R9 290 Help! / Possible upgrade
Hey,
I bought an R9 290 about a year ago and had a few issues with it back then where it would cut out randomly and reboot the machine. The company i bought it off would not refund it as they found no fault with it. I upgraded my mobo, CPU, PSU and installed the drivers without CCC and that seemed to fix the issues and ive never had a problem since.
Now i Have upgraded to the Acer XG270HUomidpx 27" 1440p 144hz monitor and its a preety amazing monitor. Since ive started using it and playing on it the issue where it gets a black screen and reboots has came back. I also had a warning saying the Cable (display port) or GPU being used doesnt support 1440 and 144hz. I stupidly never checked the actual supported resolutions and refresh rate for the CPU but noticed quite a few people had no problems with it.
Ive updated GPU and bios. I've tried different settings and the only thing that works without a crash is 1440p and 60hz which is unbearable after using 120 for so long.
Does anyone have any advice on getting this running smoothly? Also, I'd prefer not to have to upgrade more parts if possible as most of the PC is less than a year old so where would i stand in possibly returning the monitor to OCuk if i cant get it working as wanted.
Sorry to be a pain and any advice would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
John
p.s. willing to consider upgrades if its a possible faulty card. Would AMD be better with the freesync option or would you recommend a top end Nvidia?
i7 4790k @ 4.0GHz | MSI R9 290 | 8GB Corsair XMS3 | Z97X Gaming 7 | Corsair CSM 750W | Acer XG270HUomidpx
Hey,
I bought an R9 290 about a year ago and had a few issues with it back then where it would cut out randomly and reboot the machine. The company i bought it off would not refund it as they found no fault with it. I upgraded my mobo, CPU, PSU and installed the drivers without CCC and that seemed to fix the issues and ive never had a problem since.
Now i Have upgraded to the Acer XG270HUomidpx 27" 1440p 144hz monitor and its a preety amazing monitor. Since ive started using it and playing on it the issue where it gets a black screen and reboots has came back. I also had a warning saying the Cable (display port) or GPU being used doesnt support 1440 and 144hz. I stupidly never checked the actual supported resolutions and refresh rate for the CPU but noticed quite a few people had no problems with it.
Ive updated GPU and bios. I've tried different settings and the only thing that works without a crash is 1440p and 60hz which is unbearable after using 120 for so long.
Does anyone have any advice on getting this running smoothly? Also, I'd prefer not to have to upgrade more parts if possible as most of the PC is less than a year old so where would i stand in possibly returning the monitor to OCuk if i cant get it working as wanted.
Sorry to be a pain and any advice would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
John
p.s. willing to consider upgrades if its a possible faulty card. Would AMD be better with the freesync option or would you recommend a top end Nvidia?
i7 4790k @ 4.0GHz | MSI R9 290 | 8GB Corsair XMS3 | Z97X Gaming 7 | Corsair CSM 750W | Acer XG270HUomidpx
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