R9 290-290X owners thread

buildzoid · Sep 9, 2014

Sasqui said:
I now have 2x 290x's:

290x Sapphire Reference Leaf Blower (My GOD is it annoying in games, but I at least solved throttling by lapping the heatsink and new TIM)
290x XFX Double Dissipation (Much, much quieter but still somewhat annoying in games and even Youtube)

Questions... just for kicks, could these two be put in Crossfire... and would an HX750 PSU be sufficient?

Has anyone tried disassembling a 290x XFX DD and applying new thermal paste? Would it kill the warranty?

You can put them in crossfire however they will probably kill your PSU.

fullinfusion · Sep 9, 2014

For sure you can crossfire them.. I find with my 290's you want the clocks to be the same or weird stuttering happens when the slower clocked card renders.

And no a 750 is underpowered.. It will run at stock but the question is HOW LONG!!?

And good for you on lapping your cooler.. I'd do it on my MSI gaming tfiv cooler bit it would be way to awkward to say the least. Just give XFX a call and ask them. I believe there in California and they always answer..

The reason I say your 750,won't handle it is I had a 850hx and the little brother cards compared to yours and I was pulling over 1kw at times benching.

mastrdrver · Sep 10, 2014

Sasqui said:
I now have 2x 290x's:

290x Sapphire Reference Leaf Blower (My GOD is it annoying in games, but I at least solved throttling by lapping the heatsink and new TIM)
290x XFX Double Dissipation (Much, much quieter but still somewhat annoying in games and even Youtube)

Questions... just for kicks, could these two be put in Crossfire... and would an HX750 PSU be sufficient?

Has anyone tried disassembling a 290x XFX DD and applying new thermal paste? Would it kill the warranty?

No it will not void the warranty as long as you do not break the card in the process. You can even change out the cooler if you like.

droopyRO · Sep 11, 2014

Would somebody with R9 290 or 290x be kind to run Stalker: Call of Pripyat benchmark with the settings as shown in the attached pic and tell me what their sunshaft min fps score is, thank you.

antuk15 · Sep 16, 2014

Guys is there a way to get more then +100mv in afterburner? I can get +200mv when using Trixx.

antuk15 · Sep 16, 2014

droopyRO said:
Would somebody with R9 290 or 290x be kind to run Stalker: Call of Pripyat benchmark with the settings as shown in the attached pic and tell me what their sunshaft min fps score is, thank you.

Just done it on mine and on sun shfats I got

Min - 81.4fps
Avg - 153.9fps
Max - 231.3fps

I'm CPU limited too, even with a 4.8Ghz 3770k!

buildzoid · Sep 17, 2014

antuk15 said:
Guys is there a way to get more then +100mv in afterburner? I can get +200mv when using Trixx.

there isn't MSI chikened out on Hawaii overclocking in after burner.

droopyRO · Sep 17, 2014

antuk15 said:
I'm CPU limited too, even with a 4.8Ghz 3770k!

Thank you, the engine Stalker series are build on is using only one core, so you are limited by the frequency and architecture of the #1 core of your CPU.
I sold my SLI waiting for Friday to decide if i go for a cheap 290x or a GTX970.

EDIT:

What system did you run the benchmark on?

The one i have in my System Specs.

antuk15 · Sep 17, 2014

droopyRO said:
Thank you, the engine Stalker series are build on is using only one core, so you are limited by the frequency and architecture of the #1 core of your CPU.
I sold my SLI waiting for Friday to decide if i go for a cheap 290x or a GTX970.

I know, my 3770k is a 5Ghz stable chip so I have an extra 200Mhz in reserve should I feel I need it.

What system did you run the benchmark on?

m0nt3 · Sep 18, 2014

Solaris17 · Oct 19, 2014

what are the avg voltages yoiu guys are pushing to get around 1100mhz on the core?

broken pixel · Oct 19, 2014

+48 @ 1100/1330 with my 2 XFX290x's

buildzoid · Oct 19, 2014

SimpleTECH · Oct 19, 2014

antuk15 said:
Guys is there a way to get more then +100mv in afterburner? I can get +200mv when using Trixx.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1436497/official-amd-r9-290x-290-owners-club/14020#post_21574982

Solaris17 · Oct 19, 2014

~~is that via afterburner? AB is measured in % im assuming thats what you mean?~~

im retarded nvm

buildzoid · Oct 21, 2014

There isn't. Really the only benefit that AB has is control over the aux voltage si config the aux in AB and use Trixx for everything else.

tiptop · Oct 24, 2014

Guys does anyone of you have a Sapphire R9 290X Vapor-X [11226-09-40G] (1080/5640 MHz)? Could you please upload both BIOSes of this model (or at least a UEFI one) somewhere? I can't find them anywhere, the TPU database also doesn't have them, and I don't understand why! This model was first released in April 2014, and I doubt no one tried to upload its BIOSes to TPU. Does TPU intentionally hides them? It's like a conspiracy all over the net. :confused:

buildzoid · Oct 24, 2014

tiptop said:
Guys does anyone of you have a Sapphire R9 290X Vapor-X [11226-09-40G] (1080/5640 MHz)? Could you please upload both BIOSes of this model (or at least a UEFI one) somewhere? I can't find them anywhere, the TPU database also doesn't have them, and I don't understand why! This model was first released in April 2014, and I doubt no one tried to upload its BIOSes to TPU. Does TPU intentionally hides them? It's like a conspiracy all over the net.

Why do you need that BIOS. It's incompatible with all cards but the Vapor-X cards.

eidairaman1 · Oct 25, 2014

I have a 290 only.

Id ask Sapphire

newconroer · Oct 25, 2014

So decided to upgrade drivers today and spent the better part of four hours on what should have been a five minute job.
14.9.2, 14.9.1, 14.9 and 14.8 all give me black screen within five seconds of logging into Windows.
I went back to 14.4 and had no problems.

Also, anyone done any GPU scaling with these cards? I don't use CCC so haven't had a chance to try it. I am curious about upscaling HDTV/1080p movies to be better viewed on higher res displays.

tiptop · Oct 26, 2014

buildzoid said:
Why do you need that BIOS. It's incompatible with all cards but the Vapor-X cards.

I think it's irrelevant (and btw, I have a Vapor-X card).

The question is why TPU doesn't have these BIOSes. I mean don't you think it's rather strange that there's not a single R9 290X Vapor-X BIOS in the TPU database when even much newer GTX 970/980 BIOSes are easily available?

Ahhzz · Oct 26, 2014

tiptop said:
I think it's irrelevant (and btw, I have a Vapor-X card). The question is why TPU doesn't have these BIOSes. I mean don't you think it's rather strange that there's not a single R9 290X Vapor-X BIOS in the TPU database when even much newer GTX 970/980 BIOSes are easily available?

No.

Easo · Oct 26, 2014

Well, I bought new computer with ASUS Radeon R9 290X DirectCU II OC... and had to return it to warranty straight afterwards.
The moment I tried to install graphics drivers, PC (i7-4790k, MSI Z97 Gaming 7, Corsair AX860i, Samsung 850 Pro 512GB, 2TB WD Black, Fractal ARC Midi R2) hanged up, artefacted, etc.
I tried everything. Same reaction.
Oh well, month of waiting, assuming warranty return gets accepted. At least the old 6870 works perfectly, while I wait.

tuunade98 · Oct 26, 2014

Yup i had the exact same experience... returned the 280x and got a 290. No problems since, the 280x are known to have artifacts for some odd reason. I tried everything and could not fix it.

tiptop · Oct 26, 2014

Ahhzz said:
No.

Could you please make another effort and explain why you think so?

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