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MSI 290/290X Gaming Edition Thread

Danidasanic said:
Guys , i need some help

Msi 290 gaming or Asus 290 dc2

Wich one is the best ?
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MSI 290 Gaming.

kronos13 said:
Has anyone got any setting for Afterburner that they stable overclocked the MSI 290 at?
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You should test it yourself to find your own overclock limits, but try 1075/1250 at stock voltage and see how you go. If its stable increase to 1100/1250 and test again.
 
LtMatt said:
You should test it yourself to find your own overclock limits, but try 1075/1250 at stock voltage and see how you go. If its stable increase to 1100/1250 and test again.
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Hi,
I have done mine, just wanted to get an idea on what other are getting.
When I opened MSI Afterburner the Core Voltage was set to 13, and I right in saying that this is what the card is currently set to run at or is this a software thing?
It was stable at:
Core Voltage +13
Power Limit +50
Clock 1050
Memory Clock 1300

I am still running the standard Bios that the card shipped with and not loaded the Asus version yet. Is that supposed to increase the overclocking capability?

Thanks
 
SumpNut said:
I just wanted to say thanks for the information in this thread - my gaming edition 290 is being delivered from ocuk today - cant wait till I get home!

I'm hoping that my card comes with hynix memory chips as I believe they are a bit better? :confused:

Has anyone recently bought a card from ocuk and had the less desirable elipida chips fitted?

Thanks
Daniel
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I've had 2 of these from OcUK (I had to RMA my first one) and they both have Hynix.

Edit: forgot to mentioned I had the 'X' version, but probably doesn't make a difference on the memory you're likely to get.
 
kronos13 said:
Hi,
I have done mine, just wanted to get an idea on what other are getting.
When I opened MSI Afterburner the Core Voltage was set to 13, and I right in saying that this is what the card is currently set to run at or is this a software thing?
It was stable at:
Core Voltage +13
Power Limit +50
Clock 1050
Memory Clock 1300

I am still running the standard Bios that the card shipped with and not loaded the Asus version yet. Is that supposed to increase the overclocking capability?

Thanks
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Put voltage at +0, that's default. Leave memory at 1250. Put core to 1075, play some games and test.
 
I seem to have an issue with image quality on mine. The desktop environment is fine, but whenever i start a game things seem blurry. At first i thought it was being rendered at a lower resolution than my monitors default, but this is not the case.

Coming from a GTX580 the image is very poor. I'm going to look into it a bit more.

*****EDIT*****

Fixed it! As expected it was a dodgy setting in the CCC. For some reason the "Alternate DVI Operation" mode was enabled which was the causing the problem. If you have a similar issue with blurry text / distorted images, disable that! Pretty happy now, a lot faster and a lot quieter than my old GTX580 Lightning.
 
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pprest123 said:
Are these ok temps on the VRM, and it normal for them to apart like this?

http://imgur.com/R3pDF9O
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Those VRM temps are perfectly fine. For some reason people panic when they see VRM temps get over 80c. VRMs are rated up to 115c-120c and will happily handle ~95c all day. Obviously the lower the better but don't get hung up on temps of ~80c-90c on the VRMs.
 
fowler002 said:
The sapphire 290 tri-x :p

But if it's out of the msi or asus, if you read gibbos replies on here it would seem the msi is the one to go for(sapphire better than both, but oos and more expensive).
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The Sapphire Tri-X is also very long. People need to check their case clearances before they order it.
 
Silverstone tj07 :) no problem for this case but my options are msi or asus .

Msi card is pretty good but i want to see what the asus can do too

btw: i hate sapphire cards , they look so cheap and colourful..in fact they must cut some value with materials\components to compete against other brands
 
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