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The issue is that you are using Sapphire and not PowerColor.

 

In all seriousness, try getting older drivers; 14.1 works perfectly for me

 

Dude Sapphire is da Best :P anyway I found out that the problem was That I'm using HDMI not DVI :D

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So I have R9 280x and after the 10 min that I was setting the screen to turn off after the GPU was turing itself off too , now I dunno what happened but the GPU still working after the screen turns off ... Why !? 

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What are you trying to say? Conclude your post with a question please

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So I have R9 280x and after the 10 min that I was setting the screen to turn off after the GPU was turing itself off too , now I dunno what happened but the GPU still working after the screen turns off ... Why !? 

 

Do you have anything running in the background that could be using the gpu?

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Do you have anything running in the background that could be using the gpu?

 

Nope I turned off all the running apps 

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AMD ZeroCore doesn't turn off the GPU; it downclocks it and shuts down parts of it.

Edit: not really sure if that's the way it works after searching on google for it.

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Nope I turned off all the running apps 

 

How do you know the gpu is still working? Is it because of the fans? Because I'm not sure they're supposed to turn off too.

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AMD ZeroCore doesn't turn off the GPU; it downclocks it and shuts down parts of it.

 

 

How do you know the gpu is still working? Is it because of the fans? Because I'm not sure they're supposed to turn off too.

 

Fans and LED lights are on 

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Fans and LED lights are on 

 

I'm pretty sure that's how it's supposed to be.

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I'm pretty sure that's how it's supposed to be.

 

but when I said the GPU was turning itself off I meant that both Fans and LED were off 

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but when I said the GPU was turning itself off I meant that both Fans and LED were off 

 

Are you sure you didn't set it to "sleep" mode when it wasn't doing anything for a while? Torrent clients and other background programs can prevent that from happening, too.

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Fans and LED lights are on 

If the LEDs were off then it would mean that the card is not connected properly and the fans have a fan-curve they're following and it probably can't go to 0%.

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Are you running a reference cooled GPU? If you're running a aftermarket cooled GPU then the fans may not be able to go to 0%.

 

 

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that video with Ms. Poon *giggle* was using a 7750. not sure that a 280x will turn the fans off, let along a non-reference design.

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that video with Ms. Poon *giggle* was using a 7750. not sure that a 280x will turn the fans off, let along a non-reference design.

 

I did post a picture while my GPU was in the zerocore mode -_-

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I did post a picture while my GPU was in the zerocore mode -_-

 

have you updated drivers since then?

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I did post a picture while my GPU was in the zerocore mode -_-

Oh I didn't know it used to work. A driver update maybe changed it somehow?

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have you updated drivers since then?

 

 

Oh I didn't know it used to work. A driver update maybe changed it somehow?

 

Hmmm 14.9 I guess I will try 14.7 and check it out 

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The issue is that you are using Sapphire and not PowerColor.

 

In all seriousness, try getting older drivers; 14.1 works perfectly for me

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The issue is that you are using Sapphire and not PowerColor.

 

In all seriousness, try getting older drivers; 14.1 works perfectly for me

 

Dude Sapphire is da Best :P anyway I found out that the problem was That I'm using HDMI not DVI :D

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Dude Sapphire is da Best :P anyway I found out that the problem was That I'm using HDMI not DVI :D

No, PowerColor PCS+ is faster, cooler, and just as quiet under load. 

 

The Vapor-X is like a gateway to Nvidia: More features for more money, but equal or less performance.

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No, PowerColor PCS+ is faster, cooler, and just as quiet under load. 

 

The Vapor-X is like a gateway to Nvidia: More features for more money, but equal or less performance.

 

:D I won't say that you'er wrong because here in Egypt The Vapor-X Tri-X Was the cheapest R9 280x also has some more features :D 

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