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

Bonjour · 26 Apr 2015 at 20:53

Did you install fans in the Krakens, blowing air on the VRMs?

aceytrixx · 27 Apr 2015 at 06:54

It's all just assembled as per the instructions. I left on the metal plate from the msi cooler that seems to be acting as a heatsink for the vrms

beefkeef · 29 Apr 2015 at 21:45

Any luck with your system aceytrixx ?

aceytrixx · 30 Apr 2015 at 07:19

I've not been looking at my system as I'm actually away on holiday. Ill be back at it on Wednesday and my current thinking is just to take everything out and start again

LtMatt · 30 Apr 2015 at 07:44

The issues you've described could be caused by over tightening or a short somewhere.

Kaapstad · 30 Apr 2015 at 11:18

aceytrixx said:
It's all just assembled as per the instructions. I left on the metal plate from the msi cooler that seems to be acting as a heatsink for the vrms

Reduce the overclock on your CPU to about 4.0ghz and see if the PC still has problems.

deuse · 30 Apr 2015 at 16:25

AMDMatt said:
The issues you've described could be caused by over tightening or a short somewhere.

You're alive :eek:

shankly1985 · 1 May 2015 at 12:34

Installing Corsair HG10 with H75 next week on my 290 and then following week if all go's to plan on the 290x..

Result so far from my reading is the HG10 is very good.

maj · 1 May 2015 at 22:00

Well got a monitor 2nd hand today and I still get the graphic artifact on POST that I've mentioned before so looks like my R9 290 is the problem. I knew the monitor worked before I bought it and can also rule it out being the hdmi to vga adapter I was using as I'm using display port this time. Looks like it's RMA time.

SouthEastBlue · 1 May 2015 at 22:04

I used to to get that graphical artifact on post too, do you have a Gigabyte or Z68 motherboard by any chance? I removed the graphic logo in the bios and all was fine. Other than that issue which doesnt affect anything the card always ran perfect.

maj · 1 May 2015 at 23:06

SouthEastBlue said:
I used to to get that graphical artifact on post too, do you have a Gigabyte or Z68 motherboard by any chance? I removed the graphic logo in the bios and all was fine. Other than that issue which doesnt affect anything the card always ran perfect.

I have gigabyte mono yeah but not Z68 chipset. If I wasn't on my phone I'd find the exact post where I first mentioned it so I could compare it you yours. This only started happening since I moved to AMD. Nvidia card I had before worked fine until it died. The screen would randomly go black and loose input from the card too. Not sure if this monitor has sorted that or not. I'll try turning the logo off in BIOS like you suggested.

aceytrixx · 4 May 2015 at 17:08

AMDMatt said:
The issues you've described could be caused by over tightening or a short somewhere.

Back from my holidays and managed to get some time at the pc today. Slightly loosened the cooler on the core and have successfully done two runs of 3d mark with no black screen. Ill see how it goes after some gaming this evening

LtMatt · 4 May 2015 at 17:44

aceytrixx said:
Highest I've seen is 77 degrees. However GTA V keeps crashing to a black screen so I don't know if that's the game or the cards or something. I'm trying out lego batman 3 which is fine but in fairness doesn't exactly push the system. Ill try another game and see if it's a gta problem or what

aceytrixx said:
Yeah so heaven just died about 10 seconds in so clearly it's something going on with the cards

AMDMatt said:
The issues you've described could be caused by over tightening or a short somewhere.

aceytrixx said:
Back from my holidays and managed to get some time at the pc today. Slightly loosened the cooler on the core and have successfully done two runs of 3d mark with no black screen. Ill see how it goes after some gaming this evening

maj · 5 May 2015 at 19:12

Getting annoyed now. New monitor and 290 still black screens randomly whenever I'm browsing the web. It has to be card now surely? Since I'm using a display port cable directly from card to monitor.

LtMatt · 5 May 2015 at 19:13

What are the cards stock clocks? The issue you've described is usually caused by a faulty gpu.

maj · 5 May 2015 at 19:50

Annoyingly if I do have to RMA it, my mobo chipset doesn't have onboard graphics so I'd be without a computer in the time it was away.

LtMatt · 5 May 2015 at 19:58

maj said:
Annoyingly if I do have to RMA it, my mobo chipset doesn't have onboard graphics so I'd be without a computer in the time it was away.

Copy my settings exactly. Save these settings to profile one and apply profile one using the 2d/3d profiles tab. Test for one week of gaming. If the problems are fixed, your gpu memory is unstable at the stock clocks and should be RMA'd.

shankly1985 · 5 May 2015 at 19:59

Are they stock clocks? Try lowing the memory down to 1250

Marine-RX179 · 5 May 2015 at 19:59

shankly1985 said:
Installing Corsair HG10 with H75 next week on my 290 and then following week if all go's to plan on the 290x..

Result so far from my reading is the HG10 is very good.

I have the HG10 with H105 on my 290x, and it's awesome. I haven't seen the GPU temp exceed 40C on stock yet; when upping voltage and overclock that it would get closer toward high 40~50C max

VRM temp is also very good as well.

shankly1985 · 5 May 2015 at 20:03

Marine-RX179 said:
I have the HG10 with H105 on my 290x, and it's awesome. I haven't seen the GPU temp exceed 40C on stock yet; when upping voltage and overclock that it would get closer toward high 40~50C max

VRM temp is also very good as well.

Can't wait to give it a try mate, just waiting on stock fans to be delivered before I order.

Am now been thinking if I should buy the H90 instead I could still fit two these in front of my case.