Soldato
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Anyone gone from a 7970 to the 290X here?
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R9 290X Owners Thread
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Yes and IMHO the difference is tremendous. For a start the card trade blows with a Titan and bosses the 780, the 780TI is a differenrt story but there isnt that much in it.
Aside form the Black Screen issues (when over clocking for me) the card is amazing and I love mine. I was about to sell mine and buy 780TI but have since decided not too.
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Yea from what I've seen the GTX780Ti generally got higher max frame rate than the 290x, but minimum and average there's not much difference.
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Anyone know if you can increase the ram volts on the 290X?
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I don't think it's possible Jbod 
But if you find anything let us know.
But if you find anything let us know.
There is no mem voltage on Hawaii reference boards. Only way to get it is with a hard mod.
I saw some info about this here: http://kingpincooling.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2473&page=6
I saw some info about this here: http://kingpincooling.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2473&page=6
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Still getting the blackscreen crashes on bf4, definitely memory related and seems even worse with the 9.4 drivers.
Anything over 1400mhz on the memory and I get blackscreen crashes at random times
Wish it would give you some warning in the shape of artifacts beforehand though.
Hopefully as the drivers mature the problem will get fixed.
Just to clarify, this only happens when overclocking the memory, imo it's a driver issue and not a fault with the card.
9.2 was fine and I could bench at 1625.
Not a single crash in BF4 here, since running stock settings. It's worth running stock in that game and just enjoying it rather than trying to trouble shoot high clock settings, it's just to unstable atm. Enjoying the game much more now I'm not expecting a crash lol.
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1.25 volts should be more than fine on water. The 7970 ghz cards come at 1.25 volts stock. What is stock voltage on the r9 290x.
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Yea that should still be fine on water.
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I've bought myself a waterblock for mine, looking forward to see what it can do with the extra cooling as I haven't tried overclocking it yet.
I have managed to get a stable overclock (BF4 no artifacts/Crashing) of 1220/5300, any higher on the memory and I get black screen crashes, any higher on the core I get artifacts. I can run benchmarks (valley/heaven) at 1250/5700 no problems, but I'm quite happy with this overclock for BF4 at least. Maybe it'll change with driver updates and maybe with some BF4 patches/Mantle.
Guess we'll wait and see.
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My max on the memory is 5400(1350) ang more will blackscreen eventually on bf4. It can bench at 1200/1500.
I can get 1200 on the core but havnt tried higher.
My overclock is set to 1150/1350 as thats the max i can do with msi afterburner with 100mv. I dont like gputweak and i am not bothered to use the shortcut to add more voltage in msi everytime.
So my card is similar performance
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Thats sad to hear and will account for some of the poor memory overclocks i expect. Lucky the cards have a 512bit bus to make up for it.
I have a 290x and a 4930k with 600mm worth of rad space to put to the test
Well played with overclocking mine yesterday. Got 1200 / 1500 at 1.3v after a valley run to see if stable. gpu tweak was showing 43 degrees. This is watercooled 520mm rad space cooling i7 4770k and 1 290x. Fans and pump on low.
Only problem was after I reset everything to default i started getting System Memory errors. Seeing as I have not OC'ed the cpu or the system memory I have no idea why.
Swapped memory for the 8 gigs in my server and everything running fine.
Only problem was after I reset everything to default i started getting System Memory errors. Seeing as I have not OC'ed the cpu or the system memory I have no idea why.
Swapped memory for the 8 gigs in my server and everything running fine.
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Received my 290X yesterday and what a beauty it is. A major upgrade from my 6870.
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Received my 290X yesterday and what a beauty it is. A major upgrade from my 6870.
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