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

Final8y · 21 Oct 2014 at 19:31

Well they are in at last as i was playing BLP most of the day.
Just shut down took out the 3x7950's, put in the 3x290 booted up and let windows 7 do its installing devices thing rebooted, fired up AB disabled ULPS, rebooted, job done.

Uncle Petey · 21 Oct 2014 at 19:33

May also want to enable unified usage monitoring too, if you haven't

Final8y · 21 Oct 2014 at 19:35

Uncle Petey said:
May also want to enable unified usage monitoring too, if you haven't

Of coarse :smirk:

Uncle Petey · 21 Oct 2014 at 19:37

Get yer pics out for the lads!

Final8y · 21 Oct 2014 at 19:38

Uncle Petey said:
Get yer pics out for the lads!

LOL! time for some BF4.

Gerard · 21 Oct 2014 at 20:40

AMDMatt said:
I had to remove my side panel with those three 290X XFX cards in order to avoid throttling and that was with decent (ish) space in between the cards.

Case must sound like a tornado.

Final8y · 22 Oct 2014 at 03:26

Gerard said:
Case must sound like a tornado.

And it must be bolted down to the desk and the desk to the floor.

vfdb · 23 Oct 2014 at 13:17

Just got my r9 290 triX today, I'm very happy with it so far it is quite a bit faster than my 7970 lightning. It's not the best at overclocking but I'm not too fussed because I like to keep the voltage and noise down anyway. Running 1075/1400 at +30mv

ASIC is 86.7 :O

toodoo9011 · 23 Oct 2014 at 13:22

ordered 2x msi 970. I was always a evga fanboy ,until now.

(wrong thread.I though it was the 970 owners thread,sorry)

555BUK · 23 Oct 2014 at 17:44

Just managed to unlock my MSI Gaming 290 to 290X. I seem to have been lucky because there are only 2 or 3 reports for successful MSI unlocking. Card is actually an MSI RMA card, so maybe they didn't have any non-X left so simply flashed non-X bios and put a non-X sticker on it. It overclocks well to 1130MHz on stock volts but memory only goes up to 5400MHz. The Twin Frozr cooler also gets a bit loud for my ears, but I have owned much worse.

Yes it does show all shaders/TMU's available and it benches 5-7% faster at same clocks.

Orangey · 23 Oct 2014 at 18:16

Nice.

Nicccce~

LtMatt · 23 Oct 2014 at 18:34

555BUK said:
Just managed to unlock my MSI Gaming 290 to 290X. I seem to have been lucky because there are only 2 or 3 reports for successful MSI unlocking. Card is actually an MSI RMA card, so maybe they didn't have any non-X left so simply flashed non-X bios and put a non-X sticker on it. It overclocks well to 1130MHz on stock volts but memory only goes up to 5400MHz. The Twin Frozr cooler also gets a bit loud for my ears, but I have owned much worse.

Yes it does should all shaders/TMU's available and it benches 5-7% faster at same clocks.

Orangey said:
Nice.

Nicccce~

Congratulations. Very rare these days to find one that unlocks, especially that make and model.

wazza300 · 23 Oct 2014 at 18:37

that cards worthy of an accelero

shankly1985 · 23 Oct 2014 at 19:33

555BUK said:
Just managed to unlock my MSI Gaming 290 to 290X. I seem to have been lucky because there are only 2 or 3 reports for successful MSI unlocking. Card is actually an MSI RMA card, so maybe they didn't have any non-X left so simply flashed non-X bios and put a non-X sticker on it. It overclocks well to 1130MHz on stock volts but memory only goes up to 5400MHz. The Twin Frozr cooler also gets a bit loud for my ears, but I have owned much worse.

Yes it does show all shaders/TMU's available and it benches 5-7% faster at same clocks.

Great stuff last time I checked both mine wouldn't unlock.

MoodyB · 23 Oct 2014 at 23:06

Anybody running 290 Tri-X crossfire & care to post their card temps please?

