Comprehensive ASUS R9 Fury Strix Overclocking Guide by Xtreme Addict: 1450/1000 under LN2 (+ unlock to Fury X)
The Fury graphics card is a lower bin variant of AMD's top model Fury X with a slightly lower amount of Compute Units. But unlike the Fury X, AIB partners like ASUS, Sapphire, MSI, and others are allowed to slap the GPU on a custom designed PCB for better overclocking and better performance. In a comprehensive overclocking guide, Xtreme Addict walks you through the steps to fully unleash the ASUS Radeon R9 Fury Strix graphics card.
The steps include unlocking the Compute Units to enable Fury X grade performance, enabling the hotwire soldering pads, a 0.95v Rail mod, and of course the trimpot/hotwire VGPU, VMEM, VPLL (VDDCI) mods.
The result? A GPU frequency of 1450 MHz and HBM frequency of 1000 MHz. For the HBM that's a 100% overclock. The performance goes up from 6237 points at default to 6756 after unlocking the CUs, then 8121 points after overclock on air cooling, to eventually end up at 9634 points when fully unleashed with liquid nitrogen.
Check out the thread on the forum to find out more details, pictuers, and information!
Thx to Asus I was able to test the newest Fiji card based on custom PCB and I have to admit it impressed me a lot.
Photo gallery:
STRIX FURY X MOD
Thx to tx12 OCN wizzard we can push Fury cards even higher!
LINK TO THE ORIGINAL THREAD/TOOLS
I will later upload modified LN2 bioses for Asus R9 Fury Strix card
Stock (3584 Shaders/224 TMU)
3776 Shaders/236 TMU
3840 Shaders/240 TMU
Fury "X" 4096 Shaders/256 TMU
Fury "X" 4096 Shaders/256 TMU OC on air - still has some potencial despite unlocking units - TESS OFF
VOLTAGE MODS
Note that all you are doing on your own responsibility and volt mods void your warranty, same as flashing unlocked bioses and so on
1. Enable HOTWIRE soldering points, do it as in my picture, don't connect HOTWIRE LN2 pads! cause it will trigger 0.95v rail OVP in drivers
2. 0.95v Rail mod (after the mod stock will be around 1.06v)
3. Trimpot/hotwire VGPU, VMEM, VPLL (VDDCI) mods
My card after modding:
GPU POT MOUNTING
Note that Fury has different mounting holes - they are even bigger than old huge G80 mounting. I used modified G80 mounting from Kingpin TEK9 6.66 Fat Pot and it worked perfectly.
SOFTWARE GPUTWEAK 2 TIPS:
1. After flashing LN2 bios you gain VGPU regulation up to 2.0v
2. Don't forget to use "Overclocking range enhancement" if you want to have memory frequency control.
LN2 TIPS:
1. Use HDMI port (I used it with HDMI - DVI adapter), on my card screen is blinking on DVI after 0.95v rail mod. HDMI port is fine even at -180*C.
2. If you can't enter OS at certain temperature - lower 0,95v rail (E.G. from 1,25v to 1,2v).
3. 0.95v rail set to 1,25v should be enough for -120 -160*C range.
4. With lower temperature (-50*C and more) you have to use higher VGPU to boot into OS! I had to use around 1.35-1.5v (stress) to boot into OS, it will be around 1.1-1.15v idle (stock is 0.9v in idle).
5. You can set by trimpot/hotwire VGPU OS "boot" voltage and later raise it by GPUTWEAK - it works.
6. 1000 MHz HBM (500 MHz is stock) is current maximum frequency which we can set. For that I had to use 1.55v VMEM (stock is 1.35v). Note that on some cards score might be lower with too high memories.
7. My card doesn't have CB or CBB.
8. PWM is strong, 1.6+ VGPU wasn't a problem with a delta fan on it.
9. Use stock PLL (AUX - VDDCI). Higher gave me nothing (stock is around 1.0v), 1.2+ can kill your GPU.
BIOSES AND SOFTWARE
Stock Fury and Fury X bios have COLD SLOW bug below 0*C (3D mode doesn't work), you need a special BIOS with a fix. For now I used Fury X (ref) LN2 fixed BIOS but it works on Fury Strix cards.
UPDATE:
Note that LN2 Fixed bioses have disabled monitoring of temperature, you can flash it and try on air and it won't kill you card, but you will be playing "blind".
AIR VGPU UNLOCKED UNLOCKED BIOSES:
STOCK BIOS
http://www.oclab.pl/art/xa//EXTREMEOC/furystrix/Furyairunlock/stockln2furystrix/furystrix.rom
3564 / VGPU CONTROL
http://www.oclab.pl/art/xa//EXTREMEOC/furystrix/Furyairunlock/stockln2furystrix/bios.rom
3776/VGPU CONTROL
http://www.oclab.pl/art/xa//EXTREMEOC/furystrix/Furyairunlock/stockln2furystrix/bios_4high.rom
3840/VGPU CONTROL
http://www.oclab.pl/art/xa//EXTREMEOC/furystrix/Furyairunlock/stockln2furystrix/bios_4low.rom
4096/VGPU CONTROL
http://www.oclab.pl/art/xa//EXTREMEOC/furystrix/Furyairunlock/stockln2furystrix/bios_all.rom
FIXED LN2 BIOSES:
3564
http://www.oclab.pl/art/xa//EXTREMEOC/furystrix/biosesln2/furystrix3564ln2.rom
3776
http://www.oclab.pl/art/xa//EXTREMEOC/furystrix/biosesln2/furystrix3776ln2.rom
3840
http://www.oclab.pl/art/xa//EXTREMEOC/furystrix/biosesln2/furystrix3840ln2.rom
4096
http://www.oclab.pl/art/xa//EXTREMEOC/furystrix/biosesln2/furystrix4096ln2.rom
ATIFLASH 2.71
1. Use only ATIFLASH in CMD (WINFLASH corrupts UEFI mode)
command: atiflash -f -p 0 bios.rom
LN2 results
Quick test just to check all the mods and behaviour on cold. From what I know some cards should easy do around 1600 MHz. Most likely limit will be similar to R9 290X cards .
