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AMD 290 Problems

jktmstokes23

jktmstokes23

jktmstokes23

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I have had my 290 for atleast 2 years now. I've never had problems until these past few weeks and it's getting worse and more frequent.

Across multiple drivers, including the new crimson drivers, I am seeing polygonal tearing and pop in, I'm seeing artifacts, black flickering at times, and black splotches or huge polygonal splotches on screen.

All this only happens when gaming and starts about 20-30 minutes in on average. I check my GPU and it's not overheating... I have a sapphire tri-x in a large AZZA case with great airflow. It sits around 74c mostly. Furmark gets it to about 81c sometimes a little more as I've been testing it lately to figure out the problem...

Any ideas? I'm thinking it's dying but I really hope not.
 
What clock speed is the memory on? I recall overclocking memory clock on some graphic cards in the pass instability can cause strange artifact tearings.

May be try turning it down a bit and see if it helps?
 
jktmstokes23 said:
It's running at the clocks it shipped with. I haven't overclocked it, ever.
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The Sapphire Tri-X has a factory overclock on the memory, making it running at 5200MHz (1300MHz) comparing to AMD's reference clock of 5000MHz (1250MHz). Try dropping the memory clock to AMD reference speed and see if it removes the problem.

The thing is you bought the card from an American site doesn't make things any easier, and also I think for Sapphire the RMA you'd have to send to Hong Kong (expensive and long turnaround time)...so could be quite a hassle. Try the above first, and if the problem remains, then you can think about RMA.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
The Sapphire Tri-X has a factory overclock on the memory, making it running at 5200MHz (1300MHz) comparing to AMD's reference clock of 5000MHz (1250MHz). Try dropping the memory clock to AMD reference speed and see if it removes the problem.

The thing is you bought the card from an American site doesn't make things any easier, and also I think for Sapphire the RMA you'd have to send to Hong Kong (expensive and long turnaround time)...so could be quite a hassle. Try the above first, and if the problem remains, then you can think about RMA.
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I am trying that now... Thank you! If I did RMA, I think I'll just buy a new card and when I get that one back I'll sell it and make some money back.
 
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