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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Owners Thread

Azrael1 said:
I'm looking at you all envious ! My R9 295 is still unopened and boxed up and unfortunately going back to to OCUK for a refund. ( orders from the missus ). I so wanted to play BF4 at 100 plus FPS !
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:(:(

Didn't you explain that you are going to sell the Black?
 
Panos said:
Are you sure you are at -100mv? Mine crashed the moment I press apply.... :o
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yeah for sure I am. Certainly doesnt crash. Each card is different though!

So happy I'm selling my 780s now. Grid Autosport at 4k wasnt even playable with MSAA on 780s.

I can tell even a titanZ or titan blacks in SLI would have sucked for that game from the problems there is with SLI but with the 295X2 I'm not just running a comfortable 4k 60fps, I'm turning up the MSAA just to make use of the card.

I think for that game I'll be playing it better than 980 SLI users can by miles.

Plus is it just me or does crossfire just seem to work on every single game? There seems to be good scaling in almost everything except Dead Rising 3. So weird after having to have profiles for nvidia to just brute forcing it to everything with AMD.
 
Azrael1 said:
I'm looking at you all envious ! My R9 295 is still unopened and boxed up and unfortunately going back to to OCUK for a refund. ( orders from the missus ). I so wanted to play BF4 at 100 plus FPS !
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Sell the Titan black, 2 Dell 30" monitors and use anything left to go 4k :) I've managed to get this and a 4k monitor past my wife with cunning and skillz
 
I have tried mate, hence its been unopened since it arrived as been trying to convince her ! It also did not help DEstiny turning up from tescos around the same time !
 
Wouldn't cause any harm would it not using the fan header attached to the GPU? I think I would rather attach it to my motherboard and have it at max rpm.
 
Loxa said:
Wouldn't cause any harm would it not using the fan header attached to the GPU? I think I would rather attach it to my motherboard and have it at max rpm.
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You mean the radiator fan? Not at all. I have it replaced already. hahah....
 
Panos said:
:(:(

Didn't you explain that you are going to sell the Black?
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This is how it went roughly,

Wife. "How much was that"
Me. "Ummm £700"
Wife "Wwwwwwhhatttttt! What the hell does it do!
Me. "Its a graphics card for the pc"
Wife "Didnt you get a new graphic thingy 2 weeks ago!!!!!"
Me "umm yessss"
 
bemaniac said:
yeah for sure I am. Certainly doesnt crash. Each card is different though!

....
Plus is it just me or does crossfire just seem to work on every single game? There seems to be good scaling in almost everything except Dead Rising 3. So weird after having to have profiles for nvidia to just brute forcing it to everything with AMD.
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Yeah. I managed to make TESO work also by brute force. Was the damn Evolve. Every time turned it off the CF was working in TESO.

As for power. The best I could achieve without crashes atm is 1090/1625 with -40mV/+50% limit. But did 2 Valley runs, and the temps didn't climb more than 64C/60C!!! and that until the very end. Using the first 16 scenes didn't went even to 60C. Weird card. (and scores 4700+, considering that I was on low 4400 yesterday).

Installing 14.8 atm to see if things get better :D
 
Panos said:
Yeah. I managed to make TESO work also by brute force. Was the damn Evolve. Every time turned it off the CF was working in TESO.

As for power. The best I could achieve without crashes atm is 1090/1625 with -40mV/+50% limit. But did 2 Valley runs, and the temps didn't climb more than 64C/60C!!! and that until the very end. Using the first 16 scenes didn't went even to 60C. Weird card. (and scores 4700+, considering that I was on low 4400 yesterday).

Installing 14.8 atm to see if things get better :D
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That's excellent. I've just realised I can't stop the card downclocking playing crysis 3 on very high as the load is just too extreme even at stock. Might order a couple of Corsair SP120s. I don't know if it's possible to replace the amd fan though because it's kind of entwined into the card.
 
Panos said:
You mean the radiator fan? Not at all. I have it replaced already. hahah....
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No I mean the actual fan header from the GPU which powers the stock fan, if i plug it into my motherboard and not the GPU it would run faster and keep it cooler in theory.
 
