R9 290X Owners Thread

old gamer · 4 Feb 2015 at 08:45

S2KIP said:
Des did say to me on Skype last night that he is getting lower FPS than other people in the benchmark threads in Tomb Raider, and felt as if something isn't right.

i noticed cod aw was a bit off and cs go was a bit jittery and i played that foe ages without problems on 2 differnt 290's and 2 290x, fresh windows install i think to make sure all the nvidia stuff is cleard off

eyetrip · 4 Feb 2015 at 09:24

old gamer said:
i noticed cod aw was a bit off and cs go was a bit jittery and i played that foe ages without problems on 2 differnt 290's and 2 290x, fresh windows install i think to make sure all the nvidia stuff is cleard off

I did similar. 290's in xfire to 970's in sli to 290x's in crossfire,and like you, am going to try and get around to reinstalling windows shortly.

Have not tried many games to be honest, but what is odd is that both bf4 and dragon age were quite smooth when I tried them initially in mantle, but then became quite juddery - but not like microstutter.

DX11 seems fine.

So yeah, full clean up in order I think to see what going on.

old gamer · 4 Feb 2015 at 09:41

something else i noticed when i used ddu to remove the nvidia drivers my screen stayed at 2560x1440 res which i thought was odd as it nornaly drops to a much lower res

Legend · 4 Feb 2015 at 15:09

So has anyone moved from SLI 970 to Crossfire 290X and been thrilled and delighted with the switch?

old gamer · 4 Feb 2015 at 15:40

Legend said:
So has anyone moved from SLI 970 to Crossfire 290X and been thrilled and delighted with the switch?

I did a bit of benching with the 970's and 290's and there is nothing in it performance wise, the only thing is the 290's have a 512bit bus and full 4gb ram, does it matter who knows

dessimpson · 4 Feb 2015 at 17:55

Legend said:
So has anyone moved from SLI 970 to Crossfire 290X and been thrilled and delighted with the switch?

Nope. But I'm guessing that was quite apparent

Legend · 4 Feb 2015 at 18:03

dessimpson said:
Nope. But I'm guessing that was quite apparent

Lol, yes I had noticed, but quite a few seem to have JUST made the switch from what I'm reading, so I was hoping to see some rave reviews. Yet to appear though... but then as we all know, people mostly come online to complain and moan about things NOT working, rather than say how brilliant they are. :rolleyes:

dessimpson · 4 Feb 2015 at 18:11

I'd hazard that my 290x's are about 5% slower but run 30% hotter.
It's the odd things like sometimes only using one GPU that are annoying me.

My options seem to be this:-

Buy a better (bigger) case.
Water cool the cards. Would also require a new case. As well as the water cooling.

Bite the bullet and buy a 980 (or two

)

dessimpson · 4 Feb 2015 at 18:52

Just to add. 22.9fps on FarCry 4
That's £640 well spent.

LtMatt · 4 Feb 2015 at 18:57

dessimpson said:
Just to add. 22.9fps on FarCry 4
That's £640 well spent.

We have a working Crossfire profile for Farcry 4 in our next drivers.

Relentless81 · 4 Feb 2015 at 19:14

Can anyone tel me what the green flashing led means on a 290X reference card?

Thanks

LtMatt · 4 Feb 2015 at 19:25

Relentless81 said:
Can anyone tel me what the green flashing led means on a 290X reference card?

Thanks

ULPS. The gpu has entered hibernation in effect to lower power savings. If the monitor is in standby mode you'll notice the fan stops spinning. In essence, AMD ZeroCore technology.

Mal X · 4 Feb 2015 at 19:33

dessimpson said:
I'd hazard that my 290x's are about 5% slower but run 30% hotter.
It's the odd things like sometimes only using one GPU that are annoying me.

My options seem to be this:-

Buy a better (bigger) case.
Water cool the cards. Would also require a new case. As well as the water cooling.

Bite the bullet and buy a 980 (or two )

or, dont RMA your 970s

sprite1275 · 4 Feb 2015 at 19:36

dessimpson said:
Just to add. 22.9fps on FarCry 4
That's £640 well spent.

So your not rating the 290x much then. Which do you have And what res you at?

dessimpson · 4 Feb 2015 at 19:38

I have two 8Gb MSI Gaming 290x's
I'm currently on a 1440p monitor but I was planning on getting a super widescreen monitor to go with it. Hence wanting the dual cards.

Relentless81 · 4 Feb 2015 at 19:44

AMDMatt said:
ULPS. The gpu has entered hibernation in effect to lower power savings. If the monitor is in standby mode you'll notice the fan stops spinning. In essence, AMD ZeroCore technology.

Cool just tested it and you are quite right

Thanks

LtMatt · 4 Feb 2015 at 19:47

Relentless81 said:
Cool just tested it and you are quite right

Thanks

No problem mate.

eyetrip · 4 Feb 2015 at 20:03

AMDMatt said:
We have a working Crossfire profile for Farcry 4 in our next drivers.

As others have suggested, it would be good for them to separate out the profiles like they used to.

Legend · 4 Feb 2015 at 20:31

dessimpson said:
I have two 8Gb MSI Gaming 290x's
I'm currently on a 1440p monitor but I was planning on getting a super widescreen monitor to go with it. Hence wanting the dual cards.

So you're disappointed with your purchase so far then, would you say?

ChrisD. · 4 Feb 2015 at 20:39

dessimpson said:
I'd hazard that my 290x's are about 5% slower but run 30% hotter.
It's the odd things like sometimes only using one GPU that are annoying me.

My options seem to be this:-

Buy a better (bigger) case.
Water cool the cards. Would also require a new case. As well as the water cooling.

Bite the bullet and buy a 980 (or two )

Bigger case I think mate, there's a lot of decent air cooled cases that should make a difference.

Water cooling is great, but expensive. And effort. I know you're lazy, so just get a better case.