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

Well it seems to have done the trick. I've managed to complete the chapter of Borderlands 2 which has so far taken me 5 attempts due to this crashing issue.

Will test further tomorrow with my new monitor. :D
 
Finally got on the PC after what seems like an age after my card came. So far I'm at 1150/1500 rock solid with +50mV. It gets to 80c on the default fan profile so no alarms there and can definitely make it louder if I wish.
 
Mines now under a full cover block and is running +100mv @ 1200Mhz core and 1625Mhz mem ( Not finished clocking the mem yet either!! )

This card is craving for more voltage as 1.2Ghz stable at +100mv with a such a high mem clock is not to be sniffed at!
 
Good clocking that gents. Both better than my 290P reference cards which are not quite game stable at 1200 @100mv, though they can run benchmarks all day long.
 
Err quick question and long story short. Building a second PC bought all the bits and planning to transfer one of my 7950's to it, sell the other on and bought myself a shiny new Sapphire R290 Tri-X. However, in the panic of making sure everything fit inside my new second computer case which is MATX I actually forgot to check what size the Fractal Define R3 could take, thinking the HIS cards were pretty big it slipped my mind. Needless to say it didn't really fit in easily, in at an angle and turn has managed to get it in and its running fine but the cooler is against the hard drive cages.

Is this ok? Temps seem fine so it seems to be performing as should just any random long term damage to worry about (luckily its staying in there for years cos I think getting it out is going to be a PITA!).

Cheers.
 
I'll leave this here as evidence of the nice card I bagged myself :D. Look at the top right! :)

Not game stable but definitely 100% bench stable at that. For 24/7 I'm going to run 1150/1550 I think.

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LtMatt said:
+200mv, ridicule that 780 with Mantle in BF4. :cool: :p
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Just played BF4 for an hour with Mantle - it really is no different whatsoever to what my 780 was in BF4. The only thing I will say is the frame rate felt marginally more consistent and the minimums were not quite as low as the 780 but when you're talking about minimums of 80 ish at worst on the 780... bumping those to say 90 isn't a game changer. It's nice but I wouldn't write home about it. I wasn't monitoring frame rates but I'm at the point now where in BF4 I can feel anything below 80 ish :eek: and I didn't get that on Mantle which shows me the minimums are better. Though to be fair it is extremely rare on the 780 that I would actually get a perceptible frame rate drop but I knew when I did.

Obviously I haven't tried playing in D3D on the 290 (nor will I) but as a comparison between nVidia single card on D3D and AMD single card on Mantle the difference was somewhere between minuscule and zero.

I didn't buy this card to get uber Mantle performance anyway - it was purely for a new toy so I'm not disappointed or anything. Mantle ran nicely, no complaints about it whatsoever... it's just not perceivably different to D3D on the 780 for me.

I'd imagine it's you lads on multi-GPU that really feel the difference.
 
Rusty0611 said:
Just played BF4 for an hour with Mantle - it really is no different whatsoever to what my 780 was in BF4. The only thing I will say is the frame rate felt marginally more consistent and the minimums were not quite as low as the 780 but when you're talking about minimums of 80 ish at worst on the 780... bumping those to say 90 isn't a game changer. It's nice but I wouldn't write home about it. I wasn't monitoring frame rates but I'm at the point now where in BF4 I can feel anything below 80 ish :eek: and I didn't get that on Mantle which shows me the minimums are better. Though to be fair it is extremely rare on the 780 that I would actually get a perceptible frame rate drop but I knew when I did.

Obviously I haven't tried playing in D3D on the 290 (nor will I) but as a comparison between nVidia single card on D3D and AMD single card on Mantle the difference was somewhere between minuscule and zero.

I didn't buy this card to get uber Mantle performance anyway - it was purely for a new toy so I'm not disappointed or anything. Mantle ran nicely, no complaints about it whatsoever... it's just not perceivably different to D3D on the 780 for me.

I'd imagine it's you lads on multi-GPU that really feel the difference.
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Or on weaker CPU's :)
 
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