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Hi everyone, im looking to upgrade my GPU to something better. Im only using a 1080p monitor now but looking to upgrade to higher resolution . Which card should I get R9 390 or GTX980. Games that I play are GTA V, Witcher 3,CSGO and Fallout 4.

Well...I think I just went full retard. I'm currently replacing the thermal paste of my MSI R9 390 to (hopefully) reduce the temps of the card. (90C° + ) The thermal paste was all over the chip when I removed the cooler. So I cleaned up the middle and now I'm stuck with the paste in between the tiny parts. I cannot get rid of the stuff. (Using alcohol wipes and cotton swabs) There's tiny hair from the wipes and all that stuff within the paste. (gg ez) Don't think it's a good idea to just ignore those. Hope you can help me. Thanks in advance. (Sorry for the low image quality; my phone camera is pretty bad)

After switching from GTX 760 to R9 390. The display drivers are malfunctioning I can't run things like photoshop. I have checked device manager for conflicting /hidden drivers and checked for the latest version of AMD driver. The card doesn't lag when playing games. I got 450fps on some games when I have only got 200 before with the same setting and resolution.(league)

Hello everyone, I'm thinking starting this post off with my pc build might be a wise choice seeing as I only have an idea of the problem. CPU: i7 4790K (@4.4ghz) GPU: R9 390 MSI (No overclock) RAM:24GB-2400mhz ram PSU:GS 600 Watt OS: Windows 10 Monitor is at 1080p. If you guys want more information as far as the pc goes let me know. Now on to the super fun issue I'm wondering if anyone else is having. I have all updated drivers and both in benchmark tests and in gameplay applications my graphics card is struggling to go over 50fps. When I first got the card I knew about graphics issues, and how the driver out of the box are terrible. Two updates later my card was running fine. Wondering if anyone had any suggestions.

At idle my radeon settings fluctuates between 25% to 40% when there are no games or windows open. Is this normal for the AMD Radeon Settings to do? Here is a screenshot of my task manager at idle.

I have a R9 390 and i have a 1080p 50 in led tv. i play on 1080p or upscale to 1440p so my question is what is the best OC setting in afterburner for this card to have a steady 60 fps without melting my PC? i have 16 GB ram 1866mhz and a 4.3ghz cpu.

Hi everybody, This is going to be my first ever build, I've never built a pc before, but I did read a lot about it and done some research and it turns out there are so many options available that I just don't know what choice would be better and I'm asking you guys to help me out weigh the options. These are the parts I know I want in my build:GPU: MSI R9 390CPU: i5 6600KHDD: WD Blue 1TB 7200rpmSSD: Samsung 750 evo 128gbRAM: DDR4 Kingston HyperX Fury 2133MHz CL14 1.2VCase: Cooler MasterCase5 (maybe, don't know yet)Cooler: Hyper 212 evo And I really don't know how to choose the right motherboard and power supply. For power supply I'm thinking Corsair, but not so sure about the wattage. Also I don't have evga psu's available where I live.

should i buy an r9 290x or an r9 390? or should i wait a little longer to see how the gtx 1000 series turns out?

Ok so I bought one of the snazzy 21:9 monitors, specifically the LG 34UC88-B which has a 3440x1440 resolution. My graphics card is an R9 390 and I connected it to the monitor via displayport. No problems there. Now I also have a samsung 7.1 surround home theatre (HT) which only has HDMI 1.4 inputs and outputs. So because I didn't want to use the monitors speakers I decided to use the HDMI out port on my graphics card to connect to the HT for 7.1 audio. Now the problems arise. At first the graphics card insisted that there was no device connected to the HDMI port which of course was wrong. It only acknowledges a connection if I connect the HT HDMI out to a monitor. So I gathered that the graphics card does not want to carry just audio over HDMI it wants audio and video together. But unfortunately that is not what I want. 4 hours of troubleshooting later I somehow made it work and got video over displayport and audio ONLY over HDMI to the HT. Then I went to make lunch and of course everything powered down for sleep mode and then I cam back and I woke up the HT and the PC and all hell broke loose. 2 Hours of trouble shooting later...I found that the AMD catalyst control centre really really wants me to create an eyefinity set up for the sake of the HDMI connection as well as the displayport. So I decided to play along and I setup eyefinity. NOW my screen is split between my monitor and a non existent 1080p monitor and I really wish I could say that the audio is working after all this crap but no...NOW windows has decided to throw a tantrum and is messing up the audio balance levels for the speakers. If the home theatre HDMI out is plugged into the monitor Windows will lock the audio balance levels at 100% such that my volume has two options: mute or blast your eardrums. IF the home theatre HDMI out is unplugged windows will lock the audio balance levels to -18.2dB giving me to volume options: mute and mute. Honestly I am exhausted I have no idea what to do next. I doubt there is even a fix because it is obviously an issue with the drivers. All I want is 7.1 sound and a screen that does no share eyefinity with a ghost screen WHY IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK FOR! Please help, all suggestions and efforts will be greatly appreciated, thankyou soooooo much in advance!

