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R9 290X Owners Thread

Caporegime
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Installed mine, gotta run back to work though.

Used the CD drivers, seeing as AMD didn't think to release proper ones yet?!

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta Driver for Windows

Includes support for the new products:

AMD Radeon™ R9 280X
AMD Radeon R9 270X
AMD Radeon R7 260X
AMD Radeon R7 250
AMD Radeon R7 240


Download Link
http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/amd_catalyst_13_11_beta1_(13_200_16_september_26)_download.html

Newer 290X drivers due today.
 
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Still on a truck with "phil" for another 4 hours...

24 Oct 2013 parcel - dpd next day Your OVERCLOCKERS order will be delivered today by Phil, your DPD driver, between 13:09 and 14:09

My ASUS and MSI orders arrived just now - so "phil" made it through.

A touch disappointed in the lack of cables/adaptors included compared to my "day1" HD7970's - only molex to 6/8 pin included - no hdmi/dp/dvi/vga anything at all.

No golden tickets either so I'll sort that out in the way requested.

edit: 5UB is sorting out the tickets - sweet
 
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Give the yanks some time to get into the office - its only 6am in California - though I'm a touch surprised none of the reviewers have posted them - unless AMD asked them not to with a promise that official ones would be posted by today.

That's because there was a small bug that showed itself at 4k res on the reviewer drivers. AMD were notified of it and have been able to reproduce it and said it will be fixed in the drivers coming today. I read this on one of the review sites, can't remember which one it was though.
 
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That's because there was a small bug that showed itself at 4k res on the reviewer drivers. AMD were notified of it and have been able to reproduce it and said it will be fixed in the drivers coming today. I read this on one of the review sites, can't remember which one it was though.

Yes, I remember Anandtech saying there was some 4K problem, missed the bits about rework. I'd just release R5 and push the other thing to R6 for the number of 4K people out there. It was here - http://anandtech.com/show/7457/the-radeon-r9-290x-review/7 - they also said there were xfire issues on golden-fingers-cards.
 
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An early finish for me today i think !
 
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Nice one Tribz. Benches please.

Here you go ...

GTX760 @ 1264/6508 - 326.8
7970 @ 1125/1575 - 13.11 b1
R9 290X @ 1000/1250 - CD from in the box
R9 290X @ 1125/1450 - CD Drivers again - sorry!

760oc Valley - Score 1805
7970oc Valley - Score 1990, FPS 47.6, Min FPS 26.4, Max FPS 90.9
290X Valley - Score 2104, FPS 50.3, Min FPS 28.4, Max FPS 90.6
290Xoc Valley - Score 2298, FPS 54.9, Min FPS 30.0, Max FPS 103.2

760oc Heaven - Score 850
7970oc Heaven - Score 964, FPS 38.3, Min FPS 19.4, Max FPS 83.8
290X Heaven - Score 1184, FPS 47, Min FPS 23.6, Max FPS 93.7
290Xoc Heaven Score 1287, FPS 51.1 Min FPS 25.3, Max FPS 102.7

760oc Vantage - 33506
7970oc Vantage - 40074
290X Vantage - 41059
290Xoc Vantage - 43613

So not a huge leap at the moment but lets see what overclocking brings. I've got an EK block on pre-order. Also, new drivers out later.

Some throttling noticed at 93-94c. Adjusted fan profile and it stopped throttling. Not that noisy.

Edit to add overclocked 290X overclocked to 1125/1450
Edit again to add my GTX760 scores at 1264/6508
 
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Here you go ...

7970 @ 1125/1575 - 13.11 b1
R9 290X @ 1000/1250 - CD from in the box

7970 Valley - Score 1990, FPS 47.6, Min FPS 26.4, Max FPS 90.9
290X Valley - Score 2104, FPS 50.3, Min FPS 28.4, Max FPS 90.6

7970 Heaven - Score 964, FPS 38.3, Min FPS 19.4, Max FPS 83.8
290X Heaven - Score 1184, FPS 47, Min FPS 23.6, Max FPS 93.7

7970 Vantage - 40074
290X Vantage - 41059

So not a huge leap at the moment but lets see what overclocking brings. I've got an EK block on pre-order. Also, new drivers out later.

