music matrix or whether I listen to straight no processing quadraphonic recording from lossless FLAC. Music is now much more nuanced and full of texture – very much unlike the opaque audio I was hearing from the old video card. Is it the 8 GB of DDR5 RAM at 256 bit processing? Is it the overall faster processing of data as a gaming video card? I remain unsure! All I do know, however, is that what I hear is truly magical audio performance.