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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Owners Thread
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1210/1690.... R9295X2...
Full waterblock EK + back plate.
52c max load.
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minimums are low due to a hdd load, should have used my ssd lol
but anyway good none the less
Good one mate. EPIC.
Btw check once more, because it seems something was running on the background, and you have the low fps. (or is your CPU is running at 4Ghz?).
Regardless EPIC
And some said, that the 295X2 cannot be clocked because of the power limitations...........pffff
Go post it to the leaderboard
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MSI card with Sapphire OC bios
I just updated mine to that, not seeing a huge improvement in core clock. What settings are you using in MSI Afterburner? Could you screenshot the general tab in settings? Ta
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Good one mate. EPIC.
Btw check once more, because it seems something was running on the background, and you have the low fps. (or is your CPU is running at 4Ghz?).
Regardless EPIC
And some said, that the 295X2 cannot be clocked because of the power limitations...........pffff
Go post it to the leaderboard
I think it's more a case that the power limitation can cause throttling which can negate the benefit of overclocking.
If power was limitation, it could have run out of steam long before by not getting 239 max fps, and of course not been able to beat 290 CF at 1250.
The guy almost caught Kaapstad by 11 point @ 1210 against Kaaps @ 1240 (6 core CPU at 4.9ghz also), and is 140 points behind Gibbo 3CF setup @ 1225.
That is truly impressive for a single card.
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True.
I think we need a lot more examples of this those so we can confirm this isn't just a really good bit of silicone and an exception to the norm.
Tried mine on 1200. Always throttles at scene 15 when it hits 75C which makes the whole bench moot.
Unfortunately, I have to watercool it properly, and possibly not use the stock BIOS. Still it can do it and the minimum is 50.2 fps by that time.
(I get the minimum by scene 9-10 always).
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yes, without it you cant get past the corruption of 1150+ barrier.
well for me anyway. With it disabled i can gain quite a bit more from the card with out corruption
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do you think 295x2 is a better option that 970 SLI ?
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Yes, IF you already have a PSU powerful enough.
Otherwise i'd probably go for the 970's in SLI.
Otherwise i'd probably go for the 970's in SLI.
Oh yeah.
Single card, runs very cool, silent and as powerful on stock speeds.
of course, you can get 970 SLI, overclock them, and live with heat and noise. But we can overclock the 295X2 also and still silence and no heat
Guys,
Using ATI Winflash 2.6.7 do I flash only the selected one?
(yes I know the switch on the PCB is on 1)
I used AtiFlash 4.17 from a bootable USB. Not sure about AtiWinFlash. However I flashed the Master first then the Slave, they are two different bios's. To be honest I don't think there is much point, didn't make any difference. Apart from letting me clock the RAM to 1690.
You are sure you used the Sapphire OC Bios, without any changes at all, on the Slave card? Because it should brick it.....
I had to switch to BIOS 2 and going to leave it there, until I find a way to put back the original bios on the slave card on BIOS 1. Apparently it cannot read it (nothing there...), after it had successfully flash it from the usb.
Master bios is OK on BIOS 1 though, and flashed it from the atiwinflash.
Can you give me links to retry please? Techpower seems has only the master one.
The -F isn't working.
Bios 0 is back to the original one and have no issues with this one.
Update.
AtiWinflash and the ATiflash version that comes with it are, to put polite, sh**.
Used the Atiflash 4.17 (from win98 usb boot) put the original BIOS back and all is back to normal.
Sync0rrr, when you can give me the links of the BIOS you used please to give them a try.
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Well I am thinking of setting up a tri fire system with my 295x2 . A few questions though.
Reckon its worth waiting to see if we can add the new 390 card with the 295?
If i get a SAPPHIRE VAPOR-X R9 290X TRI-X OC are they dx 12 compatible like the 295 is meant to be?
Also atm I am getting 67fps in bf4 tomb raider is getting 60 fps in it's benchmark, will a 3rd card make much of a diffrence to the fps/ smoothness in game? all are with vsync on otherwise the tearing is terrible.
Reckon its worth waiting to see if we can add the new 390 card with the 295?
If i get a SAPPHIRE VAPOR-X R9 290X TRI-X OC are they dx 12 compatible like the 295 is meant to be?
Also atm I am getting 67fps in bf4 tomb raider is getting 60 fps in it's benchmark, will a 3rd card make much of a diffrence to the fps/ smoothness in game? all are with vsync on otherwise the tearing is terrible.
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