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

xibinim said:
Considering how hot these can get, is it worth getting another MSI Gaming 290 second hand? £150 seems a decent price to future proof my rig for a while longer.
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Depends on your spacing between them. All GPUs with custom cooling push the hot air into the case. Top card will always be getting heat from bottom GPU. It's how well you can space them apart that keeps them cool.
 
Jiminy cricket!! I've just Googled MSI 290 Crossfire and so many hits mention real problems with temps, my Fractal Design R4 doesn't help either. If I remove the hard drive cage, beef up the front intakes, space well as you said and potentially use a decent side intake - I should hopefully be fine. I have plenty of fans from mining (ended up with 7 for one 290 - most of the time it did bugger all with the temps so perhaps still a bit sceptical with the above).
 
xibinim said:
Jiminy cricket!! I've just Googled MSI 290 Crossfire and so many hits mention real problems with temps, my Fractal Design R4 doesn't help either. If I remove the hard drive cage, beef up the front intakes, space well as you said and potentially use a decent side intake - I should hopefully be fine. I have plenty of fans from mining (ended up with 7 for one 290 - most of the time it did bugger all with the temps so perhaps still a bit sceptical with the above).
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I use two msi gaming 290s and with driver 14.9 temps don't go over 80c playing bf4
 
Finners said:
Bumping the thread as i never got an answer for this.

Why did you flash your BIOS to the asus one? Where you expecting them results?

If so, which BIOS did you use?
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I'm interested in this as well. Did you use the bios in the OP? My 290 tri-x tops out at 1125/1500 with +0.1 volts and I'd like to get a bit more out of it. What settings have you used to get yours to 1250 almighty? The promise of lower VRM temps does sound good mine are often a fair whack above my core temp...

Might it be worth checking everything is making good contact under the heatsink???
 
Guys, I have a problem with a R9 290 (reference) I purchased off MM. The card works fine, but in certain games it exhibits stuttering.

I have a watercooled i7 2600k 3.2ghz @ 5ghz, and 16GB of ram. I also have a 144hz Benq monitor.

Today I upgraded from my watercooled 2GB 6970 to the above mentioned card. Before doing so I obviously uninstalled the CCC 14.9 drivers. I rebuilt my loop as you do and bunged in the card running on its stock MSI cooler still and then setup 14.9 CCC's again.

Upon firing up some games I get what can only be described as a stuttering/laggy effect in some games. Shadow of Mordor's menu's exhibit heavy stuttering during menu transitions and ingame I get frame rate spikes no matter what settings I run. This was perfectly fine on the 6970 running on High textures. I've dropped the resolution from 1080p but that has no effect.

I tried a few Unreal engine games, and they work fine however Batman Arkham City exhibits stuttering during cutscenes.

From what I can see in Afterburner the clock core is slightly fluctuating from 947mhz to around 930mhz'ish but nothing major. The GPU tops out at around 80c or so during gaming and idles at around 45c. Windows is set to 144hz for my monitor.

Having been on my 6970 for as long as I have I am not sure what exactly to do here. Whilst I haven't fully tested the card out on games, it does work on the handful I have tried ok. Shadows of Mordor though I love playing but cannot in this state. Any ideas?
 
Orangey said:
Did you use a driver cleaner? I experienced something similar going from 5850 to 7950 even with regular uninstall.
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I used DDU or whatever that is called but had no luck with that.

What I did just do was to uninstall the CCC's again and then whilst in windows without any AMD drivers I ran Shadow of Mordor and still experienced this menu and ingame stuttering. So I am assuming this may not be related to the CCC's at all... I just don't know what to do next really.

I then ran DDU in Win7 safe mode and then installed the 14.4 Cats to see if that would make a difference. Obviously it didn't. I would have assumed DDU would have been more than enough to remove traces of previous driver installs.
 
Uncle Petey said:
Details, man.
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There are details in multiple threads - sorry for the rant - severely hacked off!! What makes this worse is the fact my wife & son are in Japan for 10 days and I wanted to get some gaming in!!! :(

Reference VTx 290 (<---current) and a Powercolour 290.
Stock Volts
Aggressive Fan speed
Stock Clocks

Results have been the same, flickering colours & lines with black screens. Had this when streaming over iPlayer, COH2 and Contagion!!

It started with CSS and was fixed by using a custom profile in Radeon Pro to force max clocks and +50% power. Seemed it didn't last. I've tried this with COH2 also and the results are the same.

I'm done with AMD!!!
 
Uncle Petey said:
Yeah, I know. Just making light of it :)

What's the RMA situation?
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haha - funny story that!

The Powercolour which I RMA'd a few months back was 45 days in and nothing so I got a refund.

AMDMatt sold me one of his VTX 290s, which is what I'm using now, and I'm stunned (seriously annoyed actually) to have the same issue.

Any further suggestions on workarounds or fixes?
 
No, but it is pretty odd that you had the same issue with two different cards.

It could be just coincidence, but it could also point at something to do with your pc. What exactly, I don't know...
 
I'm sure this has all been examined by more knowledgeable chaps than me in previous threads, but the fact that you had to force the cards to use max clocks/power to simply work may well point to your PSU, even if it is supposed to be a good one.

Then again, it could be the mobo or God knows what...

You know you want a 970 anyway :D
 
Uncle Petey said:
I'm sure this has all been examined by more knowledgeable chaps than me in previous threads, but the fact that you had to force the cards to use max clocks/power to simply work may well point to your PSU, even if it is supposed to be a good one.

Then again, it could be the mobo or God knows what...

You know you want a 970 anyway :D
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Saying that though, my 7970 had no issues what so ever!

If I'm honest, I really do at this point!

If I wanted to add more MV to the Core to "try" and stabilise it, what would I add? +0.025?
 
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