CrossFire MSI 390X's who is running them on the new drivers

[anthony566]

Hi i have a new pair of MSI 390X's love the cards the build quality seems to be very good but i am having a few system issues when both cards are in my system so i have gone back to a single card as i really don want to jump straight onto the "its the driver band wagon"

I am intrested to know if anyone else is running these cards and is have the issues i am having ..

My issues are..

1 The system seems to work completely fine for a few days or so and then i have a day of driver stopped responding errors

2 My game crashes and i have to close it and go back to my desktop but windows works fine

3 the extream issues are the system either goes complete white screen or conplete black screen and windows or the game are still running as i can here it but i have to power off to get things going again

4 as above but my system crashes and restarts ...

I am a bit lost really so any help or info will be appreciated

I am away 3 days a week so testing is going very slow ...

 

[old gamer]

im not 100% but an 860w psu could be pushing it a bit with your pc at full load

 

[Marine-RX179]

Can you check the temp of the top card?

It's not uncommon for top card to overheat when the cards are using custom coolers rather than blower coolers.

Also looking at your sig, you are running Windows 10 so it could be problem there as well, as graphic driver is still pretty hit or miss, regardless of AMD or Nvidia cards at the moment- one of the main reason I am still sticking with Windows 7 for the time being.

Also the FX8350 has quite high power consumption when overclocked (it has a TDP of 125W even on stock clock)...so it can pull anything from 160W to 250W upward depending on the voltage used and level of overclock. So there IS the possibility that AX860i might not be enough for a system with that CPU and two 390x. Personally if I had your rig, I would use at least a good brand 1000W PSU.

 

[TonyTurbo78]

I've got crossfire 390 setup, no problem at all on Windows 10 and latest crimson drivers. Could you buy one of those wall plug meters to measure your wattage pull when gaming, and also monitor your temps with an osd, something like msi Afterburner if you've not got it. Those would be my first steps. I draw 770w peak when gaming with my rig, that's 2 overclocked 390's, a overclocked I7, watercooling, fans etc.

 

[anthony566]

Thanks for the quick replays ...

I am running MSI AB and the top card has never gone over 65 Deg ....

The wall plug monitor is a good idea ill see if i can pick one up today if i can find a Maplins ? Close by. I will be back home tonight so should be able to test more over the next 3 days.

 

[Marine-RX179]

I've got crossfire 390 setup, no problem at all on Windows 10 and latest crimson drivers. Could you buy one of those wall plug meters to measure your wattage pull when gaming, and also monitor your temps with an osd, something like msi Afterburner if you've not got it. Those would be my first steps. I draw 770w peak when gaming with my rig, that's 2 overclocked 390's, a overclocked I7, watercooling, fans etc.

Intel's 1155 platform CPU has far better efficiency...the high power consumption of the AMD FX CPU when overclock can almost trade blow with the Intel's 6 cores 12 threads CPU on the X99 platform when overclocked

 

[pandem0nium]

My issues were down to a faulty card. I'd test both individually with the occt gpu test with error checking on and fps limit off.

I don't think the issues you're seeing are to do with crossfire.

 

[anthony566]

I am planning on running the OCCT test as soon as i can with each card.

 

[pandem0nium]

Great stuff. I've found that errors are reported more quickly when running it at a lower res. try the lowest and make sure frtc is disabled in AMD settings if you use that.

One of my cards can run it all day long at stock, whereas the other will produce errors within the first couple of minutes.

 

[anthony566]

Great stuff. I've found that errors are reported more quickly when running it at a lower res. try the lowest and make sure frtc is disabled in AMD settings if you use that.

One of my cards can run it all day long at stock, whereas the other will produce errors within the first couple of minutes.

When I get home tonight I will run it with the card I have in and see how it gets on both are from OCUK one is just over a month old the other one 3 weeks old.

I am hoping to pick up a socket power monitor today as well to rule out my PSU.

 

[TonyTurbo78]

Intel's 1155 platform CPU has far better efficiency...the high power consumption of the AMD FX CPU when overclock can almost trade blow with the Intel's 6 cores 12 threads CPU on the X99 platform when overclocked

thats nice.

Was just giving the OP an idea of how much I'm drawing so he could compare that's all.

 

[Poneros]

If it is due to lack of power you could try undervolting them and see how that goes. Ultimately if you un-OC the CPU and lower power for GPUs you should be fine, at least to test out what the problem is.

 

[anthony566]

I have just installed OCCT and I am testing the first card .... I'll report back when it's done. I setc it for 60 mins

 

[anthony566]

So card one is 45 mins into its test and over 600 errors ...

Ok so card one has now had 2 one hours tests and as you can see in test 1 I had over 600 errors in test 2 I had 39 errors ..

I am now testing card 2 ...

 

[anthony566]

Great stuff. I've found that errors are reported more quickly when running it at a lower res. try the lowest and make sure frtc is disabled in AMD settings if you use that.

One of my cards can run it all day long at stock, whereas the other will produce errors within the first couple of minutes.

Ok so update on the OCCT test

So card one 600 errors and 39 errors on second run

Card 2 No Errors at all..

is there anything else I need to do to test the card that is giving the errors ?

 

[pandem0nium]

You could try some benchmarks, but in my case it only causes errors on that test and was fine during benchmarks. That should be enough proof on its own to return the card anyways.

 

[meldarthx]

You could try some benchmarks, but in my case it only causes errors on that test and was fine during benchmarks. That should be enough proof on its own to return the card anyways.

This.......also as someone suggested; peel back your OC and test. Then test was some more voltage to your cards.

Best tests will be games and benchmarks......if its stable there then don't worry about other

some cards end up needing more voltage than others......if its not stable at stock speeds and voltage then rma it......if its stable at stock speeds and a little voltage bump; then its up to you if you want to rma or not

also new beta drivers have been released.

 

[nashathedog]

So, Are we due another disappointed crossfire user in the near future or have the drivers and profiles suddenly transformed the experience, Or is it a case of only playing a few different games that have support?

 

[pandem0nium]

So, Are we due another disappointed crossfire user in the near future or have the drivers and profiles suddenly transformed the experience, Or is it a case of only playing a few different games that have support?

This is a case of one of the cards in a crossfire setup is faulty and is causing crashes when both are used together. I have the same thing and I'm waiting on an RMA for one of the cards.

 

[anthony566]

Another update on card 2 .. spent the day testing this one as this one didn't come up with any errors in OCCT and it has worked fine in OCCT, Firestrike, MSI Kombustor, Heaven all worked fine on this card,

I am going to test this card with the game I play the most and where 99% of my crashes have been in later tonight and see what happens.

And apart from one issues with Eyefinity not moving my task bar to the centre screen the drivers on this single card seem to be working fine and I have not had any windows issues at all with the crimson drivers.