I installed it yesterday on an hp xw8600 workstation, with the following specifications:
cpu: 2x Xeon 4 quore 3.33ghz
chipset: intel 5400
motherboard: hp 0A98h
slots: 7 full-length slots: 2 PCIe x16 Gen2 Graphics PCIe (x8 mechanically, x4 electrically), 1 PCIe x8 (switchable as x1 or x8), 1 PCI-X 133 MHz slot, and 1 PCI 32-bit/33 MHz slot
ram: 8gb fb ddr2
audio: AMD high definition audio
disks: samsung 860 evo 500gb
2x dvd-ram drives.
As soon as the drivers were installed, the computer crashed. No matter how many updates I made to the sound card driver program, no matter how many tests I performed on the already installed Windows drivers, it remained problematic. Since I got it for World of Tanks, as soon as I opened it, the graphics resolution of the game automatically increased to the maximum of the SD server I had downloaded, as I had been playing on a laptop i5 2nd gen, onboard Intel 3000 graphic card, all on low settings and all effects disabled, with 10-20 fps.
11-10-20
With a cheap USB sound card for €1.50, the problem was solved, as it is only used for gaming and movies, with the use of headphones. With MSI Afterburner, I created a profile with the fan always at 100%, but I don't know if it actually starts immediately as the computer fans are constantly running and audible. In World of Tanks, with graphics set to maximum, after 8 hours of gameplay on Saturday, the temperature reached up to 56 degrees and the FPS ranged from 29 to 49, so I am completely satisfied. Time will tell about its lifespan. The asterisk is for the lost sound, which seems to be coming from the DVI-D port now and required a USB sound card, even a cheap one.
8/5/2021
For some time now, after downloading the latest AMD drivers, the card started giving me a message that it couldn't find OpenGL and wouldn't open the application. I read somewhere that this specific issue occurs when running drivers released after 2017. For now, I installed the latest driver from 2017 (2017,1005,1719,29341) and for the time being, the application opens and I can play with the settings. However, I will also try some newer ones and will update.
27/8/2021
I downloaded the latest driver from the AMD website and for now, it's working. This way, I can see clock and memory speeds, the memory being used at that moment, the percentage of card and processor usage. However, I still need to open MSI Afterburner to check the card temperature.
13-2-22
After a year and 4 months, the card is still working fine. Last summer, the highest temperature I saw was around 72 degrees, but the house has single-brick walls, no insulation, and only one fan for cooling, so it remains relatively cool for its standards. In Afterburner, I have set the memory timing to 1600MHz, the clock to 1850MHz, and the fan permanently at 100%. For the price I paid, it's perfect, but for what it's currently doing, I don't think I would have bought it due to a limited budget.
22-8-23
YES, ladies and gentlemen, the card is still alive, although now it is not used for gaming, just to provide display to the main screen of the PC and for movies. Eventually, Afterburner was abandoned as it started causing problems (PC freezes) and not accepting changes to the card setup. It was replaced with AMD Adrenaline, which has been stable so far.