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Hi all i am new here but i have been following Linus for a few years now, but no money for a real computer, so upgrading is key. To make a long story short, i am making a final upgrade to my old PC, i bought a R9 290 for 70 euro shipped, to replace my R7 370 since the R9 290 came out a year after my A10-6800K it should be compatible without the system bottlenecking to much. Is it a good choice? Bang for buck? Also should i use 2 seperate cables to connect it? it uses a 6 pin and 8 pin together my power supply is Corsair 750M, i heard linus say if you have 2 separate lines you should use it, but then the inlet is blocked with cables (old zalman case) Also i wonder if my cooling is sufficient i have a 120 at the front, 80 at the side blowing at the card and cpu, 80 at the back and 120 at the top, i heard the card produces a ton of heat. Card has not arrived yet so i don't know. Also should i change the thermal paste on the GPU, it is the old model the one with the single fan? I have Arctic Silver 5... i bought that when that was top stuff I know it is a frankenstein tired old monster but i have no money for a complete new one.

Hey, i just wanted to know if it is possible to find a R9 290 Reballing chip. i want to try some stuff with my dead r9 290 and wanted to know if i cant find the chip anywhere and if yes... WHERE? i cant find it at all... Ty for you Help. -T (sorry for my bad english xD im german)

Hey, I have a problem with my GPU. I have installed another graphics card as the main graphics card to look at the "defective" graphics card in the operating system Its a R9 290 by Powercholor and the GPU on the Main slot is a HD7870 fully funtional. The R9 290 gets detected by the OS but it has a error when it starts and i cant install Driver( a error appears every Time time.) The Fan spins Normaly on the GPU and i already replaced the Thermal Paste. My Components are: CPU: AMD Fx 8320 RAM: 16 GB DDR3 Ram SSD(Bootdrive): 120 GB Boot SSD HDD: 1TB HDD Mainboard: GA-990XA-UD3 by GIGABYTE OS: Windows 10 PSU: SP-B700 by Silverpower

Hello .. Me again .. Nayr438 - Soz I didnt reply in the old thread, but TLDR, it gave the same result n my head blew up n I had to leave it for a month Anyhow on to the current issue... Guess what .. its the same one ... Current setup - I5 2500, R9 290, 16Gb RAM, Manjaro KDE installed, Still on 5.9 Kernel due to a time-shift rollback ( I buggered the GRUB just b4 this post with too much desperate tinkering ) .. Anyhow .. This time somehow I have "vulkan" working using I assume the updated Radeon drivers, I can get vxcube running and get no errors when I "vulkaninfo" it .. But I cannot get any dx11 Proton games working in steam ... I can get a few working via wine .. but would prefer to use the amdgpu-pro driver so that I can use Proton to its full abilities for "my GPU". So AFAIK I have all the required drivers installed and I am back to where I was b4 I messed up the GRUB ... Current installed drivers are - My Issue is that when I Follow the Archwiki guide .... Whatever I do """" always"""" ends in a totally blackscreen where I cannot even access the tty2 screen to fix my errors. ... I have made sure > - Made sure amdgpu has been set as first module in the Mkinitcpio#MODULES (I only wrote amdgpu in the modules tho?) - Set module parameters in kernel command line both in the amdgpu.conf & radeon.conf file - Make sure modconf is in the the HOOKS array in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and regenerate the initramfs ( I believe this covers the "Early KMS start" bit too ) - Made sure the "Install the amdgpu-pro-libglAUR. Optionally install the lib32-amdgpu-pro-libglAUR package for 32-bit application support." are installed - Even tried the last fix on this site that has the same Issue as me but with 390`s - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/1222 - And this ... Yet - Everytime I get a blackscreen on boot. However .. If I edit /etc/modprobe.d/amdgpu.conf to options amdgpu si_support=0 options amdgpu cik_support=1 ... It does allow me to boot with nomodeset & get the tty2, so I can revert it If I select any other option from any guide I have found .. I get total black screen with "" no chance "" of the TTY2 screen. I read on another site that 1 dude believed that the GDM was loading b4 the amdgpu driver .. I dont totally understand what hes trying to say re: the fix, so have not tried it yet, but it could be a option as nothing else is working https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/kx8mam/radeon_loads_fine_cant_get_amdgpu_to_load_on_gcn/https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/kx8mam/radeon_loads_fine_cant_get_amdgpu_to_load_on_gcn/ Here are some random screenshots via my adventures of trying to get the amdgpu driver to boot 1st (Just in case they help) .. But Im at a bit of a loss as what to try next considering I cant use the wiki anymore Long post but would rather give as much info as poss to fix this issue ... Other people have it working with a "very" similar setup .. So it "should" work on mine too ... But for the life of me .. I cannot Anyone

