Caporegime
I've had a quick scan of the last few pages, but what was the problem exactly? What did OCCT say? I hope when you ran OCCT you were running stock.
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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Owners Thread
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I've had a quick scan of the last few pages, but what was the problem exactly? What did OCCT say? I hope when you ran OCCT you were running stock.
You saying his PSU is damaged? As the card works fine at OcUK test labs. I highly doubt OCCT would damage his card, stock or otherwise. Besides, as soon as the overclock you have is unstable you get errors show up straight away when you start the test, at which stage you cancel the test.
I remember with my 7970, the factory overclock was not stable which I noticed in a few of my games at which point I ran OCCT, and boom there was lots of errors. Had to underclock the core by roughly 100MHz to get it to stop erroring. Then games started working normal again.
Caporegime
I'm trying to find out what the problem is. I use OCCT to help sniff out a faulty or unstable gpu, but i noticed when he ran it on the last page he did it with his gpu memory at 1550Mhz.
What psu is he using?
Right sorry guys vague post...
Story is as such i ran OCCT overclocked and it was fine not and issue, i've been gaming on it since and have had no problems.
After a 5/6 hour gaming session on a Saturday night, i switch off the rig (sandybridge)
Woke up Sunday morning and transferred the 295 to my new Devil Canyon rig, and it refused to power up just wouldn't do it, so i put the 295 back in the Sandybridge system and it didnt work.
Put my 780 in the Sandybridge system and everything worked as expected.
The Devil Canyon rig after that refused to boot, so i purchased another motherboard in case i had killed it.
With the new motherboard same issues nothing worked, nothing booted, i then removed the 295 and it all fired back into life.
I assumed the 295 was dead and sent it back for a RMA.
My motherboard for my Devil Canyon is dead, haven't RMA'd yet i dont know why.
Sandybridge system is working fine with my 780, posting from it now
Ive used 2 PSU's Silverstone Strider 850w and a Corsair TX750, the Silverstone is the PSU in the Sandybridge rig, the Corsair is a backup PSU for diagnostic reasons.
Hopefully this helps
Story is as such i ran OCCT overclocked and it was fine not and issue, i've been gaming on it since and have had no problems.
After a 5/6 hour gaming session on a Saturday night, i switch off the rig (sandybridge)
Woke up Sunday morning and transferred the 295 to my new Devil Canyon rig, and it refused to power up just wouldn't do it, so i put the 295 back in the Sandybridge system and it didnt work.
Put my 780 in the Sandybridge system and everything worked as expected.
The Devil Canyon rig after that refused to boot, so i purchased another motherboard in case i had killed it.
With the new motherboard same issues nothing worked, nothing booted, i then removed the 295 and it all fired back into life.
I assumed the 295 was dead and sent it back for a RMA.
My motherboard for my Devil Canyon is dead, haven't RMA'd yet i dont know why.
Sandybridge system is working fine with my 780, posting from it now
Ive used 2 PSU's Silverstone Strider 850w and a Corsair TX750, the Silverstone is the PSU in the Sandybridge rig, the Corsair is a backup PSU for diagnostic reasons.
Hopefully this helps
Caporegime
Strange one. I'd give the 295x2 another go as something sounds amiss there.
Hopefully it'll be back this week and can try it....hope it works
Its been an upsetting few days!
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Changed the fan on my 295 to 2 x sp120. I also changed a couple of fans around in my case.
Just had a a round on BF4. I can't hear the SP120 probably because the card temp has dropped by 12c and my CPU by 10.
Well chuffed.
Just had a a round on BF4. I can't hear the SP120 probably because the card temp has dropped by 12c and my CPU by 10.
Well chuffed.
Happy to hear the cable I recommended worked out for you
My question is, what is the max fan speed "rpm" your fans reach while playing, as you said you can't hear them, so got me wondering.
Only time I don't hear my fans over the rest of my system is when playing with crossfire disabled.
So just got my 295 back, apparently there was no issues so i had high hopes of plugging in and back to awesome framerates....
Little did i know....
Plugged card in and same problem again no display no nothing, so i tried literally everything couldn't get it to work, and no luck, i was crying at this point Overclockers said it was fine, so why isnt it work, then wired up 2 power supplys in case mine was dying, nope no luck.
Then as a last resort i moved the card to the 2nd PCI-E slot, and what the hell i had output and everything was fine.....for about 10 minutes...but we will get back to that.
So i was ok card doesn't like the top slot, i send a photo of it to some friends who said the card was sagging immensely or the way one of the guys put it sagging worse than my nans ****! So corrected the sag...nothing....put my 780 in the exact same slot and it worked fine, so i was like...ok is my card half broken??
Tried BIOS resets and all sorts of stuff no luck, put it into the second PCI-E slot, works fine....so left it that.
So now we get into Windows, needed to install drivers, so 15.7 installed rebooted and then BAM! Black screen, i was like oh poo, the card is FUBAR. So i went to unplug display cable and power down the system to remove the card and put my 780 back in, and display popped on, but it was garbled and speckled and all sorts of rubbish. giggled the cable and it was ok again, for about 5 seconds and then went black screen, turns out my mini dp to dp adapter is dying (ordered some replacement mini dp to dp cables)
So i thought maybe when the card is in the top slot of the mobo the cable sits a funny angle so it wont work, so ripped it all out again put it in the top slot, feeling insanley confident i had sussed the issue and nooooooooooooooooooooo, ddint work, so moved it back down to the second slot, and it was fine.
