MSI R9 290 / 290x gaming edition - powertune throttling the core clock discussion...

LtMatt · 19 Jan 2014 at 14:31

cwgk91 said:
Hey all, just received my MSI 290x and loving it! Managed to get it to 1100/1400 without touching any voltage settings. Quick question, Im running it with powerplay disabled etc and wondering what temps are ok for the card to run at? So far getting up to around 72-74 degrees on BF4 and less than that on 3DMark (around 64)

As long as temps are at 93C or lower you're fine. If they get up to 94C the card may throttle a bit. Enjoy.

cwgk91 · 19 Jan 2014 at 14:32

Brilliant, many thanks! Much higher than I thought it would be

OvEr_KiLL · 19 Jan 2014 at 16:14

cwgk91 said:
Hey all, just received my MSI 290x and loving it! Managed to get it to 1100/1400 without touching any voltage settings. Quick question, Im running it with powerplay disabled etc and wondering what temps are ok for the card to run at? So far getting up to around 72-74 degrees on BF4 and less than that on 3DMark (around 64)

nice one man

welcome to the MSI 290(x) OC non reference club!
hehe

SPARTdAN · 19 Jan 2014 at 18:24

Hey guys, I just had a fan not start up on boot, I gave it a spin and it is back to normal but will keep an eye on it. Just a heads up if it's a faulty bios or something and the fans aren't spinning up properly.

if it does it again I will RMA it.

cwgk91 · 19 Jan 2014 at 21:00

OvEr_KiLL said:
nice one man welcome to the MSI 290(x) OC non reference club!

Haha, thanks. Loving it so far, managed to get a fire strike mark of over 10k just by fiddling which I'm loving! Massive upgrade from my 7970Ghz.

Trying to push for 1500MHz memory but keep getting Black Screen of No Return, which Im led to believe is caused by the memory. On afterburner I can only increase Core and Aux voltage but not the memory voltage. Is that because of bios settings or are you just not able to do that on MSI cards?

OvEr_KiLL · 19 Jan 2014 at 21:09

you should be able to...have a read through this, some good stuff on ocing
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18571503

toprock · 19 Jan 2014 at 22:10

Anyone messed with the bios switch on the 290, and how does it work? does the quiet mode and uber mode come into effect?

Orangey · 20 Jan 2014 at 00:37

There's no quiet/uber, they're both the same. It's just a backup BIOS slot effectively.

Duvar · 20 Jan 2014 at 01:05

Orangey said:
There's no quiet/uber, they're both the same. It's just a backup BIOS slot effectively.

One is UEFI...

atomic7431 · 20 Jan 2014 at 11:30

would you sell a reference 290 unlocked to 290x to buy an msi 290 gaming edition?

pprest123 · 20 Jan 2014 at 11:38

cwgk91 said:
Hey all, just received my MSI 290x and loving it! Managed to get it to 1100/1400 without touching any voltage settings. Quick question, Im running it with powerplay disabled etc and wondering what temps are ok for the card to run at? So far getting up to around 72-74 degrees on BF4 and less than that on 3DMark (around 64)

How do you disable powerplay?

Sorry if it's already mentioned.

Orangey · 20 Jan 2014 at 11:41

Duvar said:
One is UEFI...

Wish I had known that earlier.

toprock · 20 Jan 2014 at 12:53

Orangey said:
Wish I had known that earlier.

What does that do? Lol

LtMatt · 20 Jan 2014 at 13:03

Can someone explain the differences between the 290 bios UEFI etc?

nitram100 · 20 Jan 2014 at 14:57

Sometimes my GPU will remain at 1077mhz when exiting a game. This happened about 20 minutes ago after playing Planetside 2 so I selected close MSI afterburner and I got a blue screen :/

LtMatt · 20 Jan 2014 at 15:03

nitram100 said:
Sometimes my GPU will remain at 1077mhz when exiting a game. This happened about 20 minutes ago after playing Planetside 2 so I selected close MSI afterburner and I got a blue screen :/

You using unofficial overclocking API in afterburner? Its unsupported by AMD so there may be issues with it occasionally on current drivers.

nitram100 · 20 Jan 2014 at 15:10

It's currently disabled mate. Also, I just looked at GPU Z, here is a screenshot.

Does the BUS Interface lane speed appear correct?

http://imgur.com/tPb8xku

LtMatt · 20 Jan 2014 at 15:16

nitram100 said:
It's currently disabled mate. Also, I just looked at GPU Z, here is a screenshot.

Does the BUS Interface lane speed appear correct?

http://imgur.com/tPb8xku

Yeah just means the pci-e speed has been lowered to save power while the gpu is ide, its normal.

I thought the default speed of your card was 1007mhz?

nitram100 · 20 Jan 2014 at 16:35

LtMatt said:
Yeah just means the pci-e speed has been lowered to save power while the gpu is ide, its normal.

I thought the default speed of your card was 1007mhz?

ahh ok thanks. I overclocked it to 1077mhz, seems to be running well.

LtMatt · 20 Jan 2014 at 16:39

nitram100 said:
ahh ok thanks. I overclocked it to 1077mhz, seems to be running well.

You should leave the memory at stock. It allows you to undervolt the core and still add a chunky overclock. 16% core overclock with -0.050mv voltage.

That 50mhz you have on your memory will be doing nothing for your fps. If i want to overclock my memory to say 1400 i need the core voltage at stock or 0.000mv. Makes such little sense to worry about overclocking the memory on Hawaii with a 512 bit bus, unless benching of course.