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R9 290X Owners Thread

Frenzy said:
What did you do to get your 290x working in the end ranger?

edit: nvm have you confused with someone else :P They sent theirs back.
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I considered sending mine back at first.

All because GPU-Z was causing problems (didn't know at the time) making it run full bore.

Happy I didn't, now I've found the right settings (50% fan speed max), it doesn't throttle and is a brilliant card.
 
Yeah good cards, one thing I wish I tried before sending it back was to turn ULPS off. I'm wondering if that was the issue. Ah well, only a £20 loss and I can look forward to the third party versions :)
 
VincentHanna said:
Now that is very impressive.

Literally halving temperatures under load. Surely that gives hugh potential for overclocking? Not that these cards really need it.
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I should have included this

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Yes, easily.

I've not used a framerate counter yet but if I disabled V-sync I would imagine it's well over 100fps.

I think a 7970/280x would do 1080p Ultra @ 60fps without an issue.
 
Frenzy said:
Yeah good cards, one thing I wish I tried before sending it back was to turn ULPS off. I'm wondering if that was the issue. Ah well, only a £20 loss and I can look forward to the third party versions :)
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The third party versions are going to be awesome. Hopefully tweaked PCB, def much better cooling, extras like backplates, triple fan, possibly even more vram. I might be tempted either by non rf 290x or 780ti. I want a new card to mess with :D
 
@primouf, you should install gpu-z 0.7.4, here is the changelog:

October 31st, 2013

Added support for AMD R9 290X, R9 290, R9 270, HD 7310, HD 8280
Added support for NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti, GT 635, Quadro K3100M
Added release date for AMD R7 260X, R7 250, R7 240
Fixed release date for AMD R9 280X
Fixed die size for AMD Tahiti
Fixed ROP count on Ivy Bridge and Haswell
Fixed BIOS saving not working on AMD cards without driver
Fixed some rare crashes on systems with Intel VGA
Render Test can be paused by left-clicking into window
 
Boomstick777 said:
The third party versions are going to be awesome. Hopefully tweaked PCB, def much better cooling, extras like backplates, triple fan, possibly even more vram. I might be tempted either by non rf 290x or 780ti. I want a new card to mess with :D
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Any idea when were roughly expecting these awesome third part cards?
 
well considering most reference cards seem to be touted for 15-31st of Nov (depending on brand) according to OCUK pre-order - I'm guessing quite a while
 
Had a look in new gpu Z My ASIC 79.00%.
Post Yours guys. Right click on GPUz header and use read ASIC quality

I got EK waterblock+backplate coming in tomorrow :]
Using Arctic cooling MX4
Not messing around with liquid metal on open core gpu :P
 
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