I'm considering going xfire but with my current motherboard ( z87x-ud3h ) I'll only have 1 slots worth of space between each card, so around 15mm or so.

I seen Shankly's thread about having to change his motherboard to allow for more space between his MSI 290's, and I'm hoping with the Tri-X's running 5-10c cooler than the MSI's that I won't need to do the same.

I'd need a z97x-SOC to get more space ( I'd gain an extra 25mm I think ), so keeping my current motherboard would be preferred to save around £140

555BUK · 24 Oct 2014 at 00:08

I just discovered something interesting. My MSI Gaming with Hynix memory stubbornly refused to go above 5400MHz without instant black-screening. I tried raising Aux volts without success but tonight I lowered Aux volts 50mV below stock. BAM!, card now benches stable at 6000MHz.

Unlocked from 290 to 290X and improved memory clocks from 5400 to 6000MHz in one lucky day. I know that it's only a ~10% boost overall, but makes me feel happy. Simple minds and all that.... Max stable benching is now 1175Mhz core / 6000 mem with +150mv core and -50mv Aux. 1200MHz is a no-go even with +200mv. 24/7 clocks will be 1100/5400.

Should give a 970 a run for its money and keep my house warm this winter

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CEUOTC · 24 Oct 2014 at 09:36

555BUK said:
I just discovered something interesting. My MSI Gaming with Hynix memory stubbornly refused to go above 5400MHz without instant black-screening. I tried raising Aux volts without success but tonight I lowered Aux volts 50mV below stock. BAM!, card now benches stable at 6000MHz.

Unlocked from 290 to 290X and improved memory clocks from 5400 to 6000MHz in one lucky day. I know that it's only a ~10% boost overall, but makes me feel happy. Simple minds and all that.... Max stable benching is now 1175Mhz core / 6000 mem with +150mv core and -50mv Aux. 1200MHz is a no-go even with +200mv. 24/7 clocks will be 1100/5400.

Should give a 970 a run for its money and keep my house warm this winter.

Nice 1.

Nexus18 · 24 Oct 2014 at 13:49

*sigh*

And my "display driver has crashed and recovered" issue is back again.... Once again completely random, been fine since my last post regarding the MSI afterburner tweaks and today in the space of 4 hours, happened 3 times, whilst just browsing. So if I was playing games or watching movies, it would probably have been a hard lock up thus meaning a PC reset each time....

Just going to put up with the issue until nvidia's and AMD's new GPU's are out early next year and get one of them as chances are OCUK won't encounter the issue, which means I will just be without a GPU for 3-4 weeks and have to pay for postage, cba with the faff.

LtMatt · 24 Oct 2014 at 13:53

Nexus18 said:
*sigh*

And my "display driver has crashed and recovered" issue is back again.... Once again completely random, been fine since my last post regarding the MSI afterburner tweaks and today in the space of 4 hours, happened 3 times, whilst just browsing. So if I was playing games or watching movies, it would probably have been a hard lock up thus meaning a PC reset each time....

Just going to put up with the issue until nvidia's and AMD's new GPU's are out early next year and get one of them as chances are OCUK won't encounter the issue, which means I will just be without a GPU for 3-4 weeks and have to pay for postage, cba with the faff.

Hi Nexus,

This is probably not going to be much help to you and i apologise for that. However i think your issue could be down to your motherboard. I think the 290 series of cards with XDMA via PCI-E have problems with motherboards than use the NF200 chip. Unless I'm mistaken i believe X58 uses that chip? I know when i had a P8P67 Deluxe that had the same chip i had BSOD issues with that NF200 chip and my 290 cards.

Have you, or would you be able to try your graphics card in another pc?

Nexus18 · 24 Oct 2014 at 14:04

Thanks for the reply Matt

I have read about that issue before and afaik, my motherboard doesn't have that chip.

This is my motherboard:

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3164#ov

Unfortunately, all the PC's in the household have the exact same motherboard.

I just don't get why the issue is so random :confused:

Nothing on my PC has changed, I haven't even updated windows (8.1 64 bit) for a few weeks either.