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Gigabyte R9 280x Rev.2 Flickering in 2D applications, Random clock boosts

JCX50

JCX50

JCX50

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Hello guys,

This is my second AMD card in a month that I have had problems and not yet impressed.
A few weeks ago I brought a MSI R9 280x 3G and had to RMA it due to a faulty fan.
Second time around I brought an Gigabyte R9 280x Rev.2 and everything was going well until i started seeing flickering on 2D applications such as Windows Desktop and Google Chrome browser. It randomly starts flickering but only does it once every 1-10 mins.
3D applications such as BF4, I have had no problems, no flickering, no artifacts and no crashes. (Apart from BF4 itself)

I have had a look in EVGA precision and there seems to be spikes in GPU clock and Memory clock. Randomly, the card goes from 300/150Mhz to 501/1500Mhz for a split second and returns to idle clocks but the strange thing is these spikes do not occur when the flicking does.
(Side note, when running BF4, clocks are 1100/1500)

Can anyone help or should I just RMA the thing and get an Nvidia card?

Thanks a lot,

JCX50
 
Had the same problem with two 7970s. I RMA'd both, they were found to be faulty.
I used to get them really bad when watching videos. Every 30 seconds or so.
 
Try switching to the other bios or seeing if there is a newer bios on the manufacturer homepage.
 
I have gone to Change display settings>Advanced settings and it shows my the BIOS information is xxx-xxx-xxx. Great......
 
Has this exact same problem, the 2d clocks are too low, install 13.10 drivers (should be on the cd) this worked for me.
 
What version of Catalyst are you using? I'm on 13.35beta17 and my giga 280X's (rev1) are fine.
 
Just installed the drivers off the disk and AMD drag and drop transcoding and AMD Media Foundation Transcoders have failed. Is this OK?
 
I 'believe' this could be due to AMD changing something in the 13.12 drivers to do with the HDMI connection. Suddenly after about 3-4 driver versions i'm getting audio issues that had disappeared with a new driver version about 6 months ago. Upon investigation its something to do with the cards not providing enough power to my receiver when not being used to some extent so the connection flickers on and off, it happens with my audio and a few others but very possible it could be a similar situation with the video?

I did ask in the Mantle thread in the PC gaming section if the 14.1/2 drivers had fixed the issue but the rep's not responded since. Could be as the weekend though!
 
So after completely removing and installing Catalyst and drivers, I am happy to report the flickering has stopped in 2D mode. Yet to try out in some games. Still getting those clock speed jumps from 300/150Mhz to 501/1500Mhz for a split second every so often. Thanks for the help! (and some people say to throw the disk away, nevarrr !)
 
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