Caporegime
I could afford it but due to investments I want to play it safe. At least until 4k 120Hz screens come out
Yep I didI hit the fps cap on BF4 a few times. Pretty ridiculous.
Keep the 290. Enjoy BF4 at 200fps at 1080P.
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AMD R9 290 (Non-X, Pro, etc) Owners Club
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Keep the 290. Enjoy BF4 at 200fps at 1080P.
Soldato
100 fps is good enough for meKeep the 290. Enjoy BF4 at 200fps at 1080P.
I'll just keep the one card.
Man of Honour
Keep the 290. Enjoy BF4 at 200fps at 1080P.
Better still keep both 290Ps and enjoy BF4 at 60fps maxed at 4K.
Soldato
humbug I recommend you set a custom profile for the card to run at 20% fan speed when idle I can actually hear mine at the default 30%.
At 20% I only hear my hard drives
I can actually hear mine at the default 30%.At 20% I only hear my hard drives
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Already Done... ^^^ no throttling at that, can go as high as +50% edit. sorry thought you was talking about Power Management... will do that thanks
Well, this is where my CPU bottleneck is in Mantle, about 140 FPS in that Bottleneck spot. i'm happy with that, its 3 times what i get in DX.
Glad i didn't go for a 780, i would have probably only ended up with half that on my CPU.
edit. sorry thought you was talking about Power Management... will do that thanks Well, this is where my CPU bottleneck is in Mantle, about 140 FPS in that Bottleneck spot. i'm happy with that, its 3 times what i get in DX.
Glad i didn't go for a 780, i would have probably only ended up with half that on my CPU.
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Caporegime
Nice upgrade there.Already Done... ^^^ no throttling at that, can go as high as +50%
Well, this is where my CPU bottleneck is in Mantle, about 140 FPS in that Bottleneck spot. i'm happy with that, its 3 times what i get in DX.
Glad i didn't go for a 780, i would have probably only ended up with half that on my CPU.
Strange how on that spot, it's only on that side of the car. Was testing this the other night, if you go round to the other side the fps skyrockets to 200 fps on lowest settings, cant remember with max though.
Soldato
I can't get my card to run at 1200Mhz, it just throttles instantly 
Anybody got any ideas?
Anybody got any ideas?
Caporegime
I can't get my card to run at 1200Mhz, it just throttles instantly
Anybody got any ideas?
Use 13.12 WHQL. Mantle drivers have a powertune bug (its stuck at 0% even if you increase it to 50%) so for higher overclocks its best to use 13.12 WHQL or earlier.
Soldato
Caporegime
Oh that sucks
Does 13.12 have Mantle support?
No. Its on the driver fix list though so its only a matter of time.
Soldato
Cheers
Seems I pulled the short straw with this Elpida VRAM, it's basically maxed out at 1350
Seems I pulled the short straw with this Elpida VRAM, it's basically maxed out at 1350
Caporegime
Cheers
Seems I pulled the short straw with this Elpida VRAM, it's basically maxed out at 1350
Increase core voltage if you want more vram headroom. That's how it works on Hawaii. I can do around 1450 on stock voltage. Any higher needs a bump.
If it was me id leave vram at 1350 or 1400 and focus on the core. That's where the most of the gains are to be had.
Soldato
Yeah I don't think I'll bother with the memory, 1350 is fine.
I'll just wait until the powertune bug is fixed. I like Mantle
Soldato
Mine runs at 1150 with +50mV too, but you have me smoked on the memory. Seems good.
Mine has Hynix memory if that makes a difference. Going to give it a few games of BF4 for a proper test.
maybe it's the dent of power helping it along..
Caporegime
You can always fiddle with AUX voltage as well. Sometimes that can eek you out a slightly higher memory clock. You probably need more core voltage to get the memory higher fogo.