R9 290X Owners Thread

CitizenEra5ed · 29 Jan 2014 at 19:04

TheRealDeal said:
Use a 6+2 for the 8 pin and a 6 pin for the 6.

Thanks for your help, appreciated!

C

Avenged7Fold · 30 Jan 2014 at 17:58

I heard the tri-x Sapphire bios allows Overclocking to +200mv, if this is true, does anyone have a Bios for me to play with?

DamnedLife · 30 Jan 2014 at 18:11

It's true! But sadly I can't extract my BIOS without getting a blackscreen

LtMatt · 30 Jan 2014 at 18:11

Avenged7Fold said:
I heard the tri-x Sapphire bios allows Overclocking to +200mv, if this is true, does anyone have a Bios for me to play with?

You don't need a special bios. All you need is the latest version of Sapphire Trixxx.

the1gooner · 30 Jan 2014 at 18:12

LtMatt said:
You don't need a special bios. All you need is the latest version of Sapphire Trixxx.

Does that work with any 290X like MSI Afterburner does?

LtMatt · 30 Jan 2014 at 18:14

the1gooner said:
Does that work with any 290X like MSI Afterburner does?

You bet it does.

DamnedLife · 30 Jan 2014 at 18:15

LtMatt said:
You don't need a special bios. All you need is the latest version of Sapphire Trixxx.

Hmm didn't know that

what about getting BS while trying to extract BIOS from either GPU-Z or Trixx? When I click save BIOS, it just goes black :confused:

Avenged7Fold · 30 Jan 2014 at 18:33

Is 200mv fairly safe?

I dont really see many people pushing these cards that hard but my reference Sapphire is happily doing 1241/1500 on +100mv and is underwater with a max of 45 degrees full load.

Thanks LT

humbug · 30 Jan 2014 at 18:36

Avenged7Fold said:
Is 200mv fairly safe?

I dont really see many people pushing these cards that hard but my reference Sapphire is happily doing 1241/1500 on +100mv and is underwater with a max of 45 degrees full load.

Thanks LT

Whats the total voltage? should be safe @ 1.3v on air

Avenged7Fold · 30 Jan 2014 at 18:39

GPU-Z reports stock voltage at 1.148V when i run Valley. So i guess +100mv is 1.25.

Does Trixx not have a power limit control? Is there a way to set it to 50%?

humbug · 30 Jan 2014 at 18:41

Avenged7Fold said:
GPU-Z reports stock voltage at 1.148V when i run Valley. So i guess +100mv is 1.25.

That's well with in the limits.

Kaapstad · 1 Feb 2014 at 08:13

Score 18104

AMD Radeon R9 290X(4x) @1220/1625

Intel Core i7-4930K @4.8

Graphics Score 23537

Physics Score 18048

Combined Score 6640

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/1640753

the1gooner · 1 Feb 2014 at 10:53

I am currently running my Gigabyte Windforce 290X at 1,175 / 1,625 (6,500)

With these settings in MSI Afterburner:-

I know my card has Elpida memory but I am currently maxed out on the Afterburner setting of 1,625 and with only +100mv.

I take it 1,625 (6,500) on the memory with just +100mv is good considering it's using Elpida?

I have yet to experience any black screens so I am guessing I could go higher but being held back by afterburner and voltage.

Is there a way to get afterburner to allow a higher memory overclock?

LtMatt · 1 Feb 2014 at 10:55

the1gooner said:
I am currently running my Gigabyte Windforce 290X at 1,175 / 1,625 (6,500)

With these settings in MSI Afterburner:-

I know my card has Elpida memory but I am currently maxed out on the Afterburner setting of 1,625 and with only +100mv.

I take it 1,625 (6,500) on the memory with just +100mv is good considering it's using Elpida?

I have yet to experience any black screens so I am guessing I could go higher but being held back by afterburner and voltage.

Is there a way to get afterburner to allow a higher memory overclock?

I can max out both of my cards at 1625mhz at +100mv as well and both of mine are Elpida. I wonder if you actually need that much core voltage for 1175 though? The memory will likely need it to be stable though. I just leave the memory at stock personally, unless im benching.

the1gooner · 1 Feb 2014 at 10:56

LtMatt said:
I can max out both of my cards at 1625mhz at +100mv as well and both of mine are Elpida. I wonder if you actually need that much core voltage for 1175 though? The memory will likely need it to be stable though. I just leave the memory at stock personally, unless im benching.

Yeah this is just for benching, I run at stock for gaming.

With all this talk about memory type either Elpida or Hynix and black screen issues I was just interested to see how far I could go really.

the1gooner · 1 Feb 2014 at 15:25

As above is there a way to increase the memory overclock limit in afterburner above 1,625?

Curious to know how much more I can push my card.

Though I am very happy to have got to 1,625 which I wasn't expecting with Elpida memory and just +100mv volt increase.

ChrisD. · 1 Feb 2014 at 17:06

Hi guys, thought I'd check into this thread.

Hope you like. Pair of Sapphire 290X Tri-X.

Kaapstad · 1 Feb 2014 at 17:18

Absolutely beautiful,

And on the Roll of Honour.

Avenged7Fold · 1 Feb 2014 at 18:35

I ran Valley today and saw that my GPU usage stays around 99/100% on GPU-z unlike before where it was all over the place. Does this mean that the load read out was fixed?

If so, i have concerns with my GPU usage in COD Ghosts. Never ever goes above 85%.

I had this with the 8350 that use to be paired with it but now its paired with my new 4770k at 4.6Ghz, so i doubt i am getting bottlenecked.

Anyone know if load is accurate now or still broken?

the1gooner · 1 Feb 2014 at 18:38

^^^ sounds okay to me.

I doubt COD Ghosts is demanding enough to fully load the 290X all the time.

All settings maxed?