Hi Guys, So I was greedy and decided to go for an extra 50MHz on my core clock of my MSI R9 390. To get it to 1150MHz. It was perfectly stable at 1100MHz with +19mV on the core. Anyways, 1150 was stable enough to run 3DMark 11 with no artefacts, but when I loaded up my miner, the monitor didn't detect a display input about 2 minutes into the mining process. So I rebooted the PC and it would crash at the welcome screen. Me shitting myself, I attempted to boot into safe mode (which isn't easy on Windows 10 UEFI with an SSD) after multiple attempts, I got in. I used DDU to uninstall the drivers and then rebooted into normal windows. Normal windows with no GPU drivers worked fine - no crashes. I try to install the latest Crimson drivers and it crashes during installation. I then reboot into safe mode, use DDU, then boot into normal windows and use the 'update driver' option in device manager, pointing it to the C:/AMD directory where the crimson drivers are extracted to. Installs fine and everything is hunky dory. I play a game for just over an hour and no crashes (at the overclocked 1130MHz core with +56mV). Later on, I boot up the miner and it crashes again. Did the whole process again and tried this morning with the 1100MHz core and it crashed again. I have also tried the the stock 1040MHz core, and the same thing is happening!!! Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Just bought a sapphire r9 390 nitro for a friend, tested with dark souls 3, fallout 4, and doom; on dark souls 3 the % of utilization goes from 0% to 100% at random, core goes to 540 to 765 at random and fps from 30 to 60 doesn't matter if i go with medium settings or very high settings, same for fallout 4; on doom if i run it with medium settings same story as fallout 4 and dark slouls 3 and most of the time less than 45 fps, but if i run on ultra i get the core to 1040 and 100% utilization 60fps agv.... help ?

Driver of r9 390 is a crap?? or good like nvdia's??

Im building my system at the end fo this summer around august. Thequestion is, should i buy a extremeley low priced r9 390 and upgrade to the 1070 a few years later or try to get my hands on a 1070 from the beginning? Which will be difficult from where i live. Also i will the custom cards be out by then? Because i heard the founders edition aka reference design will be more expensive. (Watch jayztwocents his video gives explaination about this)

So I was playing Just Cause 3 at 60 fps on max settings running just fine on my R9 390 and all of a sudden "BAM" not really a bam but yeah, my PC just shutdown, no crash, no error messages just shutdown and as I start to go under my desk and turn my PC back on it boots up (this has never happened in any other game to me)....this seemed weird to me and I thought maybe it was PSU problem no supplying enough power to my GPU/CPU so I stressed both my CPU and GPU with FurMark and Intel Extreme Tuning Utility. I stressed the system for 30 mins (longer than I was playing Just Cause 3 for, I was playing for roughly 10 mins) temps were all fine, my 4690k didn't go above 65C and my GPU was well below throttling level with a temp of 73C under full load (remember its AMD so its a toaster) anyhow....I kept stressing the system and no crash, shutdown or anything. Weird. I then recently bought FarCry 4. As I booted the game up it started fine, I got through the non-skippable starting cutscene (or should I call it a movie, it was like 10 minutes long) so the cutscene ended, my character stood up and I moved my mouse BAM, shutdown! It seemed as if the moment the game put load on my GPU it just shutdown...again my PC restarted by itself, Windows 10 acted as if nothing had happened and carried on as normal, I rebooted the game to change the settings to low w/ VSync on and again it crashed in the same place, I don't know what is causing this. My drivers are all as up to date as possible and I have no OC on both my GPU and CPU. All temps are fine just shutdown and automatic reboot with no explanation! Any advice would be greatly appreciated! I am fine with troubleshooting PC's as I have done it many times before just never encountered this problem! Any advice on where to start troubleshooting would be greatly appreciated! Excuse the long read!

