R9 290X Owners Thread

jwilliamson47 · 18 Feb 2015 at 19:39

gareth170 said:
that what i mean, he won't see 100% all the time if it's bottlenecking

Yeah, I'm gaming at 1440p and believe Hitman is very CPU bound.

Kaapstad · 18 Feb 2015 at 19:39

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.

Matt any chance of you doing some Hitman benches with your 8gb 290Xs at high resolution.

sprite1275 · 18 Feb 2015 at 19:41

So this undervolting, should it be done if you're keeping the card stock? Is it because they draw more juice than what they need?

gareth170 · 18 Feb 2015 at 19:49

jwilliamson47 said:
Yeah, I'm gaming at 1440p and believe Hitman is very CPU bound.

this is at 4k.. hitman benchmark

LtMatt · 18 Feb 2015 at 19:51

Kaapstad said:
Matt any chance of you doing some Hitman benches with your 8gb 290Xs at high resolution.

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.

triss · 18 Feb 2015 at 20:13

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.

Looks like you need to build another rig

LtMatt · 18 Feb 2015 at 20:15

triss said:
Looks like you need to build another rig

I'm considering it, because i don't want to touch anything inside the main one.

jwilliamson47 · 18 Feb 2015 at 20:19

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.

LtMatt · 18 Feb 2015 at 20:21

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.

Can you try flicking the bios switch on the card and see if that makes a difference, seems to be a 2D idle problem.

Kaapstad · 18 Feb 2015 at 20:22

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.

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.

jwilliamson47 · 18 Feb 2015 at 20:24

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.

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"

gareth170 · 18 Feb 2015 at 20:29

jwilliamson47 said:
UEFI bios switch? Both cards are set to on, I believe.

he means on the cards

jwilliamson47 · 18 Feb 2015 at 20:37

gareth170 said:
he means on the cards

I know

The Sapphire Vapor-X has a UEFI Bios switch on the card.

jwilliamson47 · 18 Feb 2015 at 21:11

Right, that didn't seem to help

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

Then the machine rebooted.

Bonjour · 18 Feb 2015 at 21:13

Have you tried without the side on your case?

jwilliamson47 · 18 Feb 2015 at 21:15

Bonjour said:
Have you tried without the side on your case?

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.

jwilliamson47 · 18 Feb 2015 at 21:50

Card 2 now in heaven, 99% load 308mhz, card 1 99% 1030mhz.

Memory 1 1375mhz, memory 2 150mhz

LtMatt · 18 Feb 2015 at 21:52

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.

jwilliamson47 · 18 Feb 2015 at 21:59

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.

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.

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

LtMatt · 18 Feb 2015 at 22:04

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.