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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Owners Thread

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Man, Half the score of two 780Tis... Shoot me now.
 
Whatever I do, I can't get Heaven 4.0 to go past 2400 score.

I uninstalled/re-installed the Catalyst drivers this morning, but had the same thing.

If I run the benchmark twice in a row, the second score is always around 150 less than the first time as well.

Any ideas? I've checked GPU-Z and the card isn't throttling due to temperature, but there's one or two (literally split second) blips in the log where the core clock drops from 1018 to below 1000.
 
Hi there
I have just put a water block on mine and in heaven I'm getting 2000c ish on the temp this will not move .
Ati set up/ cpuz say 50c . Any help thanks
I did test be for hand card was fine.
 
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VincentHanna said:
Whatever I do, I can't get Heaven 4.0 to go past 2400 score.

I uninstalled/re-installed the Catalyst drivers this morning, but had the same thing.

If I run the benchmark twice in a row, the second score is always around 150 less than the first time as well.

Any ideas? I've checked GPU-Z and the card isn't throttling due to temperature, but there's one or two (literally split second) blips in the log where the core clock drops from 1018 to below 1000.
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Put MSI AB, set up the overlay and observe how it performs on core speed, load, temps each GPU.

Also make sure you have everything set on default at CCC.

I will try heaven tonight.

However much admit, at 1135/1625 (4820K @4824), is still getting trashed by 500 points on Valley by two aircooled 290X @ 1100/1325 (3770 @3500).
I doubt is CPU throttling, since is runs pretty cool at 50C on heavy load, nor GPU throttling since the temps do not go up and the cores stay at 1135 during the duration of the benchmark. And is tad weird not throttling on 3770@3500 while throttling on 4820@4824.

I will use the 14.4 catalysts tonight and see if they perform better than the 14.7 RC3.
 
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Guys

I've said this before, the 295 X2 do not respond well to overclocking the core, infact pushing the core past 1030MHz can causes big drop off's in performance and general strange running, due to power issues as the boards power design cannot supply enough continuous current for such overclocks unless modified.

In our testing we found the cards performed best, especially in games leaving core at stock and just overclocking the RAM. :)
 
Gibbo said:
Guys

I've said this before, the 295 X2 do not respond well to overclocking the core, infact pushing the core past 1030MHz can causes big drop off's in performance and general strange running, due to power issues as the boards power design cannot supply enough continuous current for such overclocks unless modified.

In our testing we found the cards performed best, especially in games leaving core at stock and just overclocking the RAM. :)
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Thanks Matt, I will give it a try tonight. :)

Btw, any thought why the idle temps are the same between the stock fan and 2 Piranhas at 100% speed? Does the pump throttles based on heat?
 
Hi there

Sapphire have confirmed shipping me their last ever 54 units, already we have pre-sold several leaving just under 40pc FREE.

Asus only have 16pc left world wide, seeing if we can get but another country may have taken those.

Looks like the 295 X2 is pretty much all but gone, what a shame at sub £800 the sales volumes could have being huge......
 
Gibbo said:
Guys

I've said this before, the 295 X2 do not respond well to overclocking the core, infact pushing the core past 1030MHz can causes big drop off's in performance and general strange running, due to power issues as the boards power design cannot supply enough continuous current for such overclocks unless modified.

In our testing we found the cards performed best, especially in games leaving core at stock and just overclocking the RAM. :)
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Good to know Gibbo, might try and up the RAM a bit. I take it you don't have to adjust it by much with the R295X2?

Gibbo said:
Hi there

Sapphire have confirmed shipping me their last ever 54 units, already we have pre-sold several leaving just under 40pc FREE.

Asus only have 16pc left world wide, seeing if we can get but another country may have taken those.

Looks like the 295 X2 is pretty much all but gone, what a shame at sub £800 the sales volumes could have being huge......
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Wow, I feel pretty lucky to have one.

Also thanks Panos for convincing me to purchase one of these cards, it's a complete animal. Absolutely love it!
 
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