R9 290X Owners Thread

Stanners · 25 Oct 2013 at 16:40

Right, card installed. Whats the best software for monitoring and overclocking etc.

pprest123 · 25 Oct 2013 at 16:48

I'm using 8.1 already

darket · 25 Oct 2013 at 16:52

pprest123 said:
I'm using 8.1 already

Things like GPU-z etc etc havent been updated to support the 290 series yet , the next release will show all the correct info.

adwol48 · 25 Oct 2013 at 16:55

Comparison between my ref 6970 and the basically lightning version of the
6970

Gotta say so far I've done the 3d mark fire strike bench and it's leaps and bounds better than the 6970's cf'd

LtMatt · 25 Oct 2013 at 17:08

Stanners said:
Right, card installed. Whats the best software for monitoring and overclocking etc.

MSI Afterburner though voltage control is not yet working with it.

Stanners · 25 Oct 2013 at 17:23

Cheers Matt

Not sure if it is placebo but WOT's seems crisper image wise.

Gregster · 25 Oct 2013 at 17:27

MjFrosty said:
I'm seriously considering just falling over and having some kind of fake fit.

Proper loled and proper understand where you are coming from

555BUK · 25 Oct 2013 at 17:28

I think the prices of these will go up in the short-term, as with the 5850/5870's. Other sites have sold the few cards they had in-stock at £500+.

flopper · 25 Oct 2013 at 17:32

adwol48 said:
Comparison between my ref 69070 and the basically lightening version of the
6970

Gotta say so far I've done the 3d mark fire strike bench and it's leaps and bounds better than the 6970's cf'd

sweet.

LtMatt said:
MSI Afterburner though voltage control is not yet working with it.

other short term solution to flash asus bios and run gpu tweak for it.
not recomended though

thewanted · 25 Oct 2013 at 17:34

555BUK said:
I think the prices of these will go up in the short-term, as with the 5850/5870's. Other sites have sold the few cards they had in-stock at £500+.

I suspect you're right.

I have one on order for £388 but I have my doubts about whether they'll honour the sale. I'm tempted to cancel it anyway and wait it out for the AIB, boards, because all the components I've used so far have been designed for low-noise.

youdsy · 25 Oct 2013 at 17:34

yuck, reference design.

Kanoe · 25 Oct 2013 at 17:36

Got my HIS card up and running. Getting coil whine in 3d mark though. Never ever had a gfx card do that before.

Thanks to Gibbo for posting about the Gold ticket resolution. Put my request in on the forum.

Haven't tried too much with it yet. A few runs of 3d mark, getting 10400 GPU score on firestrike at stock with fan set to 100% (never got above 45% tho and it never got near 95 degree's either).

Not tried overclocking it and probably wont for the moment but did stick the mem up to 1475 MHz and that's not a problem for it.

thewanted · 25 Oct 2013 at 17:39

Kanoe said:
Haven't tried too much with it yet. A few runs of 3d mark, getting 10400 GPU score on firestrike at stock with fan set to 100% (never got above 45% tho and it never got near 95 degree's either).

Is 45% quite annoying in terms of noise?

555BUK · 25 Oct 2013 at 17:47

thewanted said:
I suspect you're right.

I have one on order for £388 but I have my doubts about whether they'll honour the sale. I'm tempted to cancel it anyway and wait it out for the AIB, boards, because all the components I've used so far have been designed for low-noise.

If you can get one for that price you'll be better off waiting for it and then fitting an aftermarket Arctic cooler or similar to the card if it gets too noisy for you. That must be a prcing error becuase US base price ($549) plus UK VAT = £410 and we always pay a small surcharge.

Kanoe · 25 Oct 2013 at 17:48

thewanted said:
Is 45% quite annoying in terms of noise?

Didn't notice it above the rest of the system, not that loud of a system either. Certainly no howling otherwise I wouldn't have heard the coil whine

Krait · 25 Oct 2013 at 17:50

555BUK said:
If you can get one for that price you'll be better off waiting for it and then fitting an aftermarket Arctic cooler or similar to the card if it gets too noisy for you. That must be a prcing error becuase US base price ($549) plus UK VAT = £410 and we always pay a small surcharge.

The £388.00 price includes a £30.00 voucher discount (£418)

thewanted · 25 Oct 2013 at 17:57

Krait said:
The £388.00 price includes a £30.00 voucher discount (£418)

Indeed. The voucher no longer works, the price has been pushed up to £589 on the site, and in my order history the discount has been deleted but my total is still £388.

I'm pretty sure they're going to cancel it.

pprest123 · 25 Oct 2013 at 17:58

darket said:
Things like GPU-z etc etc havent been updated to support the 290 series yet , the next release will show all the correct info.

How is that, in Tom's review, they have no issues with GPU-Z

http://media.bestofmicro.com/S/3/406659/original/290x.gif

Krait · 25 Oct 2013 at 18:00

thewanted said:
Indeed. The voucher no longer works, the price has been pushed up to £589 on the site, and in my order history the discount has been deleted but my total is still £388.

I'm pretty sure they're going to cancel it.

Aye, I get that feeling too :/

megadam · 25 Oct 2013 at 18:06

Got mine but is anyone else getting an issue where the card is being picked up as a Standard VGA adapter and AMD drivers is refusing to pick up that it is a R9 290x? Possible DOA?