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Argh.... R9 290X issue(s)

Anon-e-mouse

Anon-e-mouse

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It was all good when I got the R9 290X in the Black Friday sale (more like Cyber Monday) when I managed to order it.

Noticed that it needed a 750W PSU, so I got a PSU rated at 780W (a G7 Power Extreme fwiw).

Due to work, I only managed to put it together earlier today. After lots of what appeared to be driver conflicts from old AMD cards, I used DDU to remove them all, and installed the current Omega drivers direct from the AMD site.

If I'm not playing games stability is perfectly ok. It's when I play games issues appear. I've yet to play a single one for longer than 10 minutes before getting either a BSOD, Lockup, Game crash, Reboot, or Black Screen.

I'd love to think it's not a PSU issue, as it's brand new.

I'd also love to think it's not an overheating issue, as the hardware monitor says the card only gets to around 80C, and 290X's are supposed to be good at 90C.

But I'm now sortta tearing my hair out here. I'm currently underclocking the card, which appears to help, but not really by much here.

The one thing I am wondering, is that the PCI-E power cables from the PSU, aren't seperate, as 1 is daisy-chained from the other. Is this likely to be the cause of the issue? Or is that another cul-de-sac with no exit.

At this point I'm open to reasonable suggestions.... As I really don't want to have to go back to my old HD 5770
 
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From a quick look around it seems that is a very cheap PSU. for a 780w. Will likely be the cause I would have thought. Does it say how many Amps (A) it has on the 12v rail(s). Should say on the lablel.
 
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If you have both power connectors coming from the one cable on the PSU, then that will probably cause issues with your PSU and its separate rails. Before spending more money on a new PSU, try two separate cables for the two power connectors. Your GPU is likely being starved of power.

Which 290X did you get?
 
Bonjour said:
If you have both power connectors coming from the one cable on the PSU, then that will probably cause issues with your PSU and its separate rails. Before spending more money on a new PSU, try two separate cables for the two power connectors. Your GPU is likely being starved of power.
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There is only 1 PCI-E cable from the PSU.. which leads me to think that, that's the cause of the issue.

Bonjour said:
Which 290X did you get?
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This one, https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-164-PC
 
Which PSU did you buy? Also whats the rest of your PC? (cpu, how many sticks of ram, how many pci-e/pci devices, how many storage drives, disc drives etc etc).

I'd also check your voltages using a third party program while maxing out both the cpu and gpu, to see how the PSU is coping.
 
Anon-e-mouse said:
.... even with the Super Flower PSU
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Dave2150 said:
Which PSU did you buy?
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See above. I refuse to believe this is a PSU problem as *2* seperate PSU's show the same problems.

Dave2150 said:
Also whats the rest of your PC? (cpu, how many sticks of ram, how many pci-e/pci devices, how many storage drives, disc drives etc etc).
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Phenom II 965 Black Edition Quad Core @ 3.4Ghz.
Asus M4A785T-M Motherboard
2 x 4GB Overclockers DDR3 Ram
No PCI-E/PCI devices.

3 x HDDs, (2 x 2TB + 1 x 1TB), 1 x Samsung Blu-Ray.

Dave2150 said:
I'd also check your voltages using a third party program while maxing out both the cpu and gpu, to see how the PSU is coping.
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You really think 2 seperate PSU's (including one recommended by a previous poster in this thread), are bad?

It's probably important to mention, that if I remove the R9 290X, and put back the HD5770, I have NO issues at all.
 
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If you have not already done so, install the latest motherboard bios.

Other than that i guess it could just be a faulty card, anyone nearby that can test the 290 for you in thier pc?
 
Anon-e-mouse said:
See above. I refuse to believe this is a PSU problem as *2* seperate PSU's show the same problems.



Phenom II 965 Black Edition Quad Core @ 3.4Ghz.
Asus M4A785T-M Motherboard
2 x 4GB Overclockers DDR3 Ram
No PCI-E/PCI devices.

3 x HDDs, (2 x 2TB + 1 x 1TB), 1 x Samsung Blu-Ray.



You really think 2 seperate PSU's (including one recommended by a previous poster in this thread), are bad?

It's probably important to mention, that if I remove the R9 290X, and put back the HD5770, I have NO issues at all.
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You didn't specifically mention which PSU you went for. I assume it's the 750W one you were thinking about, in which case it should be perfectly fine.

Have you tried stress testing your CPU, just to see if that has suddenly become unstable etc? Long shot, but worth it imo.
 
Looking at the specs of your original PSU, it says it only has 2 x 6-pin connectors, rather than the 1 x 6-pin and 1 x 8-pin that the 290 requires, so it's no wonder you were having issues with that.

With the new PSU, are you certain you have an 8-pin and a 6-pin connector going to the graphics card?
 
The 290X came with a 6pin > 8 pin converter, so the original PSU worked

And yes the Super Flower has 2 seperate PCI-E power cables, both of which have 2 x 6+2 pin connectors
 
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