MSI 290/290X Gaming Edition Thread

northun_munky · 15 Jan 2014 at 19:47

Delivered, fitted and up and running!

Already had a black screen within 15 mins of installing the 13.12 drivers...

I'd ran firestrike just to see how it scored (pleased with the results!) and had just loaded GPUZ and bam! Black screen.
Not a good start. Common problem? Loads of threads on it but no firm solutions. Should I be worried and thinking RMA?
Also, I thought default core clock was 1007?

LtMatt · 15 Jan 2014 at 19:49

northun_munky said:
Delivered, fitted and up and running!
Already had a black screen within 15 mins of installing the 13.12 drivers...
I'd ran firestrike just to see how it scored (pleased with the results!) and had just loaded GPUZ and bam! Black screen.
Not a good start. Common problem? Loads of threads on it but no firm solutions. Should I be worried and thinking RMA?
Also, I thought default core clock was 1007?

Are you using the latest version of GPU-Z? I know the older versions of it cause problems and black screens with Hawaii cards. Latest version is 0.7.5.

If you're looking to monitor gpu performance id use afterburner and its on screen display. Having gpu-z running in the background hurts performance where as afterburner does not.

northun_munky · 15 Jan 2014 at 19:54

LtMatt said:
Are you using the latest version of GPU-Z? I know the older versions of it cause problems and black screens with Hawaii cards. Latest version is 0.7.5.

Hi Matt,

Yeah, 0.7.5....

Pretty gutted at this point. Going to smash in some dinner and get reacquainted with BF4 for an hour or so and see how it goes.

LtMatt · 15 Jan 2014 at 19:55

northun_munky said:
Hi Matt,

Yeah, 0.7.5....

Pretty gutted at this point. Going to smash in some dinner and get reacquainted with BF4 for an hour or so and see how it goes.

I edited my post above. Try leaving gpu-z disabled.

northun_munky · 15 Jan 2014 at 20:08

Ah, will do mate. Got to find my way around afterburner. got too used to gpu tweak.

LtMatt · 15 Jan 2014 at 20:10

northun_munky said:
Ah, will do mate. Got to find my way around afterburner. got too used to gpu tweak.

This thread will tell you everything you need to know mate. It will help you setup an on screen display. (check the advanced section on the thread)

northun_munky · 15 Jan 2014 at 20:57

Cheers for the link mate
a solid 40 mins of BF4 and no black screens

Oh, and sweet sweet card

toprock · 15 Jan 2014 at 21:07

LtMatt said:
Sapphire has the better cooler without doubt, but the MSI cooler is still very good. MSI has an extra year warranty and is slightly cheaper. MSI has a backplate and i believe (Gibbo said it did earlier) a custom pcb. Sapphire stays cool with large overclocks and lots of voltage according to the reviews i looked at.

The sapphire is crazy loud at 100%, not comfortable to sit next to at all

toprock · 15 Jan 2014 at 21:10

l2ez4m said:
Nothing so custom about MSI Gaming Edition (obviously excluding HSF) - carbon copy pcb layout, same pwm controller, same 5+1+1 phase design. The only proper custom design so far is Asus DCU2 and upcoming Lightning (but that one is end of Feb/March timeframe).

Hopefully Asus won't do the custom fit they did to the 280x and have the heatsink not covering all the chips properly, aka 780 cooler clone

frobinrobin · 15 Jan 2014 at 22:01

WalderX said:
Actually yes it should, if you are referring to the later Beta 18 which I didn't know existed until now

So I'm too "pro" to read stuff first

o) so I downloaded 17

Firstly I can't get that nice skin!! I wantie.. how do I get it.. the ui settings only have the old legacy look.

I've set my settings as suggested and ran it through 3dMark demo.. it takes a while! here is the screenshot of the results and AB:
http://www.dropbox.com/s/qg92w85jbbuedh3/screenie.png

The CPU/Asus Hero runs on boost at 4.2Ghz .. with the noctua dh14 and corsair 540 carbide.. it barely breaks a sweat.. I'm very happy with my new rig now.

Time to see how much I can push it.. won't be doing 3d mark tho.. takes too long and I wanna gaaaame!

l2ez4m · 15 Jan 2014 at 22:11

^ Unfortunately that's what they've done.

And obviously TriX 290 HSF is totaly different beast than 280x Toxic one.

edgedemon · 15 Jan 2014 at 22:18

where do I get the Asus bios for this card?

frobinrobin · 15 Jan 2014 at 22:31

I increased the mem to 1400mhz and did a run of heaven unigine.. had a max of 87c and 98% fan speed because I set it to run fans very aggressively when it got above 80c... unfortunately I didnt click to benchmark.. so no numbers.. sorry, will do it tomorrow. I gotta configure a game now.

nitram100 · 15 Jan 2014 at 22:37

LtMatt said:
Is afterburner telling you the core is dropping to that speed or are you using something else like HWINFO? I assume you're using +50% power tune?

I'm using the GPU Z screen readout for g15 keyboard mate.

edgedemon · 15 Jan 2014 at 22:38

Is it this one
http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/...model=R9+290&interface=&memType=&memSize=4096

LtMatt · 15 Jan 2014 at 22:56

nitram100 said:
I'm using the GPU Z screen readout for g15 keyboard mate.

Try to stop using gpu-z for now. I've found it causes some issues.

OvEr_KiLL · 15 Jan 2014 at 23:12

skins here for AB

http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/skin.htm

download and extract to ab folder and then skins then change in the options in ab

simples

also everyone using a 290 get the newest beta as already said!!!!
3.0.0 beta 18
right now

Gibbo · 15 Jan 2014 at 23:34

Hi there

For anyone with a MSI 290 Gamer struggling to clock ram beyond 6000MHz try flashing a regular Asus 290 bios, none X as this is just an AMD bios, for some reason I can now get 6800MHz memory OC on the regular 290. Have MSI done something in the BIOS to hold the regular 290 back OC wise I wonder?

So not good ram OC, try it.

The AMD BIOS is also far better for undervolting too.

Maybe the 290X is similar, but I never tried it's stock BIOS as I flash all 290X always to the Asus 290X bios for extra voltage.

nitram100 · 15 Jan 2014 at 23:34

I can't use any version higher than 2.23 on afterburner, I get error saying it is corrupt.

OvEr_KiLL · 15 Jan 2014 at 23:53

Gibbo said:
For anyone with a MSI 290 Gamer struggling to clock ram beyond 6000MHz try flashing a regular Asus 290 bios, none X as this is just an AMD bios, for some reason I can now get 6800MHz memory OC on the regular 290. Have MSI done something in the BIOS to hold the regular 290 back OC wise I wonder?

gibbo the maximum memory mhz ab lets me go up to is 1625 how the hell you getting 6000 ?

and to the other guy, uinstall ab and all settings run registry cleaner, and reboot