Hey guys so I have a Gigabyte R9 290 (with a broken fan, its been through a lot) and lately when I'm playing I get lower FPS than I used to and stuff. Then I checked on Afterburner and saw it was throttling at 94c even though I just recently changed the thermal paste on it. I've been tinkering and testing it and I came to the conclusion it might have something to do with VRAM temp because when dialing its clock down to 725 MHz instead of its usual 1250 MHz it seems to take a lot longer to start throttling down so yeah, am I on the right path? Here's two screenshots of furmark and you can see how much longer it takes to start throttling down. Is there something else I'm missing? Thanks a lot!

So I have had this card for about 6 months and it has been performing good getting a steady 240fps on Fortnite using comp settings on DX12. But recently in January it has started having issues where it would open the game run for a little bit like normal then there would be these blue flickering dots on the screen and then the game would crash. I have been looking to getting the RTX 3060ti but I have no clue when they are going to be back in stock. Does anyone know what is wrong with my gpu?

Hello. I'm a total noob when it comes to pc. But after sometime thinking and planing, finally decided to build myself a PC. Parts are coming in a week, but except the Gpu. Was planing a single pc streaming setup but then 1660's are out of stock everywhere(I don't live in USA btw), and getting 3000series atm is no no, So decided to go with a decent budget option for the time bein. Here is my parts: Cpu: ryzen 5 3600 Mobo: Msi mortar max b450m Ram: Crucial Ballistix 16g in dual 3200mhz Storage: some kingston nvme and 2tb 7200rpm hdd Psu: haven't decided yet but gonna get 600w one And some cheap as case. I can live with that And 1080p 144hz display to go with it, thinking about upgrading to 1440p in some time tho not soon. So, here is how this is looking right now, Gtx 970 4gb ... 144 usd R9 390 4gb ... 134 usd R9 290 4gb ... 115 usd Seller is telling me they are all new, but we all know that's total bs. But I'm ok with that, as long as they runs. So, Happy to hear your opinions guys

Hi guys, for the last couple of months I have been black screens when using my Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X OC. It is a very peculiar issue, because it only happens when I am outside of a game e.g. with an open browser (with hardware acceleration turned off), or other 2D applications, I believe it has only happened in game once or twice and that was when I had some 2D applications open as well as the game. I have noticed it often happens when I open Origin's client - it would crash within a few minutes - and that's how I tested the fixes I have tried that are stated below. The screen goes black (but still on) and the PC hangs - I tried accessing it through TeamViewer from my laptop, but it appears offline, so it definitely hangs, it's not just a GPU driver issue. When I press the restart button on my PC it would sometimes do the loud buzz. The card never goes over 85 degrees Celsius, because of the gigantic cooler and the three fans - the reasons I like it so much. The fans don't even rev-up, cause I've got an intake fan just next to the GPU on the side of the case (an old CooleMaster case). Stuff I've tried so far: I am now officially out of ideas, it seems like it's a voltage issue on the lower or lowest power stages, but I am just guessing. Would forcing constant voltage help? Should I bake the GPU in the oven? Has anyone had similar issues and know if I can revive this card? Or is it just dead for good?

