R9 290X Owners Thread

tommybhoy · 2 Aug 2014 at 15:19

juno12 said:
did you experience any artifacts or crashes with the asus r9290x while gaming tommy???

Haven't really played on it yet, my lad abused it yesterday and the only problem he reported was Goat simulator caused a hard reset when he was spamming the **** of goat spawning.

Uncle Petey said:
Interesting airflow setup there, Tommy.

~Mike~ said:
I was thinking that also.

Looks like all fans are exhaust?

The bottom two weren't meant to be exhausting...

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Maybe the DCUII OC can be quieter then.

LtMatt · 2 Aug 2014 at 15:22

tommybhoy said:
Haven't really played on it yet, my lad abused it yesterday and the only problem he reported was Goat simulator caused a hard reset when he was spamming the **** of goat spawning.

humbug · 2 Aug 2014 at 15:30

lol ^^^^

tommybhoy · 2 Aug 2014 at 15:32

~Mike~ · 2 Aug 2014 at 16:26

mrk said:
Seems fine so far, it produces more heat inside my case though whereas the GTX 780 pushed it out the back of the cooler. Speedfan locked the fans to 20% though which I thought was weird and wondered why the pc was releasing epic heat when gaming! Turned off speed control for gpu off and now sorted.

It's a nice card.

tommybhoy said:
Haven't really played on it yet, my lad abused it yesterday and the only problem he reported was Goat simulator caused a hard reset when he was spamming the **** of goat spawning.

The bottom two weren't meant to be exhausting...

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Maybe the DCUII OC can be quieter then.

That explains it.

LtMatt said:
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lol :D

Combat squirrel · 2 Aug 2014 at 18:17

Years ago I had a 7950, and used that to have 4 monitors for work on.....

2xdvi-d
1xDP
1xHDMI

then I got a nvidia 670gtx and that worked perfectly as well

Now I have a 290x and I cant seem to get it to display on 4 monitors, which is weird because before I installed the 14.7 driver it worked on windows default driver, i tried the non beta driver and same thing the missing monitor is the hdmi cable

Any idea?

juno12 · 2 Aug 2014 at 21:23

tommybhoy said:
Haven't really played on it yet, my lad abused it yesterday and the only problem he reported was Goat simulator caused a hard reset when he was spamming the **** of goat spawning.

I'm asking cause I have the same card and it showed artifacts on bf3,4 heaven valley etc.
the problem was overheating of the vrms and the core itself.
I thought that the card was faulty but then I replaced the vrm thermal pad and
lapped that awful surface of the heatsink and the result is better than expected

can I join the club?

Kaapstad · 2 Aug 2014 at 21:39

juno12 said:
I'm asking cause I have the same card and it showed artifacts on bf3,4 heaven valley etc.
the problem was overheating of the vrms and the core itself.
I thought that the card was faulty but then I replaced the vrm thermal pad and
lapped that awful surface of the heatsink and the result is better than expected

can I join the club?

On the Roll of Honour and welcome to the club.

gareth170 · 3 Aug 2014 at 11:06

has anyone got a Powercolor Radeon R9 290X PCS+ OC? if so, could you please run 2 benchmarks at stock 1050/1350. Heaven Benchmark 4.0 on Preset = Custom, Mode = 1920*1080 8*AA Fullscreen, Quality = Ultra, Tessellation = Extreme. and 3dmark Fire Strike benchmark.

thanks

gareth170 · 3 Aug 2014 at 17:04

^^^ anyone?

uksoldierboy · 3 Aug 2014 at 17:05

Could do Heaven 4.0 on my Ref 290X at those clocks Gareth if it helps?

uksoldierboy · 3 Aug 2014 at 17:15

Just ran it using your clocks, result was 55.8.

gareth170 · 3 Aug 2014 at 17:15

uksoldierboy said:
Could do Heaven 4.0 on my Ref 290X at those clocks Gareth if it helps?

u could do mate

i just want to know/see if other Powercolor Radeon R9 290X PCS+ OC cards performance slower than other 290x's, because my Powercolor Radeon R9 290X PCS+ OC seems to performance slower than other 290x's.

I've tried everything to improve it.

gareth170 · 3 Aug 2014 at 17:16

uksoldierboy said:
Just ran it using your clocks, result was 55.8.

i get 51.7...

i don't understand whats wrong...

i tried 14.4, 14.6, 14.7 drivers. also reinstalled windows.

it can't be due to using pcie 2.0, can it?

thefogo · 3 Aug 2014 at 17:42

gareth170 said:
i get 51.7...

i don't understand whats wrong...

i tried 14.4, 14.6, 14.7 drivers. also reinstalled windows.

it can't be due to using pcie 2.0, can it?

My 290P PCS+ got 53.5 at stock.

uksoldierboy · 3 Aug 2014 at 18:01

gareth170 said:
i get 51.7...

i don't understand whats wrong...

i tried 14.4, 14.6, 14.7 drivers. also reinstalled windows.

it can't be due to using pcie 2.0, can it?

Could be Cpu?

gareth170 · 3 Aug 2014 at 18:10

uksoldierboy said:
Could be Cpu?

what thing about the cpu?

on the Heaven Benchmark thread theres a person thats using a 2500k + 290 which scores higher than me

juno12 · 3 Aug 2014 at 18:32

what are the temps on the card while "heavening" gareth???
if it's too high maybe the card throttles.
btw my dcii 290x scores only 51 fps so you are fine i think.
are you sure that the other results you saw are heaven and not valley??

gareth170 · 3 Aug 2014 at 18:42

juno12 said:
what are the temps on the card while "heavening" gareth???
if it's too high maybe the card throttles.

between 63 - 67c it never goes over 68c

juno12 said:
are you sure that the other results you saw are heaven and not valley??

yes it's heaven results has they are in the heaven thread

juno12 · 3 Aug 2014 at 18:48

those are great temps!!! i get 80c with a custom fan curve from gpu tweak.