290X Problems (clockspeeds)

[blondishasp69]

So last month I purchased a water cooled r9 290x and It performed poorly(crap).My r7 260x was outperforming it in Grand Theft Auto 5 and Unigine Valley. I loaded up Msi afterburner and it was telling me the most absurd things!It said my core clock was 300 MHz and my memory clock was 625 MHz! I set the clock speed to the appropriate 1050mhz and the memory to 1250 mhz. It is running Valley at a solid 60fps 1080p Ultra but the temps dropped and the core clock dropped to about 946Mhz. Is that is thermal throttling?

 

[indsup]

For the clock speed to be at 300 the chip is at idle. When it is idling that is the normal speeds. When you go into a game and the demand is much higher it should raise the clock speed up to the 1050 automatically. If it drops while playing your probably on a part of the game where it isn't doing much. In the mean time it could be thermal throttling but not all that likely. Different parts of the game will put different levels of stress on the gpu. What temp did it read when that happened? If it was high then it would be thermal throttling. After it cools down a little it should raise the clocks on its own. Case air flow and dust can cause that issue check those and see what you find. If you remove the side of the case and it doesn't do that any more then you have a air flow issue.

 

[blondishasp69]

I am aware of this! I was running a benchmark and afterburner at the same time. Afterburner said my card was clocked at 300 MHz and it didn't go up once during the benchmark, so it wasn't idle as I was currently bench marking it! I then set it to 1050MHz and it ramped up and then idled down after the bench mark as you said. My card is water cooled! pulling air from outside of the case air flow isn't an issue what so ever and I was bench marking not gaming and the temps were around 73-85 Celsius and it sill wasn't reaching 1050 MHz. Can you suggest a benchmark that will "put it to the test"?

 

[indsup]

If the radiator is on the inside of the case air flow can still be an issue. Just because you have the fans trying to push the air through the radiator to the outside of the case doesn't mean that you have enough air coming into the case. Check and make sure you didn't accidentally set the clock setting to manual. There was a version of your drivers that had this kind of issue just don't remember which one that is. Have you updated your drivers recently? You can use 3dmark to bench mark, it is free and does a good job.

 

[blondishasp69]

The drivers are the latest Crimson drivers and I have go it fixed now it properly throttles up to 1050 MHz. Thanks for the feed back