R9 290X Owners Thread

Tonester0011 · 30 Oct 2013 at 20:28

its normal. happens on all heaven thingys

LtMatt · 30 Oct 2013 at 20:32

Best off benching games or 3dmark 11/3dmark firestrike. Heaven/Valley favour Nvidia cards heavily (extreme tessellation) once you move up to the top tier of gpu's.

primouf · 30 Oct 2013 at 20:33

Ok i'll stick to 3Dmark then !

Scougar · 30 Oct 2013 at 20:36

Typical of Heaven.. run it full screen.. and do one run through.. then benchmark it. (something to do with loading textures etc). Second run will have higher minimum fps. (make sure in full screen as well.. and v-sync off!)

mi9tchy · 30 Oct 2013 at 20:41

I've just got mine and keep getting a black screen when windows is loading

Anyone find out the solution to this?

Besty · 30 Oct 2013 at 21:05

primouf said:
yes windowed mode, never used heaven 4.0 before, i'm open to suggestions.

You need to run it again in full screen mode, keep the same settings but just set to 1080p full screen mode.

edit: and at stock clocks plz.

Drollic · 30 Oct 2013 at 21:07

Run full screen, should be seeing 20+ minimum I'd of thought

Besty · 30 Oct 2013 at 21:09

skidmarks said:
Run full screen, should be seeing 20+ minimum I'd of thought

Minimums are sometimes broken. Average FPS should be 40-50fps range.

Drollic · 30 Oct 2013 at 21:11

Besty said:
Minimums are sometimes broken. Average FPS should be 40-50fps range.

That explains it then

Scougar · 30 Oct 2013 at 21:15

BTW, thanks for taking the time primouf :-)

It really is appreciated!

Has the vendor replied yet?

Scougar · 30 Oct 2013 at 21:18

Jordan777 said:
Can i ask how people are getting 1200 core and 1500 on the memory? the best i can get is 1100mhz core 1400mhz memory at stock? Any higher and mine starts to go all funny. Using MSI 3.0.0 beta whats voltage locked ? is there any other version whats voltage unlocked

I believe you need to put on the asus bios in order to get control of voltage (daft, but true until another tool comes out). There is a guide to do it on the forum.

primouf · 30 Oct 2013 at 21:35

Scougar said:
BTW, thanks for taking the time primouf It really is appreciated!

Has the vendor replied yet?

No problem ! i will do some better benchmarks of Heaven 4.0

for the vendor i tryed calling the hotline but they were to stupid to understand the problem, he didn't see the difference between a 290x and a 290...lol? and that what i got delivered shouldn't be on sale.... he just said send it back before the 7 day thing.... :eek:

The card will go back after the weekend and i sure will never buy from them again ( don't worry it aint in the UK it's a french online retailer )

Silent_Scone · 30 Oct 2013 at 21:49

They've broken NDA which technically can land them in a world of **** if AMD felt it had put the card in a bad light.

Scougar · 30 Oct 2013 at 21:52

Do they understand the difference a £100 pounds (120 euro?) make? Possibly legal action from AMD? lol. Brilliant, although ignorance is possibly a good tactical defence.

Get everything from this card :-D

primouf · 30 Oct 2013 at 23:31

Well it's looking good i must say.

Just hit the 1100mhz mark with my 290 original clocked @ 947mhz

ventilation @ 55% ( abit noisy? or not )
temp: 60-70 max

getting 10k on firestrike aswell

screenshots soon !

Gibbo · 30 Oct 2013 at 23:36

primouf said:
Well it's looking good i must say.

Just hit the 1100mhz mark with my 290 original clocked @ 947mhz

ventilation @ 55% ( abit noisy? or not )
temp: 60-70 max

getting 10k on firestrike aswell screenshots soon !

Awesome little cards ain't they, if they release at around £360-380ish they will sell like crazy.

Still very bad those French people tried ripping you off.....

sin · 30 Oct 2013 at 23:49

Gibbo

When 290 comes out will it be available @ 5am or later in the day?

Was going to buy tomorrow but as its been set back a week

primouf · 30 Oct 2013 at 23:55

Gibbo said:
Awesome little cards ain't they, if they release at around £360-380ish they will sell like crazy.

Still very bad those French people tried ripping you off.....

sure is !!! wish i could get a refund of the difference and keep it....

This is the max i could get, if i go higher i start to get some small artefacts now and then,very nice i must say !!

bakes0310 · 31 Oct 2013 at 06:55

I wanna get 290x CF to replace my 670SLI will my [email protected] be holding them back. My monitor is 1440p so not exactly a small screen.

Orangey · 31 Oct 2013 at 07:07

bakes0310 said:
I wanna get 290x CF to replace my 670SLI will my [email protected] be holding them back. My monitor is 1440p so not exactly a small screen.

I would get a 2600K at the minimum, some games do like hyperthreading. 4.6 should be attainable on a 2600K, although some people might just tell you to try to get closer to 5GHz on the 2500K if you can.