Asus R9 280X DC2T- Severe artifacting

[Guest]

These are the artifacts i've been experiencing in games. They also occur on the web browser.

BF4
http://s818.photobucket.com/user/alexrhodes543/media/bf42014-01-1019-41-33-40_zps5e86e577.png.html?sort=3&o=3
http://s818.photobucket.com/user/alexrhodes543/media/bf42014-01-1019-41-59-19_zps86b90866.png.html?sort=3&o=4
http://s818.photobucket.com/user/alexrhodes543/media/bf42014-01-1019-41-38-47_zps9380ddbf.png.html?sort=3&o=5
On the pictures look for the square pixel artifacts all over the place

Also a video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCfwDxwL22s
The most severe are near the end of the video

Metro 2033 Menu Screen
http://s818.photobucket.com/user/alexrhodes543/media/Metro20332014-01-1020-54-03-60_zps28f4287b.png.html?sort=3&o=2

Fallout: New Vegas
http://s818.photobucket.com/user/alexrhodes543/media/FalloutNV2014-01-1021-10-16-53_zpse465ba0e.png.html?sort=3&o=0

So basically these artifacts are occuring all over my games, aswell as on google chrome. The gpu isn't overheating, neither is the VRAM- the max they hit is 75C. The card is not overclocked by me at all. Even when cranking up the fans to bring the card to 50C, the artifacts were still there.

Specs:
i5 4670k 3.4Ghz
8GB Corsair Vengeance LP 1600Mhz
1TB Western Digital Blue HDD
Asus Z87-A
Asus R9 280X Direct CUII Top
Asus Xonar DGX
Corsair AX 760i PSU

So what do you think?

 

[endeavour37a]

I hope you can figure this out, I can't really help, sorry. Been reading a lot of odd problems with the R9 series cards, sound like driver problems perhaps, but the 280 is an old card with a new name.

Perhaps of interest to other AMD users of ASUS cards. It seems the DC pipes are not a good idea on the 290 cores because of the beveled heat spreader, just a flat contact surface works better..

 

[Guest]

I hope you can figure this out, I can't really help, sorry. Been reading a lot of odd problems with the R9 series cards, sound like driver problems perhaps, but the 280 is an old card with a new name.

Perhaps of interest to other AMD users of ASUS cards. It seems the DC pipes are not a good idea on the 290 cores because of the beveled heat spreader, just a flat contact surface works better..

Could be drivers. I'll try downgrading them to a lower version. But these artifacts are just everywhere, even if i decrease clocks, increase power target, fan speed, lower graphics setting- nothing helps. Thanks though

 

[endeavour37a]

I could be a bad card, do you have another machine to try it in?

 

[Guest]

I could be a bad card, do you have another machine to try it in?

Nope.

 

[coozie7]

Looks like memory artifacts: http://www.playtool.com/pages/artifacts/artifacts.html 2nd/3rd pics down.
Usually underclocking the card, or memory, resolves the problem but your best resolution is to return the card under warranty.

 

[Guest]

Looks like memory artifacts: http://www.playtool.com/pages/artifacts/artifacts.html 2nd/3rd pics down.
Usually underclocking the card, or memory, resolves the problem but your best resolution is to return the card under warranty.

I tried underclocking the memory and card clock, didn't do a thing. But the weird thing is- I just restarted my computer
and the artifacts are gone? I expect them to come back some time though as they did before.

 

[d1versify]

Anything new here? I just bought this GPU and i have artifacts as well , everywhere. Especially in Chrome . I did a clean uninstall of old drivers but nothing. I downloaded the latest from AMD and nothing.
Someone said i had to update GPU Bios . How about that?

 

[Guest]

Anything new here? I just bought this GPU and i have artifacts as well , everywhere. Especially in Chrome . I did a clean uninstall of old drivers but nothing. I downloaded the latest from AMD and nothing.
Someone said i had to update GPU Bios . How about that?

Where's you buy it from?

 

[d1versify]

from a greek online store , why ?

 

[Adunazon]

I have an ASUS 280X DC2T as well. I've had it for a day now and will probably be returning it tomorrow. The artifacts seem to appear in just about all games as well as google chrome if the computer has been on for a while. Restarting the computer resolves it most of the time but they always come back within an hour or two. The card itself has wonderful performance and stays both quite cool and silent, but the artifacts that I get, same as OP, just ruin it. It doesn't help me that the only time I've seen artifacts like this before were on an old Nvidia card I'd had for ~3 years which completely faield within a week of the artifacts appearing. I've been told it's caused by burned out/bad memory.

If I were the asker I'd probably return the card and get a new one/another card as a new card with 5month old drivers should not be behaving like this and it doesn't bode well for the longevity of the card.

 

[Guest]

I have an ASUS 280X DC2T as well. I've had it for a day now and will probably be returning it tomorrow. The artifacts seem to appear in just about all games as well as google chrome if the computer has been on for a while. Restarting the computer resolves it most of the time but they always come back within an hour or two. The card itself has wonderful performance and stays both quite cool and silent, but the artifacts that I get, same as OP, just ruin it. It doesn't help me that the only time I've seen artifacts like this before were on an old Nvidia card I'd had for ~3 years which completely faield within a week of the artifacts appearing. I've been told it's caused by burned out/bad memory.

