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Hi guys, i currently have a i5 4670 non k, 16gb of ram and a R9 290x, and was wondering If the upgrade of the GPU was worth It, since i only have money to up that. I know there Will be a bit of bottleneckling in cpu headed games, but Will still do much better than the 290x, that is a Very old card? I intend to play on 1080p and want to never get under 60 FPS in games like pubg and cod BO4 and never under 144 on CS(only game i Care to use my Full monitor potential)
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Hey everyone, I just bought a Gigabyte R9 290x 4gb. My question is What other cards is it compatible with? Can it be any 4gb 290x?
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As the title suggests, my card is stuck on a black screen after the boot of Windows happens. I see the icon and the swirly circle of loading time, then just black. It displays my BIOS and everything just fine until Windows boots, so I’m very confused as to what to do. If I use only the integrated graphics it works fine. I reinstalled windows, I’ve reinstalled the driver for the card, still nothing. Any suggestions? my system: windows 10 i7 4790k MSI Gaming 3 z97 samsun 860 Evo R9 290x XFX or Sapphire 16gb RAM
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My 290x will not post , no matter which pcie slot / psu i use . My r9 290 however , does post in my current setup just fine , which leads me to believe something on the card is dead. A few days ago , my gpu was running hot ( not out of spec though , 90C ) , and i smelled burning electronics , so i immediately shut off the computer . I dismantled the card and cleaned it , as well as adding new paste. I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary , although the pcb under the vrm looks like it has dried up ( almost delaminated , except its not ) . when plugged in , the fans spin , but the motherboard is stuck on VGA post , and i get no signal , pointing to a gpu error. I'd say the gpu is fried ,however , it stays stone cold even when powered on , while dead gpus/cpus usually heat up regardless . It almost looks to me as though the VRM is dead (in which case i can attempt to find a donor VRM off a gtx 480/580 ). Has anyone ever gotten this before ? The card is just out of warranty unfortunately.
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My ASUS R9 290X DirectCU II OC gets too hot under load and thermal throttles, after replacing all of the thermal paste on the board (3 years old) I got it almost under control with a very aggressive fan curve. On some games like rainbow 6 siege it thermal throttles at around 65°C and others it throttles at closer to 75°C. During stress testing it will rise to 80°C and slowly rise until I turn it off (I've Only let it get to 95°C for fear of it breaking). I was looking for a watercooling option but can't find any, if any other option exists bar getting a whole new card I would be very interested.
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This is more of a lighthearted/funny post, but it's also a rant. Having 300W cards in the summer can be pretty brutal, and this is also for those who say power/ heat don't matter to them when buying a GPU (which can be true to some extent). Today, i'll be showing you how to cook with your computer. I have had a dual 290x setup since early 2016, and while they are great cards (especially considering the price i payed), they do produce quite a bit of heat . Luke made a video about warming pizza with a pc, but he set it up especially for that purpose and used cardboard extensively. Today you'll see that the dream of on-the-spot hot meals during gaming is attainable by all ! Never again will you have to put up with mtn dew and doritos ! The subjects today will be dual herta knacki (not sponsored) sausages that i found lying around in my freezer. I removed as much ice as i could from them to avoid producing much water from them. However, they were not heated. Step 1 : preparation I put both sausages in some foil to prevent water pouring out, as well to prevent dust getting on the food itself (yuck). Step 2 scientific method : Thermometer get ! We want to be able to measure the case temperature to ensure the food can be cooked properly. These are pre-cooked, and just need to be heated. I do NOT recommend cooking raw foods with your PC, as improperly cooked meats can make you extremely sick and can even be fatal in some conditions. Ambient temp was measured at 20C with a thermometer. Sausages were put under GPU .It is important that you GPU is still able to spin it's fans. With the case panel back on , i started my mining software as to produce a heavy GPU load, checking every 10min. After 10 min, thermometer temps went well past it's max 40C, making it useless. I discarded it . Sausages were still cold however. 10 minutes later however , they were well done ! And that, my friends, is how you cook with your PC. This is why I'll be buying a Vega GPU ! /jk Don't let anyone tell you mining is useless, the heat is just value added over the currency you get . I'll probably regret this post soon.