Hey guys, title says it all, is it ok to use one cable from psu that splits into two 6+2 or should I use two 6+2 cable from psu?

Hey, I recently noticed a problem with my gpu i don't know if its normal or something wrong with my card but in many games the card goes on lower clock speed than intended (like its running on 500mhz-700mhz instead of 1060mhz) and my fps are lower as well. After a game i checked the gpu usage and it looked like this: http://prnt.sc/b14ied My PC: Asrock H81M-HDS R2.0 INTEL i5-4460 3.2GHZ MSI R9 390 KINGSTON HYPER X FURY BLACK 16GB 1600MHZ THERMALTAKE HAMBURG 530W PSU And my question is, how could I solve this problem. I was thinking to get a better psu maybe? or i don't know what could I possibly do with it. I put the picture here as well in case the link doesn't work .

MSI R9 390 arrived a couple of days ago. Should I keep it, or return it and buy a second hand GPU (970/980/980ti/390) Not building my computer before June, so I am in no rush. What are your thoughts?

Im thinking about getting a R9 390, however i have heard that the drivers for the 970 are better and most games are optimized for nvidia, so now im asking, which one is better? i know the R9 390 has double the memory but it also uses more power, and if the software is really bad isnt a 970 better? im asking this here as research because i know that you need multiple sources of information.

Alright so my MSI R9 390 has been having a wierd issue where in any situation where the gpu usage goes above 70-80% usage the screen will freeze, then screen tear, and then the displays go black and the gpu shuts down completely where the fans stop,and the leds turn off. But when in The game Space Engineers it will pop up the error "This graphics card is not supported" alongside a windows error saying that the graphics drivers have stopped and restarted. I have tried using the catalyst 16.3.2, and 16.4.1 drivers and using DDU to uninstall them and I have done this about ten times a piece, and it isn't working. Also the card has no overclock and is not overheating, I have been monitoring using Afterburner, and the GPU hot led light on my mobo doesn't light up. Could this be a hardware issue rather then a software issue that is causing the drivers to crash?

Hi everyone, i've been noticing a frame rate issue with fallout 4 & some other games. i've updated to the latest driver and even tried crossfiring it (that just causes more issues).i'm not sure what could be causing the issue i.e is the cpu bottlenecking the gpu, the other way around or is it just the game. my system is as below CPU: i7-4790k (stock clock speed with turbo boost) GPU: asus directcu II R9 390 (this may well be the culprit)(factory overclock) motherboard: asus Z97-AR RAM: Hyperx savage 1866 16gb game storage location: sandisk ultra II ssd both the gpu and cpu are also water cooled so i dont think its a thermal throttling issue as neither get above 50 degrees , my old R9 290x seemed to handle it better (not perfectly) but its a gigabyte windforce card and it thermals and noise are terrible. something to perhaps note as well is that there is a very small amount of coil whine on the asus gpu. what would be the best way to try to eliminate this issue switch over to a 980?

I want to make a dual monitor setup. my monitor will be Dell S2240L 21.5" bt i cant decide which gpu should i buy? Should i buy r9 390 or gtx 970?

My pc build First please check my pc build , so I'm building this pc for gaming , 4K video editing , and productivity (I'm a web dev learner) also a student , so I want a GPU that would work flawlessly with OSX (gonna build the hackintosh so I want everything to be compatible) , as well as I'm gonna use dual boot for windows ..so here's the thing in a lot of websites I saw that the R9 390 is not compatible with OSX at all at the moment , but Nvidia has official drivers of GTX 970 for OSX which is nice , but the performance is a big matter to me too so I'm having a bad moment here deciding which one I should go for ..Nvidia / AMD I will also use this pc for YouTube streaming for gaming so there are some softwares from Nvidia which matters for me , Does AMD has something similar too? Another question : Does the 8GB Vram of R9 390 really make a big difference ?

