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Very Low FPS on Sapphire R290 Tri-X :(

H3R013

H3R013

H3R013

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Hi,

I bought a Sapphire Tri-X R290 from OC last week and had to get it RMA'd as it was giving me a black screen within minutes of installing the latest drivers. I was told that it was to be replaced as it was faulty.

So I got the new Sapphire R290 yesterday and I installed it, put the latest drivers on (13.12) and got no black screen everything seemed to be working fine.

Today I thought I'd run a benchmark so I ran Heaven 4.0 and I'm getting 10fps, Max 15fps. I thought it was a drivers problem but i have the latest ones from AMD.

Anyone know whats going ??
 
i didnt use DDU because after I sent back the first 290 I did a fresh install of windows 8.1 while I was waiting for the replacement, so there was no previous AMD drivers on there.

My PSU is SuperFlower Golden Green HX 650W "80 Plus Gold".
 
Try and install Precision x or msi afterburner or whatever else AMD users use to see what the card is doing exactly, See if the voltage is dropping or what the temps are or see if its using 2d clocks etc... try to get as much info as possible and post your findings.
 
ok thanks for the suggestions. I'll be reinstalling the drivers after running DDU first.

I've got MSI afterburner, nothing seems out of the ordinary but i'll put some screenys up if i get the same problem again.
 
Ok I think I got this...

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Is it strange that my integrated graphics card is also showing up in GPU Model along with the R290 ?
 
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here is the MSI afterburner screeny. The R290 is at all stock speeds straight out of the box. I have no idea how to overclock yet so I have not messed with anything.

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Now run heaven with afterburner running and see if the gpu usage jumps up and down. Also disable the hd 4600 for now in your bios.
 
Ok I'll disable the integrated graphics then run heaven again and keep my eye on gpu usage. cheers buddy !
 
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So i disabled the integrated graphics from the bios and then ran heaven again.

This is the msi afterburner screeny midway through the bench

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GPU usage went up to 100% and the temperature was about 70 deg at the end

Then I ran Heaven on Fullscreen and got this benchmark

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