If I were the asker I'd probably return the card and get a new one/another card as a new card with 5month old drivers should not be behaving like this and it doesn't bode well for the longevity of the card.

Yep, exact same problem as you Im just afraid that when i return it they won't find the artifacts as they're very inconsistent and dissapear for a while after a restart. I'm assuming it's because the card's AMD as Asus wouldn't manufactre something like this

 

[d1versify]

i sent the gpu back to the store on Friday. Thereis a slight chance, since the greeks arent really known for their professionalism, that they will test it for a while, see nothing and send it back to me... im sitting here and praying ;p If you could choose another, which one would you go for? Is the gigabyte gtx 770 OC better than this"?

 

[Guest]

i sent the gpu back to the store on Friday. Thereis a slight chance, since the greeks arent really known for their professionalism, that they will test it for a while, see nothing and send it back to me... im sitting here and praying ;p If you could choose another, which one would you go for? Is the gigabyte gtx 770 OC better than this"?

I would get the GTX 770. For the 2gb get something like the MSI Twin Frozr. But unfortuantely BF4 on ultra use just over 2GB of Vram so you'd have to go for the 4gb one which is pricier.

 

[d1versify]

so the GBs for memory are improtant right? damn i really dont know what to do lol

 

[smeezekitty]

Definitely return it. Those are characteristic of hardware problems

 

[Pedge]

i sent the gpu back to the store on Friday. Thereis a slight chance, since the greeks arent really known for their professionalism, that they will test it for a while, see nothing and send it back to me... im sitting here and praying ;p If you could choose another, which one would you go for? Is the gigabyte gtx 770 OC better than this"?

I would get the GTX 770. For the 2gb get something like the MSI Twin Frozr. But unfortuantely BF4 on ultra use just over 2GB of Vram so you'd have to go for the 4gb one which is pricier.

I have 2GB GTX 770 and run BF4 on Ultra, 4x MSAA and get 60+ FPS fine. As long as your 1080p, anything above you need more 3+GB VRAM.

OT: I would definitely return the card if it is under warranty, if updating or reinstalling drivers does not work it sounds to be hardware related.

 

[d1versify]

@ Xanderrhs

Asus release new gpu BIOS yesterday.
http://

Give them a try and let me knjow the results.

"R9280X-DC2T-3GD5 VBIOS update
BIOS update to remove rare artifacting events during gaming, Please also update the Catalyst driver to 13.251 or above"

A guy who has the same gpu tried them , but it has still artifacts now, but minor ones.
Please let me know.
I ve sent mine for replacement and im waiting ..

 

[Guest]

i sent the gpu back to the store on Friday. Thereis a slight chance, since the greeks arent really known for their professionalism, that they will test it for a while, see nothing and send it back to me... im sitting here and praying ;p If you could choose another, which one would you go for? Is the gigabyte gtx 770 OC better than this"?

I would get the GTX 770. For the 2gb get something like the MSI Twin Frozr. But unfortuantely BF4 on ultra use just over 2GB of Vram so you'd have to go for the 4gb one which is pricier.

I have 2GB GTX 770 and run BF4 on Ultra, 4x MSAA and get 60+ FPS fine. As long as your 1080p, anything above you need more 3+GB VRAM.

OT: I would definitely return the card if it is under warranty, if updating or reinstalling drivers does not work it sounds to be hardware related.

Oh that's cool. I guess the 2gb is fine then 😀 yay

 

[Guest]

@ Xanderrhs

Asus release new gpu BIOS yesterday.
http://

Give them a try and let me knjow the results.

"R9280X-DC2T-3GD5 VBIOS update
BIOS update to remove rare artifacting events during gaming, Please also update the Catalyst driver to 13.251 or above"

A guy who has the same gpu tried them , but it has still artifacts now, but minor ones.
Please let me know.
I ve sent mine for replacement and im waiting ..

I'll try this, but might be a while before i get results, as the artifacts are very inconsistent

 

[d1versify]

yeah but let me know please , because they might send me back my broken model :S

 

[Creax]

The problem is caused by VRAM. 4 of 12 VRAM chips are not covered to isolate from heat of radiator. Hynix Chips are manufactured with 1500 mhz and 1,5V. Asus overlock them additionally to 1600 mhz and set voltage to 1,6V Without isolation from main radiator and the fact that VRAM is overclocked they are overheating causing artifactts and unstable work, causing artefacts. You can handle this on your own isolating them (but you lose you guarantee), or you could RMA

 

[dcinbe]

Creax, could you please detail how one would go about isolating the chips from the main radiator? I might give it a try... .

 

[themadtaxi]

Hey, I have MSI version of the card with the same issue and was able to resolve it. My Fix might work for you. Inside the GPU box I found a scrap of paper that showed a small physical switch on the the bottom of the card that toggles between "hybrid" bios and Legacy bios. The hybrid bios, which is on by default for some reason, is supposed to help improve wake times from hibernation and reboot. I found my switch on the underside near the very front (closes to the display ports) and toggled it to Legacy. That solved all of my artifact and frame rate issues.