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290X OC'ing Problems

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You just have bad luck. You didn't get a very good OCing card. Not all cards are capable of OCing good amounts. It's called the Silicon Lottery. 

 

If you really want, you can increase the voltage. But that will only make the card run hotter/louder than it already does. 

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I just bought a 290X off of craigslist and was running some synthetic benchmarks yesterday to see what the card could do. It has the garbage reference cooler but I tried to overclock a little but got artifacts over +50MHz on the core clock. Is this common for the card because I feel like it should be able to do more? I only tried to OC in 3DMark11. Also the card was used for mining by its previous owner. Let me know about your thoughts.

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My 7870 that I bought new also does this, but in Chrome if its overclocked at all, so far my solution is to not OC, if anyone can help me also I'd much appreciate it  :(

 

Edit: Mining probably would do something like that to your card

Specs: CPU: AMD FX 6300 Motherboard: Gigabyte 970A DS3P RAM: HyperX Fury 16GB 1866MHz GPU: MSI R9 270 OC edition Case: Sharkoon VS3-S SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB HDD: 1TB Caviar Blue PSU: Corsair CX500W

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You just have bad luck. You didn't get a very good OCing card. Not all cards are capable of OCing good amounts. It's called the Silicon Lottery. 

 

If you really want, you can increase the voltage. But that will only make the card run hotter/louder than it already does. 

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You just have bad luck. You didn't get a very good OCing card. Not all cards are capable of OCing good amounts. It's called the Silicon Lottery. 

 

If you really want, you can increase the voltage. But that will only make the card run hotter/louder than it already does.

That's what I figured. I have just always been on the lucky side of things. It's only my temporary solution so it doesn't bother me too much.

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I just bought a 290X off of craigslist and was running some synthetic benchmarks yesterday to see what the card could do. It has the garbage reference cooler but I tried to overclock a little but got artifacts over +50MHz on the core clock. Is this common for the card because I feel like it should be able to do more? I only tried to OC in 3DMark11. Also the card was used for mining by its previous owner. Let me know about your thoughts.

 

All depends on what kind of memory it has been made with Elpida or Hynix. There is a program that can tell you but i cant seem to find it anywhere now... I have two 290x's ref and they dont like OCing but tbh you have no real need :D

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