R9 290X Overheating & Artifacting

[AVLNCH]

N.B. This post is on behalf of my friend, not my own issue.

 

Hi All,

 

Got a friend who has an R9 290X which lately has enjoyed overheating and artifacting to the point of BSOD / System shutdown. Certain games are okay, majority aren't. For example, just sat at the menu screen his GPU went from 50c to just over 70c and then artifacted and proceeded to shut down (he never played the game).

 

The following have already been done:

• Reinstalling drivers

• Using Driversweeper and nuking drivers + reinstalling again

• Changing PCI-E slot on motherboard

• Updating BIOS

 

No avail. My friend is ready to play football with his GPU however as he won't make an account to ask for help (too stubborn) i'm asking on his behalf before he forks out for a new GPU.

 

Any advice or support would be appreciated folks

[EnergyEclipse]

4 hours ago, UponAvalanche said:

N.B. This post is on behalf of my friend, not my own issue.

 

Hi All,

 

Got a friend who has an R9 290X which lately has enjoyed overheating and artifacting to the point of BSOD / System shutdown. Certain games are okay, majority aren't. For example, just sat at the menu screen his GPU went from 50c to just over 70c and then artifacted and proceeded to shut down (he never played the game).

 

The following have already been done:

• Reinstalling drivers

• Using Driversweeper and nuking drivers + reinstalling again

• Changing PCI-E slot on motherboard

• Updating BIOS

 

No avail. My friend is ready to play football with his GPU however as he won't make an account to ask for help (too stubborn) i'm asking on his behalf before he forks out for a new GPU.

 

Any advice or support would be appreciated folks

Is it possible that he is willing to apply fresh thermal compound? Maybe you could remove just the cooler's shroud if its a blower style and figure out a way of mounting some more fans to it?

 

**EDIT - I'm pretty certainly that the issue may lay elsewhere as I missed the edit you did to add tempatures. I know that card can operate way above that tempature, as I'm pretty sure it became a meme for how hot they could run. Refer to @miagisan questions

 

Best of luck to you and your friend in resolving the issue!'

[AVLNCH]

Just now, EnergyEclipse said:

Is it possible that he is willing to apply fresh thermal compound? Maybe you could remove just the cooler's shroud if its a blower style and figure out a way of mounting some more fans to it?

That's the next step we've reached. I think at the moment if we can't solve it any other way he'll buy some thermal compound and do exactly that.

[miagisan]

There is no way a 290x would be overheating and artifacting at 70c.the card is designed to run up to 95c.

 

 

[miagisan]

What are the temperatures on the vram and vrm? 

 

What are his voltage settings? Did he undervolt or OC? 

 

Did he try rolling back the drivers and using DDU (I am not familiar with drivesweeper but I know DDU works great) ?