So I got my Sapphire R9 280x Toxic OC edition in the post a couple of hours ago, I set it up, installed the drivers, installed Payday 2 and excitedly started playing.
I played the game for about 15 minutes before it crashed on me. So I started again and this time the game run fine for about another 15 minutes where instead of crashing I was getting random flickering every now and then.
I stopped playing and started playing some Arkham Asylum to see if this was a graphics card problem or Payday exclusive. But the problem was still there, in game everything was fine and I didn't get any flickers at all.
I played for about 15 minutes when it go to a cut scene and there was flickering all over the place, when the cut scene finished it went back to the game and the flickering went away.
I then installed Furmark and ran that and about 5 minutes later the whole screen was glitching out.
So I installed the latest AMD beta drivers (14.1) and restarted the computer.
I ran Furmark again and I have had very minor glitches for about 15 minutes, like a couple of random squares about the screen. After about 20 minutes though so far all the glitches have gone and it seems to be running stable.
Is this normal for graphics cards to do? I've never had a very high end graphics card like this before. Is there a fault with the graphics card or possibly something else in my system?
I did a quick Google search and it seems quite a few people have had similar problems but they all sent back their cards for new ones. Will I have to do the same?
If I do have to send it back, how do I go about doing that? I bought the card here at Overclockers.
Sorry if I seem confused, but this is a first time for me.
System -
Gigabyte 990FXA-Ud3
AMD 8320
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 2133mhz 2x4GB ram
(this is not running at indicated speeds as when set as that on the bios the system wouldn't load so its running at motherboard defaults)
Corsair H80 CPU cooler
XFX pro 750w PSU
120gb Samsung evo basic SSD
Sapphire R9 280x Toxic OC
I played the game for about 15 minutes before it crashed on me. So I started again and this time the game run fine for about another 15 minutes where instead of crashing I was getting random flickering every now and then.
I stopped playing and started playing some Arkham Asylum to see if this was a graphics card problem or Payday exclusive. But the problem was still there, in game everything was fine and I didn't get any flickers at all.
I played for about 15 minutes when it go to a cut scene and there was flickering all over the place, when the cut scene finished it went back to the game and the flickering went away.
I then installed Furmark and ran that and about 5 minutes later the whole screen was glitching out.
So I installed the latest AMD beta drivers (14.1) and restarted the computer.
I ran Furmark again and I have had very minor glitches for about 15 minutes, like a couple of random squares about the screen. After about 20 minutes though so far all the glitches have gone and it seems to be running stable.
Is this normal for graphics cards to do? I've never had a very high end graphics card like this before. Is there a fault with the graphics card or possibly something else in my system?
I did a quick Google search and it seems quite a few people have had similar problems but they all sent back their cards for new ones. Will I have to do the same?
If I do have to send it back, how do I go about doing that? I bought the card here at Overclockers.
Sorry if I seem confused, but this is a first time for me.
System -
Gigabyte 990FXA-Ud3
AMD 8320
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 2133mhz 2x4GB ram
(this is not running at indicated speeds as when set as that on the bios the system wouldn't load so its running at motherboard defaults)
Corsair H80 CPU cooler
XFX pro 750w PSU
120gb Samsung evo basic SSD
Sapphire R9 280x Toxic OC
