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R9 290X Owners 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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Same for me. 2600k @ 4.3GHz, had to increase CPU-Vcore. Then I rammed up VCCIO to 1.11V which seems to work now.

ALexander
 
ran the extreme test for 3dmark 11

X4463
Graphics Score 4082
Physics Score 10663
Combined Score 5347

are the scores on par with stock setting or seem low(samw uestion with the performance setting)?
 
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alx37 said:
Card is XFX... I upped CPU Offset Voltage by 0.05V giving a max of 1.34 @ 4.3GHz.

I was also thinking of the Power Supply, because of only 1 12V line.

ALexander
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My PSU is pretty overkill for this one card, it used to run SLI 580s happily, so i don't think it's a power thing.

Ran a prime 95 torture test for hours when i slept just out of curiosity, no problems.
I'll play some more BF4 when i get home tonight and that should be a better test of the voltage changes. Will let you know.

Edit: Remember buying a 580 on launch and had sooo many problems with it, green artefacts when it down clocked, had a Google docs spreadsheet open with people on the Nvidia forums who were having the same problem. Never go it fixed, really wish i'd RMA'ed pronto. How easy is the RMA process at OCUK - can i just send it back for another as we're within 30 days? Haven't bought a GPU from here since my 290. This is such a random, hard to replicate problem. I could do without loads of stress.
 
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My PSU (forgot the brand) is 800W with 59A on the single 12V rail.

It might be due to PCIe 2.0, as I do have an ASUS P8P67 Deluxe which doesn't have PCIe 3.0 just like yours.
I always had fun with self-build computers, what i dislike with modern bios is the fact that there are many parameters but not all by far. eg load line calibration, why is it impossible to give fixed voltages for each cpu speed?
What I have found out is that a higher GPU Ram-Speed increases the problem.
However, BF4 seems to be the new stability test, I had no such lockup for the last 2 days after making the changes.

ALexander
 
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alx37 said:
My PSU (forgot the brand) is 800W with 59A on the single 12V rail.

It might be due to PCIe 2.0, as I do have an ASUS P8P67 Deluxe which doesn't have PCIe 3.0 just like yours.
I always had fun with self-build computers, what i dislike with modern bios is the fact that there are many parameters but not all by far. eg load line calibration, why is it impossible to give fixed voltages for each cpu speed?
What I have found out is that a higher GPU Ram-Speed increases the problem.
However, BF4 seems to be the new stability test, I had no such lockup for the last 2 days after making the changes.

ALexander
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I reckon we'll get a small bottleneck in PCI 2.0, not hard locks, but who knows...

I wont get to play BF4 until tonight, and as you say, that is the stability test :)
 
So I have managed to hit over 19K on 3dmark 11 gfx score on the default asus bios out of the box, do you think it is now worth flashing the Bios to Powertune 3 with no Vdroop as that is causing the Volts to not reach 1.4. Providing the temps are ok, or should I not bother?
 
nickrorschach said:
I reckon we'll get a small bottleneck in PCI 2.0, not hard locks, but who knows...

I wont get to play BF4 until tonight, and as you say, that is the stability test :)
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I've just gone from a P67 PCIE2 to a X79 PCIE3 and the difference is diddley, around 2-3% better when benching, probably not noticable in games.
 
For those getting the "Black Screen of Death" while playing BF4 it has been suggested elsewhere that Asus GPUTweak might be to be blame. Not tested the theory myself yet but I will uninstall tonight and see if that improves stability.
 
LtMatt said:
One for the gossip goats.

The Nvidia/Pcper smear (maybe not quite a smear :p) campaign starts ahead of the 290/780TI launch.

The previous Nvidia/Pcper smear campaign was started just prior to the 290X launch and focused on AMD issues at 4K resolution which were all solved with the launch of the 290X & Vesa display standard. Unfortunately for Nvidia the 290X proved to be faster than the titan at 4k, considerably in some cases.

TL : DR

This is a article discussing how fan speed settings can influence throttling, noise, and power draw.
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LtMatt said:
One for the gossip goats.

The Nvidia/Pcper smear (maybe not quite a smear :p) campaign starts ahead of the 290/780TI launch.

The previous Nvidia/Pcper smear campaign was started just prior to the 290X launch and focused on AMD issues at 4K resolution which were all solved with the launch of the 290X & Vesa display standard. Unfortunately for Nvidia the 290X proved to be faster than the titan at 4k, considerably in some cases.

TL : DR

This is a article discussing how fan speed settings can influence throttling, noise, and power draw.
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Corrected the links to the backstory for anyone who cares.
 
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nickrorschach said:
Voltage changes didn't help my issue. Found this:

http://www.simology.co/forums/gaming-platform-pc/3302-r9-290x-display-black-screen?limitstart=0

Looks like a UEFI problem with the 290x, unless i'm reading it wrong?

I'm a developer, know **** all about hardware. Do you think it's worth contact Sapphire and/or ASRock? I checked the ASrock site and the available BIOSes are pretty old...
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I've had two similar occurrences - since I put beta8 on. It goes to a black screen and nothing I can do can wake it up again. If I leave it as I did on both occasions after about 10 mins the fan on the GPU goes to 100% (loud) and I have to hold down the power button. The GPU was overclocked but I was in the desktop both times so it should have been at desktop speeds. Only chrome was running (unless its GPU accelleration decided to kick in).

I've gone back to stock clocks for now and will see if it happens again. It didnt happen all last week on beta6 or 7 only since I put on beta8 on sunday.
 
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