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R9 290X Owners Thread

the1gooner said:
Same here, I only clock my card for fun trying to get higher bench scores.

At stock 1040/1250 I am more than happy for gaming, though I could run 1,100/1500 at stock voltage for extra performance. I probably wouldn't notice the difference though.

That's interesting to see you have lowered your volts for 24/7 use, haven't really considered doing that before. Though I guess that is of more benefit with 2 cards and probably not worth it for 1?
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Yep and the fact i have reference cards. Enables me to keep them in the 80's temp wise with a low fan speed. :)
 
I have had mine to 1150 / 1450 / +75mv (Elpida Memory) for Benching and everyday Gaming, no artefacts or any complaints.

I haven't actually tried to push it yet, i probably will at a later date.

For everyday i just run it at 1075 / 1400 on its default volts, the card has to much grunt for what i need as it is, i only run it at 1075 / 1400 because it comes 1040 / 1350 out of the box and it don't feel right just running it at box clocks.
 
1300 core on a Ti is child's play, especially on water. I think I'll be able to squeeze it out of the lightning though on air over the weekend. Clock for clock the 290x is much faster. I'm only 600 points off my reference Ti 1345mhz score on water.
 
MjFrosty said:
1300 core on a Ti is child's play, especially on water. I think I'll be able to squeeze it out of the lightning though on air over the weekend. Clock for clock the 290x is much faster. I'm only 600 points off my reference Ti 1345mhz score on water.
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Think thats always been the case regarding clock per clock. Tahiti 7970 and Kepler 680 were the same. The 680's would need to be around 100mhz or higher ahead on core to match 7970 Tahiti. Not an exact science and the gap has probably narrowed a bit on this gen but you get what im saying.
 
Yes :)

At the higher to top end AMD are faster clock for clock across the board, they just don't clock as high as Nvidia, even out of the box Nvidia boost quite high where as AMD are fixed at 947Mhz, 1000Mhz.... or whatever the boost clock happens to be.
 
Is there a clocking benefit to 14.4?

Still on WHQL and because of all this extra voltage talk i decided to try out+250mv last night for a bit. Only did a few runs of valley and stopped due to the time. Got a little scared when i checked the highest peaked voltage hit like 1.43.
 
MjFrosty said:
Im at 1.55v on air atm ;)
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I trust my VRMs would crumble before yours, no matter how cool the core is feeling lol.

TBH people bash reference so much but its jsut the cooler thats gash, the actual PCB and VRMs are pretty decent. Having said that, the lightning is on another level!

What would you guys' safe limit be on reference pcb under water?
 
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