R9 290 Overclocking issue

[Kukielka]

Alrighty, I decided to go red once again.

I'm having some troubles with my recently bought r9 290 (non-x).

Overclocking this beast works like a charm got to 1050/1500 at 58% fan speed (reference design).

But here comes the tricky part, the clock is stable to a point where I can say i'm ok with it, sadly, the clock is only stable under load, ...yeah right?

No friggn idea why that is the case.

Once my load drops below 50% I immediately get black screen.

Sooo...any one of you an idea?

Help is much appreciated

 

(Btw, I get 925kh/s with this bad boy :3)

[SAV1OUR]

did you increase the voltage? 

[Kukielka]

I increased the powerlimit via powertune, could not find a way to increase it with afterburner .

 

EDIT: Also thanks for your fast answer :3

[VSG]

Don't use powertune, disable ULPS. Increase core voltage a bit, lower memory clocks a bit. If it still does that, you got one of the black-screening cards. Is that Elpida ram on that card you got?

[Kukielka]

Don't use powertune, disable ULPS. Increase core voltage a bit, lower memory clocks a bit. If it still does that, you got one of the black-screening cards. Is that Elpida ram on that card you got?

Nah, got Hynix. Pika just poined out how dumb I was, I've used the wrong version of afterburner... Works all like a charm now!

Thanks for the latenight-help!

[brazilianloser]

 

Check the Unlock Voltage Control for voltage control...

And Disable ULPS for problems with low power state.

[chaozbandit]

If you do it through MSi Afterburner, you have to edit the registry file and agree to the overclocking EULA (after unlocking voltage control and whatnot). ASUS' GPU Tweak has everything unlocked by default. You can also play around with the power limit, but I suggest not going too crazy with the voltages for obvious reasons.

 

(also you guys may want to do something about those fan curves. leaving it default is never a good idea, especially with these latest R9 cards)

[SkilledRebuilds]

If you do it through MSi Afterburner, you have to edit the registry file and agree to the overclocking EULA (after unlocking voltage control and whatnot). ASUS' GPU Tweak has everything unlocked by default. You can also play around with the power limit, but I suggest not going too crazy with the voltages for obvious reasons.

 

(also you guys may want to do something about those fan curves. leaving it default is never a good idea, especially with these latest R9 cards)

If you do it through Afterburner Settings ie: unofficial overclocking, it asks you to reload MSI afterburner, when you do that it asks you to agree to the EULA and you don't have to touch registry at all...