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hey everyone quick update on the newest 16.7 dot 3 a.m. the driver we were alerted by one of our Twitter followers thank you by the way early in the day that the new driver 16 up 7.3 has an OC limitation that was not previously present and that is on memory specifically for the rx 480 and obviously in the future presumably any other rx series card so what's happening is this the original memory overclock had a ceiling of 20 to 50 megahertz which we show in our rx 40 review and with 16.7 dot 3 that limit is dropped down to 20 50 megahertz that's the new ceiling with this particular driver which is for every card I've tested and everyone I've seen tested lower than its actual theoretical max I think our card was hitting 2200 megahertz in our official review so that would drop that rate down somewhat substantially from the 2200 to 2050 100 50 megahertz Javid memory overclocked now in terms of gaming performance you're not looking at that big of a difference so this isn't some huge cry of shame on AMD's part it's not like they're stealing performance from you but it is a curiosity as to why the the frequency overclock has been limited and so I reached out to AMD we decided to wait until contacting them and see if we get a response before doing any kind of video republication and what I got from them was first of all right now as we film this they have QA team Quality Assurance looking into the issue of the the driver frequency limitation that's going on at 1673 and Andy said that they are first checking to confirm if this is an issue at all a problem and then once that's confirmed it will of course come down to a question of when does the driver get updated to maybe 16.7 of 3.1 hotfix or something like that to resolve the issue it was not revealed to us if Andy sees this as an intentional change or if it was completely unintentional or a bug or whatever but they are acknowledging that some users have present this as an issue and and they are looking into it actively so it's not like this is just being ignored and there's silence from Andy on the matter in terms of what's going on I tested it myself just a bit ago with an MSI rx 480 and also with a reference are X 480 the press sample and we're seeing the same issue on both cards and then the is if you roll back the drivers to 16.7 dot one or two I think was the public release then the issue is gone the overclock is again peaked at twenty to fifty megahertz rather than twenty fifty so it is a driver related thing and Andy is looking into this in terms of performance again just to reiterate this isn't something that I'd go burning down the towers over because it is a pretty small issue in the scheme of things it's really just a removal of some of the fun of overclocking of course that sucks but it does look like it's potentially an accident so I just say if you're on 16.7 dot two or I think that was a public one if you're on 1672 then definitely just hang out there for a little bit and grab sixteen seven three dot X when a hotfix is released and I say that because it's more than just memory overclocking that's an issue here a bigger issue that I discovered and I haven't seen I haven't gotten a response from AMD yet on this but we're having problems with a hard crash in GTA v with 1673 so when testing the MSI 480 which we're trying to review right now I was getting issues where the screen would just completely freeze and we had to do a full system shutdown to get back into Windows it wasn't it was there was no soft fix so that is certainly an issue that is one reason I'm recommending just stay on sixteen seven to an update later once everything's resolved because it seems like there's some other stability issues there and we had some white screen issues where the desktop would just turn completely white just while on the desktop with 1673 and that is not present when I roll back to seven to so as far as our review goes the MSI our X 480 will be reviewed on 1672 you and other drivers as relevant but I'm going to be throwing away the results that we've already taken for 1673 because I can't get stability with a lot of games for anymore than the benchmark so that's not a valid test in my opinion so that's it that's all we got for you quick news update on the and the drivers again just wait see what happens we'll update you if there's anything relevant but most like is just gonna be in a driver push with the hotfix in which case check and gamers exit on that for that news because it's by not worth doing a video on if if that comes out so page on like push well there you go in a house out directly and subscribe for more content I'll see you all next time