AMD R9 290 (Non-X, Pro, etc) Owners Club

maj · 5 May 2015 at 20:04

AMDMatt said:
Copy my settings exactly. Save these settings to profile one and apply profile one using the 2d/3d profiles tab. Test for one week of gaming. If the problems are fixed, your gpu memory is unstable at the stock clocks and should be RMA'd.

Will give those a try thanks.

edit: My Afterburner looks different to yours and I don't have those 2d/3d options and my tabs are different too.

shankly1985 said:
Are they stock clocks? Try lowing the memory down to 1250

Yep completely stock clocks.

LtMatt · 5 May 2015 at 20:08

maj said:
Will give those a try thanks.

edit: My Afterburner looks different to yours and I don't have those 2d/3d options.

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/msi-afterburner-beta-download.html

maj · 5 May 2015 at 20:17

AMDMatt said:
http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/msi-afterburner-beta-download.html

What version are you using? I'm using 4.1.0 which I thought would have been the right one.

Marine-RX179 · 5 May 2015 at 20:18

shankly1985 said:
Can't wait to give it a try mate, just waiting on stock fans to be delivered before I order.

Am now been thinking if I should buy the H90 instead I could still fit two these in front of my case.

IMO the H75 is fine. Its temp for the 290 is probably going to be in the 50C~60C range with as oppose to my H105 at 40~50C range. Overclocking, my H105 won't offer much (if any) benefit of pushing further comparing to the H75...the only realistic benefit of having a better AIO jump means you can have it quieter with the fan spinning at lower rpm.

shankly1985 · 5 May 2015 at 20:57

Marine-RX179 said:
IMO the H75 is fine. Its temp for the 290 is probably going to be in the 50C~60C range with as oppose to my H105 at 40~50C range. Overclocking, my H105 won't offer much (if any) benefit of pushing further comparing to the H75...the only realistic benefit of having a better AIO jump means you can have it quieter with the fan spinning at lower rpm.

Thanks so do you think they not much a difference between 120mm rad and 140mm.. Tbh 60c I'll be more than happy. Atm gta5 is really pushing my GPU's into the mid 80s I can get them to stay low by looking frame rate to say 60fps but running 144hz kinder pointless.

I also really like the look of the HG10 think it's very clean how corsair have designed it.

Marine-RX179 · 6 May 2015 at 17:45

shankly1985 said:
Thanks so do you think they not much a difference between 120mm rad and 140mm.. Tbh 60c I'll be more than happy. Atm gta5 is really pushing my GPU's into the mid 80s I can get them to stay low by looking frame rate to say 60fps but running 144hz kinder pointless.

I also really like the look of the HG10 think it's very clean how corsair have designed it.

Having a better cooler could do one of the two followings:
1. Achieving lower temp at the same noise level
or
2. Achieving same temp at a lower noise level.

AgedIdiot · 6 May 2015 at 20:33

Am no advertisement for speed but some 6 months after purchasing 2 x XFX 290 are both under water

(27" 1440)

Noise - what noise?

Temps - worst under load <60c

Am very pleased- long may it last

lude1962 · 8 May 2015 at 08:38

Power Color pcs 290
has any one fitted water cooling to this?

maj · 10 May 2015 at 12:25

Matt been running your suggested settings and I still get random black screens. Time to RMA card I think.

Geck0 · 11 May 2015 at 09:12

I baked the heatsink off my baseplate and modified my 290 ages ago, The VRM temps are a complete non issue with the base plate acting as a heatsink with no heat from the GPU itself, in fact the hot VRM's run cooler than the 3 cool ones.

Kraken G10 bracket
Kraken x41 cooler

Here's a link to some pics I posted on another BB.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1453555/...e-cooler-as-vrm-ram-heatsink/80#post_23312524

m1xmag · 20 May 2015 at 13:14

Another user here - Sapphire Tri-X...... haven't tweaked it yet as was nervous this might affect the warranty?

edwarhys · 4 Jun 2015 at 21:59

Hey guys, anyone here running crossfire 290's ? Just wanted to know what it's like with CF profiles and if you have issues with certain games.

Thanks

Sapphire R9 290 4Gb Tri-X owner

jrodga2k5 · 4 Jun 2015 at 22:30

So I picked up a Matrix version of the R9 290...massive cooler...hoped it would do the job but the temps seem to be crazy.

I've been hitting 90C in Game of Thrones (Telltale one) and 90C in the Witcher 3 as well...definitely shouldn't be the case in both surely?

I do have a well ventilated case so that shouldn't be too much of an issue.

Gerard · 4 Jun 2015 at 22:32

jrodga2k5 said:
So I picked up a Matrix version of the R9 290...massive cooler...hoped it would do the job but the temps seem to be crazy.

I've been hitting 90C in Game of Thrones (Telltale one) and 90C in the Witcher 3 as well...definitely shouldn't be the case in both surely?

I do have a well ventilated case so that shouldn't be too much of an issue.

That card does run hot for some reason despite the cooler it has, for cooler running cards the sapphire tri-x and vapor-x are probably your best bet.

jrodga2k5 · 4 Jun 2015 at 22:35

Gerard said:
That card does run hot for some reason despite the cooler it has, for cooler running cards the sapphire tri-x and vapor-x are probably your best bet.

If that's the case that's alright as I know the R9 290's have to stay around 94C max

I'll try setting up a fan profile and see how I go with it.

thewanted · 5 Jun 2015 at 06:43

Does anyone know to stop the blood splatter flickering in Dying Light when Crossfire is enabled? I've tried disabling AA in-game but it didn't help.

Aretak · 9 Jun 2015 at 12:39

Man, I received a Vapor-X 290 yesterday and it's having the random black screen issue that a lot of people have reported. It seems absolutely fine under gaming load. It's passed FireStrike and Valley and I've played about five hours of GTA V, but whilst randomly browsing the internet it's now just outright crashed to a black screen three times.

Seems to be taking the whole system down, rather than just not outputting a signal, as I had music on in the background which stopped and it needed a hard reset to fix. Ironically, it happened for the third time right in the middle of me filling out the RMA form on the site of the retailer I bought it from.

Properly cleaned out my old drivers before installing it, using out of the box clocks, everything else in the system I know works fine. It's a real bummer, as £180 seemed like an awesome deal for this card, and I've been delighted with its performance in games. Three random crashes during desktop use in 24 hours is unacceptable though.

I'm just worried that the retailer I'm dealing with is going to run it through FireStrike or something and say it's fine. I don't really know how you reproduce random crashes whilst doing nothing.

meldarthx · 9 Jun 2015 at 15:03

Aretak; what browser are you using? and hardware excelleration?

Aretak · 9 Jun 2015 at 17:34

Using Firefox, with hardware acceleration off (to allow MacType to work). I've read elsewhere a lot of people having the same issue with Chrome though.

Buckster · 14 Jun 2015 at 12:44

added a new case fan

so experimented with higher clocks on my 290 Tri-X

not bad

temps ok-ish about 82C under benchmarking - but VRM temps high @ 97C - but they've always been high on my card for some reason