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Why is AMD quiet about black screens on 290x?
- Thread starter Rangerjr1
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Soldato
New cards they won't want the bad press regarding issues.
They prefer ****ed off customers?
Most of their customers have convinced themselves that the sun shines out of their backside, the rest stay with NVidia.
Email a few popular tech sites and alert them to the problem?
They did a similar stonewalling with the HD79xx locking up WoW issue, just ignored it for a year then randomly fixed it in a driver update but never acknowledged the issue or the fix.
Don't worry im sure it's just a teething thing, if it's a widespread problem it should get fixed.
Don't worry im sure it's just a teething thing, if it's a widespread problem it should get fixed.
Most of their customers have convinced themselves that the sun shines out of their backside, the rest stay with NVidia.
Email a few popular tech sites and alert them to the problem?
1. I dont want 780tis burning down my house as a result of faulty PCBs.
2. i dont want to pay as much as they demand for the performance.
3. i dont want physx or cuda.
4. Mantle.
Oh great, so waiting one year isnt that unrealistic?
Great job AMD great job! Maybe i should get GK104 while im at it (Dealing with stupid ****)
Had no issues with my golden 7970. Didnt get it at launch though.
Soldato
RMA it and everyone else should do the same - with droves of returns back to retailers - then AMD will take notice. What AMD won't take notice off is people whinging on forums.
Soldato
If it's fine@stock then your 1200 MHz oc wasn't stable?
Im not RMAing my 290x.
1200 OC is fine at 60Hz, but kind of defeats the purpose of running 1200 if i cant run 120hz on my screen.
Soldato
They're known to ignore issues on launch cards. They can't afford the bad press. There were a lot of underlying hardware level problems with the 5870 which got practically no coverage. They might be the loveable under dog on here, but they're also sly dogs when they need to be.
On the flip side I had no issues with my 290X.
On the flip side I had no issues with my 290X.
Their beta testers are ****. If 1/4 (if not more) gets these black screens, some even on stock. You KNOW they barely tested these cards. Its stupid, its ****ing me off.
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same thing happened with my 7970m... it still gives me massive FPS drops in a variety of titles for no readily apparent reason, it also took the best part of a year to get even to the point it is now
similarly I don't want to pay the type of money Nvidia want for mobile gaming (as an upgrade, in hindsight I wish I'd just paid the extra in the first place), so my "gaming laptop" mostly just gets used as a media PC in the living room and I just use my phone and tablet for light gaming out of the house
Caporegime
The 58XX has GSOD too
My R9 290 at stock memory has been fine on my 120HZ screen, I've had black screens when I've pushed the memory too far.
My R9 290 at stock memory has been fine on my 120HZ screen, I've had black screens when I've pushed the memory too far.
The 58XX has GSOD too
My R9 290 at stock memory has been fine on my 120HZ screen, I've had black screens when I've pushed the memory too far.
Same here.