So in conclusion, my 295x2 doesn't work in a X16 slot which i tried on 3 different motherboards (Asus Z68 Gene, Asus Z97 Impact & Asus H81-Plus) but works on the 8X slot on my Sandy Bridge Asus Gene, but haven't tried in my Impact yet.
So guys....whats wrong here?
Little did i know....
Plugged card in and same problem again no display no nothing, so i tried literally everything couldn't get it to work, and no luck, i was crying at this point Overclockers said it was fine, so why isnt it work, then wired up 2 power supplys in case mine was dying, nope no luck.
Then as a last resort i moved the card to the 2nd PCI-E slot, and what the hell i had output and everything was fine.....for about 10 minutes...but we will get back to that.
So i was ok card doesn't like the top slot, i send a photo of it to some friends who said the card was sagging immensely or the way one of the guys put it sagging worse than my nans ****! So corrected the sag...nothing....put my 780 in the exact same slot and it worked fine, so i was like...ok is my card half broken??
Tried BIOS resets and all sorts of stuff no luck, put it into the second PCI-E slot, works fine....so left it that.
So now we get into Windows, needed to install drivers, so 15.7 installed rebooted and then BAM! Black screen, i was like oh poo, the card is FUBAR. So i went to unplug display cable and power down the system to remove the card and put my 780 back in, and display popped on, but it was garbled and speckled and all sorts of rubbish. giggled the cable and it was ok again, for about 5 seconds and then went black screen, turns out my mini dp to dp adapter is dying (ordered some replacement mini dp to dp cables)
So i thought maybe when the card is in the top slot of the mobo the cable sits a funny angle so it wont work, so ripped it all out again put it in the top slot, feeling insanley confident i had sussed the issue and nooooooooooooooooooooo, ddint work, so moved it back down to the second slot, and it was fine.
So in conclusion, my 295x2 doesn't work in a X16 slot which i tried on 3 different motherboards (Asus Z68 Gene, Asus Z97 Impact & Asus H81-Plus) but works on the 8X slot on my Sandy Bridge Asus Gene, but haven't tried in my Impact yet.
So guys....whats wrong here?
Soldato
Try booting with the case horizontal rather than vertical. If that works, its due to the gpu sagging. You can prop it up with something if that's the case.
Nope tried that, doesn't work, honestly ive tried everything in the entire world to try and get it to work in the top PCI-E slot, but it just wont!
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Happy to hear the cable I recommended worked out for you
My question is, what is the max fan speed "rpm" your fans reach while playing, as you said you can't hear them, so got me wondering.
Only time I don't hear my fans over the rest of my system is when playing with crossfire disabled.
I'll do some gaming and report back.
EDIT: Don't know the fan speed but 35% Max as of this morning 1 round of TDM on BF4
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I'll do some gaming and report back.
EDIT: Don't know the fan speed but 35% Max as of this morning 1 round of TDM on BF4
Thank you for testing.
Same as my fans rpm then, how do you not hear it? Do you have loud case fans or sound dampening material in your case?
Very nice temps there btw
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Thank you for testing.
Same as my fans rpm then, how do you not hear it? Do you have loud case fans or sound dampening material in your case?
Very nice temps there btw
No I game with headphones on. I can't hear them at all.
Only sound I can hear is from 1 fan which I think has a faulty bearing.
Fan speed still at 35% temps at 55c now, as it's warmer outside.
Headphones, that would explain it. I can't hear mine with headphones on either, lol.
I usually can't hear them when playing even from my speakers as the sound from the game drowns it out. But what I was referring to was with no sound or headphones on. Otherwise it can be said even a 290x with reference cooler is silent
That completely depends on price. I got mine for £340 and do not regret it one bit. Quite the opposite
However if it was £500 I may have considered a 980ti instead as that is a single GPU and no need to worry about Crossfire/SLI drivers to be made available.
If gaming at 4k then 295x2 is very nice. I played quite a few demanding games like Crysis 3, tomb raider etc smoothly where as a 980ti may have struggled.
Hmm, this warmer weather and the Witcher 3 is really pushing my cooling to and over it's limits. Throttling quite at lot in game now running at 1440p on mostly ultra, getting about 70 fps in patch 1.07 with about 80% gpu usage on both cards.
I think after payday I might have to finally grab a pair of the SP120s and get them hooked up to try and keep the temps under control.
I think after payday I might have to finally grab a pair of the SP120s and get them hooked up to try and keep the temps under control.
Right, payday is here so it's time to buy some fans. I'm going to run them from a motherboard header controlled by Speedfan I think but I can't decide to whether to go for the Corsair SP120 Performance or the Akasa Apache Blacks. My motherboard has 4 pin physical connectors but I know they are actually wired up as 3 pin voltage controlled, not PWM so will the Apaches work ok as they seem to only come in PWM versions?
I'd like to keep the system as quiet as possible but not to the extent of sacrificing cooling performance, if the Apaches are quieter but not up to the job compared to the SP120s then I'd rather have a bit extra noise.
What do people think I should go for?
Oh and I'd like to run them both of a single header so I'll need a splitter cable that would support that as well, again if I go for the Apaches will a 4 pin PWM splitter cable work with my headers? (motherboard is an MSI Z97 Gaming 7)
Thanks,
Ross
I'd like to keep the system as quiet as possible but not to the extent of sacrificing cooling performance, if the Apaches are quieter but not up to the job compared to the SP120s then I'd rather have a bit extra noise.
What do people think I should go for?
Oh and I'd like to run them both of a single header so I'll need a splitter cable that would support that as well, again if I go for the Apaches will a 4 pin PWM splitter cable work with my headers? (motherboard is an MSI Z97 Gaming 7)
Thanks,
Ross
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