Azrael1 said:
This is how it went roughly,

Wife. "How much was that"
Me. "Ummm £700"
Wife "Wwwwwwhhatttttt! What the hell does it do!
Me. "Its a graphics card for the pc"
Wife "Didnt you get a new graphic thingy 2 weeks ago!!!!!"
Me "umm yessss"
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You bought another graphic card two weeks ago?? No wonder :rolleyes:

bemaniac said:
That's excellent. I've just realised I can't stop the card downclocking playing crysis 3 on very high as the load is just too extreme even at stock. Might order a couple of Corsair SP120s. I don't know if it's possible to replace the amd fan though because it's kind of entwined into the card.
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Got 2 Piranhas. Had them both on, but decided to remove one and set the other on 80% speed, which they are barely louder than the GPU fan.
(get 2 though, I might plug the second one also just to have my mind in peace).
Btw low scores and crap performance was driver related. 14.8 are absolutely awesome drivers far superior to 14.7
(Why they are not on AMD website is weird).

First attempt on 1095/1625 with -40mV/+50% limit, just dodge 5300 mark at Valley by 2 points (score 5298) and temps didn't climb higher than 62C!!!!!!!!

With 14.7 best score was 4752 with 1100/1625 -30mV/+50% limit.
 
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Loxa said:
No I mean the actual fan header from the GPU which powers the stock fan, if i plug it into my motherboard and not the GPU it would run faster and keep it cooler in theory.
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If you mean the fan that is on the radiator, yes. The fan on the card, I cannot understand how you can remove the cable and plug it on the motherboard. Seems you need to unscrew the cooler and pass the cable from one of the side holes....
 
Well you see ever since the r9 295 got announced and reviewed I always wanted one. I even bought that 1300 watt psu months ago from ocuk when it was on daily offer for £150 so that one day I could power it up. Then that AMD day happened where they sold it for £750 for like 3 of them and i wanted to drive down to ocuk to pick it up but I was on call out that weekend and could not risk being on the motorway hrs from the sites We support.

Then saw 2 r290s on the member market and bought them to crossfire but the heat output was so bad it throttled them within seconds and case almost melted. So i sold them bought a second hand gtx titan black 2 or 3 weeks ago.

Then Gibbo made this amazing deal and I thought it was fate, sadly my wife has umm convinced me the money needs to be spent on replacing our garage door.
 
Panos said:
If you mean the fan that is on the radiator, yes. The fan on the card, I cannot understand how you can remove the cable and plug it on the motherboard. Seems you need to unscrew the cooler and pass the cable from one of the side holes....
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instead of plugging the fan on the rad into the gpu plug it into the motherboard, that's what I mean. So it runs at max rpm constantly instead of downclocking.
 
Azrael1 said:
Well you see ever since the r9 295 got announced and reviewed I always wanted one. I even bought that 1300 watt psu months ago from ocuk when it was on daily offer for £150 so that one day I could power it up. Then that AMD day happened where they sold it for £750 for like 3 of them and i wanted to drive down to ocuk to pick it up but I was on call out that weekend and could not risk being on the motorway hrs from the sites We support.

Then saw 2 r290s on the member market and bought them to crossfire but the heat output was so bad it throttled them within seconds and case almost melted. So i sold them bought a second hand gtx titan black 2 or 3 weeks ago.

Then Gibbo made this amazing deal and I thought it was fate, sadly my wife has umm convinced me the money needs to be spent on replacing our garage door.
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I would argue that the garage door is used few minutes per week, and a graphic card is used hours each day. Along with the sale of the Black will go towards the garage door.....

At least my ex wife was more understanding when one night arrived home with a BFG 8800GTX on one hand. Opened the box. Put the t-shirt on that came with the card, and we went to the cinema. :D
 
Panos said:
I would argue that the garage door is used few minutes per week, and a graphic card is used hours each day. Along with the sale of the Black will go towards the garage door.....

At least my ex wife was more understanding when one night arrived home with a BFG 8800GTX on one hand. Opened the box. Put the t-shirt on that came with the card, and we went to the cinema. :D
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Hence, ex wife.
 
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