R9 290X Owners Thread

[Kaapstad]

Was your memory overclocked or stock?

I've only witnessed this black screen whilst trying to push the memory very hard on the overclock.



Anandtech have re-done their review with the new drivers:-
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7501/amd-changes-290-series-fan-algorithms

No black screens here either but I use 60hz all the time on a dell U3011.

 

[Kaapstad]

Errr... Will work fine on 8x

What pins you on bout?

+1

I was using 3 for some trifire action and one of those cards had to be @ x8

 

[Kaapstad]

if you look at a pcie card, there are two sets of pins,

towards the IO shield there is a small set of pins

and then there is the longer stretch of pins the presumably power the card

so if you look at the back of a mobo and find an 8x pcie lane, it will only have metal pins running half the length of the pcie slot

So this new crossfire technology, what pins does it use to communicate to the other card? because some mobos wont have all the pins available in the pcie slot

and Kaapstad, if you were to put a fourth in your rig, would it then need more pics to talk across? so would it need to be a 16x mobo for quadfire?


additionally, i can imagine some top end motherboards for ln2 benchers or something, making their pcie slots electrically isolated for safety which means that the cards cant talk over pcie

Slot 2 on my RIVE is x8 and I had no problem using slots 1,2 and 3 for trifire, I don't think I will have any problems when I go quadfire using all four slots @ x16/x8/x8/x8

 

[Kaapstad]

Quadfire 290x

Are you going to be testing out 780ti aswell kaap?

I have two EVGA Classified 780ti's on order.

 

[Kaapstad]

The Quad R9 290x will be integrated in this loop.

-Feser X -Changer 240mm (Push Pull)
-Feser X -Changer 360mm (Push Pull)
-Feser X -Changer 480mm (Push Pull)
-Watercool Mo-RA3 Pro 1080mm (Push)

(2160mm of Radiator)

What PSU are you using?

 

[Kaapstad]

Kaapstad not sure but for 4 He needs 2. Or one 2000w
I was doing some stability testing yesterday and. Card was pulling 380 watts according to GPUz.
So 4 would pull up to 1600 watts themselves.

That was why I was asking, when I get mine up and running I will be using 2 x 1200w PSUs.


I have to wait until the end of next week before I can get my hands on a new RIVE black edition to put the cards in.

 

[Kaapstad]

Quick and dirty OC, first attempt.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1671544

Nice score

I hope futuremark start approving the lastest drivers soon.

 

[Kaapstad]

I needed to take a break between benchmarks so I decided to have a different kind of test:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBLiXc0yLYk&feature=youtu.be

All in good fun..

LOL

People thought I was having them on when I said the 290Xs cooler flat out sounded like my mum doing the hoovering.

 

[Kaapstad]

Some interesting results coming out of my 290x vs Titan comparo. On my 3240x1920 120 Hz setup, they go back and forth in wins but averaging out around the same performance clock for clock.

I guess technically clock for clock that would make the 780Ti Classified probably the fastest GPU setup to have. It's performance per clock should be the highest, and it's overclock headroom should be both higher than the 290x and Titan. :thinking:

290x is best performance per dollar though no doubt.

@Vega, do you have a link for your test results please.

 

[Kaapstad]

Thanks Vega, it is an interesting read.

 

[Kaapstad]

Thanks Matt

For the one interested.

-BF4
-CPU at 4.7 Ghz
-Quad Fire R9 290x at 1120/1500
-3 Pumps
-34 Fans
-2 SSD 1 HDD

I hate to think what they will use @1200/1625.

 

[Kaapstad]

First post for me, however I have lurked for a while.

Just been reading this great thread for a while and trying to decide whether to splurge on a 290x or save further for 780ti.

Obviously decided on the 290x

I've been a loyal nvidia fan for a long while now but have been a little underwhelmed with my 670 4gb ex oc and haven't owned a red card since my x800xt when I used to work at gladiator, nearly 10 years ago I'm sure.

Anyway, Something about this card screamed "Buy Me" so it was a win for the reds this time.

After installing it something screamed at me again, it was my wife, she was screaming to get me to hear her over the 6000,73db cooler!

I was torn between water and a gelid icy but after reading about peoples mixed result with aftermarket air and vrm temps I went water, my vrm2 was already hitting 82 deg at stock in firestrike. core was holding 1000 for most of the run but started to throttle towards the end by 5% ish.

Off to OCUK today for EK waterblock and some new fans for my rad as one was about to suffer extreme bearing failure and sounded like a sewing machine.

A few hours later and I have just started a few benches and things look good, loop hasn't got up to temp yet so I will report back when it has but first three runs of firestrike at stock only hit 37 on core and 22/28 vrm 1/2, im sure this will get higher as the loop warms up. cpu is a 2700k at 5.00 and its on a single loop just cpu and gpu with 480mm of rads, hoping thats enough but we willknow for sure soon.

Thanks for all the advice and stuff I've gleaned from you guys over the last few days.

ok clocks at 1100 core 5000 vram, this was the best yet and only hit 41c on core, happy so far, cpu also not much hotter now the 290 is in loop, tops out at 62 in prime

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/1224866

Which make was your card ?

 

[Kaapstad]

Hi Kaap, sorry card was HIS BF4, ty

Thanks.

 

[Kaapstad]

Received my 290X yesterday and what a beauty it is. A major upgrade from my 6870.

Add me to the owners roll of honour

Added to the Roll of Honour.

 

[Kaapstad]

Do you guys want me to do a Roll of Honour for 290P owners as well in the opening thread.

 

[Kaapstad]

Powercolor 290 flashed to X, so 290X
Hyinx memory
Pulse bracket with Kuhler 620 (push/pull) + Arctic 120mm fan
Home made VRM1 heatsink
Akasa RAMsinks

Spoiler

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1941052

Looking to change 'home made' VRM1 heatsink to a Thermalright HR-09(S) and the Corsair 120's that came with the Kuhler to some SP120's as have to run them on about 50% at the moment since loud.

At the moment run Furmark 1080P 15min burn in test:
65C max core
80C VRM1
running 1120/1450 @+50mv

And on the Roll of Honour.

 

[Kaapstad]

Yeah, heres mine.

Spoiler

And on the 290P Roll of Honour.

 

[Kaapstad]

Woo im famous. Thanks kaap. This was something i wanted to do with the 7990 when i got it but that 7990 owners thread was already well established.

You need to get a few more 290P owners to post because at the moment you look very lonely on your own.

 

[Kaapstad]

I've given the 290P an official proper thread if you want to use that.

Looks like ill be forever alone in this one.



On it.

I will close this one down before it gets complicated.

 

[Kaapstad]

Cheers for the comments guys, I've truly gone full circle, I've done 280x, 290x, 780ti, 270x and now back to 290x all within 2-3 months, I can hand on heart say, that the 290x is the better card imo.

Not had chance to get it installed today but tomorrow I'll get setup and benchmarked, hopefully it'll be a great clocker and have hynix memory.

Wow really on paper the 780ti looks like it should be better how come you sent it back I would really like to know hiw you found it and what was up with it in your option cheers in advance dude.

I would be interested in the answer to this.

Something I have noticed with the 780ti is that on paper they have better specs than the Titans, yet at the very top of the benching threads they are not pushing the Titans out. I have always put this down to the fact that the Titans can use the 320.xx series of drivers and the 780ti's can not.