Hi! I want to build something that will last long and not brake my wallet. I will for example not want Fury X or GTX 980 Ti GPU because of the price. I'm going to use my Desktop for multiple purposes: Gaming, Video-Editing, 3D-programs (Autocad etc.), other stuff.. My budget is about the same as the parts shown under. What are your thoughts? This is my current build-plan: Case: - Fractal Design Define R5 Motherboard: - Asus z170 Deluxe (wifi+futureproof-adapters and reviews convinced me over Asus z170-A) CPU: - Intel I7 6700k (Have already bought - It was on sale) CPU-Cooler: - Noctua NH-D15S GPU: - MSI Radeon R9 390 Memory: - HyperX Fury 2133mhz Cl14 16 GB kit (2x8GB) SSD: - Samsung 850 EVO 500GB. Storage: - Seagate SSHD 2TB (aprox. same price as HD). Blu-Ray Writer: - ??? Might need/might not need.Thoughts? PSU: - Corsair RM850x 850W (this was on sale as well - know it's super-overkill) Monitor: - Acer MG270HU 144Hz Freesync TN or Asus MG279Q 144Hz (ONLY 90Hz with Freesync) IPS Freesync. - Have I forgotten anything? - Skylake-compatible components: Does it matter/What will I achieve? Thanks for all answers!

I just built my first PC everything seems to be working fine, But my Asus Radeon R9 390 8GB Strix Video Card seems to be running hotter then average. (It's not overclockable or anything like that so I dunno why its so hot.) 60~ on idle. (blank desktop or browsing internet on how to reduce GPU heat etc) 70~ When just watching a youtube video. 80-90 When playing games, (Ex:Far cry primal, Lichdom battle mage, Injustice gods among us, Warhammer Dawn of war 1 & 2, Doom open beta, HItman) pretty much any game I've tried. The reason I choose a "Strix" video card was because it was meant to be "30% Cooler. 0dB Gaming" meaning if I hadn't got the "30% cooler" and got another graphics card I would be running at 86 idle, 100 while watching youtube and 115-130 while gaming? That doesn't seem right. The 60~ idle I'm not so worried about and I don' think neither is the 70~ while watching youtube is a huge problem but 80-90 while playing any game (changing to the lowest settings in game doesn't seem to effect anything) concerns me not that it will blow up or start a fire or anything just that it will harm the lifespan of my GPU because a lot of posts I've read said to be concerns when it gets to 90 and gets pretty close to that consistently and the reason I bring up the idle and youtube temperatures because of the fact that it's higher then average seems to have some relation to the issue. (Not just higher while gaming but higher in general) I opened up both sides of my case and it didn't really effect the temp (maybe few degrees) so I don't think it's a air flow issue. (Fairly spacious case with two 120mm fans with the intake blowing basically onto the graphics card) I have setup a MSI afterburner custom fan setting to play at cooler temps which cools down about 10degrees but fans are pretty load and fast which I don't think is healthy for the lifespan either.. Is it like a option somewhere that's making it run hot that I can adjust or something like are there tips and tricks to make GPU's run cooler in general by disabling/enabling things? The "Clocks" seem high I have no idea what they are or do but there always at 1050/1500 idk if that's normal? (Even if they seem obvious tips to you, I know next to nothing about GPU cooling since this is my first build) Any help at all would be appreciated. Full computer build: http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/LgNRjX Radeon stats: Radeon Software Version - 16.3.2 Radeon Software Edition - Crimson Graphics Chipset - AMD Radeon (TM) R9 390 Series Memory Size - 8192 MB Memory Type - GDDR5 Core Clock - 1050 MHz Memory Clock - 1500Mhz Windows Version - Windows 10 (64 bit) System Memory - 16 GB CPU Type - Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz

CPU :i7 6700k GPU : Sapphire R9 390 MOTHERBOARD : z170 Pro Gaming Power Supply : Rm750x Problem : GPU LOAD not stable.. is that normal ? Game setting : Then i turn MSAA settings to 0 : Result : AMD setting : I don't know what to do anymore.. HELP