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I'm trying to get a graphics card to upgrade over my aging 750 ti. Unfortunately due to the shitty pricing in my country I can only go used. I can either get an r9 290x for 160 euro or a zotac gtx 970 for 170 euro. 290x is using the reference cooler tho and temperatures in my country (especially in summer) can get pretty hot. Power supply is a bequiet system power 8 600w. Any help would be appreciated
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1. Budget and Location Hopefully around $400 not including already bought R9 290X. Kentucky, USA 2. Aim Play Mass Effect Andromeda - Medium/High Settings 1080p @ 60 fps Be able to Upgrade smoothly over next few years 3. Monitors Unavaiable 4. Peripherals Razer Mouse, Wireless Keyboard, USB Xbox Controller Window 8.1 (Not Installed yet) 5. Why? Looking for improvements on parts and budget savers. 6. Specs PC part picker Ryzen 1600 ($200 on Jet.com - save15spring + debit) Stock Cooler ASROCK AB350M-HDV 1x8GB DDR4-3000 RAM Radeon Reference R9 290X WD Blue 250GB HDD VIVO Case V06 or Corsair Spec-02 EVGA 500B PSU 8. Problem Thoughts on improvement? Maybe help save $20 somewhere to insure I can afford Corsair Case. -
Hello everyone, some weeks ago my graphics card (Asus R9 290x Matrix 4GB) had some vram issues and I sent it to RMA (I didn't think that I would get a new one because I broke the warranty void seal and assembled a Raijintek Morpheus 2 Cooler on it). While this card was in RMA, I found a R9 290x Lightning (4GB) for 130€ on ebay and bought it. Today I got back my old but repaired R9 290x from Asus. The question is, what should I do next, upgrade my PSU and combine the 2 R9 290x's or sell one of the graphics cards and save the money for an upcoming zen processor? My System: CPU: AMD FX 8320 @ 4.6Ghz (Corsair H100) Mainboard: ASRock 970 Performance GPU: MSI R9 290x Lightning (4GB) PSU: be quiet Straight Power e7 700W Thanks for your answers / ideas
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Hey guys it's me again, and this time I got a really big problem. My R9 290X Matrix from Asus which I bought 1 1/2 years ago just died and I dont know why. It was overclocked to 1100Mhz but never ran hotter than 70°C. It worked perfectly without any problems for weeks, but yesterday when I decided to play a round Just Cause 3 my PC crashed without a reason. I just restarted it because and saw a blue "shadow" on a part of my screen from boot on. Windows only booted in safe mode until i removed the graphics card drivers. When I tried to install new / old ones the screens went black and I had to press the power button on my PC. I also tried to get the graphics card in safe mode with the 2nd bios, nothing helped. Is there something I can do to fix it or do I have to buy a new card? Thanks in advance for your answers / help
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Found an r9 270x for $210, i know its an older card but it preforms well, is it still worth it for a first time build?
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I really want to sell this graphics card, but I haven't gotten any views on it except for when I sent the link to my friends. I don't want to post a link to the card until I know that I can sell on here. It's a Gigabyte R9 290x that has only been used for gaming and hasn't been overclocked or used for bitcoin mining. Yes I know, if someone knows what that is there is a potential that they used it for that, but I only learned from Scrapyard Wars that people do that and thought to mention it.
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Hi guys! I'm new here so if I do any mistakes in my post just say so and I'll try to fix. So just now, I tried to play Crysis 2, everything seems fine until I get to the actual gameplay. My computer just crashes. But, like, hard crash. E.g.: the RGB profile on my mouse just fails. And also two black screens. Rebooting is the only option. I find that weird because I can play other games wich are not really that intensive (Portal, Osu!, Risk of Rain, etc) and it will work fine. I'm just gonna add also : 3DMark and Heaven Benchmark works perfectly fine. But when it gets to games like Crysis and BF4, It just suddenly crash whenever it wants. I can't predict when it will, but it will. Also happened once in Path of Exile. I've had my 2 cards for awhile now. I don't play many games, but when I switch and it just suddenly crashes, its really annoying. I don't really know what else to say. Here are my computer specs: Intel Core i7-3770k Asus ROG Maximus IV Extreme 16GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866Mhz #1 GPU: Sapphire Radeon R9 290X 4GB #2 GPU: XFX Radeon R9 290X 4GB Evga 1000G2 Kingston 480GB SSD WD 2TB Black I'm sorry if my post isn't clear, if my grammar and syntax is awful.
