Roderich

Hello all!! To provide a little background: back in 2012-2013 I bought this radeon R9 290x (if I recall correctly) which was dead from the very beginning, I had artifacts on my desktop, and games like shogun 2 and skyrim would show all kinds of artifacts, and flickering. after quite a heated discussion with the company that sold the parts I got the money back and purchased another video card which is the one I had until last week (I still have it). Ever since that event I was quite wary of purchasing AMD again, last week I went ahead and bought this new card, the RX 580, the 8 gb version, in the hopes the r9 situation was only an isolated case. Kind of giving a second chance to AMD. I bought a new system: ryzen 3 2200g, 16 gb of ram, B-450m pro-m2, with 500w 100-w1-0500-kr PSU and put the card in. Started playing witcher 3, and noticed that there were some issues with flickering objects, like they would dissapear for just a frame and the come back again, or that some textures would change to this bright green colour. Ocassionaly I had some big flickering squares in front of me, like black squares. I tried the same in DOOM, rainbow six siege and GTA V, in DOOM I couldn't notice anything out of the ordinary. GTA V was as flickery as witcher 3. And rainbow six had like these problems in which textures extend more than they are supposed to? (I don't really know how to explain it). Temps are ok: 25 Idle, 55-65 under load (sometimes it reaches 70). I have tried clean installing 18.12.3 drivers, and then 18.12.2 and then 17.7.2 (read somewhere that was a stable version someone used). But none of that changed anything. I have yet to try changing the monitor, changing the cables (I've been using the HDMI port), trying my old gtx 960 in the new system trying the new rx 580 in the old system... Is there anything else you feel could change the result? Where I live this stuff is really expensive, and even though I got this on a deal, I still spent 250$ on it. If you have any other suggestions I would love to hear them! I'll keep updating when I try other things!

Hey guys! So, I have this Question, I have these 2 generic PSU, and I'm having real troubles trying to understand what's happening to them. They hadn't been in use for almost a year, but now I think I found a great use to them, thing is I'm trying to power them up outside the case (pin between the Green and black cables), and it turns out that the fans will begin to spin but after... 1/10 of a second they just stop, and it's the same problem with both o them... So I'm guessing it's not their trouble but something I'm doing wrong. The capacitors are all just fine, at least when you look at them they are no burnt, and there is no leak, resistances are fine also... It seems as if the current is going through the entire board and stuff but just for a bit, then it powers off itself... (Just to clear things up, I don't want a new PSU, they are part of a crazy project I'm working on, and I want to use them so I don't have them hanging around) Thanks in advance!! P.S. for those of you wondering the Fuse is ok, in both of them

Yeah, I knew that, and did it. The problem is this: I buy this brand new video card who apparently can handle every game not going below 60 fps, and I pay what I believe is a great amount of money (at least for me). So I get home and I start getting artifacts and Flickerings and here is where the problem takes place, Why would I even need to lower anything or to apply more voltage to something that should have been done while they were testing it... I mean, as the final user I buy a card and I'm expecting it to handle what they told me it could handle... That's just how I see it Chris. But, Seriously I'm really Thankful you bothered yourself this far, I think I'll go for that 960, (I'm not judging AMD, maybe in a near future I may be buying a new processor or who knows... the r9 295x.... bah, just kidding, hahaha) Thank you all guys! you were of great help

Thanks! Yeah, I think it's just my luck hahaha. I think it was because of the temps and stuff, Since I first used it the artifacts and other problems started to appear

I've experienced the issues my self, I don't know if i could explain them well to you since english is not my main language, but the thing is that that card has artifacts, flickerings, and it has been reported that AMD is aware of that and they don't do anything to fix it. however, I don't think it's a bad videocard. I think the possibilites of you getting a bad video card are just like 1 in a thousand... however I would say that the possibilites of getting an Nvidia card with those problems are 1 in a hundred thousand... I mean, the r9 280x apparently (from what I've heard) is the overclocked version of the 7990 or 7890. I can't tell you anything else... but I'm disappointed with AMD. Just look for: R9 280X Artifacts, you will find lots of forums and videos! Thanks for you help!

r9 280x has many issues, I'm not buying AMD ever again.

http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-423822485-tarjeta-de-video-msi-nvidia-geoforce-gtx760-4gb-ddr5-_JM http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-424287050-nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-acx-20-evga-thot--_JM

Believe me they do, everything here costs that much :c

I live in Uruguay, thanks for worrying!

Ok, so. Let me explain myself: About a Week ago I bought a new pc, really cool, but right from the beginning the games were artifacting and flickering... It was the R9 280x. Went for the Warranty and they told me it was my problem, because I had installed the games wrongly... But I even had artifacts on the desktop. The thing is that after a good trouble with the PC Shop I could finally get my money back, But they took the whole computer (Don't worry, I have all my money back). The thing is that Now I'm trying to buy a new pc, and I've found everything but the video-card. So, here comes the question: What would you buy: a GTX 760 with 4gb (MSI OC edition) or a 960 2 gb... Those two card are the ones I can afford, i can't go one step further because I don't have enough money. Where I live these two cards cost 450 U.S. dollars and 400 U.S. Dollars (respectively) I would be thankful if you could help me out here, because from what I've seen there is some sort of improvement with the 760, but I don't know if it's worth the money, besides, the temps and stability with the 960 are far beyond of what the 760 can even get to... (Tell me if there are Issues with any of these two video cards) Thanks in advance!