So I've been looking at the 480, but I'm still holding back since I learned amd's still don't downclock to idle clocks when multiple monitors are hooked, getting higher idle temps and power consumption.
Now, all I do on my second screen is browsing and movie watching, and I know you can drive multiple monitors to dgpu and igpu separately. Could I get it to downclock properly if the second monitor is hooked to the igpu?
>>55406252
Interesting theory. Let us know.
>>55406252
Yes you can. Did that with my r9 290 to not get 70w power consumption doing nothing. Enable multi-gpu in bios. Connect only one monitor or identical monitors to the gpu to not get fucked power consumption, the rest go to Intel integrated.
Or just fuck amd and buy gtx 1070.
>>55407579
This exclusive to 200 series or something? Never had this issue with my 390X from 15.11.1 up to 16.6.2
>>55407619
If you have identical monitors or monitors with the same timing, it's not a problem. Usually non-identical monitors will have different timings. AMD has a bug with non-identical monitors they can't fix. If the ram clock is low there will be artifacts. Their workaround is driving the ram clock to maximum. This means crazy power consumption when doing nothing.
Incidentally, Nvidia fixed that problem since the 600 series.
>>55407882
But my monitors are different
>>55407917
It means you got lucky and got monitors with the same timing.
>>55407882
Op here, I'm running 2 identical monitors, however I've read on amd forums themselves some people reporting load clocks with 2 of the same monitors.
Could be a non issue now though, my cousin is considering getting a 1080, and I might buy his old 970 for cheap. Still a big "might", so I'm continuing to research about this
