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reccomend me an alternative card to XFX Radeon R9 290 DD Edition

ssharp59

ssharp59

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Hi Guys

Im an avid gamer with a half decent i5 setup

I purchased a XFX Radeon R9 290 DD Edition however have been plagued with the driver issues and black screens related to this card, the cards been tested as working but ive tried every fix under i can find with no joy.. As such im cutting my losses and going to purchase another card this time from Nvidia.

So my question is what would you guys reccomend as somthing thats a decent card for reasonable money. around £300 budget

thanks in advance.
 
ssharp59 said:
Hi Guys

Im an avid gamer with a half decent i5 setup

I purchased a XFX Radeon R9 290 DD Edition however have been plagued with the driver issues and black screens related to this card, the cards been tested as working but ive tried every fix under i can find with no joy.. As such im cutting my losses and going to purchase another card this time from Nvidia.

So my question is what would you guys reccomend as somthing thats a decent card for reasonable money. around £300 budget

thanks in advance.
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AMD don't have driver issues they are perfect, you need another 290 to fix your issue... :p




Just joking lol.
Have you tried different cables displayport etc?? Anyway i could start listing things you could try but that probably would annoy you if youve tried most things so ill not do it lol. Erm 970 is slightly faster than a 290 and a 980 is slightly more faster than a 970 so these would be the cards to try and opt for around that budget. However the 970 is in your budget the cheapest 980 are £380 so its upto you what you want to go for.

My opinion would be 970 which would be more a side grade but then you can go with nVidia if your having too many issues with your 290. :)
 
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Brill thank you, yea ive tried litrally everything, OC have tested it , no issues found, and XFX has offered to swap the card but thats just so much agro and theres also a fair amount of cost involved my side, i think they know full well there drivers are riddled with issues though.

Ill have a look i may stretch the budget towards a 980 possibly.
 
I have a reference r9 290 and ive never had an issue with drivers, are you sure its not overheating in your case as it may have bad airflow?
 
I was getting the same when trying to set 120Hz and practically pulled out what little hair I had getting it to work lol. No problems at all on Titans, 970, Titan X but problems on a 7950, 290X and a Fury X.

For clarification, a new cable sorted my AMD issues out but I wasn't getting driver problems.
 
black screen on start up running anything but old drivers ( i forgot which one now ), but with the old drivers i get completly random blue screen... scanned the blue screens and its down to the drivers.. changed monitor, cables, psu , memory, still same issues. updated bios, chipset drivers, still same issues, case temps are super low, ironically it rarely blue screens when playing games, more so when just browsing websites or genearl use.
 
ssharp59 said:
black screen on start up running anything but old drivers ( i forgot which one now ), but with the old drivers i get completly random blue screen... scanned the blue screens and its down to the drivers.. changed monitor, cables, psu , memory, still same issues. updated bios, chipset drivers, still same issues, case temps are super low, ironically it rarely blue screens when playing games, more so when just browsing websites or genearl use.
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I used to get random BSOD while browsing the net on my old x58 rig with my old 290X, yet gaming was fine.

I found it was due to the core clock jumping around when opening Firefox, other programs etc..., spiking up and down (sometimes massively) causing it, figured when it done a massive spike/drop, it was a one that was to much, so it BSOD, so i used Afterburner to set a profile up, with the clocks locked at the lowest they could go in it (which i think was around 515/625), and that totally fixed it.

The card wasn't the cause though, as when i built my x99 rig, i carried my 290X over to it, and it never BSOD once while doing stuff on the desktop without locking the clocks.
 
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Gregster said:
I was getting the same when trying to set 120Hz and practically pulled out what little hair I had getting it to work lol. No problems at all on Titans, 970, Titan X but problems on a 7950, 290X and a Fury X.

For clarification, a new cable sorted my AMD issues out but I wasn't getting driver problems.
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Same with me. Except at the start it was because i was a 'noob' i had the wrong cables in the PSU and this would case black screens, gpu not to boot sometimes, different things.
Check your cables are in the PSU right, mine were in the 6 pin SATA connector slots and not the 6 pin PCI-E slots.
Stupid mistake, but one worth checking as it may just be a simple mistake!
 
Do your black screens happen on windows startup, and then a restart seems ok? Or when you open your browser after startup you get a blackscreen?

If you do I was in the same boat and I tried EVERYTHING! But I finally fixed it. It involves editing your bios and it is easier than it sounds.

I had this issue and I tried:

1,
Mobo Bios, SSD Bios, GPU Bios updates - no fix

2, Rolled back driver - no fix

3, Changed PSU power cables - no fix

My fix involved increasing the minimum voltage state of your gpu as the memory boosts to its 'max state' while the core stays at the lowest at startup/during explorer loads... As the voltage is linked to the core clock it does not increase (with memory clock spikes) and you black screen. (I believe)

If you can wait until I am sober I will write a guide for you. As I said I have tried almost everything to fix my problem without joy, but after a bios edit I have not had a black screen for ~2 months (I edited the bios ~2 months ago) so I am pretty sure this will work.

Let me know if you want to give it a go!
 
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