Locked stock shaders:
Fully Unlock
Card is a great fun. Very easy, issues free. Everything works, software (GPUTWEAK 2), drivers and so on. Thx Asus for that great card! I hope we will see a lot of results on it
All of this wouldn't be possible without Asus R&D support (Jon, TL) and tx12
Thanks for sharing, I can´t remember having seem HBM clocked that high, results are quite impressive
thank you very much!
Great work big man, usefull like usual. And very nice card!
What kind of CB does the new memory have?
Great Job Pushing the Fury
THX guys
No cb in my case
Awesome info! Thank you XA!
Thanks for some good reading, really appreciate it
Wow that HBM frequency!!
Did you have a perfect core with CUInfo showing two columns of locked CU's at the end?
thx for sharing.
did you applied tim on memory or only on die?
cooool!
looks like a really fun card, thanks for sharing.
Nope
Wow that's awesome. Well now I know which Fury I'm gonna be buying.
Thanks! Makes voiding warranty all the more lucrative
Thank you for sharing! Interesting card!
Great Miha!
Awesome guide!
Is the LN2 bios already up for download?
Thanks for sharing Michal.
Nice thread and info!
Thankyou 
Any takers to do same thing with fury x?
It seems fury x's little sister is actual 'overclockers dream'
Thx guys
Well Tek 9 Fat 6.66 covers only like 1/5 of each memory, I applied thermal paste on them, but in fact they are touching the pot only on the edges.
Thx Pieter
I am waiting for Asus aproval if I can upload them. Note that this bios is software voltage unlocked to 2.0v GPU so considering how strict policy is among vendors (MSI - Afterburner Extreme and so on) I have to wait. But the good thing is that on basis of Fury X LN2 ref BIOS it's possible to apply LN2 cold slow fix to other bioses. Now I have a full set of UNLOCKED Shaders BIOSes with LN2 fix and software voltage control to 2.0v. In the worst case if Asus doesn't allow to make it public, OCers will have to just request R&D for it or I will publish stock Fury Strix bios with LN2 fixed but with lock control of voltages by software.
Well I don't have Fury X card, but will ask, maybe someone nice will help me in getting a card to play with
UPDATE
Good news - LN2 cold slow fixed UNLOCKED BIOSES are ready and work (tested by myself few minutes ago with last drops of LN2, have to refill dewars tomorrow)
A bit lower clocks (fast run, last drops of LN2) but all Shaders and TMU are activated and efficiency is higher. Moreover I didn't notice any signs that it's harder to clock for GPU or that it needs higher vgpu so it's really good news!
Awesome work, you make the card shine. Now show us some more magic on LN2 after refill
- 10K+ on stock cpu and mem and not full out on card is looking really good
Great work, lots of useful information....Thanks for shearing...
Awesome guide XA as always and thanks for sharing :ws:
great job XA,nice guid!
What a Monster of vga !
Keep pushing Michael
great as allways thx for sharing, and your for the determination to create the BIOS, Asus should hire You in the R&D center
Keep pushing Micha***322;
Pieknie Bratan'
Ja lubie OC (ale nie eXtreme ;-) Gram przewaznie. Czekam na Fury-X do jesieni/zimy i robie przesiadke na HBM 2.5 z XFX 280X DD Black (z Bios Modem inaczej nie ma kontroli nad V ;-)
Gratki i Pozdro ze Slowacji
This thread delivers,the amount of views is too damn high
Nice job man, keep the scores comming this way here on HWBot
Any testing done to see how far you could push HBM on air?
Dafuq I see - it's been a while...maybe X8XX GTO times when I was that impressed by an AMD vga.
Good stuff XA!
Tks for sharing XA
I will try it soon
I posted bioses
Have fun guys!~
Very nice, thx!
Now its the question where you actually can get such a card as I cant see it available in Europe.
Please, help. My strix first unlocked at full 4096 CU and tested for 6-8 hours under FurMark, LuxMark, 3Dmark and some games. Today it gave me CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED BSOD at every 3d app. But it worked! How to be shure and what can i do in this case? Clock always 1000/500, Power Limit +50.
It was PSU. And motherboard. Gigabyte UD9. Card just wanted additional power to PCIe connectors. After that - 6 hours Unigine Heaven stress test on full 4096 CU at 1025 Mhz. Ho single glitch! Hell, i'm glad. Gonna continue overclocking experiments.
Many thanks for these XA
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Coming in handy for the Fiji bios mod I'm doing on OCN.
Great job XA! Where can we find the bios now?http://hwbot.org/newsflash/3008_asus_radeon_r9_fury_strix_unlock_and_ln2_bioses_available_(stock_3564_cus_3776_cus_3840_cus_4096_cus)
Is there anywhere else where the images can be found from the OP? Since the forum software migration many valuable threads have been impacted by missing pictures.
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