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Bricked my 290x.... any hope?

UPDATE: Issue is resolved. Powersupply was the problem child. Replaced with a new 850, and card works fine in the machine again. It also resolved some other issues I was having with the machine, like it not posting on the first power press, etc.
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- Post #25
- May 20, 2016
- Forum: AMD
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Bricked my 290x.... any hope?

Understood. Guess I'll wait until polaris and pick something else up. :thumbsup:
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- Post #8
- May 13, 2016
- Forum: AMD
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Bricked my 290x.... any hope?

Not rebooting was a mistake no doubt. I just didn't figure it would brick a card like that. :eek:
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- Post #6
- May 13, 2016
- Forum: AMD
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Bricked my 290x.... any hope?

No video, no post. It doesn't seem to be driver related in that regard as I can't get into the bios, safemode or anything. Motherboard hangs with a 32 which is a generic error according to the motherboard documentation. I also reset the CMOS to eliminate a possible bios issue. Basically, turn...
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- Post #3
- May 13, 2016
- Forum: AMD
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Bricked my 290x.... any hope?

Hey guys, I have a launch Sapphire 290x that has been great since launch. I've overclocked it with MSI afterburner and had it stable for almost 2 years. However, last night crimson prompted for a driver update. 16.5.2? I believe was the version. I ran the driver update. After the update, I...
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- May 13, 2016
- Replies: 24
- Forum: AMD
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Cryptocoin Mining?

guys I've had my 2MH miner pointed at clevermining for the past 3 weeks and haven't really kept up with the scene lately. Can someone tell me if I am missing anything by just multipool mining and not staying up to date on all the new coins?
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- Post #11,771
- Mar 15, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

290'S are at 1050/1450 and the 290x is at 1000/1375
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- Post #10,245
- Feb 12, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

So I installed Stilts Bios on my 290's and 290x. On the 290x, after some slight tweaking I went from 885 khash to 949 stable. Also of note if I bump the voltage way up I can get 1.04 M hash out of the thing.. but temperatures skyrocket. On my 2 290's, I went from 890khash to 935 stable on...
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- Post #10,242
- Feb 12, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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The AMD Mantle Thread

It's not fragmenting any sort of a market. It's not mandatory, and AMD will not switch to mantle only. Fragmentation represents a situation where one is exclusive to something, and this isn't the case. If a developer wants to support it, great. If not, fine too.. but options are never bad...
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- Post #5,899
- Jan 31, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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The AMD Mantle Thread

So funny to read some of the negative comments in here. You can easily expect anywhere between a 5-50% improvement. You guys are the same people that will overclock, and configure settings for hours to get 2-3 more FPS... and yet AMD is giving you more.. much more.. to you completely free...
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- Post #5,896
- Jan 31, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

For the guy having trouble with the 290 / x I was able to get my 2 290's and my 290x to all run exactly at 910khash. You need a program like afterburner to manually specify a fan speed or profile to keep them under 94c, because the moment they hit 94c it starts dropping corespeed and...
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- Post #9,199
- Jan 21, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

I've worked on it a bit, and anywhere between 1250 and 1450 crushes my khash.. with 1450 being optimum
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- Post #8,616
- Jan 9, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

I lied. My final Thread concurrency was 32765
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- Post #8,613
- Jan 9, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

I fine tuned them for hours today. Overclock wise I am at 1025/1450 with +30 power limit stock voltage in afterburner. If I go higher then my drivers crash at this voltage. My 290x on the other hand works better downclocked to 950/1250. If I increase core on it hash drops rapidly... no idea why...
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- Post #8,612
- Jan 9, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Cryptocoin Mining?

Hey guys. After the dogecoin blow up, I got heavy into this crypto thing. I was using my 290x to mine and now I added 2 XFX 290's to another rig and have it running fulltime. Below is a pic of their current rates. The 290s are actually outperforming my 290x on occasion. Spent all day...
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- Post #8,610
- Jan 9, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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[TR] Retail Radeon 290x cards may be slower than press samples - 11/7 AMD SAYS FIXED

Guys I can almost guarantee this is vsync or framerate limiting happening. I saw it happening in the latest Batman specifically due to the fact that it is vsynced and can't run faster than 60fps anyway. You can reference my other thread, but any game that puts a cap on the framerate or if you...
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- Post #11
- Nov 6, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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What's up with my 290x? Throttling?

I'm using the latest afterburner beta to set up a manual fan profile and monitor temps / usage.
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- Post #22
- Nov 5, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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What's up with my 290x? Throttling?

Yea, 13.11 v8 I can almost Vsync 96hz @ 1080p on all the maps aside from one or two. It's amazing how much more power it takes to run 1440p compared to 1080p.
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- Post #18
- Nov 5, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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What's up with my 290x? Throttling?

Qnix 27" 2560x1440 I'm on all Ultra aside from effects and post processing. No MSAA with High FXAA It's Vsynced and locked on all maps now aside from Seige of Shanghai which will experience some drops. I'm also running render.triplebuffering 1 and gametime.maxvariablefps 60 in the console...
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- Post #16
- Nov 5, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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What's up with my 290x? Throttling?

Yea I'm really not understanding the noise hate. I wear headphones and even without them I never hear it even in Uber mode. I do have a fractal r4 case though. My overclock profile gets pretty loud but it's at 65% fan and it keeps it under 75c even overclocked.
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- Post #12
- Nov 5, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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What's up with my 290x? Throttling?

I did some more testing. It's definietely Vsync related. Also happens if I set an engine to max the FPS without like dota 2 max_fps or Battlefield 4 gametime.maxvariablefps etc I just looped some benchmarks without vsync for an hour while I was grabbing a bite to eat and when I came back it...
- ThackerSS
- Post #11
- Nov 5, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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What's up with my 290x? Throttling?

I just figured it out. It's vertical sync. When Vsync is enabled it actually throttles the Mhz between 850-1075. However with Vsync disabled it hits 1100 and stays there. Why would Vsync cause the mhz to fluctuate? Is it a case of it only using "what it needs"?
- ThackerSS
- Post #4
- Nov 5, 2013
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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What's up with my 290x? Throttling?

Hey guys. I've been loving my Sapphire 290x but today I've noticed a problem. I have a 1100/1400 overclock with a custom fan profile. Temps never get about 75c..but I noticed today after playing battlefield 4 for extended times my core MHZ in afterburner was bouncing around between 950 and...
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- Nov 5, 2013
- Replies: 24
- Forum: Graphics Cards

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