Hi guys, new member of the forum here. I just wanted to get some help as I can't seem to crack whats wrong. The issue I am encountering is the computer crashing during games within 30s to a min of running a game, regardless of what game it was. There will be a sudden loss of signal to the monitors but the fans still spin and the system appears to be on. This only started happening after I added a 3rd monitor to my system. I only run the game on 1 monitor and not on an Eyefinity setup. Outside of games the system runs fine on all 3 monitors without any crashes, even when playing a 4K video on Youtube or VLC. If I unplug one of the monitors, regardless of which one, the system runs fine in-game again. Some troubleshooting I have done to no avail: 1) Replaced the 3rd monitor with another just in case it was a faulty monitor 2) Replaced the DP to HDMI cable with a more expensive brand name one 3) Abandoning DP entirely and running 1 monitor on HDMI and the other 2 on DVI to HDMI cables 4) Using AMD support's advice and doing a clean uninstall of AMD drivers with DDU and installing the latest drivers again 5) Replaced the thermal paste on my GPU as well as CPU although there was not change in running temperatures on the new setup 6) Running games at low settings, although prior to this the same games were running fine on high or ultra I am considering replacing my graphics card at this point thinking it might be the problem but before I do I just wanted to ask you guys for an opinion. Here are my system specs : AMD FX 8350 not overclocked AMD R9 290 4GB reference cooler Gigabyte 970A-DS3P motherboard running bios version 2.7 2 x Kingston 1600MHx 8GB DDR 3 RAM 1TB Verbatim SSD 4TB Seagate 3.5inch 7200RPM HDD 750W EVGA SuperNOVA 750 B1, 80+ Bronze PSU 3 x Dell S2340L 23inch 1080p monitor (1 on HDMI, 1 on DP to HDMI cable, 1 on a DVI to HDMI cable) Thank you very much!

Possible Bottleneck? Hi so I've got an r9 290 and an x4 880k which I'm considering upgrading cause I think I'm being bottle-necked. Do you guys and gals think it's worth my time to get a used i5 4590 (it's my friend's and he'll give it to me for £40) and a new motherboard? Thanks for any advice. Also here's my usage stuff while playing overwatch on low settings 60fps.

I put up my 1050ti for sale and a guy dm me that he would exchange r9 290 with $45 cash.I cant find any benchmarks comparing them so should i go through the deal(would have to buy power supply)

Premise I have had this card for a good number of years and over time I can only imagine that components will start to degrade. However, in this instance, it's the temperature at this time I am looking at the sensor monitoring in GPU-Z and the Temperature is 81c at 0% load and with a Core clock of 300MHz. This is completely outlandish. What I think the issue is I have re-applied thermal paste 4 times now, twice with generic compound and twice with the Grizzly Kryonuat. With each application, I applied a different amount and a different method. Each application gives me results ~1/2c difference. So based on this experiment I can tell that the paste is not the issue. However, I can see that and from what I can only describe is the thermal pads and their decay. My terms decay stems from the fact that I very lightly moved a piece of the thermal pad and it just came apart. Ther force was so little that the rest of the thermal pad did not move except the tiny bit that came away. I would just like to know if this absurd temperature from the GPU could solely be based on the fact that the thermal pads are just too old and ineffective and if they are the cause of such high temperatures.

Just got a new Samsung CJG5 27" QHD 144Hz Monitor and seem to having a weird issue. In games, when set at 1440p @144Hz = Stutters and frame freezes every couple seconds when set at 1080p @144Hz= Fine when set at 1440p@60Hz = Fine Also tested several games and benchmarks, so it's not a program specific issue. I've been tearing my hair out trying to solve this but haven't been able to. Even done a clean windows install to no avail. Any ideas? System specs in summary : FX8320@4.4Ghz, MSI R9 290 4GB @Stock clock, Corsair 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz, 850W EVGA B2 PSU, Asus M5a99fx pro r2.0. Connected via displayport with a cable that is 144hz qhd compatible. Thanks a lot!

