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

Pij · 14 May 2014 at 10:44

So am I the unlucky one? Second 290 and I still get black screens, takes a bit longer than the last one which lasted about 10 mins, this one can last an hour or so, but it always comes.

If I down clock the memory it seems to go away, so I guess I am answering my own question?

Its a Power color 290, I can feel the draw towards Nvidia.

humbug · 14 May 2014 at 12:20

Why are the memory volts tied to the core now?

It was much better when you could adjust the Memory volts separately.

bulletv1 · 14 May 2014 at 13:19

Got my R9 290 OCed @ Core Volt +100mV, Core Clock 1150 MHz and Memory Clock 1575 MHz. Are these scores i should expect?

Firestrike 1.1 Score 8,683 (r9 290 and Phenom 965)
Graphics Score 11,438
Physics Score 6,255
Combined Score 3,905

Heaven 4.0 FPS: 80.8
Score: 2035
Min FPS: 22.8, Max FPS: 167.6
Settings 1286x900, 8xAA windowed
Quality: Ultra
Tessellation: Extreme

Tonester0011 · 14 May 2014 at 13:31

heighnub said:
Why the change?

I get bored, so change nearly everything on my computer constantly. Always being upgraded and then downgraded

thefogo · 14 May 2014 at 13:34

@bullet, looks about right to me.

thefogo · 15 May 2014 at 18:42

I yolo'd and bought 2 reference 290s. MSI with Hynix RAM and barely used, 3 months old.
£229 each with 2 copies of BF4.

BaDBoY_uK · 15 May 2014 at 18:43

thefogo said:
I yolo'd and bought 2 reference 290s. MSI with Hynix RAM and barely used, 3 months old.
£229 each with 2 copies of BF4.

Dang I would have sold you mine... that is cheap!!

thefogo · 15 May 2014 at 18:44

You looking to get rid of them?

Just gotta get some air conditioning sorted in my room now

lol

LtMatt · 15 May 2014 at 18:46

thefogo said:
I yolo'd and bought 2 reference 290s. MSI with Hynix RAM and barely used, 3 months old.
£229 each with 2 copies of BF4.

thefogo · 15 May 2014 at 18:46

thefogo · 15 May 2014 at 18:53

It's 25C in my room today. I feel I may regret this purchase V_V

LtMatt · 15 May 2014 at 19:21

thefogo said:
It's 25C in my room today. I feel I may regret this purchase V_V

Game naked man. Only chumps sweat it out on battlefield wearing clothes. You'd be surprised how comfortable a Mankini is. I can't remember the last time i had to peel my ball sack off my thigh. :cool:

thefogo · 15 May 2014 at 19:26

Glad I wasn't eating my dinner when I read that :eek:

korgtronix · 15 May 2014 at 19:42

LtMatt said:
Game naked man. Only chumps sweat it out on battlefield wearing clothes. You'd be surprised how comfortable a Mankini is. I can't remember the last time i had to peel my ball sack off my thigh.

Hahaha

kingy666 · 15 May 2014 at 21:16

I have, finally, joined the 290 bandwagon. Just installed the Asus 290 I bought on the MM for £195 delivered and played a bit of BF4 at stock clocks just to test the card and it is running smoothly. Currently in the system in my spec but it will be going in my new m-itx system when OcUK get my Gigabyte Z97N m-itx board in stock (due in tomorrow) and will be joined by a i5 4670k cooled by my H100, 8Gb of that 2400MHz Beast RAM that was on offer a couple of weeks ago and will all go in a Corsair 250D case. Going to have a lot to play with on the overclocking front

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thefogo · 15 May 2014 at 21:18

Is it a reference card?

kingy666 · 15 May 2014 at 22:37

It is a reference card but even if it's not much of a clocker I think for the price it should do me fine for a while.

oweneades · 17 May 2014 at 19:42

Received my 290 pro / 290X today thanks to JediFragger (warning: long post ahead).

It is a XFX which is fully unlocked to a 290X. Been messing around with it in preparation for a massive Eyefinity benching session (reminds me, I need more tea!) and all is good so far.

A few pictures:

The box (I do like how small XFX make there boxes):

The card:

My wife's old 7850 looks so teeny in comparison

I always manage to make such a mess when changing around components in my case (yes this is messy for me):

All plugged in and ready to go:

Hard at work benching & not just watching Yes Minister....

Confirmation of a full unlock & a very happy me!:

First impressions of the card are very good. I am happy to hold my hands up and say the cooler noise isn't as bad as I thought it would be. Yes it is audible above 50% but honestly isn't *that* bad. A custom fan profile and a bit of under volting keeps the temps in check (whilst benching at least). I haven't tried overclocking it yet but, I understand through the thread where I purchased it that 1150/1500 should be possible.

I am currently starting a massive Eyefinity review where my main aim is to see just how much an overclocked Athlon 760K will hold it back. The whole PC was built on a tight budget (hence the 7850), but I wanted more GPU grunt for Eyefinity and thought, ah what the heck.

Anywhoo, much more ~~watching Yes Minister~~, sorry I mean benchmarking to carry on with!

LtMatt · 17 May 2014 at 19:47

Nice one Owen. Welcome to the Reference Radeon club.

oweneades · 17 May 2014 at 19:50

LtMatt said:
Nice one Owen. Welcome to the Reference Radeon club.

Cheers Matt!

I am quite happy with my 290X for less than a GTX770....

EDIT: quick taster of some 1080p benches (I won't bother with 3DMark11 as it scored 8,510..

) in Thief (max settings per bench thread).

DX11 - 34.2 FPS

Mantle - 59.6 FPS

Reasonable boost I think.....