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New R9 290 owner. Can I push my card more?

Monkeyspaz5000

Monkeyspaz5000

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Got my R9 290 the other day (sapphire) and just water cooled it today. EK block and backplate.

I'm new to AMD cards so I'm used to overclocking Nvidia.

I haven't touched anything in the CCC, I've simply been using MSI AB.

SO.....

I have Voltage set to +100
Power +50
Core Clock 1200 (any more and it artifacts)
Memory (1425) - I haven't tried pushing it further on this

Just wondering if I've gone about overclocking this the right way? I haven't missed some magic option in CCC have I?

Also, can you add more voltage to these cards or is the +100 in MSI AB the max? Just curious if I could get more than 1200 out the core. I also noticed 1235 is the max in MSI AB. Can you go higher?

thanks in advance! I'm new to the world of AMD cards. :D
 
Use trixx for easy slider clocking like MSI AB but with a +200mv limit. I have not found going past 200mv very fruitful, so i have not bothered flashing for the Asus bios and have kept the original Sapphire bios. Trixx does not seem to have a powertune option but i seem to be as stable at the same settings on trixx as i am on MSI AB with +50%.

Alternatively, there is a thread somewhere which shows you how to offset the 0 point voltage for 290/290x's on MSI AB.
 
I just tried TriXX.

The memory clock speed changes once applied in Trixx, but I noticed although I can select 1225 for example on the GPU, it doesn't actually change.

GPUZ and AMD overdrive reads it as 847.

Go back to MSI AB and it works as you would expect.
 
Monkeyspaz5000 said:
I just tried TriXX.

The memory clock speed changes once applied in Trixx, but I noticed although I can select 1225 for example on the GPU, it doesn't actually change.

GPUZ and AMD overdrive reads it as 847.

Go back to MSI AB and it works as you would expect.
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Correction -

I un-installed MSI AB. Now Trixx seems to be working as it should.

I'll have a play - thanks
 
Windows 8.

I think it's because Trixx is loading and then overdrive in CCC is loading over riding Trixx. I'll have a play tonight. Might re-install CCC without overdrive enabled.

Or put a delay on Trixx starting so it loads after CCC.
 
Dont enable overdrive leave well alone trixx is all you need, i have ref sapphire 290 and can do 1255 core and 1575 memory on air when benching, mind you that was a few driver releases ago so maybe a bit more performance to be had yet, with yours watercooled you can push voltage to +200 take your core up then your memory then balance the two depending on best results.
 
Yeah. I enabled overdrive when I first installed the card and having a look around.

I'll re-install drivers and then play with Trixx.

Quite impressed with the card so far. I've very nearly got the same heaven score as my two GTX670's were getting.

I'm sure once I get Trixx working as it should I'll get past it.
 
I still seem to be having an issue with Trixx.

I re-installed the graphics drivers and I haven't enabled overdrive.

However the problem is that Trixx loads and sets the clocks and then CCC loads and sets them to default?!

I tried using winpatrol to delay Trixx startup time so it loaded after CCC, but I would still have to load the OC profile myself.

Any ideas on this as it's doing my nut in. It's not that big a deal that I have to load the profile each start up - but it is annoying.

Any help appreciated!

I don't have this problem with MSI AB, but I can't get as high a voltage or clocks in that programme. I'm downloading the latest Beta drivers to see if that somehow makes a difference.
 
Solution -

Uninstalled CCC.

Now Trixx will load with the overclock settings etc.

Doubt I would really fiddle with anything in CCC to be honest. Well not at this moment in time.
 
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