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Why is AMD quiet about black screens on 290x?

People have been reporting that RMA replacements have sorted the issue for them so why mess around waiting months for an unlikely fix? it's been 2mths already and AMD look to have already brushed it under the carpet.

When you're running hardware at such a high temperature all it takes is a single weak component to cause problems, that's why in every other industry temperatures are kept down to a minimum. Running at such a high temperature puts undue stress on hardware and is not good for reliability especially in the long term.
 
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LtMatt said:
Think its largely down to immature drivers and a completely new power tune implementation. Seems like they're a few kinks in the system that need ironing out.
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Not sure - I know 1-2 people who've RMA'd their 290(X) due to the blackscreen thing and the replacement has been fine, no changes to drivers or their system setup.
 
mmj_uk said:
People have been reporting that RMA replacements have sorted the issue for them so why mess around waiting months for an unlikely fix? it's been 2mths already and AMD look to have already brushed it under the carpet.

When you're running hardware at such a high temperature all it takes is a single weak component to cause problems, that's why in every other industry temperatures are kept down to a minimum. Running at such a high temperature puts undue stress on hardware and is not good for reliability especially in the long term.
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Rroff said:
Not sure - I know 1-2 people who've RMA'd their 290(X) due to the blackscreen thing and the replacement has been fine, no changes to drivers or their system setup.
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I said largely, not completely. I'm speaking as a dual 290 gpu user who has done a lot of testing looking for the black screens. You're both speaking as Nvidia users who read forums. Or in Rroffs case someone who 'knows' someone who had two faulty cards. You're both welcome to write it off as a whole batch of faulty cards, but i think you're wrong. Small batch of faulty cards, immature drivers and a new power tune implementation is my opinion.
 
thought about rma'ing mine but i dont think its hardware as i can play single player ghosts for hours untill i get to the same part and blackscreens loading, if its hardware fault then im guessing it would blackscreen randomly plus if i send it back ocuk could test it for days without finding a fault and just charge me to send it back and be no better off, im begining to think i should have just stuck with the old 7970 crossfire
 
old gamer said:
thought about rma'ing mine but i dont think its hardware as i can play single player ghosts for hours untill i get to the same part and blackscreens loading, if its hardware fault then im guessing it would blackscreen randomly plus if i send it back ocuk could test it for days without finding a fault and just charge me to send it back and be no better off, im begining to think i should have just stuck with the old 7970 crossfire
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Don't forget that guy above said he's on 7970 crossfire and he gets a black screen as well so its likely driver/game related. You could try an older driver build, if you haven't already? I'm currently using an older build myself as i notice vsync is bugged on the latest drivers. Using 13.11 Beta 9.2 here with no problems.
 
that my next plan to try different drivers, the blackscreen issue is the savepoint where im at so i can see if it fixes it strieght away, i have already played the game once with the 7970's without any problems apart from xfire not working so i just disabled xfire and played on one gpu
 
old gamer said:
I just tried starting cod ghosts from an earlier save and all was well until it blackedscreened at the the exact same location, surley its got to be a software problem
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The only crash I've gotten so far was on COD Ghosts too but it was a blue screen. No black screens yet, fingers crossed, I've a full weekend planned and the missus is away next week ;)
 
To be fair i always thought that the bf4 problems are all down to amd's involvement in the development of it. So LTmatt is probably right gameworks probably caused all the issues with ghosts.
 
Never had a blackscreen with my 290, but it has its problems.

Watching videoon web broswers will most likely freeze the whole system, sound will continue for 30 seconds.

VLC player / Starbound / Arma 3, will all get me the "The AMD display Driver stopped responding and has recovered.

AC4 absolutely no problems at all.

I've tried different drivers, different profiles in AB, removed hardware accelration from videos, changing registery files to bypass the hangs, reinstalling drivers, completely uninstalling the last versions, I'm getting lost for ideas.

Running an i7 930 @ Stock Levels
Corsair HX850
6Gb Ram
Stock XFX 290

Tempted to RMA but I reeeally don't want to have toi do that.
 
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tommybhoy said:
:confused:

670-58.6 avg

690-92.6 avg

~60% scaling?

In both those results, SLi scaling is working at about 60%, it's not optimal by a long shot, but a 60% increase is way way better than 0%.:p
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Yea, and I think the SLI performance is actually bottlenecked by the CPU:
"CPU: Intel Core i5-2550K (Sandy Bridge), Overclocked to 4.2 GHz @ 1.3 V
Motherboard, Asus P8Z77-V LX, LGA 1155, Chipset: Intel Z77M"
 
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