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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Owners Thread

I agree callius & googaly on that.
The resale value of used 970s going to hit rock bottom in just 4-5 months. I foresee them at £100 each, when everyone will be flogging them to buy the 20nm version.

And tbh the 295X2 isn't the card that needs an upgrade at the moment. And cannot understand why someone will return it for the sake of returning it.
Is powerful, most a great clockers, not eating much energy , very quiet, single PCB and more important. VERY easy to cool.
 
Resale is worrying though, i can forse selling it on the auction site and someone returning it due to PSU issues, and you cant stop that on the auction site.
But your right there could be a lot of 970's for sale by the middle of next year.
 
To be fair high end graphics card will always drop in value more dramatically then the low end. Remember when the 7990 first came out it was £1000 and now its like £200 second hand. Its the nature of high end gpus. If you are worried about resale you best get cheaper cards I think.
 
I'd imagine the re-sale audience for a 295x2 will be quite small though. Especially if they can pick up 970 SLI for £200.
Plus you have to find someone that want effectively 2 cards in one. The advantage with dual card (970s, 290Xs, whatever) is that you could find 2 people that want one card.

Also, Gibbo said that they're not great for overclocking. While he didn't say you couldn't get high clocks he did says that past around 1030MHz you don't notice the gains as power can become an issue and may cause throttling.

As I've said, I've no doubt the 295x2 is a very good card, but for me it was the feeling of being lied to about it and the price that left a bad taste in my mouth. I'm not saying it's OcUK's fault as everywhere has them for that sort of price, it was the message we got on THAT weekend that this was a limited time offer price.
 
Has anyone figure out how to turn off the red LED?
Without opening the card to remove it of course......
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
I'd imagine the re-sale audience for a 295x2 will be quite small though. Especially if they can pick up 970 SLI for £200.
Plus you have to find someone that want effectively 2 cards in one. The advantage with dual card (970s, 290Xs, whatever) is that you could find 2 people that want one card.

Also, Gibbo said that they're not great for overclocking. While he didn't say you couldn't get high clocks he did says that past around 1030MHz you don't notice the gains as power can become an issue and may cause throttling.

As I've said, I've no doubt the 295x2 is a very good card, but for me it was the feeling of being lied to about it and the price that left a bad taste in my mouth. I'm not saying it's OcUK's fault as everywhere has them for that sort of price, it was the message we got on THAT weekend that this was a limited time offer price.
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My card runs very nicely at 1170 core 1650 memory, but I agree we did get lied to regarding price :( they are 679 now.
 
I have finally given up all hope with this card. I took delivery of my Superflower 1200w Leadex PSU today, connected up with the replacement model Sapphire R9 295x2 card, and had exactly the same problem as before : zero video output. Not so much as a flicker. I can only assume that for some reason this motherboard just doesn't like this card or vice versa. All in all it's been a really disappointing episode, but I've lost all interest in trying any further with this card. I'm getting an RMA and returning to the Nvidia fold for the foreseeable future. Thanks to all of you who offered advice and assistance on this thread. Your contributions were very much appreciated.
 
Sync0rrr said:
My card runs very nicely at 1170 core 1650 memory, but I agree we did get lied to regarding price :( they are 679 now.
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I think the GTX 970 price and GTX 980 price for performance affected it.

If the GTX 970 was released at £399 and the GTX 980 was £499 on release then the R9 295x2 Price would have probably gone up and you would all be congratulating yourselves.
 
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Well, seems like im getting some throttling issues in crisis 3. Maxed in eyefinity at 5760x1080 core 1 is hitting around 72c while the second core bounces around between 73-74 and throttles down. :mad: There's a pic of my current config above, the rad right behind 2 140 intakes, I wouldn't have thought it could ask for more airflow than that. :mad:

I've also noticed what appears to be a slight defect on the rad, right behind one of the screw holes a couple of fins appear to be bent in. No idea how that's occurred as the only screws I've used are the small ones with the washer provided and they're not nearly long enough to go that far down. . :confused:
 
Well, seems like im getting some throttling issues in crysis 3. Maxed in eyefinity at 5760x1080 core 1 is hitting around 72c while the second core bounces around between 73-74 and throttles down. :mad: There's a pic of my current config above, the rad right behind 2 140 intakes, I wouldn't have thought it could ask for more airflow than that. :mad:

I've also noticed what appears to be a slight defect on the rad, right behind one of the screw holes a couple of fins appear to be bent in. No idea how that's occurred as the only screws I've used are the small ones with the washer provided and they're not nearly long enough to go that far down. And it would be pointless of me to add another fan to the rad considering the fans that are right behind it anyway. :confused:

I was planning on 4k but if its throttling at this res then surely 4k will be a no go? Not happy. :(
 
Have you tried the rad above the graphics card, push - pull at the rear exhaust? The blurb does say to mount the rad higher than the card...