What's poppin forum. I've been meaning to build my little sister a new system for a while now, and this past black friday I ordered all the parts. I did however decide to look to the used market for an R9 290, as the performance figures I've seen are fairly respectable and the cards can be had for cheap. So I travelled out an hour from where I live, picked up an XFX R9 290 Double Dissipation for $130 (CAD) and took it home. The guy I picked it up from had mentioned that he had flashed an R9 290X bios on to the card as this model has dual bios. On first glance, the card seemed to be just what I was looking for. I ran Fortnite, Forza and GTA 5 as well as did some encoding on the GPU and everything seemed pretty swell, although the card does exhibit some coil whine. On further inspection, when I ran furmark the card would run at ≈ 950 MHz, but would do these weird semi rapid dips down to ≈ 300 MHz. I thought that that was a little strange, but the card ran games fine, so I thought it was probably okay. The card was a little dusty when I got it, so I decided to disassemble it to clean it up. Looking at the VRMs/VRM thermal pads, I noticed something a little concerning. There was one mosfet that seemed to be off kilter, and it's position on the thermal pad was discolored as compared to the rest of the contact with the other mosfets. To that point, looking at the cards thermals in GPU-Z, "VRM Temperature 2" under Furmark stress test reads up to 130°C. Do you think that one of the mosfets is dead? Is it possible that the coil whine I'm hearing is due to this potentially dead mosfet? This is my first time buying a graphics card used, and the first time I've fully disassembled one, so I would like to hear from someone who is a little more experienced to get their perspective, if at all possible. I've provided to images as well to give a little more context, but if you require more detailed ones, I can try to provide them. Thank you so much everyone!

Hello there people. Hope you guys doing fine. I have an R9 290 from like 4 or 5 years ago. Its brand is Sapphire, the TRI-X model. I have an AM3+ 970A G43 Motherboard and an FX 8320, also for PSU I have Highpower 750W. So for my question, is the R9 OK for the new games such as BF5 or some sick a** shooters, you know. And of course if it is OK, then to what should I upgrade my CPU and thusly the MoBo to with a third world country currency (from Turkey)? Thanks for helping, cheers.

Hello. So I recently got an old desktop from someone I know because he had gotten a new computer. He said that the gpu had given up. (It worked perfectly when I tried it) So now I'm sitting here with a pretty powerful system that I have no idea what to do with. Specs: Cpu: AMD 8350 Gpu: RX 290 Ram: 16GB Psu: 650W. Cooling: Noctua D-15, think it's their flagship model. No harddrive. First of all, i struggled to get this machine to post. The bios wouldn't initiate or anything. Turns out that the motherboard didn't like to have a harddrive connected. Tried updating the bios, the bios didn't update. Swapped from 32gb ram to 16gb, put in a freshly formated drive and a Windows installation stick, managed to install Windows and I got it to boot. Great. It's working So now. What do I use it for? Had some ideas, I have a pretty awesome Ethernet connection in my apparentment (1Gb/s!), so I thought I'd run a few game servers on it. That would use the 8350. But I would still have an R9 290 just sitting there doing nothing. Could I use it for mining? Or would that make too much noise? 290s get loud, no fun in having a vacuum cleaner on for 24/7. And would mining with a 290 even gain me anything? Another thought would be to use it as an HTCP, but I would still want to run servers, having a noisy system on in my livingroom/bedroom wouldn't be very nice. Lastly, I thought I'd use it as a mix-up of NAS, game server and server for other random projects, but again, then I would have a 290 doing absolutely nothing. Any other ideas? Thoughts on how I can utilize the GPU? Is there any gain from selling it?

Hello, I would like to get some helpful information about AIO water cooling my ASUS R9 290 graphics card. I want to use my Corsair H80i AIO cooler (one with an almost square water block, not one with octagonal shape) with my ASUS R9 290 DirectCu II OC - 4GB 512-bit graphics card, but I'm not sure if almost impossible to get Corsair HG10 A1 adapter will even fit this card. I attached everything I could find without disassembling the card by myself before I even know anything. If anyone has a clue about that or even better ideas to mount this together I would be grateful for the help. PS I live in Central Europe, so I can't buy everything from the US, because not everyone is sending outside the states.

Hey guys I'm just looking for some second opinions on my buying dilemma. Looking to buy a used video card off Kijiji and I cannot make a decision. My options are: - Zotac GTX 1050Ti 4GB listed at $180 CAD - Sapphire Tri-X R9 290 4GB listed at $180 CAD - MSI RX 470 4GB listed at $200 CAD Some other important information is that the power supply for the system is a 500w Rosewill unit so I have some doubts about the R9 290 using that psu. Basically I wonder if I should go for a newer card such as the RX 470 or 1050Ti, even if it is a little bit slower just for the fact that they are a newer architecture and perhaps have better driver support. Any insight you guys can give is appreciated. Thanks!