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Hello guys, I have a Gigabyte R9 290X Windforce gpu and it's really really hot. Bought it of with 200$ from my country and it's brand new, It was a clearance sale and they're gonna replace it with the RX 480 if anything happens to the gpu. Now, my point is that, which gpu liquid cooling solution will be the best cheap method for the non-reference R9 290X. It hits 45c on idle and 90 on full load. My case is optimized with Cooler Master Case fans, (JetFlo, SIckleFo, XtraFlo), and have them mounted on all 5 slots and I use a core I7 4770 with a Hyper 414S. My casing is a bit stupid, Thermaltake MId tower casing but it's not that bad either. Are water coolers effective on the 290x ? I live in a tropical country where the sun is always scorching hot. And i'll buy the cooling solution from Amazon so please give me the links as well. Thanks a lot !
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Hey guys who all know more about overclocking than me Today I overclocked my R9 290x Matrix to 1190Mhz @1.375Volts, it ran Unigine Heaven Benchmark for more than one hour and 3DMark Firestrike at a maximum of 73°C I didn't see any artifacts while benchmarking / stress testing, but when I try a Game like Tomb Rider for example my pc freezes and I have to restart it. But no errors appear in Rainbow 6 Siege / Anno 2070 / GTA V, does someone know why? I tried this different clocks for Tomb Raider.. 1000Mhz - 1050Mhz (stock voltage // 1250mV) : works 1060Mhz (stock voltage // 1250mV) : doesn't work 1060Mhz (1375mV) : doesn't work My System: AMD FX8320 @ 4.2Ghz / 1.3625V R9 290x Matrix ASRock 970 Performance be quiet straight power e7 700w Did i forget something important? If yes, just ask Thanks in advance for your answers
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I've been having problems with my graphics card lately. Every time I do something that's graphically intensive on my computer, that application will crash after about a minute of usage or less, depending on the application. Games like Overwatch stop and tell me that my graphics device has been lost and it will close itself. It's not just Overwatch though. It's every game with 3D graphics that I've tried, like CS:GO. I thought it was a problem with my software, so I reinstalled Windows, but that didn't fix it. Then, to make a long story short, I thought it was my graphics card, so I RMA'ed it. I got back a new card and I'm still having the same problem. Now, I think it's my power supply. I've tried disabling some of my CPU cores, under volting my RAM and unplugging all USB devices except for my keyboard and mouse. All that made Overwatch take way longer to finally crash, more like 10 minutes. I think that there's either something wrong with my PSU or it just doesn't have enough volts. I have an 550 watt XFX something and a R9 290x for my PSU and GPU respectively. I don't think it's my motherboard, because I tried a really cheap, no PCI-E power connector graphics card in the same PCI-E slot and that worked fine. What do you guys think? Thanks! TL;DR: My graphics card is acting up, games keep crashing, it doesn't happen when I use a lower power GPU, but I don't think there's anything wrong my graphics card. Power supply is and XFX 550 watt and graphics card is R9 290x.
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Hi everyone, I've had my 290x since its release back in 2014 and was wondering if there's anything better on the market atm? I don't necessarily have any problems with it, I just feel like a upgrade atm would be the best time. Also lower power consumption and lower heat overall is always a plus to me. Would the RX 480 be a good upgrade or are the newer nvidia cards really all the rage? Any input is greatly appreciated!
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So there is a reference 290X on sale around my area for $150, I know I saw 290s for around 200 before the 480 launch, but is the 290X still feasible (well yes it is) but a decent investment at $150 currently? or do you guys think the price on the used market will fall even more. Performance should be slightly higher than the 480, but a lot louder and a lot hotter.
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Hi. I recently put together my very first system. My 290X requires an 8+6 pin PCIe connection to work. Thing is, my power supply came with a bunch of cables that split into two 6+2 pin connectors. I was unsure of whether I could power the GPU with one cable (that split in two), so I used two cables, and now I have two 6+2 pin connectors just dangling off to the side. It looks awful. What should I do? Is it safe using one split cable to power a graphics card? Thanks. All and any help will be appreciated.
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I used to have a 270x (asus DCUII) but this one died so I RMA'd it. A few weeks later I got the same card back, "fixed". It was clearly backed and indeed after 2 months it died again in the same way. So I RMA'd it again with the request for a new one this time and they got me an 290x!! ( refurbished but hey, I am not complaining. ) But this one has issuus. It apears to be working fine untill it hits about 80C and is under 100%load. Than I get black blocks artifacts. But this only happens sometimes. Only in one furmark test, not in other ones and I got it in the water in GTA5. But on the other hand I played 1,5 hours of Witcher 3 without a problem. So the card is broken again I think (a bad refurbish ) but before I send it back and maby get a 270x again I'd like to know. Is it posably my PSU. It's a 600W Corsair CM ( I know not the best ). I also have a 8320FX CPU so that would be heavy for the PSU, but can that cause artifacts or sould I just RMA the 290x AGAIN.
