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R9 290X Owners Thread

Mine came ~4.30pm but shame I was at work only got home in the last 30-40mins, I still need to build the PC so will be a couple/few days before I get any use out of it.

Will post pic/s, came with a bag of haribo but I'm kind of underwhelmed as was hoping/expecting more for the money spent on the card(only came with a small bag).
 
This has already been posted before, but it's beginning to worry me. My GPU for most of the time, even when I'm not doing anything is sitting at 100% usage, and shooting up to incredible high temperatures.

Is anyone else having this issue?
 
My 3DM results - win8.1x64, stock i7-4770K, Asus R9-290X and 13.11betav6 driver

3dm11 - http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/7373292
3dm - http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1480407

valley 1080p-extreme-8xaa
FPS: 57.5
Score: 2405
Min FPS: 26.5
Max FPS: 110.2

heaven 1080p-extreme-8xaa
FPS: 51.5
Score: 1296
Min FPS: 8.3
Max FPS: 109.6

Pushed CPU upto 4.4 and 290X upto 1125/1450

valley went to :-
FPS: 64.5
Score: 2700
Min FPS: 30.4
Max FPS: 130.0

heaven crashed, but I did get a run at 1117/1410 -

FPS: 58.4
Score: 1471
Min FPS: 26.2
Max FPS: 119.5

which would get #41 and #44 respectively in the league tables.
 
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This has already been posted before, but it's beginning to worry me. My GPU for most of the time, even when I'm not doing anything is sitting at 100% usage, and shooting up to incredible high temperatures.

Is anyone else having this issue?

Take a look in windows task manager, there must be something it's trying to do.
 
Pushed CPU upto 4.4 and 290X upto 1125/1450

valley went to :-
FPS: 64.5
Score: 2700
Min FPS: 30.4
Max FPS: 130.0

heaven crashed, but I did get a run at 1117/1410 -

FPS: 58.4
Score: 1471
Min FPS: 26.2
Max FPS: 119.5

which would get #41 and #44 respectively in the league tables.

That's literally 388 more than mine.

Only real difference between our systems is that I only have 8GB Ram and it's 1600Mhz. That wouldn't make that much difference though?
 
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