Hello fellow Pc enthusiasts, today should have been a great day, my new custom loop arrived, together with a new x470 chipset and an ryzen5 2600. I unplugged my old Amd Fx board and my R9 290 put everything together and voilla: nothing works. Pc boots, no visuals tho. I figured it might be the new RAM, since i heard ryzen 2 needs a bios update to work with most rams. did that, still nothing. I was getting curious and put my R9 back into the old system, again boot without visuals. I checked the liquid metal, that i applied on the graphics card today, nothing seems to have dropped. I am at the end of my straight thinking problem solving... please help.

Hi all, Sorry if similar topic (regarding thermal pastes) already exists, I just didn't manage to find it. I've purchased an Asus Radeon R9 290 DirectCU II graphics card in 2014, around July. I'll be doing a major cleaning of my PC soon and that means I'm planning to dismantle everything (PSU, graphics card, not the motherboard though). I've also purchased some thermal paste for the CPU about a year ago, DeepCool Z5, two pieces. Can't remember if the 5 or 7g versions. Haven't used any of those yet. My questions would be: should I dismantle the graphics card too in order to change the thermal paste? Would the DeepCool Z5 do or should I buy something else for it? I'm currently in Romania so I will search the local market to see what I can find (in case one of the recommendations would be unavailable here). Thanks.

So recently i posted about my cracked R9 290 (as seen below) and am looking for a new gpu. Preferably from the R9 series (390, 290 and the x variants) anyone want to sell me one? If not, any recommendations for what to buy?

So.... i bought this R9 290 for $160 on ebay which isnt that bad a deal. The card worked great, but I was thermal throttling while gaming so i wanted to replace the thermal paste (i know the card runs hot but it was getting bad) i replace the thermal compound with no issues, but then my pc wont post. I try everything that i know. After multiple hours i give up and reopen the card...... damn.... that is unfortunate... any of you have an r9 290s for sale?

Hi guys I was hoping for your collective expertise. I've have had my R9 290 for many years now and today while I was playing FC5 my pc suddenly showed a black screen losing sound also. I pushed the restart button only to find after the windows logo I got a black screen with no boot into windows. I started my computer up in safe mode successfully and re installed my AMD drivers to get the same issue after restart. I have now uninstalled the drivers again and can boot normally but with strange artefacts on my screen in different areas. I have my display port plugged into my GPU, I am getting display and the fans are spinning all at normal temps. (I have re-thermal pasted and dusted it) My question is what do I do! or is my GPU ready for the can, buying a new one will have to wait for this Mining plight to end

Hey I just removed (and replaced) the stock fans on my r9 290 and noticed i could get a noticably higher overclock. Link to my previous "build log": So I modded the gpu cooling so that the fans get their power straight from the PSU. Previously I could only get 1005mhz (3-3.5%) overclock with WattMan, but now it seems that I'm stable at 1035mhz? Obviously my ghetto cooling solution is way better than the stock one, but the temps were never an issue with overclocks. Has anyone else done this and gotten similar results? Of course if you go watercooled you remove the fans and you remove some of the thermal limitations of overclockin'. I just wondered if the (2x0.4Ax12V) 9,4W removed from the gpu power consumption could affect overclocks. It's just that 9,4W is not that much at all... (vertical ziptie just for holdin' the extra weight of those fans)

Hey, I have had a Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X graphics card for around 3 years now and the card used to be really good. One day around 3 months ago I think i ran into a blue screen and after restarting, i only get boot and Windows logo and then just black. When i get drivers for the card and Windows starts using the R9 290 instead of my CPU's graphics, the screen goes black. I have tried so many different things to try and get the GPU to function normally but i cant solve this by myself. I still have hope that my GPU isn't dead, so if you have any suggestions how to get it working i would be very grateful. Regards, Mrhaamu