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R9 290X Owners Thread

Proves it aint a hot chip then, just crap ref cooler then!

LtMatt said:
The new AMD performance drivers his tuesday. You'll might be able to take on 8packs score then.
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Hope they release a performance *nix driver, there valley/heaven scores between nix and windows are ridiculous.
 
pete910 said:
Hope they release a performance *nix driver, there valley/heaven scores between nix and windows are ridiculous.
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Won't happen im afraid without a redesigned gpu. Those benches just favour Nvidia cards too much because of the extreme tessellation preset. Best off comparing on the 3dmark benchmarks or even more importantly, current demanding games.
 
LtMatt said:
Won't happen im afraid without a redesigned gpu. Those benches just favour Nvidia cards too much because of the extreme tessellation preset. Best off comparing on the 3dmark benchmarks or even more importantly, current demanding games.
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Its the score difference between the 2 platforms I mean.

Did a quick bench of valley in win7 score was 2500+ (1600x1050)

Linux scored a massive 858 :confused:

Not expecting A1 perf at first release, they'll be sorting driver bugs and what not for windows first + the 290 that's due. But same ball park would be nice...
Having said that in games(L4D2,etc) do run well, maybe they did a quick driver, checked a few popular games then released.
 
AMD's Linux drivers are notoriously pants and they probably aren't able to bypass heavy tessellation via driver cheats like they do with DirectX.
 
mmj_uk said:
AMD's Linux drivers are notoriously pants and they probably aren't able to bypass heavy tessellation via driver cheats like they do with DirectX.
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Don't know about tessellation regards the 2,but the "notoriously pants" bit

Had the 5870 for 4 years and been a cracker in linux, despite the "your nuts" remarks I received when bought it. 1 thing I will note is that they appear to be crap in *buntu. going on the steam forum threads.Personally don't use it.

They do get slated a lot AMD when it's a lot of the time not the driver it turnes out to be the game/app problem, as I've pointed out a few times in phoronix and what not. Think people forget what they where like when it was ATI :rolleyes:
 
Does anyone know what sort of PSU guideline would you need for one of these cards? With over clocking in mind ofc. Currently have a XFX 650 watt... yes I know XFX have a bad rep on here for their rma but want to know if that will cut it or should I invest in a new one? Its 2 years old too. Thanks!
 
r7slayer said:
Does anyone know what sort of PSU guideline would you need for one of these cards? With over clocking in mind ofc. Currently have a XFX 650 watt... yes I know XFX have a bad rep on here for their rma but want to know if that will cut it or should I invest in a new one? Its 2 years old too. Thanks!
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I'm pulling 400w from the wall in BF4 with an CPU o/c at 4.7
 
LtMatt said:
The new AMD performance drivers his tuesday. You'll might be able to take on 8packs score then.
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I have a feeling a memory module is not contacting the heat block correctly and I have read else where that the EK block misses a module.

Can I double up on a thermal pad or will it be too thick?

Edit: Is there anyway of testing that the pads are not touching a memory module with taking apart. If one mem module was over heating would it show on the V temps?
 
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I stuck a 290x in a system that had been rock hard stable for over a year, also changed to Windows 8.1 from 7 at the same time.

Everything is fine, temps are fine, airflow in my case is fine, card seems happy, but every now and again i get a black screen lock-up when gaming, I've seen it in Dishonoured and Battlefield 4 three times now. Every time it was after gaming for ages and ages without a problem, and every time it was during a level transition.

2600k with a mild over-clock (which i turned off, same problem).
Z68 Extreme 4 with latest BIOS (i think).
Antec 1200W PSU
Kingston HyperX Genesis 8GB

Any ideas ? :)
 
Scramz said:
I have a feeling a memory module is not contacting the heat block correctly and I have read else where that the EK block misses a module.

Can I double up on a thermal pad or will it be too thick?

Edit: Is there anyway of testing that the pads are not touching a memory module with taking apart. If one mem module was over heating would it show on the V temps?
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What sort of problems are you having? I had a BSOD in the ATI module after first fitting the EK block and I had a Red screen of death after playing BF4 for about an hour. Temps where fine, didnt go above 53.

I did tighten up the block quite hard so I slackened off the screws a touch and its been fine since. Saw something similar I think on the Prolimatech thread.
 
nickrorschach said:
I stuck a 290x in a system that had been rock hard stable for over a year, also changed to Windows 8.1 from 7 at the same time.

Everything is fine, temps are fine, airflow in my case is fine, card seems happy, but every now and again i get a black screen lock-up when gaming, I've seen it in Dishonoured and Battlefield 4 three times now. Every time it was after gaming for ages and ages without a problem, and every time it was during a level transition.

2600k with a mild over-clock (which i turned off, same problem).
Z68 Extreme 4 with latest BIOS (i think).
Antec 1200W PSU
Kingston HyperX Genesis 8GB

Any ideas ? :)
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Have you any minidumps in c:\windows\minidump ?
 
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