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MP 1,1-5,1 Problem, but is it Mojave or the Radeon RX560, both newly installed?
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Nehalem dual-CPU audio stuttering only happens with Mojave and newer macOS releases, not with High Sierra.
Weird why? AMD RX 560 is a PCIe v3.0 x8 card.
But isn't PCIE3.0 x8 equal to the same bandwidth as PCIE 2.0 x16?
Or is this actually a pcie 8 physical lanes card?
What the bandwidth have to do with physical PCIe lanes? A RX 560 only have 8 PCIe lanes, System Information is showing the number of lanes the PCIe card is actually connected to, not the bandwidth.
I don't know how this Multiquote thingy works...
But yes! I was thinking the same thing.
Oh god...
A last update. The card started playing up again. Lightroom and Photoshop worked well, but it turned out I couldn't use Adobe Bridge and I could play some games but not others because of the screen just glitching and being totally distorted. I took a pic of that with my iPhone as it doesn't get recorded in screenshots. It's the same glitching I mentioned earlier on in the thread. It looks the same in some of my games.
So I found a Sapphire Pulse RX 580 8GB for 90 dollars and it does seem the card to get. I've installed it and tested everything that wouldn't work with the Asus RX 560 card and everything just works as it should. Temps look good too.
I thought I would report this here as a warning that maybe that particular card is not such a good idea? Unless it was just a faulty card.
So I found a Sapphire Pulse RX 580 8GB for 90 dollars and it does seem the card to get. I've installed it and tested everything that wouldn't work with the Asus RX 560 card and everything just works as it should. Temps look good too.
I thought I would report this here as a warning that maybe that particular card is not such a good idea? Unless it was just a faulty card.
yup certainly looks like a faulty card. I have an MSI RX 460 and no issues with it with those Apps.
I’m leaning towards that too, especially since the RX 560 is in MR’s list of GPU’s that work. I went looking for the person who sold me the card on eBay but he deleted his account.
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Yeah, definitely not a good sign.
So I’m losing money but I’m at peace with that. I’m too happy with the Sapphire.
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its only money, at least its not worse, money is made to spend or lose, but you are happy with the 580 and thats what counts.Yeah, definitely not a good sign.
So I’m losing money but I’m at peace with that. I’m too happy with the Sapphire.
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Yes, I am happy now. I have not seen anything wrong anywhere since installing the Sapphire. So I lost some money. There’s always that chance when you purchase something on eBay. Or anywhere else for that matter. But although I don’t particularly like to lose the money I paid for the Asus, I can afford it, so I can live with it.its only money, at least its not worse, money is made to spend or lose, but you are happy with the 580 and thats what counts.
Thanks very much, MrScratchHook for your support, help and advice. It is very much appreciated. 🙏
I could have written this same post with the topic:
It seems it was solved by replacing the GPU.......... I'm a little troubled by this due to the cost (ebay purchase) of the VEGA FE but if it fixed everything it may be my only option.
It feels like a very similar problem but it's weird.
PCIe register shows the Radeon RX Vega FE 16GB. So..
(1) it has correctly identified the card [board_id] *BUT*
(2) System Info is lying to me - it says the GPU is connected at x16. This is impossible because it's in a x8 slot in my NETSTOR PCIe expansion box - a TRUE negotiated link speed would say x4 or x8.
This means the device description is hard-coded NOT calculated / 'evaluated'
Anyone able to diagnose the point in the system POST / boot process where the failure occurs?
IIRC.. the system queries (or 'evals') SATA, then xHCI, then PCIe but the behaviour of the display performs very much in line with the "unaccelerated" characterisation made by @tsialex in an earlier post.
Is this possible? The GT120 has the 'fallback' MAC EFI drivers to boot with 'unacceleraed' graphics? The VEGA FE doesn't have the fallback drivers does it?
Any thoughts/comments very welcome?
(In the mean time I will troubleshoot with a Radeon RX480 I have in storage)
Problem, but is it Mojave or the Radeon RX VEGA FRONTIER EDITION, both newly installed?
Of course my problem is sufficiently similar that i'm not going to start a new thread.It seems it was solved by replacing the GPU.......... I'm a little troubled by this due to the cost (ebay purchase) of the VEGA FE but if it fixed everything it may be my only option.
It feels like a very similar problem but it's weird.
PCIe register shows the Radeon RX Vega FE 16GB. So..
(1) it has correctly identified the card [board_id] *BUT*
(2) System Info is lying to me - it says the GPU is connected at x16. This is impossible because it's in a x8 slot in my NETSTOR PCIe expansion box - a TRUE negotiated link speed would say x4 or x8.
This means the device description is hard-coded NOT calculated / 'evaluated'
Anyone able to diagnose the point in the system POST / boot process where the failure occurs?
IIRC.. the system queries (or 'evals') SATA, then xHCI, then PCIe but the behaviour of the display performs very much in line with the "unaccelerated" characterisation made by @tsialex in an earlier post.
Is this possible? The GT120 has the 'fallback' MAC EFI drivers to boot with 'unacceleraed' graphics? The VEGA FE doesn't have the fallback drivers does it?
Any thoughts/comments very welcome?
(In the mean time I will troubleshoot with a Radeon RX480 I have in storage)
If the Netstor is PCIe v3.0, SystemInformation can will incorrectly get the downstream values, same happens with PCIe v3.0 blades and some PCIe v3.0 switches.