R9 290X Owners Thread

LtMatt · 9 Nov 2014 at 17:56

Choimaloy75 said:
Well I got my 3rd 290x reference yesterday plugged it in, not sure if it's been utalised fully does it make a difference also as my new card has 1030 on the core and my other 2 msi's are at 1000 as in finding bf4 not as smooth as I would like as usage seems to be up and down.

Enable unified gpu usage monitoring i afterburner to get a more accurate and consistent gpu usage reading from rivatuner.

Choimaloy75 · 9 Nov 2014 at 18:13

Is there anything I should do in ccc or any setting in mb bios for PCI express

Choimaloy75 · 9 Nov 2014 at 18:15

I have the gpu unified monitoring enabled

LtMatt · 9 Nov 2014 at 18:20

Which API are you using?

How are other games/benchmarks?

Choimaloy75 · 9 Nov 2014 at 19:08

Using dx11 the gpu usage is up and down in the monitoring and the gameplay just isn't smooth at all which wasn't there in crossfire.Crysis 3 is about 40 to 50 fps.
There is definitely something not working right.

LtMatt · 9 Nov 2014 at 19:10

Choimaloy75 said:
Using dx11 the gpu usage is up and down in the monitoring and the gameplay just isn't smooth at all which wasn't there in crossfire.Crysis 3 is about 40 to 50 fps.
There is definitely something not working right.

Battlefield 4 does not run nicely for me in DX11 under 3 cards either, likely an application issue.

Choimaloy75 · 9 Nov 2014 at 19:10

Tomb raider was more min 75 max 126 aver 98.

Choimaloy75 · 9 Nov 2014 at 19:45

Well I'm pleased to here about bf4 I thought I had something setup wrong what about tombraider does that sound right

LtMatt · 9 Nov 2014 at 19:48

Tomb Raider sounds good.

Check out my Crossfire guide here, that will help you decide for yourself if things are working correctly.

Choimaloy75 · 9 Nov 2014 at 20:12

Cheers mate, thanks

Choimaloy75 · 11 Nov 2014 at 06:58

Well I did more testing on my trifire performance and I'm not happy, 3000 points down on my skydiver xfire score over 2000 points down peoples trifre firestrike scores, Gpu usage is irratic in the monitoring, I'm quite dissapointed so I don't know what to do so I hope Amdmatt or Kaapstad can help before I send the card back.

Neil79 · 13 Nov 2014 at 13:13

EDIT : Wrong Thread

LtMatt · 13 Nov 2014 at 13:14

Choimaloy75 said:
Well I did more testing on my trifire performance and I'm not happy, 3000 points down on my skydiver xfire score over 2000 points down peoples trifre firestrike scores, Gpu usage is irratic in the monitoring, I'm quite dissapointed so I don't know what to do so I hope Amdmatt or Kaapstad can help before I send the card back.

All sorted in the end once you changed that setting in the bios mate, yeah?

Choimaloy75 · 13 Nov 2014 at 13:30

Yeah all sorted thanks to you and uncle pete I changed setting in the bios and everything is running fine now.

ChrisD. · 13 Nov 2014 at 13:58

Waiting, sleeping...

Kaapstad · 13 Nov 2014 at 17:57

AMDMatt said:
All sorted in the end once you changed that setting in the bios mate, yeah?

Choimaloy75 said:
Yeah all sorted thanks to you and uncle pete I changed setting in the bios and everything is running fine now.

Which setting ?

LtMatt · 13 Nov 2014 at 18:03

Choimaloy75 said:
Yeah all sorted thanks to you and uncle pete I changed setting in the bios and everything is running fine now.

Glad to hear it.

Kaapstad said:
Which setting ?

He had a pci-e lane running at x1 speed.

Choimaloy75 · 13 Nov 2014 at 18:29

Kaapstad said:
Which setting ?

PCI was on auto and needed changing to x4 also with running im on a 4k monitor when running benchmarks in 3d mark I needed to change my res in windows as it was doing the benchmarks in 4k instead of 1080 this is why my scores were low.

ChrisD. · 14 Nov 2014 at 18:12

Nearly done.

LtMatt · 14 Nov 2014 at 18:22

Looking good Skip.