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Hello, Over the last month or two I have noticed how my draw distance in several games suddenly got reduced. The textures only load when I get close to them and I can see how they fade away each step I take. Other textures turn into looking like a blurred low texture surface the further away I walk. Games where I suffer this problem. GTA V, Skyrim, GTA SA (SA-MP) CS:GO That means 4 different games with 4 different game engines, which means the games are not to blame for this issue. ------------------------ What I have tried to do on my own: Turn off crossfire, Tried different Crimson settings in the control panel, Updated to different graphic drivers, Reinstalled drivers with Driver Sweep and CCleaner. Rerolled to older drivers back in 2015, Reinstalled Windows 10 Reset overclocks and remove MSI Afterburner efter reinstallation of Windows 10. Tried Radeon Pro and increase texture lod and minimap textures. ------------------------ None of these methods worked for me and I am still suffering the same issue, I really need to get some tips on how to fix this problem. I have seen others have similar problems however none provided a proper solution to the problem. Otherwise all games run well, no crashes and with proper FPS, the textures look great when they actually load in close distance. Greatful for any help, Thomas My computer: Motherboard: Asrock Extreme4 Z77 ATX | CPU: Intel Core i7 3770K 4.6 GHz | GPU: x2 Sapphire R9 290x Tri-X Crossfire | Power Supply: XFX 850 watt 80+ Bronze | Memory: Crucial BallistixSport 16GB 1600MHz | Storage: 1TB Seagate Barracuda + 840 evo SSD 250gb | Monitor: Qnix QX2710 96hz + Asus 1080p 144hz|
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The 390X I got from an RMA card 5 months ago has started failing. Its definitely the GPU (Look at post history, lots of backstory). MSI won't RMA it because the 7970 Lightning which it was an RMA for ( a three year old card that I had to RMA twice before I got a newer replacement for failures, although they artifacted, this 390x is failing differently) exited its warranty the same month I got the 390X replacement, so my 390X is considered out of warranty pretty much the week I got it. It seems I can get a 290X for $200-220 for a reference cooler, which I would prefer so I can eventually crossfire a 2nd one and have more managed thermals, and a uniform look. Any difference between brands of reference coolers or issue crossfiring them? I know its a very hot card especially with a reference cooler but I don't care about the heat im just looking for the best price/performance while I hold off for hopefully Polaris. My PC has no integrated graphics and Im not waiting 1-3 months without my PC working. Is ebay the place to go? Whats the best place to go to get the cheapest price?
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Ok, so I am a college student that works during the summer doing construction. I don't make a lot so I have to make my money last. I bought two R9 290xs last summer for $160 and $180. I was new to pc gaming and did not know much, I got two reference cards and an AMD motherboard and cpu (an freaking old cpu). I will be getting an i5 6500 with MSI Krait z170 motherboard (I am going for a black and white color scheme), 8gb of ram and a 1080p 144hz 1ms monitor (I wish I could afford a 1440p). What should I do about the two jet engines that I have for GPUs? After the parts I have to buy I will be spending a little over $600. I am trying to stay under $800 since $650 is about two weeks pay and I need all the money I can save. So if I can avoid selling the GPUs that would be awesome, but if a good deal comes up on something else I will consider it (if it will save money in the long run). I already have a case, PSU, and cpu cooler. With DirectX12 here I should be able to get better performance out of my GPUs right? Thank you in advance. FYI my usual gameplay is GTA V, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Battlefield 3&4 and whatever may come up with freaking awesome deals.
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Who aged better -- Kepler or Hawaii? The two former top-end architectures from 2013 have received different treatment over the their lifespan. While Nvidia simply moved along with a new GPU architecture (Maxwell), AMD's GCN have seen much less revolutionary changes, with only iterative architectural upgrades from Tahiti to the latest HBM-powered Fiji GPUs. AMD were definitely forced to spend time with the driver optimizations instead, with some notable effects. -- TL;DR -- Source: http://www.babeltechreviews.com/nvidia-forgotten-kepler-gtx-780-ti-vs-290x-revisited/view-all/
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The build over is the parts i have. My 290x overheats easily if i try to OC it and the fans get really loud because of how hot it gets. At stock goes to 93-94 celsius and stays there. I'm looking for a new case because i want to cool my gpu properly and not go deaf at the same time. Currently i'm considering the define r5 and define s. I was wondering if someone here knew of a better alternative to those cases in the price range of the define s and r5. Optical drives dont matter.