Large GPU spikes

[The_Evenger]

ok, I just received my Gigabyte R9 290 and it seems that it should be running better, the GPU is spiking up and down really rapidly, and even spikes up when it sits idle, it still jumps up for some reason

 

System specs:

Gigabyte 990 FXA UD3

AMD FX 8350

(2x4GB) G.skill 1866

Gigabyte R9 290

256GB SSD boot drive, 500GB HDD, 2T HDD

 

running at 1920x1080 @60r15

Heaven Benchmark 4.0 - 1400

bit coin mining - 840 Mhash/s

I was able to overclock the living hell out of it, but even at stock clocks it's still doing this, I'm going to do a driver wipe, but I don't think that will help because it didn't help anyone else.

 

I have looked around for a solution but people say it's normal, this looks way too bad to be normal

 

I half to go to sleep, it's 12:00 and I can't afford to be up any longer. hopefully someone will have something helpful tomorrow, see you then.

 

(first time posting a picture, hope I did it right)

 

[Enderman]

nice pic

could you show us a pic with it at idle?

 

also whats ur OC, just curious

[The_Evenger]

nice pic

could you show us a pic with it at idle?

 

also whats ur OC, just curious

ill post one as soon as I can figure out how to, my OCs were power limit +50%, core clock 1140 (1150 caused rendering errors with reflections but never crashed) memory clock 1450 (1500 made the screen get really bad errors, which looked like my old CRT monitor when it died)

 

I'm having trouble figuring out how to post a second picture, I'm still new to that  :wacko:  never mind, got it.

[The_Evenger]

ok, tomb raider looks a hell of a lot more stable, maybe it's a compatibility issue, I'm going to experiment with more games tomorrow...

[Enderman]

The gpu spikes at idle must be some program that is not working correctly with your video card. Sadly you cannot just see which program it is like in task manager where you cans see which programs are using cpu. Try disabling applications one at a time until you see the spikes stop. It could be a program you have running, or your side bar.

[The_Evenger]

Well I did a complete driver wipe, and that fixed the frame rate issue, I have tried my barebone backup OS and still have the random GPU spikes at idle. I also saw some people saying that MSI afterburner was having issues with this card, so as long as my performance is good I think its fine...