That's the configuration I ended up going with (with a lower-case mounted intake fan blowing straight up also). I don't get throttling, although I also have the card undervolted in Afterburner.
 
Yes, it'll throttle at 74C ... try mounting it in the back so it's above the card, undervolt it a little and you should be fine. The drivers can also make some difference.
 
Is that a corsair case? I have a 350D

On really demanding games that use Crossfire, I have to take the front of my case off, where I have 2x 140mm fans which can then get decent airflow going around.

Luckily the front just clicks on and off so it's not a big deal.
 
I'm using -50 mV in Afterburner, 1018 GPU clock and 1350 memory.

Case is stuck under a desk in the corner of a room, a Enthoo Pro with 200mm intake at front and 140 intake at base.

With the R9's rad attached to the rear exhaust (Akasa Viper R), and using the R9 stock fan for the push-pull, looping Heaven or Tomb Raider benches will see GPU 2 stablise at 71-72 degrees.

Doesn't give me much headroom as far as overclocking is concerned, but until I get a 1440 freesync monitor there's no real need for that. I'm keeping Panos' recommendation of a Piranha fan to replace the stock in mind for when that time comes.
 
Gerard said:
Well, seems like im getting some throttling issues in crisis 3. Maxed in eyefinity at 5760x1080 core 1 is hitting around 72c while the second core bounces around between 73-74 and throttles down. :mad: There's a pic of my current config above, the rad right behind 2 140 intakes, I wouldn't have thought it could ask for more airflow than that. :mad:

I've also noticed what appears to be a slight defect on the rad, right behind one of the screw holes a couple of fins appear to be bent in. No idea how that's occurred as the only screws I've used are the small ones with the washer provided and they're not nearly long enough to go that far down. . :confused:
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Move the rad higher than the card to the other side.
Your temps going to be high because the rad is at the wrong place.
 
Panos said:
Move the rad higher than the card to the other side.
Your temps going to be high because the rad is at the wrong place.
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If anything I think that would make the rad even hotter as it would be not only exhausting heat from the gfx card it would also be sucking in hot air from the cpu cooler above it, fans have been switched to intakes since this was taken.

The ocuk Vesuvius system also has the rads mounted incorrectly according to amd's guidelines, tubing is meant to be along the bottom. From looking around having the rad higher seems to make minimal difference to temps.

http://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/z...-vesuvius-r9-295x2-quadxfire-system-review/2/
 
Gerard said:
If anything I think that would make the rad even hotter as it would be not only exhausting heat from the gfx card it would also be sucking in hot air from the cpu cooler above it, fans have been switched to intakes since this was taken.

The ocuk Vesuvius system also has the rads mounted incorrectly according to amd's guidelines, tubing is meant to be along the bottom. From looking around having the rad higher seems to make minimal difference to temps.

http://www.kitguru.net/desktop-pc/z...-vesuvius-r9-295x2-quadxfire-system-review/2/
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Think out of the box. That slot there doesn't have to push hot air out but can pull cold air IN. And use the front as exhaust. I have it like that on my new case. The fan is pushing cold air into the case, on that slot above the card. I have to heavily overclock it to 1190 to get to 70C while benching.

Also your case is watercooled. There is no reason to have much negative airflow (going out), because nothing generates heat, while the PCB fan is blower type and gets heat out of the case, and not in.
I have 2 case fans (front) blowing cold air IN. Also 2 Apache on the H100i are vertical set blowing cold air in (on the drive bay). The 295X2 rad fan is blowing cold air from the back, and there are 2 140mm fan on top of the case blowing cold air out. Ambient temp in case 17C, after 3 hours playing Alien Isolation just right now.
 
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