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R9 290X Owners Thread

AMDMatt said:
Hitman at 1080P is bottlenecked for Crossfire. I can just about overcome it with two 290X cards if i run my 5960X at 4.9Ghz and even then i don't completely eliminate it.
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Matt any chance of you doing some Hitman benches with your 8gb 290Xs at high resolution.:)
 
jwilliamson47 said:
Interesting, when the 1st card was glowing "yellow" mid-temps and used 3 fans it was OK, then when it changed to cool (blue) and used 1 fan, it froze.
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Can you try flicking the bios switch on the card and see if that makes a difference, seems to be a 2D idle problem.
 
AMDMatt said:
I think i already posted some didn't i Kaap? The problem is it took me ages setting The Red Baron up and now i don't want to change things around. :(
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Just double checked, you have posted a couple.:)

Having said that if anyone else has got some 8gb cards there is plenty of room on the scoreboard.:):D
 
AMDMatt said:
Can you try flicking the bios switch on the card and see if that makes a difference, seems to be a 2D idle problem.
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UEFI bios switch? Both cards are set to on, I believe.

Ah, pushed the little Sapphire bios switch in so it lights up, also both cards had the other switch set to "on"
 
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Right, that didn't seem to help :(

The screen switched itself off, went black, mouse got laggy and this happened..

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Then the machine rebooted.
 
Bonjour said:
Have you tried without the side on your case?
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Yep, this was with the side panel off, and temps don't exceed 70c on load.

Apologies for all the posts, just want to give as much detail as possible to help

I just ran heaven, and AMD overdrive reported idle clocks and 0% activity on both cards, then it froze up.

Also, on idle, card 1 is running full clocks at 0% activity, then I access CCC and it froze.
 
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Sounds like one card is not kicking up to 3D clocks. Are you running full screen mode? If so can you try pressing ALT+Tab once or twice to see if that kicks it in.
 
AMDMatt said:
Sounds like one card is not kicking up to 3D clocks. Are you running full screen mode? If so can you try pressing ALT+Tab once or twice to see if that kicks it in.
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Ooops my bad, been a stressful day and forgot it was in windowed mode = no crossfire :)

I tried to load it up in full-screen and got this.

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This is the same screen when I click play game on Steam and sometimes it just comes up with this.

Thanks for all your help Matt, It's appreciated.

Changing the BIOS switch made things a lot worse lol
 
Switch the bios back then. :)

I wonder if perhaps you can test each card on it's own for a day or so to see if either card gives you problems. Please also ensure your whole system is at stock.

Idle problems usually indicate something is unstable somewhere if the systems works fine under 3d load, just need to try and find out what it is.

I also find it odd that disabling ULPS locked your system up.
 
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