Some throttling noticed at 93-94c. Adjusted fan profile and it stopped throttling. Not that noisy.

I reckon it's whatever naff drivers are on the CD.

Randomly played the opening of Crysis 2 (not 3) and noticed some weird slowdown escaping the submarine.
 
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Here you go ...

7970 @ 1125/1575 - 13.11 b1
R9 290X @ 1000/1250 - CD from in the box

7970 Valley - Score 1990, FPS 47.6, Min FPS 26.4, Max FPS 90.9
290X Valley - Score 2104, FPS 50.3, Min FPS 28.4, Max FPS 90.6

7970 Heaven - Score 964, FPS 38.3, Min FPS 19.4, Max FPS 83.8
290X Heaven - Score 1184, FPS 47, Min FPS 23.6, Max FPS 93.7

7970 Vantage - 40074
290X Vantage - 41059

So not a huge leap at the moment but lets see what overclocking brings. I've got an EK block on pre-order. Also, new drivers out later.

Some throttling noticed at 93-94c. Adjusted fan profile and it stopped throttling. Not that noisy.

Shame on you for using CD Drivers!!

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta Driver for Windows

Includes support for the new products:

AMD Radeon™ R9 280X
AMD Radeon R9 270X
AMD Radeon R7 260X
AMD Radeon R7 250
AMD Radeon R7 240


Download Link
http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/amd_catalyst_13_11_beta1_(13_200_16_september_26)_download.html

Newer 290X drivers due today.
 
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Here you go ...

7970 @ 1125/1575 - 13.11 b1
R9 290X @ 1000/1250 - CD from in the box

7970 Valley - Score 1990, FPS 47.6, Min FPS 26.4, Max FPS 90.9
290X Valley - Score 2104, FPS 50.3, Min FPS 28.4, Max FPS 90.6

7970 Heaven - Score 964, FPS 38.3, Min FPS 19.4, Max FPS 83.8
290X Heaven - Score 1184, FPS 47, Min FPS 23.6, Max FPS 93.7

7970 Vantage - 40074
290X Vantage - 41059

So not a huge leap at the moment but lets see what overclocking brings. I've got an EK block on pre-order. Also, new drivers out later.

Some throttling noticed at 93-94c. Adjusted fan profile and it stopped throttling. Not that noisy.

wow - makes the 7970/280x look a bargain !
 
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Here you go ...

7970 @ 1125/1575 - 13.11 b1
R9 290X @ 1000/1250 - CD from in the box
R9 290X @ 1125/1450 - CD Drivers again - sorry!

7970 Valley - Score 1990, FPS 47.6, Min FPS 26.4, Max FPS 90.9
290X Valley - Score 2104, FPS 50.3, Min FPS 28.4, Max FPS 90.6
290Xoc Valley Score 2298, FPS 54.9, Min FPS 30.0, Max FPS 103.2

7970 Heaven - Score 964, FPS 38.3, Min FPS 19.4, Max FPS 83.8
290X Heaven - Score 1184, FPS 47, Min FPS 23.6, Max FPS 93.7
290Xoc Heaven Score 1287, FPS 51.1 Min FPS 25.3, Max FPS 102.7

7970 Vantage - 40074
290X Vantage - 41059
290Xoc Vantage 43613

So not a huge leap at the moment but lets see what overclocking brings. I've got an EK block on pre-order. Also, new drivers out later.

Some throttling noticed at 93-94c. Adjusted fan profile and it stopped throttling. Not that noisy.

Edit to add overclocked 290X overclocked to 1125/1450

Not liking that very much.

I am sure it will improve though.
 
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